The Daily 10 host Debbie Matenopoulos was recently profiled in The Times of South Africa and in the interview she was asked what she thinks about her co-host Sal Masekela. Here’s what she had to say:
. . . he is one of the most incredible, soft-spoken guys she has met, qualities which come from the days when he toured with his father, Hugh Masekela, for whom she has tremendous respect. “We have a lot of fun and he’s talented,” said Matenopoulos.
Can’t say we’d argue with her over much of anything, especially Sal.
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?
Shaun White recently appeared on Fox Sports list of Top two-sport Athletes of all time. He was sandwiched right in there ahead of “Bullet Bob” Hayes “the world’s fastest human in the 1960s” right behind Deion Sanders “the flashy, brash, and cocky” footballer and baseballer.
Not bad company if you’re stoked on team sports. We’re not, but luckily the Skateworks blog keeps track of that stuff for us.
Gretchen Bleiler has been moonlighting as a video correspondent for Yahoo! Sports. Here is a clip of her interview with Dara Torres and Katie Hoff and others.
JKL Worldwide Inc., a talent agency based in Tarzana, CA has filed a “fraud and breach-of-contract suit” against Rob & Big star Christopher “Big Black” Boykin.
According to the suit, Boykin was impressed by the work the company had done for the show’s skateboarder co-host, Rob Drydek, so he asked them early last year to help him with his own career. . . . With JKL’s help, Boykin, 36, entered into a new deal for the show’s third season “which significantly increased the monies he was paid the previous two seasons,” the suit states.
The raise was reportedly $163,750 more than the year before and JKL wants their piece of it.
Men’s Fitness recently did a short interview with Shaun White asking probing questions like, “What are the most played songs on your iPod,” and “How do you mentally prepare for contests?” But the funniest part was the photo that ran with the story.
The guy has long red hair, skinny jeans, and Shaun’s Target collection t-shirt, but something just isn’t right. Guess that’s what happens when you let jocks do the photo editing.
Everyone knows he grew up in Hawaii, but now there is video proof from the Associate Press that Barack Obama has some solid water skills. Now, if we could just get some spearfishing footie we’d know for sure.
We didn’t watch any of the X Games and had no plans to even mention them, but Danny Way on Late Night with David Letterman is just too good to pass up.
As if the ass ponies who “race” in the Gumball Rally 3000 need anything else (on top of all the money they blow on hanging out with “players” in their little jaunt across the West Coast and China), when the racers got to Las Vegas on August 11, 2008 they were each given a brand-new Nixon Watch as a “thank you” from race founder Maxmillion Cooper, according to a post on The Vegas Eye.
Guess even the over-paid (and poorly-aging b-list celebrities) need to occasionally know the correct time.
It’s nice that Nixon, Spy and Puma can help them out like that.
[Editors’ Note: Last month, surfer Brad Gerlach and the Beastie Boys’Mike D. joined the crew from Operation Amped at Zuma Beach to help teach some war-wounded veterans to surf. Boardistan surf correspondent Ben Marcus was there to see it all first hand. Here is his story.]
Mike D is living and breathing proof of the duality of man… the Jungian thing. He is, at the same time, one of the quietest and least quiet humans on this earth. As drum major for the Beastie Boys, Mike D is right up there with Jaco Pastorius, David Bowie, Wild Cherry and Average White Band for Funkiest White Man Ever. Mike D is the man behind the beats that have propelled the Beastie Boys into the hit machine that has mined more platinum than South Africa X Russia. Their first album, released in 1986, when platinum times nine and in just over 20 years they have sold over 20 million units. That’s a lot of units.
The Beastie Boys’ Body Movin’ was playing on Indie 103.1 at about 9:00 in the morning on Monday, July 21. In front of Tower 14, the Sicky Dicky tents were going up and there were a lot of surfboards scattered around as Operation Amped was setting up to take about a dozen injured war veterans out for a day in the surf.
Leaning against the seawall, the thin, quiet guy staring out to the ocean with eyes that seemed to know what they were looking for, was none other than Mike Diamond. By his own admission, “The name is D., y’all and I don’t play/And I can rock a block party ’til your hair turns grey/’So what you sayin?’/I explode on site/And like Jimmy Walker I’m Dynomite!”
But in civilian life, Mike Diamond is as quiet and unassuming as Mike D is “a special individual/Pulling out knots/pulling in residuals.”
The Daily 10 host Debbie Matenopoulos was recently profiled in The Times of South Africa and in the interview she was asked what she thinks about her co-host Sal Masekela. Here’s what she had to say:
