CURRENT
ENTRY Today’s Randoms is coming live from Carroll’s living room. He’s stretching right now. Clip of the Day! The Cheeks goes switch.
The job Jason Callaway gave to Mike Carroll yesterday was to make a playlist on his iPod for the Fourstar Ten Year Anniversary Party. A tremendous task for Mr. Carroll, as you know. So don’t bother him until the night of the 8th. He’ll be busy. Next week we’ll have a contest involving Marc Johnson and hair, or lack there of. Get your photoshop ready. I knew I should have saved some of those quotes from yesterday.
Factory Approved. When you get an ad you’re officially on. You hear that Mo? Mini Top 5 In an attempt to increase his market share, Rickk trying on a new look.
Oh, and Carroll, Fourstar’s Jason Callaway has a major job for you! Details to come soon
“Don’t listen to Supra Pete!”—Koston “He was such a cute little kid. He’s still really nice though.”—Charlene about Alex Olson “I went to the boy’s bathroom once and it looked like someone cut their pubes in there.”—Charlene
Clip of the Day! Eric’s filmed his own boardslide at Arco and shot his won Big Bro cover. Now add a front flip into Lake Mead to that already impressive list.
The Crail Shop has some very impressive animation to go along with its very impressive bargains. I predict a spike in sales this week. Speaking of Spike, he’s out of town for six months. The Ringer better find a new person to pick on. I elect Kenny Anderson, just for the hell of it…actually, no, go with Reda. Fourstar is having a contest where by simply providing the correct answer to a question and hitting “send,” you can win some major prizes. Carroll’s bench is here!
“I cant’ wait to start living.”—Rickk looking forward to not having to film for the Lakai video
Clip of the Day! While filming for Mouse there was this little dude seshing the Pots rail with Koston, Carroll, and Keenan. It was the same day that Eric nollie noseblunted the rail. After looking at the tape recently we realized it was a young Mike McDermott. He also Smith’d it.
The future looks scary. Pops, these dudes from Cheapskates in Auckland, New Zealand are really into your shit
Big month for Beardo! First 10 pages in Thrasher now Guest Poster! Check out the other posts from this one time team rider for the Magic F, park builder, teacher, and Bolder Dick. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from here Andy. We forgot to mention that The Gav shit his pants last week while at work. Not a full shit, just an oops poops. Ringer put him on your list. The Crail Shop has been updated and fully functioning after a few days on the fritz. That’s called alliteration. One of Larson’s buddies, Isaac McKay-Randozzi, who he has assured me is a “friend of the Tap,” is the curator of a show at Antisocial that will be opening this Friday. Again send any and all photos of Bob K. at the show here. We’ll have an Atiba Bachelor Barge post for you tomorrow. I know, I know you’ve been waiting all weekend. I rode in a Hummer limo. Shameful
“I’m on ice for awhile.”—Bird
In
preparations for Atiba's bachelor
party we're digging deep into
the back issues for this interview
with Tony Larson that was posted
in preparations for Ty's bachelor
party exactly two years ago
to the day! Now that's progress
for you.
Clip of the Day It’s a retro clip. Rickk at Slam City ’94.
Yesterday, while filming at a school in the Valley, we saw Tim’s brother-in-law playing basketball with a bunch of other students. Tim’s mother-in-law called him last night to tell him all about it. One of the other basketball kids asked us if that was Koston trying to nollie flip down a large set of steps. When we said, “Yeah” he responded, “Well, then how come he didn’t do it first try.” So what’s weirder, jock kids knowing who Koston is, or jock kids knowing what a nollie flip is, or jock kids getting bummed that Koston isn’t nollie flipping eleven first try QUOTES: “I’m stealing a sheet and a pillow from Hard Rock and that’s it.”—The Gav on his sleeping arrangements for Lake Mead
Here’s An Advanced Warning! Today’s post is going to suck. Mini Top 5 I’m assuming you go skate everyday.
“I’m going from the Bachelor Barge and straight into a physical the next day.”—Rudy “Well, that’s where we are.”—Rudy defending why he uses “The Cosmos” screen saver
Clip of the Day! Ben Powell, I hope you’re tuning in, ’cause this one’s for you. Carl Shipman 360 flipping the legendary Pine St. bump with a congratulations from Scott Johnston. Ahhhh, the early ’90s.
A bunch of us are going to Vegas for a night and then spending the rest of the weekend on two houseboats for Atiba’s Bachelor Barge. Remember the one we did for Ty’s Bachelor two years ago? Same thing. We’re still using photos from Ty’s for graphics and things, so it is strictly a business trip. Carroll’s Clip of the Day! Stunna Shades. Jeron’s engaged!.
