l Friday - April 30 - 9:32am l

Last night Frontline aired a fantastic hour entitled, The Jesus Factor."Examining George W. Bush's personal religious journey, it's impact on his political career and presidency, and the growing influence of America's Evangelical Christians." Even if you support George W, it's worth checking this out. It's VERY obvious that Bush bases all his political choices on evangelical beliefs and teaching. Any one of any other faith (or non beliver) should be vary concerned about the impact this is having on our government. The website has the entire program to view starting May 1st, in depth interviews and detailed overviews of Bush's faith. PLEASE take a second and educate yourself. I think you'll find it very troubling, or at the very least an eye opener.

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One week with my new 20gig iPod. I have to say, I really liked the interface of my second generation model much better. The wheel and touch buttons are too damn sensitive. I also liked the fact that you could connect with any fire wire cable. Yeah, it's a tad thinner with this new cable and 'dock'...big deal. The new iTunes upgrade seems to be pretty good...nothing special or anything.

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Ga damn it...Morrissey is playing at fucking Lollapalooza here in Northern California. Tickets go on sale in a matter of minutes. Lollapalooza? What the hell is he thinking? I can't think of a show I would want to attend LESS. Schedule some solo dates you dumb ass. Man, I should have traveled to LA. Jerk.

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Well, that's it until the end of next week. I've off to Portland for a vacation. we're going to drive up through the Redwoods and up the Portland coast. Dune Buggies, skateparks, and good food. Looking forward to it.


l Thursday - April 29 - 11:24am l

At the last minute last Friday I was asked to go BACK to NYC for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. So after a weekend of laying tile in Fresno, I got on a plane early Monday morning and went back to set up yet another event.

Man, I'm tired. Nothing exciting happened in NYC. Nothing.

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So, check out the design of this site.

From the 'webmaster':
"I just want to let you know I love love love your design for your front page so much that I decide to adopt it as my own... I have to be honest with you. I copied everything. I was running out of ideas and I needed to put out something real fast."

I'm not sure what I'm going to say when I write him back. It's a pretty poor copy, but it's still a copy. He did add ,"I will change once I got some fresh ideas."

Yeah, those fresh ideas can be hard to come by.

Featured + Embassy Visual Effects - Robot Cop (check out their entire site here)
Listen + Some Girls - All My Friends Are Going Death
Watch + Fuel TV (pretty fair action sports programming from this digital cable channel)


l Thursday - April 22 - 3:53pm l

Back from NYC last night at 11pm. Two nights of very little sleep...and not by choice.

4/20 : 9:15am : Walking to the Bowery to set up a show I was working on, I pass Supreme skateshop. About 3 dozen Asian males are lined up and/or in sleeping bags outside the shop. I'm informed they are waiting (some for a few days) to buy some limited Nike Dunks. Um, that's a bit much.

4/20 : 8:29pm : I'm leaving the small uni-sex bathroom at the event I'm attending. As I open the door, Patti LaBelle walks toward me. PLaB: "You all done in there chiiild?" Me:"Umm, yeah, it's all yours" PLaB: "Alright you don't want me all peeing up on stage..." PLaB's 'handler': "Miss Patti is in the restroom...Repeat, in the restroom".

4/21 : 12:35pm : Leaving Yaffa Cafe and walking up St. Marks Place, I hear some noise and turn around, not paying attenion to where I'm walking. I brush shoulders with someone and spin around. I lock eyes for about 2 seconds with Ice T. From my quick look I believe he was with his new wife, a porn star. What the fuck Ice? Where's Darlene?

My iPod crashed on the plane on the way to NYC and it won't even mount, giving me the 'dead iPod' icon. Great. So it lasted me less than two years (bought it on Friday August 16, 2002). I have to get another one though...I'm hooked damn it, I'm hooked.

Featured + Ssurempirestate.com (funny and interesting Flash movie clips and such)
Listen + Sex Positions - s/t


l Monday - April 19 - 8:23am l

I'm off to New York this morning for a few days on business. Not looking forward to the flight.

Watch + Kill Bill 2
Read + Kick Me by Paul Feig


l Thursday - April 15 - 4:49pm l

This is an interesting radio story on the BBC about straight edge featuring Ian MacKaye, Ray Cappo, Civ, etc. Worth a listen if you're at all interested in that sort of thing. (Link from True Till Death)

And on that note: Heavy Social Drinkers Show Brain Damage, Study Finds


l Wednesday - April 14 - 4:44pm l

How the hell did the Youth of Today song 'Break Down The Walls' get on 'The Girl Next Door' soundtrack? What the hell? It's says on the website that every song appears in the film. I guess it doesn't surprise me that Ray Cappo and Porcell are down with tales of meeting porno stars. Maybe those reunion shows will sell out quicker when this sucker hits the mainstream. Great, thanks guys.

Featured + Space FX (man, I thought my new set up was nice...this stuff is insane.)


l Tuesday - April 13 - 12:33pm l

SKATEDAILY.net posted a story yesterday about an art show that mentioned refreshments provided by Pabst Blue Ribbon. This was sent in. Although I didn't feel it was appropriate to post at SD.net...I think it's worth a read.

