Matt and I took advantage of Monday's freakishly nice weather, and rode some street in Alfred, NY. It was only in the 40's but the snow was gone and the cement was dry for the most part.
I've been riding the Alfred State and Alfred U. campuses for years, seeing a 1/4 pipe and various small ramps in the middle of campus is a first. It's awesome to see the college supporting BMX and Skateboarding in such a positive way.
In other amazing news, a small quantity of the "Drivers Wanted" T-shirts were made and distributed just in time for the Holidays... The things are sick, and there have already been some inquiries.
I have also been building a mini bar(with the help of E-Z) to take back to school with me. I'm not sure yet what the hours of business are, but I can tell you the bar will be well stocked with Genny Light, and Pabst.
Check back later this week for updates on it's status and for some video footage of kids on bicycles!
Still getting back on track... I have some photos and a video of so of last weekends happenings. When you get as drunk as we've been getting lately it's tough to produce anything of worth.
There is some fresh stuff in the works, sit tight.
Just a reminder, there's a jam at Mike Sick's park this Friday. Word is there are a few new ramps being dialed in for what should be a good shit-show... Show up and Blow up!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
I'm going to single handily destroy this fucking blog. Thanks for letting me in Shitfuck!!
Sorry for the major lack of updates, school is finally done. I'll hopefully be working, riding, and filming for the next 6 weeks. I got into Rochester late on Friday, to late in fact to ride X-Dreams which sucked (thanks to shitty weather and car problems). I met Chris and Matt at Chris's house in the city, and after pounding a few beers to catch up Chris called his "personal" cab driver Mohammed to pick us up and take us downtown. Mohammed is a pretty crazy dude, he was even cool with road sodas in the cab. Unfortunately for me the cab ride was the end of the Fun. The upscale bars downtown were way to over priced for my college budget, I broke a part off my phone outside one bar, and almost got into a fight for not tipping each time I bought a beer (the cheapest beer was $4+ fuck that). The dude who wanted to fight me was some Yankee's fan, and he talked shit on my Brewers hat, he most have been pissed about how much the Yankee's spent on C.C. Sabathia, dude was a fag. Anyway, I have some video clips, and pictures from that night that should be up soon enough.
I found this old ass photo of a stripper at a club near the casino... Rough I know, I found this strippers fingernail on the stage after her show... It's still hanging on the wall in my room!
Guess who this Shredder is and win a virtual hi-five.
It's Finals week which means several things: 1 I don't have any progress on the video to report. 2 Beer is no help to college kids during exam week, Last friday alone several kids buckled from the up coming pressure. 3 winter break is in the forceable future and there already is something to look forward to at the indoor park in Wayland, NY... Mike's having a Jam the day after X-mas so all the kiddies can come and try out the new parts Santa brought. if anyone is interested I'd like these for X-mas. Thanks.
I'm glad last week was so good because this week has sucked so much for the most part. At least the few things that I am pumped about this week were really good things. First, I got to ride my bike last saturday with Matt and Chris at the new park in Ithaca, NY called East Shore Skatepark the place is little tight and there's likely to be a lot of traffic of other BMXers (which to me kids riding BMX isn't a bad thing) other than that the park is pretty well dialed in and worth the trip so check it out.
Second if you can't tell from the picture above I (we) drank Absinthe after riding on saturday. No one saw green fairies or made out with their sister, but for $70 a bottle it delivers a different kind of drunk.
Third my normal 6.5 hour drive to school on sunday turned into a 10 hour hell ride thanks to the shitty New York weather.
Lastly I spent at least an hour on this site today that contains tons of how-to videos that could improve the fun in your life. I know it is by a skateboarder, but good shit is good regardless of who 's shitting it out.
It's been a week since the last post. Non-Awesome! Oh well, there were plenty of fantastical things that happened over my break to justify not being glued to a computer screen. The night before Turkey Day in Dansville, NY is becoming a yearly tradition. This year was just as good as any past with most or all of the following happening; seeing friends, blurouts, wrestling, "meet" Matt Miller, sleeping in cars, more blackouts, and puking on the way to the bar!