This week’s Guest Poster is Greg Hunt. Beyond, and maybe even above, photography Greg is also known for the following; being the first to kickflip front nose a ledge, member of the original Stereo line-up, a college classmate of mine (he dropped out though), video maker, and according to James Kelch, though he’s from Michigan, not a T-Dog. Thanks Greg. Clip of the Day! It was Biebel’s birthday this past weekend. Happy birthday Brandon! Carroll was with him all weekend so that was probably a damper on the festivities. Here’s a nollie noseslide. It was also BA’s birthday recently but we don’t have a clip to celebrate it with. Happy Birthday Brian!
And to just think… Count Smyth and Atiba as the newest inhabitants of blog land. Alex Olson won some contests this weekend at the Wassup Rockers premier. A triathlon of sorts with a game of S.K.A.T.E., a best trick contest and a high ollie contest. He won the game of S.K.A.T.E and the high ollie contest, bouncing over eight boards stacked high. He won $500, a Baker board and a T-Shirt. He gave the board and T-Shirt to a kid, but he kept the check. He was also hung over. Could this spell the end of the shoe craze? Hipsters everywhere would like to know. Today marks the month anniversary of the Skatefairy’s last post. What happened to the good ol’ days of triples lines, Snicket, and battling with Carroll?
Clip of the Day! A classic. Bubs, one foot tail grab.
Come see us on the Badass Vs. Dumbass tour.
New Top 5 coming soon.
Clip of the Day! Carroll hops the barrier with a frontal flip.
Even Supra Pete got in on the action.
I know it’s hard to tell from the above clip, but Pete used to skate for Planer Earth and could once do finger flip lien to tails to revert, on vert. The Gav, just now, sent us the link for the fake CNN story about “fellatio reducing the risk of breast cancer.” The Gav’s always been on the cutting edge of Internet humor. I see dancing hamsters in our future. Mike Mo sent us his text count for the month…9853! Mo, that’s only 147 “What r u doings?” away from the five-digit mark. Carpal tunnel syndrome by 18. Colen, I’ve found you some light summer reading.
Just to clarify with everyone, Joey Hughes, the winner of the Crail Shop Customer Survey is not on meth. Thanks Joey, we even spelt your last name correct this time. Awhile back Active held a contest called Kenny and the Chocolate Factory. Well, Kyle Wood from West Virginia was the lucky winner. His family made it out too, as Torrance is beautiful this time of year. Kyle also learned crooked grinds and got in on some triples action with Kenny and Rickk. Got the Krooked video today. We recommend that you buy it. Donny Miller called me yesterday and asked that we put up a flier for his SF stop on his book tour. But he couldn’t remember the name of this site and called it Skate Mental at one point in the conversation. You're a good artist Donny, but you’re turning out to be a shitty friend. I don’t want to name names but somebody at Thrasher promised us a Top 5 with a well-known Northern California resident by last Friday. C’mon Schmitty! I know yesterday we said that it’s best to communicate through a post in a column, well sometimes it’s even better to completely ignore the other columns around you.
Congratulations Joey Huges! You have been chosen, randomly, as the Crail Customer Survey Winner. Joey likes Biebel, “American Inventor,” and, not sure if he’s joking or not, methamphetamine. To enter fill out the Survey that comes with each Crail Shop order. Here’s Joey’s:
More of Mark and BA on the Fourstar site. The guy that used to sit four cubes down has an interview on the World Wide Web. Our cover band Bright and Sebastian has yet to play a show, or a song, or even get together and practice. It certainly didn’t help that one half of the band, Eric Anthony, sold his music equipment and spends all his time with a rescued pit bull. But I think posting this might get it going again. Sometimes a post is the best way to communicate around here. Every now and then Carroll, in his every busy morning schedule, finds the time to send us links. A good seventy-five percent of them we can’t put up, but the ones we can we’ll call them The Carroll Link of the Day. Here’s the first. If you live in L.A. there’s something going on at Detroit and Melrose. Look to the sky.
"Skateboarding is a lot bigger than streetwear is.”—Nick Diamond
This week’s Guest Frontpage Poster is Patrick O’Dell. One time Thrasher photog, recently moved to the esteemed position of Photo Editor of Vice, and sole proprietor of Epicly Later’d. Thanks Patrick. May we suggest this link. On the way to making a painting for the Fourstar 10th anniversary show Gonz found a piece of tranny. Carroll and Nick Diamond, eat your heart out, look who was on my flight! Bluto, Otter, Boon, and Flounder, D-Day all partied here, but these guys are bumming. More Mentos, way more.
