MOTTO-LESS SINCE LAST FRIDAY
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2004
>> Christian Hosoi is scheduled for a parole hearing tomorrow, says one of our reliable sources (the Slap Message Boards). It’s been nearly six years since Hosoi was sent to the belly of the beast. We at the Tap believe Holmes has paid his debt to society and wish him the best at tomorrow’s hearing. He could do rocket method airs, that’s gotta be grounds for a at least a year off his sentence.
>> On the way to work there was a guy fully asleep, with a cigeratte dangling in his mouth, in the lane next to me, on the 101 freeway. Luckily it was stop and go traffic. I gave him a honk; he woke up, took a power puff, and just kept driving.
>> Mini 5 with Scott Johnston:
Top 5 things to do while waiting for Carroll to finish stretching:
1. Get a Starby’s
2. Look at his latest home furnishing purchase
3. Skate the Brooklyn Projects mini
4. Give my hotmail a quick once over
5. Spot him (just kidding)
>> I’ve never watched Fear Factor
QUOTES:
"I don’t know, and to be honest, I don’t really f--king care."
—Kelly Bird
"Fat face Gavin ruined the whole thing!"
—Hime
"I got sponsored by a Christian skate company once and I was totally drunk at the time."
—Jeremy Carnahan
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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2004
>> In an attempt to expand the Bird Brand, Kelly Bird has launched a website.
>> Hime is up to something, and it’s not road repping. We’ll find out tomorrow.
>> Atiba showed me a slideshow, on his laptop, with a Tribe Called Quest song playing along to it, of his new two-story house. Remember when Atiba was just the guy they’d send to SF to film Huf. And remember, on that same trip, he was supposed to hook-up with Carroll but Carroll flaked on him. Well now he’s buying house number two.
>> Scott made a power move over the weekend. Congratulations bud.
>> Lakers are in the finals. Not sure what that means.
>> A few people are concerned about Gino’s whereabouts, so here’s an update: He’s trying to find an apartment in LA while he’s in NY. Sounds difficult. And he skated Flushing Meadows today by himself.
>> Ty’s got a new bod that he’s real into right now. Take a look.
QUOTES:
"As soon as I get there I feel like getting out."
—Gino
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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2004
>> Gino might be moving back to LA. He got on the freeway to come down here today and then just turned around and decided to go to the airport and fly home. He’s spontaneous like that. So maybe he won’t move here.
>> Just a reminder to send in your photos for the Win a Chocolate Backpack Personally Packed by the Scott Johnston Contest. Who ever has the cleanest room wins. Send entries to cfs@crailtap.com or snail mail to 22500 S. Vermont, Torrance, CA 90502. Deadline is still June 10.
>> Joey "Bucky" Brezinski just walked into Crail Headquarters. He’s got a crazy smile, lots of teeth. He’s all teeth. It was better before when he had braces and a nose ring. He was just a face full of teeth and metal. Anyways, he’s here to skate the park with Kenny, Felix, Joey Pepper, and Chany. It’s like a Rhythm reunion, but at Girl!
>> Here’s a mini Top 5 with Joey:
Top 5 foods that used to get stuck in Brezinski’s braces
1. Lettuce
2. Gum
3. Fish Tacos
4. Squash
5. Chili Cheese Fritos
>> A full length Top 5s from Kenny Anderson coming soon. The Gav’s real bummed that we already replaced his Top 5s with Dimitry’s.
>> Staba’s Skate Mental maybe going international. Lookout Germans!
QUOTES:
" Do I sound bitter? "
—Kenny Anderson
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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2004
>> Last night was that awards ceremony thing in Hollywood. Not the American Idol one but the skateboard one. MJ won for Best Street Skater, Yeah Right! for Best Video of the Year. Breeze through these photos by Tap photojournalists Kelly Bird and Sam Smyth.
And if you've got a fast connection, download this vid of MJ (it's over 7 megs — a modem killer) getting his award.
>> Bubbs, Sherm, BA, Biebs, Bryce, Mac Res, Cory, and, possibly, Tito, P-Rod’s a no show, are headed for Great Britian today, for the Oi! Meets Girl! tour. A couple of in stores, may be a demo, and some not so secret street action. Have fun guys.