I'll throw up more FUN from the weekend later this week until then watch this video.
I know this isn't BMX, but fuck it is good! Action starts around the 2:30 mark.
I'm pretty pumped to only have a day and a half of classes left this week then a long ass drive home for the holiday break. Hopefully I get to ride a ramp or two, eat good food, get blind drunk, and make a little cheddar while I'm home... Look for a new video edit later this week, but for now, here's the trailer from August... Random johnny rotten photo?
It's Friday, two more full weeks of school then this semester is over! I could not be happier, this has been the worst semester of my life. I broke my elbow two days before the semester started. I had two operations on my elbow and it still doesn't work properly, I can pedal around finally, to bad it's already winter up here in the "north country". I drink far too much and I finally got my freshman 15, is silmfast still a good way to lose weight? Hopefully all of that will change when the semester is over though, I'm feeling pretty optimistic that things will be better over the winter break and in the spring. It will be nice to work, ride, and film when I go home over break. In the spring we will be having our (Johnny, Matt, and myself) yearly video party, I believe this will be the 8th yearly video and 4th year having a large-scale party to showcase our BMX maneuvers. The parties have been steadily growing in size each year, last spring there were around 250+ guests. New this year, Johnny has turned the reins over to me as far as production goes. If you didn't know this year's title is... duh! UP AND AT THEM (Watch This). The name is something that I've been holding onto for about six years now. I started filming for a video in January 2003 that some how just never happened. Fast forward to this past summer after taking over creative control it seemed like it was time to finish what I started. Though I will be sticking to roughly the same formula that Johnny used for all his videos. Each video is basically a "video album" that documents one year of friends riding BMX, and partying together. I have a feeling this year might be heavy on the party side.
Floor pong and drinking out of shoes?
Yes!
This is from way back in days of VCR to VCR edits. Hey Matt, I want my CD with this song back.
I think the first time Matt Miller and I took a trip to Ithaca was in April of 1998, we wanted to ride street at Cornell University, and of course it had to rain most of the day we were there. So we ended up mostly riding around the city of Ithaca, when who should we run into? None other than Steve Crandall of Fat Bald Men, which at the time was only a small clothing company. He saw us riding and asked us a bunch of questions about where we were from and this and that, then asked us if we wanted check out the FBM house and F.O.D. (Field of Dreams/Drunks) trails. Being a little star struck (even then FBM was a company we were pumped on) we followed Crandall to his house where he hooked us up with a ton of free stickers and a viewing of Live Fast Die. After showing us the video, he took us to see the trails, which was cool but a bit of a let down since it had been raining all day and it wasn't possible to ride them. Anyway, The trip was a ton of fun despite the shitty weather, and since I've already posted one old video from FBM I might as well post another classic. Enjoy!
Monotonix is probably one of the best live shows I have ever seen. They are an acid rock jam band whose live show antics are about as wild as it gets. This was the second time I have seen them and it blew me away as much as the first... Sorry for the shitty quality of the photos.
WTF???
Crowd surfing in daisy dukes or while wearing a captain's hat = Sick!
The constantly "moving" Drummer (dude really does move his drum kit through the crowd during shows).
Ass picking, while checking the oven for cookies is also a must.
Going around assuming your dick is a garbage truck that needs to pick up the trash is a funny thought, but going out and looking for girls to drive your "garbage truck" (part-time of course) is about as good as it gets in my book. The image below is the result of the aforementioned philosophy. With any luck this will be making its way onto T-shirts in the very near future.
Johnny went and uploaded Last Call (last year's video that Johnny and I both made, he made half the parts and I made the other half) which was a total surprise to me. In other "less than cool" news I got and Email from You Tube saying they removed a couple of the videos I put up for Last Call in the fall of 2007 for using unlicensed music... Fuck-Piss- Gay if you ask me.
Here are a bunch of crap-ass titles and such that I had on my comp.
wanna be art fag.
I had a thing for elephants for about a month... ?
another gay idea...
finally something good, matt has been pulling out all the stops this year. The kink at the bottom of the bank is pretty gnarly and he was going so fast his tires were chirping everytime he hit the bank.