Cliché Clip of the Day! Lucas with a proper back smitty. And thus concludes our week with Cliché. Congratulations boys. Well deserved.
Mark Gonzales and Brian Anderson came down yesterday to get arty for a forthcoming Fourstar fiesta. Here’s a sneak preview. More on this on the Fourstar site on Monday. Check Nick Jensen while you’re there. Some people have been writing in thinking we were dissing Claus Grabke, well actually it was just Nate Sherwood. Well, Nate we weren’t. We’re Grabke fans.
“Aren’t they an off shoot of Wu-Tang?”—Eric Anthony concerning Soul of Mischief and, subsequently, his whiteness “He’s a hotshot.”—Mark Gonzales about Steve Olson “I wanted Dustin Dollin’s barf on my board.”—Mark Gonzales
Cliché Clip of the Day! Lucas Puig kickflip fakie.
Cliché Clip of the Day! Daclin doing it up backside.
Claus Grabke Behind the Music. Found in cyberland.
We were pretty good yesterday. QUOTE:
It is on this special day that we’ve officially brought this little Omen into our life. Congratulations Alex! You’re on the team! God help us all. Alex also, called first thing in the morning, really excited that we might do something cool today being that it was 6/6/06. When we I asked for a suggestion he said that we could work with the lights out. Maybe we can all do this to our school photos, Alex. The BBC even got in on the fun. We don’t mean to be dicks and point out the errors of the BBC, but your photo of the Maiden lineup for “Number of the Beast” should look like this, not this. Just from one legitimate news source to another. I’m sure you’ve got fact checkers galore over there, but we got two metalheads over here. Speaking of clearing shit up, Mark Gonzales asked us to clarify, for a doubting young Alex, that he did in fact jump over the top of a car. Well, Alex here’s your answer:
Cliché Clip of the Day. Jereme Daclin knows what’s appropriate and goes frontside Crail.
This week’s Guest Poster is Girl Skateboards VP, Mike Carroll. He’s also a pro skater for the company. He also has fabulous chest hair. Cliché Clip of the Day. Lucas front blunts the tight tranny. Cliché will be reigning over the Clip of the Day for the rest of the week.
There’s a new Featured Feature and it’s got little tiny dogs in it.
“You’re a Dagger!”—Eddie Reategui to Daniel Castillo “Nobodies got stage presence like [Judas] Priest.”—Sal
Carroll’s gonna be next week’s Guest Poster. Right Mike? Next week the Team of the Year, Cliché, will be taking over the Clips of the Day. It’s the least we can do for the Rickk comment about it being our trophy. As a little warm up here’s their man behind the scenes Al Boglio warming up the Jr. Executive quaterpipe.
If you were at the TWS awards last night and there was a guy there with a rubberneck, glasses, tons of Paul Mitchell in his hair, and looked like he works in your I.T. department, then you saw Matt Schnurr. You ever trip on how much this guy looks like Dimitry? Do you remember Dimitry? Sam saw E-40 at the airport. Surely it’ll make it on his highlight reel. But it also reminds me of a little secret that was revealed to me over the weekend. While Smyth was performing his triumphant ghost ride in the Bay, his girlfriend Diana was ducking down in the backseat seat reading a magazine. Go dumb.
It’s been a while since we posted on of these. It’s from Dan from SF. That’s favoritism for ya.
We’re not usually into back ground props around here but this one’s a go. Gonz is not afraid to phone it in.
The
Cliché guys
came
by
today.
Well
in
a
very
unSwitzerland-like
move
the
first
thing
Rickk
said
when
he
saw
the
Cliché guys
was, “Are
you
here
to
win
our
trophy?” as
in
trophy
for
Team
of
the
Year.
Park
clips
soon
to
come. This
week’s
Front
page
Poster
is
the
Art
Dump’s
own
Jeremy
Carnahan.
He
sits
two
doors
down
from
Crail
Head
Quarts
and
his
duties
include
working
on
Royal
with
Rudy,
doing
board
graphics,
laying
out
ads,
some
I.T.,
posting
peoples
column’s,
and
on
and
on.
But
more
notably
he’s
one
half
of
the
Desert
Twins.
And
some
might
say
he’s
the
best
half. There
was
a
major
Royal
Trucks
meeting yesterday.
We
also
had
lunch
with
Jereme
yesterday
where
the
following
topics
were
discussed;
contest
winnings,
God,
ATL,
Mr.
Roger’s
Neighborhood,
and
fish.
Sitting
Pretty
with
Shaq
is
back! After
almost
a
two-month
hiatus
we’ve
decided
to
post
this
month’s
winner.
