We are baffled. . . completely.
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London’s Battersea Power Station lights up October 23-26, 2008 as the Freesports On4 Freeze is unleashed on the British Isle. While we’ve been a little hard on big, fake, uber-snow sport spectaculars like this and San Francisco’s Icer Air, they are probably fun for little Johnny and Janie Doad who never get to see snowboarding in person.
We don’t feel bad for the big name snowboarders who definitely get paid by attending. We just feel bad for the c-level show ponies who have to do their dancing bear routines in hopes of landing Shaun White style paydays in the future. And hey, Cypress Hill is playing the main stage so that might be worth a few hucks off the scaffolding booter.
[Link: London Freeze via Londonist]
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During filming for their new video the band Weezer have apparently broken five world records including the “most people on one skateboard” record by getting 22 people on one board.
The video for Weezers’s single ‘Troublemaker‘ is set to break 5 world records. Whilst filming the video a Guinness World Records official was present throughout all the various record breaking scenes.
That thank looks quite similar to Tod Swank’s old “world’s largest skateboard.” Hmmm. . .
[Link: Contact Music]
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Sure, we’re looking forward to all the skating this weekend at GVR, but just knowing that Hyper Crush is playing the GVR VIP party on October 4 is enough to get moving in that direction, because they Hyper Crush and nobody does it like they does!
[Link: Hyper Crush via Etnies GVR]
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One of the new collabs that the SkullCandy sales crew was excited about at ASR was their new Metallica headphones. But they probably were hoping on a little better reception than the one gadget site Gizmodo just gave them:
Metallica Headphones Would Have Been Awesome in the ’80s Before We Knew What Dicks Metallica Were . . . Skullcandy and Metallica have teamed up to create these absolutely metal headphones, showing the world just how into a burned out, old-man rock band you are.
Kind of how we were feeling when we heard about it. But hey, think how many more people know what SkullCandy is now?
[Link: Gizmodo]
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It’s funny to go from hearing stories from Hawaii about how great Jack Johnson’s music is, to standing in line with him at Foodland at 10:30 at night, to seeing him \playing a couple songs for Steve Jobs at the September 9, 2008 Apple Let’s Rock event.
It’s even more impressive to find that Jack Johnson is the number one selling male artist of all time in the iTunes store (which now sells more music than any retailer in the world).
As always, Jack’s timing is perfection.
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River Front Times pulled together a list of ‘Lil Wayne quotes from all his best interviews and here is one of our favorites.
I love a nigga who do what the fuck he want, just like I told you, Martin Luther King said we can do what the fuck we want, he do what the fuck he want, him and Bam Margera. What will Bam do next? Whatever the fuck they want…that’s one of my favorite shows.” — Lil Wayne from an interview in Complex.
Yes, these hip hop poets certainly do mix it up well, don’t they?
[Link: Riverfront Times]
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We’ve been trying to corner Skullcandy’s Rick Alden into an IM interview for a while now, but it looks like the audio accessories CEO has more important people to talk to: like Inc.com for instance.
Today the site featured a story titled: How I Did It: Rick Alden, Skull Candy, which explains how the company’s three-year grown is up 24,077.4 percent. It’s a question we’ve been trying to answer for months.
I’d walk into snowboarding and skateboarding shops that I’d sold bindings to or that I’d known for 15 years, and say, “Hey, man, I think you ought to sell headphones.” They’d look at me a little bit funny, like, “Gee, Rick, maybe you didn’t realize we’re a skateboard shop. We don’t sell consumer electronics.” So I’d say, “How many of your customers have iPods? Music is a lifestyle experience, and you are a lifestyle shop — and we’re selling a product that is relevant to your customer base.” Still, convincing them to carry Skullcandy took a lot of work.
After spending nearly two decades circling the snowboard industry as an event promoter, the founder of Device Step-In Bindings, and other odd jobs, it’s great to see Rick taking his snowboard knowledge out into the world of electronics and kicking ass.
[Link: Inc.com]
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The Washington Post’s Moira McLaughlin is as smitten with singer Tristan Prettyman (click here for an interview) as we were the first time we hung out. But, she says the new album “lacks her self-proclaimed attitude.”
There’s not a lot of obvious attitude here. . . . She does, however, have a depth, as her lyrics suggest, and she mused recently about her drifting friends and her hope for the future. “I’m kind of ready for the whole marriage and kids thing,” she said. Or at least, “something bigger than what it is now,” she added.
Aren’t we all.
[Link: Washington Post]
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