>> Camo is obviously in right now! New York too.
>> York’s back in the building. Not exactly sure what that means, but he wanted me to write that.
>> When Gerrard Secretario is your coworker you kind of have to wonder if you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere in your life. Sorry Mom and Dad.
>> Have you heard of Sex Bracelets or the game called Snaps? According to a very reliable news source, Robin Quivers of the Howard Stern Show, kids in East Coast Junior High and High Schools are getting frisky. Here’s how the game works, girls are wearing different plastic bracelets, that, depending on their color, signify a different sexual act. If a boy rips that bracelet off, he is awarded that sexual favor. Shocking! That being said, is it any surprise that Carroll has been talking about returning to school to get his diploma?
QUOTES:
"Being a business man is like the new Hensley-chain. It’s the new trend."
—Mike York
"I got Jacob’s for $20!"
—Biebel
"I’m the laziest pro skater there is."
—Marc Johnson during his acceptance speech
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2004
>> In addition to potentially sharing property together, Nick and Greg have made a group purchase on a couple of baby pit bulls. Without even having to ask, Nick’s baby pit will be named either Diamond or Fillmore. I imagine that Greg’s will be given a name fitting of a spiritual leader or a character from the Hindu religion. Maybe Vishnu? Nick has vowed to raise his dog to attack anybody but him or Greg, and went as far as posting a sign that says, "No Baby Talk" above their make shift doghouse that they set up in the warehouse. Look for Greg walking his new pup around the Melrose area. Look for Nick in a future episode of Animal Cops.
>> The world’s most Hollywood Road Rep, The Hime has a wonderful mother named Rosemarie. I know because the first day I met Hime we stopped at his mom’s house for him to pick up some clothes. This was like seven years ago. Hime was a pro snowboarder then and he didn’t wear all black. Here’s the survey.
>> Spike has taken up speech writing in his spare time.
>> Gav’s car got attacked yesterday while he was at the Laker game. Somebody took it upon themselves to mangle his side mirror. First Phish breaks up and now this. Tuesday, May 26, truly a shitty day for The Gav.
>> Scott’s pretty sparked on the Glendale skatepark, with back-to-back early morning sessions. Don’t expect any dazzling rail moves in the street section. He just skates the pool.
QUOTES:
"I’m here strictly for the high fives."
—The Gav at the Laker game
"I’m sure they’re glad to have a designated driver in the building."
—Mike Burnett
"As far as I know, all skaters are hot so I dressed to impress."
—The girl from MADE on her way to meet Caine Gayle
"I was thinking there’s no one at Transworld that I hate anymore."
—Lance Dawes
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TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2004
>> Having a teacher whose favorite skater is Eric Koston must be pretty cool. If you’re one of those lucky students then you must already know Tony Larson’s brother Travis. If not, read this survey and get to know him.
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>> Koston came by to raid the warehouse. It’s getting close to the end of the month so he probably burned through his paycheck already. Here he his grabbing some shit to sell.
>> According to Jereme Rogers, he’ll be moving into Mike Carroll’s house soon. Yeah, he said this with a straight face and couldn’t understand why I started laughing hysterically. P-Rod’s selling the house and Jereme found it fitting to move in with another teammate with some extra bedrooms. Mike, do you know anything about this?
>> It’s Canadian funnyman, Mike Myers’ birthday today. Years ago, he, Rick, Meg and his wife went clubbing all night. They went to a rave, a cowboy bar, Moose McGillicutty’s, and a Goth club. They wore the proper attire for each venue too. True story. Happy birthday Mike.
>> Damn, Rick in a dam (780K quicktime).
>> Muska is our dawg.
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But it turns out that somebody else lost their dog Muska.
>> It is truly a sad day for The Gav. Sorry Tim. But I bet your girlfriend Kelly is kind of stoked.
QUOTES:
"There’s lot of bullies in grade one."
—Rick McCrank
"I’ve been struggling with this trash bag and trash can for about 6 or 7 minutes."
—Mikey
"Weird sun."
—Mikey
"We should end it now while it’s still on a high note."