After
Chris
Cole’s
180
to
switch
feeble
it
was
these
young
ladies
turn
to
Sit
Pretty with
Shaq. Well
it
didn’t
take
long
for
it
to
go
in
the
gutter.
It
is
in
our
bathroom
after
all. Shaq doesn’t
seem
to
mind though. Last
night,
Tuesday,
there
was
a
private
party
to
celebrate
the
new
line
for
Ruby
Republic
at
the
Cha
Cha
Lounge
in
Silver
Lake.
As
always
here’s
a
visual
document. Clip
of
the
Day!
Staba
at
Miley.
BA
and
I
came
to
the
conclusion
that
Ft.
Miley
is
in
at
least
the
top
three
of
most
scenic
skate
spots.
We
were
going
to
give
it
first
place,
but
of
course
Lee
Smith,
nay
Le
Lee,
insisted
that
Stalin
Square,
in
Europe,
is
much
more
picturesque. This
week's Guest
Front Page
Poster Roger
Bridges,
he
was there in
the 80's and
is still here
today. Should
be
good. We’re
in SF and can’t really
post. Please
let this short
video serve
as an apology.
Jacob
Rosenberg Clip of the
Day! A doubles
line like no other,
Team Pierre and Carroll. Jacob Rosenberg Clip of the Day! At a very young Guy Mariano was very specific about what he wanted in his tea. The Gonz is in there too.
This casual slappy brought to you by… Not even the Cheeks reps Nica this hard. Today at lunch The Gav was talking about which casinos had good marketing and how Paris Hilton is a great marketing asset for anyone. Our new favorite skater.
CURRENT
ENTRY Jacob Rosenberg Clip of the Day! Rudy at Berkley Banks. Make not mistakes, this is a Video Days outtake!
Atiba risks life and limb for a gnar drop in. I’ve Never Been So Thoroughly Dissed. Well I used to have this great friend. She was a insignificant receptionist just like I was. She worked for a company called crailtap. I worked in a hospital. For the sake of the story we'll call her "Charlene". We became great friends over the years. We would talk all the time, it was really wonderful. She was one of my best friends. Then one day she got a promotion and that's when everything changed. Apparently in her new found position she was to important to talk to a crappy receptionist anymore. So she stopped writing me and she even changed her number. I got dissed. At least I learned a few lessons from all this. 1.Never forget where you came from. 2. Never trust "Charlene". I miss you pal.— Chris Strenski Max Schaaf, PJ Ladd, and BA are here. It’s very distracting.
The Guest Poster for the Daily Photos is Jacob Rosenberg filmer for many of the early classics; Think Crime, Video Days, Questionable, and Virtual Reality. He was also kind enough to send us a clip for each day. So all you laggers who’ve been asked to send in photos, Kenny, Atiba, Dimitry, you have no excuse. The Rosenberg Clip of the Day! SF with the Carroll brothers, fresh.
It’s been well documented before but just to drive the point home a little more here goes. Those are Ontario plates. Thanks Mark Takahashi. I don't think Sanger will be writing about this post.
Ghost rides that didn’t go as well as Smyth’s. Clips of the Day! More Enrique and some Rudy. I’ve Never Been So Thoroughly Dissed. Greg Hunt sets Rickk and Mike straight: When I was 18 I came out to California from the Midwest and stayed at Mike and Greg Carroll's house. I rode for Venture at the time and Greg was the team manager so he hooked me up. Their mom was never there, and neither was Greg for that matter- it was just me and Mike and Rick Howard- neither who I knew. When I first met Rick he was sitting on the couch watching tv and he looked up at me and said, "Hey I heard you're a tweaker". I didn't know what to say so I sat down for a minute and then got up and said I was going to bed. Rick then said, "Oh you're staying here again? Is it just for tonight, or for another couple months?". I remember just walking away thinking to myself, "Asshole!" But now that I look back I think there was a trigger event for this. A few days before I was at the Embarcadero and met Mike for the first time. I skated right up to him and asked, "Hey, you're Greg, right?". I knew he was Mike but I guess my name is Greg and I was nervous. But I'll never forget the look on his face. He just stared right through me.—Greg Hunt Flipping trough the channels last night and saw this. Cheeks gets a little nervous under the bright lights. I love how the white host assumes that all Latin American dishes involve tortillas. It ain’t all Taco Bell down there bud. Alex Olson’s in New York. Go to Epicly Laterd if you miss seeing him on The Tap. But when he gets back to LA he’s ours O’Dell. Happy Birthday Lardog.
Clip of the Day! Lee Smith, in between complaining about everything American, remember he just got back from living in Europe, managed to find some time to manage a 360 shove across the gap. While typing the above sentence I almost wrote “3600 shove across the gap.” Now that would be major. They’d probably name a Nabisco snack after you if you pulled that off Lee. Get on it.
