Remastered? Who car=s anymore...

I first heard the Smashing Pumpkings in a dorm room. It was hella sick bros! Totally pumped up man.

I wanted to showcase the Girl Mariano 8 inch board because it was the first 8 inch board I bought since....

This conversation is getting weird. Did we discuss all this before?

We will see you next time on ""Power TV"' 1991-2-3-4

Product Reviews

KA-1 signature converse, signature Kenny Anderson shoe.

Pretty cool shoe. The sole is so thin... it feels like a pair of 3 year old chuck taylors. That being said, it also feels really good. Truth be told, if I could have a pair of these sent to my doorstep every two months I'd be stoked. It's a great shoe and really takes the whole "skates great out of the box" claim to a place of truth.

Bones "Pocket" T-shirt.

Hey. What can I say. I was originally looking for a white logo on black and I realized they only had it in small after I had placed the order. My friends.

I called Tanya and told her I NEEDED A LARGER size.

She was all, "We don't have it in black. Only white."

I told her to give it to me in white, large. I'm wearing the shirt right now as I write this review. I guess that makes it a pretty good shirt. I'm putting it up there in my top 75 shirts of all time.

frontside half cab kickflip aka 12 oz Pumpkin ale bottle

I haven't been around in a while. I know I promised a bunch of stupid skateboard related shit. The truth is I haven't kicked the tail since July 4th 2011.

I was listening to a lot of ZZtop since 1987?

The last trick I did was a fakie ollie. I fakie ollied my way out of so many lame situations.

I have no one else to turn to.

In the upcoming weeks turned months, years- I will be interviewing and reconnecting with One Larry Burns.

Switch heelflipping into oblivion once more.

Piss pedalin'

Enjoying the Epicly Later'd Ricky Oyola episodes even more than I thought I would. Great to see early footage of some Philadelphia spots that have changed over the years or disappeared altogether. Something tells me the rat curbs won't be making an appearance in any of these episodes. It was one of my favorite spots but it was basically just a square ledge around a defunct fountain. Pretty small. Not the type of place to go out of your way to get to if you've got City Hall and Love park to skate. Not saying heads didn't skate it but... I skated that spot and the sundial and the rest of Penn's Landing for the first time around '92 to put the time period in perspective. I liked it because there were less people crowding the spot and nobody cared if you skated there. I don't remember ever running into a police or pedestrian incident. Police Or Pedestrian? There's your new band name.

So... people can be pretty judgmental in the case of Ricky Oyola. I've seen some harsh words in the comments pages on some sites and everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion. I can see how he could be coming across as a self righteous asshole, but that's not what I'm feeling.

I remember walking to the Mellon Bank at 9th and Walnut to make a deposit for my job everyday. Everyday I would imagine a line around that corner, where there was a marble bank meeting a giant window. It was a bank that started a foot off the ground so you needed to ollie onto the bank and carve, kickflip or whatever. One day I was on my route and Ricky and a few other dudes came hauling ass down the sidewalk. He ollied onto the bank, frontside wallride on the glass, then came down the bank and kept pushing. No cameraman in tow. Moving forward and never looking back. Just onward... a continual forward and onward, ever pursuing motion of perpetual aggressive onslaught apreggio .

I moved to Philadelphia the same year the Sub Zero shop video dropped. There is just a special place in my heart for the dudes of that era. Not to mention he has killed it in every one of his parts. That New Deal 7 Year Glitch vid is an all around all time favorite.

The Epicly Later'd stuff is good for a few laughs. Talking about the act of pushing mongo when in the switch stance and other "gay" styles. Fortunately I never had the switch mongo push because I started as a mongo pusher in my regular stance. After a couple years of skating I realized I looked like a stupid idiot and forced myself to push regs. So pushing switch looked identical to my regs stance. Cause I had already been there. You know what I mean?

spaghetti whorehouse?

This was a title for a post that I thought of way back in April. An April Fool's day sort of thing.

That movie. That's the same chick from the "ASo you married an axe murderer." right?

It's no joke that my new favorite local brew is Sly Fox in a can. I love this stuff. I used to barely like it. What happened? Something wild. I realized their pils was running rampart. The pale ale was a pale comparison to itself in a mirror, rendering it double positive. Their version of the hefeweiss had some kind of canned glory in mind. ....

I can't even remember what I was getting at. Am I looking for a beer sponsor? Hey man. As vice squads go, the beer squadron is pretty good. Hanging out next to wine snobs? It's a pitfall sort of approach. You never know when a good thing will start sucking, or a sucky thing will blossom into a beautiful flower. Case in point: frontside bigspins vs bigspins in general, front , back, flip, shove...

Lordz Fieldz

I hate to keep bringing up age and weight etc in regards to my maneuverability on a skateboard, but I have to do just that. Yet again! I noticed a flat tire on my bike five minutes before leaving for work and decided to ride my skateboard. I barely ollied unless to go big or go home in

centimeters, clearing cracks in the sidewalk. I decided to hit up the metal L bar covered curbs on the 30th and Market bridge. Whatever you want to call it. I noticed it was a little more waxed since the last time i had skated it: January 2009. There was so much foot traffic blocking the runway, but I managed to attack it frontside a few times.

I kept going for classic frontside 50-50 and was landing smitty. Just tweaking. I could feel my weight on the board... bending it. The only reason these trucks were moving over this seasoned ledge was fresh wax and 190 plus lbs. dude. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol_75jFEpck

I did two 50-50s and got the hell out of there. People are like, "Oh you live in Philadelphia! How do you like it?"

And I always answer, "It's fine."

Naw, wait... sometimes I say: "It's just a certain kind of vibe."

I've met so many nationalities in Phila. Asians, latins, whites, blacks and even latin americans!! Case in point: Enrique Iglacious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Hye2EhzKY

paradiddle-diddle

I'm a big fan of Terry Bozzio. I remember my drum teacher talking clinic drummers and among the pepperings of studio timers lay dudes like Gadd, Figg, and Fagg. And then there was Bozzio. Missing Persons. Fucking great. Sick band, sick vocals, sick drummer. Whatever. I saw David Letterman's drummer, Anton Fig do a clinic at a music store in West Chester, PA. It wasn't West Chester Music. I forget what it was called. I'm sure he did a parradiddle or two. As a drummer, I realize it takes a long time to see that there are drummers with soul patches just like the harmonica players and flutists. Flute players, trying to play their soul patched way through a relationship with an otherwise complex woman. I want to be there to pick up the pieces of that failed relationship. Because, as a drummer who can connect to the burning desire of woman on a prehistoric level.... drums. Chicks dig drums. I haven't eaten fast food in six months. Is that good? Fuck off, man.