Hey, noticed that PBR has been getting pretty popular these days, and that you mentioned it in today's post about the Deluxe art show. I just wanted to point out that here in Milwaukee, Pabst is a dirty word. In '96, they shut down operations and took their employee's pensions and medical insurance away -- $40 million in pensions alone, plus insurance coverage throughout their retirement. They screwed 4,000 people. Everybody in Milwaukee knows somebody who lost their life savings because of PBR. At the time, every bar in Milwaukee had demonstrations where they dumped out their barrels of Pabst in the gutters and smashed their cases in the streets. So next time you consider ordering a PBR, The Beer That Made San Antonio Famous (not!), don't do it.


l Monday - April 12 - 10:41am l

Adam Yauch producing a new Bad Brains album? He says so. Can't imagine how that's going to sound in 2004.

Oh, and in case anyone thinks I believe the girl in the Black Dalhia Murder T-Shirt was a poser...or I was somehow implying girls CAN'T listen to death / black type metal...untrue. I just found it hard to believe that girl was into it. I wish my wife listened to metal. Female + metal = totally cool indeed. Angela listens to metal. I hope that girl is standing right next to me on Sunday, throwing the horns. She just didn't look the type.

Listen + The End - Within Dividia
Watch + Freaks And Geeks
Read + BAIL #2


l Saturday - April 10 - 5:04pm l

Heard some good metal last night at The Pound.

Curl Up And Die want to be Converge. Badly. Their singer even had some of the same stage antics and mannerisms. but that's pretty much all they were...a poor copy. And they talked about baseball between songs. Great.

Darkest Hour shuffled around the stage checking mics, and tuning their guitars. The drummer (looking a LOT like Beau Beau from Avail) carefully set up each drum abnd slowly stretched.The singer walked out. Ready? As the first few chords of Sadist Nation errupted it was like they were shot out of a cannon. Unreal. Their older stuff wasn't as amazing, but everyting off 'Hidden Hands' was gold. Well worth multiple viewings. Amazing.

- Military style canvas hats worn sideways are the new mesh hat. Oh, and bandanas wore around the neck like a cowboy seems to be 'in' as well. Great.

- Does that girl in the Black Dahlia Murder girlie T really listen to them? I mean, more than just seeing them live with her friends once and them thinking they had a cool shirt? And did she even like that show? Does she have the album?

- I've been going to hardcore shows for just shy of 15 years, and never have I 'mosh pitted'. Yeah, early in my career I pleed guilty to 'finger pointing', 'piling up in the front of the stage', 'sing-a-long', and even (on rare occasions early on) 'stage diving'. But never have I entered the 'pit'. It's fucking stupid, and stupid looking. The muscle headed tards were in rare form last night.


l Wednesday - April 7 - 4:39pm l

The latest issue of The Skateboard Mag features a write up about SKATEDAILY.net. Check it out at your local skate shop or newstand. Last month they featured the Independent website. They've only produced two issues, so that's two for two.

Featured + Monsterism
Watch + Dinner For Five

l Monday - April 5 - 10:51am l

Ten years ago today Kurt Cobain took a massive dose of heroin, and killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head. A self made millionare by playing music, he left his only daughter to be raised by a pill popping freak. Way to go Kurt...you're officially a true rock and roll icon. Some say he was a hero, I say he was a weak minded fool.

Darin sent me a link to this interesting story about homophobe Sen. William J. "Pete" Knight and his amazing gay son who was recently married in San Francisco. Truly inspiring.


l Sunday - April 4 - 4:05pm l

Back online at the new place...about time. I have to say, the new monitor purchase has been well worth it.

Enternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, is certainly the best film so far this year. Amazing. It's hard to imagine anyone sitting with a blank piece of paper and writing this screenplay. Best film since Lost In Translation...close to perfection.

Watch + Enternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind


l Friday - April 2 - 10:11am l

Man, I'm a terrible skateboarder.

You would think that after 15+ years I would get better. Yeah, right. I skated Sunnyvale this morning before work (something I hope to keep doing) and just flat out stunk. I love skating, I just get so frustrated some days. I couldn't even push properly this morning. Two to three weeks off the board and I feel like I'm learning to ollie again. Sad really.

That being said, it's still better than work...and I just have to get more time on my board.


l Thursday - April 1 - 2:50pm l

Check this out...an AWESOME video of a kid bored at a George Bush speech. And then David Letterman talking about how the White House tried to get out of it. So good.

Man, that Google April Fools Joke / Press release is certainly getting loads of press. I just want to know how they can give out a gig of email space for free? They will have the right to read your email and serve you ads based on your conversations, so there's that little issue.

Link below stolen from Newstoday...this is an amazing read...well worth the time.
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This is the site of Elena, a young Russian lady who enjoys riding her 147 horse power Kawasaki Ninja through the deserted town of Chernobyl, the site of the world's most devastating nuclear reactor
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Listen + Air America Radio
Watch + Who's The Man


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