i've been pretty obsessed with this photo blog and its video blog companion. the photo blog is called epicly later'd (www.epiclylaterd.com; video companion: http://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Epicly%20Later'd).
this guy who works at vice magazine hangs out with a bunch of skaters (the baker guys for the most part) and he documents a shit ton of his adventures with them. to be honest i'm pretty jealous that he gets to hang out with skaters all the damn time. admittedly, a lot of skaters are huge idiots and have absolutely nothing to say unless it involves pressed wood on wheels, but there are some gems on the video blog portion of the site.
i found out recently through the video blog that one of my favorite skaters, andrew reynolds, has obsessive compulsive disorder. he feels that by giving into it, he is able to clear his head enough to successfully attempt a trick. apparently it paid off because he was able to backside kickflip the wallenberg 4. the last thing he wants to do is make OCD spazz outs the cool thing to do for these little kids that look up to him, but after they find this out, i guarantee you that will be the case.
the kevin "spanky" long videos are pretty wild, too. i remember watching him first skate on the emerica this is skateboarding video, and i was like, whoa this kid is pretty good. he must have been in his mid teens when i saw that video. but i guess he's a grown ass man now. his voice is deeper, he talks much slower and less excitedly, he smokes cigarettes (which is just a mindfuck to see), and he's been described as a "jaded fucking hipster." the contrast of knowing him only as a kid and then seeing him in his own context (and out of the context that i knew) was pretty stark. and he hangs out with jerry hsu. go figure.
for all this time i thought skateboarders had nothing important to impart on the world other than their physical prowess at pushing wood. it's true that these dudes aren't the most eloquent people on the block, but they do have the experiences to make for some pretty good stories. basically what i'm saying is, dude at epicly later'd: i want your job.
in other news, i'm done seeing rjd2 unless he loses the live instrumentation and his fit-for-a-boy-band keys player. really really over it. his sample stuff was so dope but then he'd go back to the live instruments and it'd be like, yawn.
also in a matter of hours i am going to the burbs to figure out how to set up molly's tent for coachella. from what i understand there will be dinner and vinyl involved, so i'm pretty sexcited. and it's supposed to be super nice outside. i'll probably get some shopping in beforehand. yeayah.
3 days till we leave for vegas, then coachella here we come! *cabbage patch*
this guy who works at vice magazine hangs out with a bunch of skaters (the baker guys for the most part) and he documents a shit ton of his adventures with them. to be honest i'm pretty jealous that he gets to hang out with skaters all the damn time. admittedly, a lot of skaters are huge idiots and have absolutely nothing to say unless it involves pressed wood on wheels, but there are some gems on the video blog portion of the site.
i found out recently through the video blog that one of my favorite skaters, andrew reynolds, has obsessive compulsive disorder. he feels that by giving into it, he is able to clear his head enough to successfully attempt a trick. apparently it paid off because he was able to backside kickflip the wallenberg 4. the last thing he wants to do is make OCD spazz outs the cool thing to do for these little kids that look up to him, but after they find this out, i guarantee you that will be the case.
the kevin "spanky" long videos are pretty wild, too. i remember watching him first skate on the emerica this is skateboarding video, and i was like, whoa this kid is pretty good. he must have been in his mid teens when i saw that video. but i guess he's a grown ass man now. his voice is deeper, he talks much slower and less excitedly, he smokes cigarettes (which is just a mindfuck to see), and he's been described as a "jaded fucking hipster." the contrast of knowing him only as a kid and then seeing him in his own context (and out of the context that i knew) was pretty stark. and he hangs out with jerry hsu. go figure.
for all this time i thought skateboarders had nothing important to impart on the world other than their physical prowess at pushing wood. it's true that these dudes aren't the most eloquent people on the block, but they do have the experiences to make for some pretty good stories. basically what i'm saying is, dude at epicly later'd: i want your job.
in other news, i'm done seeing rjd2 unless he loses the live instrumentation and his fit-for-a-boy-band keys player. really really over it. his sample stuff was so dope but then he'd go back to the live instruments and it'd be like, yawn.
also in a matter of hours i am going to the burbs to figure out how to set up molly's tent for coachella. from what i understand there will be dinner and vinyl involved, so i'm pretty sexcited. and it's supposed to be super nice outside. i'll probably get some shopping in beforehand. yeayah.
