The other night moot and I showed up at Round Rock to find two Iraq War™soldiers bathing the bowl in blood. Not their own, but the blood of any theoretical opponents to shredding. I saw one of them transfer from the bowl to the street course in tweaked frontside grabs. I saw him carve the cradle fully upside down. I’ve saw things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. Oh, wait. I digress.
James gave four or five tries to smith grind from deep-to-shallow over the loveseat. This photo is the make. He locks the truck on the coping like a slug in a railgun. Once it’s on there, it just goes forever.
No Comply has somehow convinced Jason of Trail of the Dead fame to allow a skate jam of sorts at the Beauty Bar on thursday. Reminds me of how the Orbit Room had that halfpipe in Dallas for a while. Ouch. Here’s Conrad’s mYspace page while we’re on the topic of the trail of the dead.
The other day while I was cleaning out some old files, I came across some letters Kevin Mouton had forwarded to my skate zine back in the early nineties. Kevin and Adam Young had been skating in their high school parking lot when two men attacked them with brass knuckles. The two teenaged skateboarders were beaten unconscious without any provocation whatsoever. That was pretty commonplace in the Lake Charles, LA area back then. During the time I spent there, one of the most frequently-asked questions in public seemed to be, “You want some shit?!?” From my experience, there just didn’t seem to be a right answer to that one.
The letters were from a district attorney informing Kevin and Adam of the punishment received by their attackers. It seems oddly coincidental that these two letters would pop up in the midst of the Jena 6 and Hot Springs 6 protests. Though it hasn’t captured as much attention, skateboarders are gathering today in Hot Springs, AR, to protest the YouTube-publicized police choking of a 13-year-old skateboarder on Go Skateboarding Day.
As this age of quarrel continues, James Juneau just won’t quit inventing new abuses for the coping in Round Rock. Now he’s got low-to-high ollies to smith grinds into birdbath. Round Rock night sessions are wow.
Henry Rollins apparently pulled out of ACL early (in some circles this is referred to as ‘the pullout method’) in favor of performing independent of the Zilker park mega-fest. Though he was never confirmed on any official ACL lineups, he will perform at an un-official after-party at the Chuggin’ Monkey according to this flyer. Also in store for Hank fans are other Austin appearances throughout the weekend.
Ken Fillian and Troy Chasen showed up at the Round Rock skatepark the other night. Speaking of ACL, that’s the surgical procedure Ken will spend the next six months recovering from.
No Comply skate shop gets some deserved props in the current issue of the Skateboard Mag. Oh, and there are some cool photos of Ben Schroeder skating at the Block Uplands replica.
Scene-builder Nathan Black is all over town making things happen. Sometimes it’s skateboarding related, others its roller derby, and frequently, it’s music. He hosts Beerland’s Rock-and-roll karaoke every monday night, which would be this night.
On wednesday of this week, Mr. Black turns 35. A gathering is taking place at the Rio Rita (starts @ 8:00 PM) for those who want to honor Nathan, which will likely include throngs of people from the skate, music, and derby segments of Austin.
Birthday gift idea: tickets to November’s FunFunFun Festival. Onsale now!
This past summer has seen some tremendous works of celluloid projected on screens across the nation. Box office cash registers rang up a record $4.1 billion with the Simpsons and Bourne Ultimatum leapfrogging each other to set the record for largest August opening weekend evah. Superbad (uncensored trailer) didn’t set any records, but it has continued to prove that there’s a strong market for awesome R-rated comedies by taking first place at the box office two weeks in a row. Earlier this year, Will Ferrell delivered what many of my friends are calling his funniest film: Blades of Glory. Last week it was released on DVD. Inspired by these other films, I edited together some video footage I shot in the opening week of the Broken Arrow Skatepark.
Looking for a cheap bicycle? The annual UT impounded bicycle auction is this Thursday @ 5:00 PM. Here are the details… (more…)
The Deathstar ramp on Prather Lane survived many attacks from would-be heroic jedis including Chaz Pineda and Darren Navarette. Not even the Millenium State Farm could fire a torpedo up it’s exhaust port. Finally, rot and decay reached the core of the structure and Cary Jackson had to initiate the destruct sequence. What used to be mistaken for a small moon at a distance is no longer there. Even so, Lee Brooks continues to publish Prather Ramp Locals zine. New issue online now!
The ramp’s demise comes just as news that backyard super-destroyer, Clint Formby, is moving back to Austin…
The other night moot and I showed up at Round Rock to find two Iraq War™soldiers bathing the bowl in blood. Not their own, but the blood of any theoretical opponents to shredding. I saw one of them transfer from the bowl to the street course in tweaked frontside grabs. I saw him carve the cradle fully upside down. I’ve saw things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. Oh, wait. I digress.
The Deathstar ramp on Prather Lane survived many attacks from would-be heroic jedis including Chaz Pineda and Darren Navarette. Not even the Millenium State Farm could fire a torpedo up it’s exhaust port. Finally, rot and decay reached the core of the structure and Cary Jackson had to initiate the destruct sequence. What used to be mistaken for a small moon at a distance is no longer there. Even so, Lee Brooks continues to publish 