—Trey Anastasio
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MONDAY, MAY 24, 2004
>> Ty had a pretty sweet little Saturday this past weekend. Here’s how it went: Get up make some calls to go skate, wait. Go to Carroll’s, wait for him to do some stretches. Go to Lockwood, wait. Wait in line at Subway for a wrap with no animal products in it—still on the diet. Meet with more people at Lockwood and then drive to a brick ledge with angle iron on it but doesn’t grind. Drive across town to Culver City to skate a bank. Try to fish Gino’s board out of a reservoir with a piece of wire, which he actually seemed to enjoy doing. Follow six cars to a Starbucks, wait. Leave everyone at Starbucks and go to LA High. Get a ticket leaving LA High for making a right turn on a red light. Buy a twelve pack and go home.
>> Twenty-eight years ago today, in San Francisco, a woman by the name of Joanne gave birth to a healthy baby boy. He would go to the best Catholic schools in the City, learn to skateboard, invent noseslide nosegrinds, become an avid user of Tivo, and never eat a salad, ever. Happy Birthday Sam Smyth.
>> As promised here’s some footage of Brian Lotti skating a fullpipe that his friend found in Downtown LA last week. There was human feces behind the pipe.
>> Slash was on Howard Stern this morning. Years ago a bar accidentally gave Guy Mariano Slash’s credit card instead of his own after closing his tab. When Guy returned the card to Slash he accused Guy of trying to steal it. Weak.
>> Is watching back-to-back episodes of Single in the Hamptons on the Women’s Entertainment Channel a bad way to spend your Sunday?
DON'T QUOTE ME:
"Whenever I don’t have control, the day goes to shit."
—Ty
"I have to leave when the cleaning lady comes over."
—Anne Hufnagel
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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2004
>> In an attempt to fully embrace his newfound whiteness, Smyth invited all his friends to join him for his birthday at the Troubadour for a Cat Power concert this Monday night. Wow! If this were five years ago, back when he lived in SF, he'd be asking everyone to go see JT Tha Bigga Figga, Mac Mall, San Quinn, or Chunk. Now he lives in LA, wears Spicoli Vans, and listens to white boy shit like Cat Power. Nevertheless, if you got his email don't bother on showing up because you just got invited to a sold out show. Good one Sam. Mac Rez R.I.P.
>> For those interested in winning The Chocolate Backpack Personally Packed by Scott Johnston Contest, you've got your work cut out for you. I went to his house yesterday and it felt like I stepped into the pages of an Organized Living Catalog. It's gonna take an army of Swiffers to impress Scooch. He also had a Donald Trump book on his nightstand, so the judging could be harsh. Good luck.
>> You ever fart so bad that your 5 year old nephew starts dry heaving? Yeah, it's a good time. I recommend it.
>> I just found out that going out to lunch with Gerrard is way different than going out to lunch with The Gav. For starters don't count on Gerrard to sweat profusely or pick up the tab. But you can count on both of them to be rude to the waitress.
>> Chico's going to Spain in a never-ending quest to spend the majority of his life in a Spanish speaking country. You'd think that if you'd go through the hassle of illegally crossing the border to the United States that you'd want to spend more time here. Guess not.
>> If wanna check out Bird's photo documentation of the Termite Tour he went on last weekend click here.
>> Next week, footage of Lotti getting fully tubed — maybe.
QUOTES:
"I should get some Atkins items."
—Smyth on stocking his snack machine
"Why don't you go in back and work on your Bertelmans?"
—Ben Colen
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
—Nick Tershay/Bill Cosby
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TURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004
>> Since Rickk is having such an exciting week-picking up trash on the side of the road yesterday, going to the dentist today, which means he still has some teeth left-we decided it would be a good time to introduce some of his family members to the Tap. Here's a survey from his kid sister, Athena Pascal. She and Rickk have the same favorite skater.
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>> Lance Dawes and Jake Phelps visited Girl yesterday. Lance had stomach rot and Jake was loud. How loud? So loud that Abeyta had to let him know. Sam shut Jake down on Ping-Pong 7-0, they skated the park for 10 minutes and split. Jake had a pentagram belt buckle, not like the Bam heart one, but a real satanic one. Hey, Ring Ring Ringer! I don't think Phelps will be hosting the Transworld awards this year either. Just a wild guess.
