Went out to dinner with this shady ass dude.
'06 REBEL8.
Monkfish liver.
We sat at this table for hours eating and drinking and eating. It actually got to the point where I fell into a depression. I couldn't even stomach the thought of looking at my stomach.
Chas doing some graffilthy outside.
Met a random dude with a N-Judah/Frisco sleeve.
Yeah, last night was good times. In less than hour we drop The Big Takeover in our store. Don't sleep!
Shout out to Agenda show! I think we are coming to Agenda New York next time. And the SoCal show is always a must. If any store is reading this or anyone that knows someone who owns a store reading this, holler at us. We are once again opening up new accounts. Now is the time. Spread the 8!
One of my favorite hardcore bands are coming out here this week. Blood For Blood was the first band to bring Terror on a real tour. I've always have, and always will have much respect for these guys.
The baddest bitch, Lady V. AKA Lady 8ers.
That's what I ain't gon' do.
Happy Monday! I'll try to blog again later today.
Mini CP is ripped.
The caption says, "If you eat so much, how come you're small."
Meet Cole Schreiber.
Nate (Ex-REBEL8er), Natalie, Australian Andy, and 1/2 of Team Bagel.
Happy Birthday!
Read very carefully.
Happy Friday!
Went to Blink 182's last show at Hollywood Bowl.
The highlight for me was watching Landon and Max rock out next to Trav. They would swap instruments throughout the set. It was AMAZING.
Landon stayed pretty hidden to stage left but would jump on dad's riser with a microphone from time to time.
Max would rock out and then wave over to his dad, Toby Morse from H2O. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I said cutest. Deal with it.
And on Sunday I quickly stopped by The Fast Life to launch our pop-up shop and met Gousuke and Funky. They came through all the way from Japan to be part of The Big Takeover. Thank you! I'll post a few photos of what they brought me tomorrow.
Have a great day REBEL8ers!
Palm Springs, you are a strange bird.
Celebrated the lovely Jillian's bachelorette party.
Massage train.
Chicken fight/nip slip.
Someone puked in the pool. Thanks asshole.
Boob stew.
Damn! One of those cocks is super hairy.
Girls just wanna have fun! Ciao for now.
"The Big Takeover" at The Fast Life store was awesome! Check out Joshy's blog and The Fast Life site for the lowdown. Huge thanks to all of you that made it down there. Good times!
Most of the REBEL8 crew headed back to SF on Sunday, but I stayed a few extra days to visit friends and see more of LA.
On Monday afternoon I checked out the Huntington Gardens. I love cactus!
That night I hooked up with some of LA's finest at Cafe Gratitude. I love eating vegan!
Big up to the homie Matt for the photo.
On Tuesday afternoon I drove up to Santa Barbara to get a tour of the Powell Peralta skateboard facility. My friend Cat works there and offered to arrange a tour for me. I was really excited to check it out since I've been riding Powell Peralta skateboards and wheels for over 25 years. It was like getting to visit Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. I geeked out on this original Bones Brigade t-shirt. That shit's official!
It was amazing to see the process of building a skateboard from scratch.
The best part was the concave molds, but I wasn't allowed to photograph them. I love old school concaves!
I also got to see the print room, which works way different than the way we printed skateboards at Think back in the mid 1990s.
The wheels manufacturing area was rad too. These are the molds that the urethane is poured into.
The wheels look like this when they come out of the molds. Notice how one side is flat.
A special router shapes the flat side into a smooth radius. The router peeled the urethane off these black wheels in super thin ribbons.
After a tour of the shipping department (where I couldn't help but grab some product for myself), I headed out to meet Vernon Courtland Johnson, one of the original Powell Peralta artists. We hit it off like we'd known each other for centuries.
It was so cool to meet a guy who's art has inspired me since I was a teenager. Ever seen these before?
It was even cooler to see that we are such kindred spirits. You'll be seeing more of VCJ on the blog in the future. He rules.
I didn't want to get back to SF super late, so I left Santa Barbara in my sweet rental car at 5pm. I caught this amazing sunset at 6:30. Wow.
I love California!