Biebel’s in town
“Hey, That’s Not Ted Kaczynski, That’s a Pro Skater!” Part Two of a two part series. On Monday we went to Marc Johnson’s house so he can shoot a Spitfire ad. Marc lives in the mountains above San Bernardino, which are also the mountains above where Koston grew up. How Koston grew up to be Koston out there is a major mystery and how MJ is still able to skate like MJ while living in the woods is also a major mystery. Take a look around. Reda took the time to show MJ and Bird how to point with a cigarette when you’re being nice and how to point with a cigarette when your angry. The stooge was unlit, of course.
There’s a lot of grown man grunting coming from downstairs. It’s not like that; they’re just playing ping-pong. Totally straight. It’s not like we’re not doing quotes anymore, I just haven’t heard any good ones the last couple of days. I’ll try and hangout with Rudy tomorrow. That ought to do it.
Today and tomorrow we’ll be showing you two pro skaters who choose to live in the middle of nowhere, and we just happened to go to their houses this weekend. We’ll call it, “Hey, That’s Not Ted Kaczynski, That’s a Pro Skater!” So here’s Herman’s humble abode on the outskirts of the already outskirted Victorville, California. Herman tried to show Koston how to hardflip but to no avail.
Go here and scroll down to see some familiar faces. If you come across Paris and Nicole you’ve gone too far. AVE is here today. Wearing leather.
Clip
of the Day! The
always smooth Enrique
Lorenzo. Clip of the Day! In between thinking about team cuts, Staba goes for a blunt out back.
That clip of Staba yesterday inspired River Joe to do a complete cleaning of the skatepark. Mikey, when you wrote your park rules you forgot to tell people not to use the red DVS picnic table as a trash receptacle.
Our favorite Irishman, Sam Smyth, went to SF for Cinco de Mayo. If you’re in the area, just look for the palest dude in the crowd, that’s Sam. Being how our neighbors to our north kind of always get their way around here, we were thinking about changing Cinco de Mayo to Canada Day Part Two, but since congress has been harshing out our neighbor’s to our south we vetoed it. New feature jump-off. It’s called I’m a Petty Piece of Shit. This is an invite for all of you to send in your stories of being a Petty Piece of Shit and we’ll run the best ones. I’ll go first: Years ago I was eating at an uppity sushi restaurant here in LA (slid in under the radar with Koston). In a VIP room in the restaurant, that’s how it goes down out here, they were having a party for the cast of Baywatch. At the end of the night we were waiting for Eric’s car and Baywatch star Yasmine Bleeth was standing about six feet from us talking to a friend about how she was waiting to meet some guy at the restaurant. Her friend pointed at me and said, “Him?” Then Yasmine, keep in mind this is only like six feet away from me, made a face like when a baby sucks on a lemon and said, “Nooo!” in a you must be joking tone. So when her True Hollywood Story came out years later and she went from looking like this to this I took it as a personal victory. Some poor girl ends up hitting the pipe hard enough to get her own True Hollywood Story and your stoked on it just because she snubbed you back in ’98? Now that’s being a petty piece of shit. Share your own stories of being a petty piece of shit with us, but please be a bit briefer than I. It only makes sense that our mascot would try to get edu-ma-cated.
The Lance Mountain Top 5 is up! See we told you. In an effort to secure our slot on the Skate Mental team, we’ll be going big on Staba for the rest of the week. Clip of the Day! Brad with a back Crail slide and a one man cheering section.
I’ve always thought that girls are tougher than boys. Notice how she sets the rail back up. He never got his own Fucked Up Blind Kids card but he eventually got the real deal. Le Lee is in town, supposedly. We probably won’t even see him though.
We have a winner for What Should The Gav Have! After much debate, Chris Bywater, is that winner. He almost didn’t win because we realized at the last minute that he’s the art director for Skateboarder Magazine, normally that’s a DQ. But we’re over it so he gets the free shoes, even though he probably gets free shoes already. That’s the way the crack crumbles. He also almost didn’t win because he used that face squish effect. But Gav as a made man is pretty sweet. So Chris send us your shoe size and we’ll deduct the value from our Royal ad this month. I’m pretty sure he’s Canadian too, so he was bound to win it from the get. All joking aside, good job Chris. Here’s slideshow of some of the best. Our friends at Krooked as you may know will be premiering their video this month. Should be a banger. Smyth and I will be biting our nails this week as Skate Mental will be making some major team cuts in the coming weeks.
Did you guys go to the Lakai site?
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