>> Three for three on lunches with The Gav. Could be a new a record around here. He hasn't called me today though.
>> A lot of talk at lunch about the "Super Size Me" documentary, the one where that one dude eats nothing but McDonald's for a month. Which doesn't sound like much when you compare it to Carroll only eating Mac-n-Cheese, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Grapeade Snapple for the first 20 years of his life! Or when Johannes ate nothing but Poptarts and gallons of Milk for a whole year. Can we get a film crew over to their houses, pronto?
>> Contest: Who wants to win a Chocolate backpack, personally packed by the overly anal Scott Johnston? Weren't not talking about the Carroll kind of anal, we're talking about being really really neat. So whoever sends in a photo of the cleanest and tidiest bedroom out there (gotta be your room) will get the backpack full of goodies and make their mother's proud. Send photos to cfs@crailtap.com or snail mail to "Win a Chocolate Backpack Personally Packed by the Overly Anal Scott Johnston Contest" at 22500 S. Vermont, Torrance, CA 90502. Deadline is June 10.
QUOTES:
"One fart and you'll be hungry again."
—The Gav on Bird only eating a salad for lunch at a BBQ restaurant
"I'm gonna have Phelper's Daily Bummer."
—Phelps
"Holly Termite Team, first time on tour!"
—Bird about last weekend's Lakai tour
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TURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004
>> Turns out Sam hid his Wallenberg Weekend photos really well on The Tap hard drive. Here they are.
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TURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004
>> We've been hearing about Wallenberg all week. If you haven't seen these clips over at Thrasher, do so. Mr. Smyth was there... we got a set of captions from him, but no photos. Hmm. Maybe we can post the captions and we can all imagine what the jpegs look like. Yeah.
1. Schaaf, TNT, and Stranger — In the house, without their tents.
2. Notorious D.R.L. — the holder of a mean switch backside 180.
3. Daniel was visibly stunned by the big gap action up at Wallenberg.
4. Rap game or skate game, Don Toine and P.W. Esquire got skills.
5. OG Frisco ripper, Danny Sargent.
6. One of the most annoying dudes ever, until around 18 when he started seeing an herbalist. Now Karl is the coolest.
7. Gonz snapped the steps on 215 Indies, then retired to his trailer.
8. Jereme and his new Yeah Right Green crotch rocket.
9. Nick cancels out each beer with a shot of Isagenix Slimming Formula.
10. One's body can only keep going so long. While perusing an FHM at 5am, Gerrard experienced a full shut-down.
>> Did any of you catch Cain Gayle on the tube last night? Apparently (we don't have cable), he "coached a hopeful female
skateboarder on MTVs MADE." Who's got cable that can tell us what went down?
SAY WHAT? (the quotes)
"Elisa Steamer is the MAN!"
—Salman Agah regarding Wallenberg
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2004
>> Now that Meza finally came back to his real family after trying to act like he could survive without us, we got a survey back from his brother. Aaron's brother looks just like Aaron and they have the same favorite band.
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>> Fucking Finally! We have so many cooks in the kitchen here (not kooks, cooks) and got so many fine works of art that it was quite a job picking the winner for MIKEY'S PRIZE PAINTING. Thanks to everyone that sent in their artwork. The winner is Zeke. Zeke was chosen because not only was the painting beautiful, Zeke cared more about $100 then his own mom, who the painting was originally made for and that means he has a lot in common with us. Zeke, congratulations and we lost your zip code so e-mail Sanger and we'll send the cash.
Having so many to choose from, we ended up with some runner ups.
Robbie Stobart of Vancouver gets a free Mike Carroll deck as a runner up for his stained glass submission and for having the guts to ask us to hold up the judging until his entry got here.
Vinnie Serpas of Hacienda Heights gets a free Mike Carroll deck because we felt sad for him that he sent an essay into a painting contest.
And last but not least, Jesse Castillo of San Diego gets a free Mike Carroll deck for getting all political and sending in a painting titled "The Rise of Corporate Greed" (only a detail is shown here) inspired by his frustration with the grocery store strike.
SAY WHAT? (the quotes)
"Gav just walked into my office with his shirt off and he looks like a burn victim."
—Bird
"I'm so fat right now — but I'm not bummed."
—The Gav
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