Ktla News Sucks

I only watch because it follows Gossip Girl and I am too lazy to get off the couch. They have the most sensational headlines that typically fall flat. "Dirtbags and a new breed of poisonous spiders!"

I think they have reached an all-time low with their news correspondents. Although, yes, it's sad that a baby was shot, I couldn't get over the most horrible pair of pants I've seen on a public figure. I will not hesitate to say that she was rocking a serious camel toe. I am grossed out.

And now there's a story about how a plane couldn't take off from LAX this morning, basically because a passenger had a case of explosive diarrhea. Holy shit. I need to go to sleep.

Phoenix!

It was, like, epic. They made it rain! Some of my favorite moments:
reworked version of "If I Ever Feel Better", a cover of Air's
"Playground Love" and just watching the second percussionist/keyboard
player rock out. Wowsers.

Dookie Chains are Apparently Cooler Than Morbid Brit Rock

I'm at Webster Hall in NYC, excited to see one of my favorite ( or
favourite if you're British) bands. Apparently thy have about 10 fans
in Nyc. I feel bad for them. I wonder if we should invite them to hang
out so they feel loved.

Dim Lights Big City

Manhattans and Soup

My friend Sarah and I ended our Friday with a trip to the Malibu Pier. We had manhattans and soup. I am convinced we will still be friends in 40 years and doing the same thing. Shredding too!

I'm Not Afraid to Get Sand on My Tuxedo

http://www.robertpopper.com/2009/09/07/would-you-take-a-bath-with-any-of-these-men/


Are you looking for someone? I hope that none of these guys are still on the prowl. Yikes!

Sunset Strip Music Fest!

And some Ozzy Osbourne later on? Yes!

Yuck!

Why do people feel the need to sit so close at the beach? I don't need
that close a view of strangers' privates.

Labor Day Means the End of Summer for Suckers

I can't wait to not have to share the beach with everyone. The Summer
of Shred does not end on Labor Day. I also have all intentions of
wearing white.

Mushroom cloud

Whoa

Mikey's Homemade Shred Stick

Guest blog spot!

My friend Mike shreds the ocean for reals. He decided to take his mad skills of board repair** to the next level and shape his own board from scratch. If that's not shred-worthy, I don't know what is. Here's what he wrote about his recent experience:

"ok friends... so last week i went up to york (maine for you out of towners) to spend a week at grain surfboards (ah ok, i'll plug em: http://www.grainsurfboards.com/ ) to learn how to build my own wooden surfboard... pretty spendy (and i even slept in a tent every night), but definitely one hell of a week. i learned a bunch, and at the end of the week i walked out the door with my own handmade stick (a 5'4" steve lis inspired retro fish- 5'4"x20 1/2"x 2 5/8"), some info on a few semi-secret local surf spots, and a few good contacts/new friends within the industry (the owners of corduroy surf shop in portland maine, the entire 3-man grain board building crew, nick lavecchia (local surf photog who's beginning to blow it up on the national/international scene), and cyrus sutton and ryan tatar of korduroy tv who are doing some pretty cool things out of oregon)...

i still need to glass it, but i'm confident i can do that, and i'm pretty stoked on the whole thing. things went really well, and the grain crew was pretty impressed with my work. hopefully this is the beginning of something really cool and really big (for me)...

attached are a few pics of the process (pretty much one/day) over the course of the week.

shred free or die!
- mikey/tio pepe/el hobbito"













** Tio Pepe's board repair, while in developing countries involved some extra work, like having to go to Heladeria Arenas Blancas to eat popsicles for the sticks. It was hard to not eat Trits! Here is some photographic proof of his hard work. He seems to work on fish a lot.


Mikey and the rest of Team Jobless gets down with some helado in Mal Pais June'07


Mike working on Skully at the now defunct Blew Dog's, June '07


Mikey back to work on the the Porch of Las Brisas, Bocas Del Toro January '08