Monday 6.13.11

This was some crazy shit going on in the West End. We we're skating some spots and saw this fiasco.

After skating I kicked it with Jay Brown and had some beers with the intention of going to the Lenny Lashley show at Geno's but me and Jay drank too many beers and I ended showing up at Geno's for 30 seconds of Lenny's last song. I thought it was pretty funny and had to laugh. I literally walked in, grabbed a PBR and got up front and he's like, "...Thank you Portland!" Haha. So I stayed to check out the other bands and this is "Old Man Markley" all the way from Los Angeles.

They have an electric violin player and every time I see an electric violin I ALWAYS hope it's gonna go down like this: Peep this YouTube vid.

But unfortunately it never does. Maybe this post will inspire some violin playin mutha faccckkkkkaaaa to git down!

Now this is just remarkable. I don't know what that girl is playing but it looks like an electric harp accordian type thing but the best part of this photo is the dude shredding the washboard. Look at him! The "Markleys" are a big band so on top of being INCREDIBLY meticulous with there sound it took awhile to go through each members instrument. I was anticipating that they would sound check the washboard. And I was giggling at the thought because I don't think I would have been able to hold back the laughter if they did that shit.

The "Markleys" gittin' it.

Next up we're the "Pubcrawlers" and they we're really good.

The lead singer has a "Stiv Bators" thing going and it's pretty rad. Definitely a great front man. He dumps beer on himself and basically just goes wild.

This dude shredded the tin whistle.

Even though I missed Lenny's show I did get to kick it with him out front of Geno's for a bit. I told him I missed his set because I was busy drinking and he was stoked. Super cool dude who even offered to play "Good Times" for me since I missed the show. He was like, "C'mon, I'll play that right now." but I politely declined. Peep the vid below to hear "Good Times" and understand why I love that song.

Saturday 6.12.11 Continued.

Kegs, yo. In preparation for the following days festivities, no doubt.

This is Jordan leaving Sarah's boss an acapella voicemail of "Raining Blood" at 2am. I was so stoked on it. If your not familiar with the song peep the YouTube vid below.

A stack of ladies. That's pretty awesome.

Saturday 6.12.11

Old Port on Saturday night. Actually, just Amigo's on Saturday night. Posted out there for a minute.

Here is Chad Coleman and Jeremy Ward.

Jeremy and Raz. High fives.

Seagulls.

These seagulls chill outside my office window. Check 'em out. They are pretty cool.

20 Shot Sequence

"20 Shot Sequence" is one of my favorite skateboard videos and fortuneatly enough we have a sidewalk bump in Portland that is very reminiscent of a bump they skated in that video. Toebee Parkhurst instantly named it the "Menace" bump upon viewing it for the first time. And for good reason. It is exactly like the one skated repeatedly in "20 Shot Sequence" and I'm stoked on it.

Sam McKenna was doing some nice heelflips.

Ben Cironi shredded it too!

Ocean Gate on Saturday.

The parking lot at Ocean Gate has become one of my favorite spots to skate flatground lately. It's out of the way, on the ocean and has some manual pads and other things to mess around on. We basically spent all day there on Saturday.

This is Ben Cironi and Dave Labbe. Dave skated these planters back to back with some really quick feet.

This guy likes Ocean Gate, too. He plays racketball on the side of the building.

This lady starting dancing in the parking lot using her phone to play music.

Geoff Bogle coming through with some piece of sign to fix up a spot.

Alex Winslow testing the structural integrity.

Sam McKenna and Ben Cironi hanging out in the street.

Skate.

I'm listening to Johnny Cash and his live in Folsom Prison album. How sick is that? Straight up played a show in one of the most infamous prisons in America. You can't find many artists these days with that kind of character. One of my goals in life is to play a bunch of Johnny Cash acoustic covers to a bar full of rowdy mother fuckers in a dive bar. That shit would be super fun. You know, imagine chicken wire across the stage and shit. I like that kind of stuff. Wild Turkey, PBR and fistfights and stuff. Fun times for sure.

Had a super fun crew to skate with this weekend. Jay Brown, Max Fenwick, Toebee Parkhurst and myself hit up some spots and enjoyed the nice weather. This spot was super good. Especially for being up in Northern Maine. Smooth granite ledges and ground are hard to come by up in these paaaahhhts.

Toebee ollied this rail multiple times with ease. The angle was super harsh but he didn't have a problem with it.

Max Fenwick filmed a super fresh line up in here. I was so stoked on it. This is Max mid-shredding. He has the sickest full back tattoo of "Starry Night" courtesy of Sanctuary Tattoo as well.

This is Jay Brown manning the 7D after doing one of the best switch 360 flips I've ever seen.