3 days till we leave for vegas, then coachella here we come! *cabbage patch*
but you're not getting a diamond ring, or diamond anything from me, cuz i just watched blood diamond. fucking messed up.
and again, apologies, but i'll be chivalrous toward women when women start holding and opening the door for men. i'm just saying. i'll open the door for my friends and people nearby, regardless of sex, because it's the nice thing to do. not because you're a woman. so get over yourself.
*ducks from thrown vegetables*
and again, apologies, but i'll be chivalrous toward women when women start holding and opening the door for men. i'm just saying. i'll open the door for my friends and people nearby, regardless of sex, because it's the nice thing to do. not because you're a woman. so get over yourself.
*ducks from thrown vegetables*
i've had a slew of problems with my new laptop already. i wanted a clean install of windows xp pro, so i decided to boot from my xp cd and do the full format. before i could even get to that point, the xp setup app BSOD'd. fantastic. it did this consistently. i try 5 or so different approaches to installing xp, including a few different boot methods. i update the bios, no avail. after crying myself to sleep that night, i did a bit of research the following morning to find out that i needed to change a bios setting to "compatibility" mode to get the installer not to blue screen. i know, totally common sense... *shakes fist* first problem solved.
when i get into my now working copy of windows xp pro, i realize none of the drivers were detected. sound, video, ethernet, wireless, the intel ones, what they call the trusted platform module (?), none of it. sweet. so i'm looking all over the lenovo ibm website for the drivers, it's just that i have no idea which drivers i need according to my device manager because the devices with the conflicts don't have specific names, just ambiguous phrases like "unknown device." i searched for the unknown devices on google to find out specifically which drivers i needed. i almost have all of them. rock and roll.
but once i install certain drivers, new conflicts come up and i have to search for those as well. i end up installing a shitload of drivers i didn't need. so being the anal person i am, i wanted to do another clean install cuz i hate having extraneous apps installed. i ended up doing the whole reformat reinstall process about 3 times cuz i kept forgetting which drivers i needed to install, and of course, i kept installing drivers i didn't need, which upset me cuz i'm such a perfectionist.
this process continues for about 5 days. only last night i finally got a good, working, clean copy of windows xp pro and all my programs. and it's finally working alright.
my setup right now is pretty sweet, but i went to hell and back to get it to work properly. lenovo: please get your act together and don't make winxp clean installs so hard! and at least offer a drivers disc for god's sake.
AAAAAAAAND i just realized they sent me the wrong laptop. before the laptop was sent, i changed the order because there was a second promotion that included a 7200 rpm drive as opposed to 5400, an 8 cell batter as opposed to 4, and a finger print reader. now i gotta call them and ship this one back to them. fantastic! oh well, at least i know the windows xp process now inside out.
when i get into my now working copy of windows xp pro, i realize none of the drivers were detected. sound, video, ethernet, wireless, the intel ones, what they call the trusted platform module (?), none of it. sweet. so i'm looking all over the lenovo ibm website for the drivers, it's just that i have no idea which drivers i need according to my device manager because the devices with the conflicts don't have specific names, just ambiguous phrases like "unknown device." i searched for the unknown devices on google to find out specifically which drivers i needed. i almost have all of them. rock and roll.
but once i install certain drivers, new conflicts come up and i have to search for those as well. i end up installing a shitload of drivers i didn't need. so being the anal person i am, i wanted to do another clean install cuz i hate having extraneous apps installed. i ended up doing the whole reformat reinstall process about 3 times cuz i kept forgetting which drivers i needed to install, and of course, i kept installing drivers i didn't need, which upset me cuz i'm such a perfectionist.
this process continues for about 5 days. only last night i finally got a good, working, clean copy of windows xp pro and all my programs. and it's finally working alright.
my setup right now is pretty sweet, but i went to hell and back to get it to work properly. lenovo: please get your act together and don't make winxp clean installs so hard! and at least offer a drivers disc for god's sake.
AAAAAAAAND i just realized they sent me the wrong laptop. before the laptop was sent, i changed the order because there was a second promotion that included a 7200 rpm drive as opposed to 5400, an 8 cell batter as opposed to 4, and a finger print reader. now i gotta call them and ship this one back to them. fantastic! oh well, at least i know the windows xp process now inside out.
go see grindhouse!!! for the love of all that is sacred!