On Thursday I decided to start taking pictures of relatively good graffiti/street art around the Yakima Valley to put in a zine I want to make in the near future.
One gem I stumbled across, I really like this d00dz throwie.
I also visited my old friend Dan at work and hung out with him on his lunch and we caught up.
Friday was spent enjoying the sun, warm weather, and soft snow up at White Pass. My Grandpa was visiting and my dad took the day off work to take us skiing with him. The conditions were great and it was a good time. He's 84 and still shralping like a mo fucka. When we werent shredding with him, we were riding with Justin which was okay I suppose.
Today is Saturday, once again, I went snowboarding. I'm really glad i get to go up as often as I do. Oh, and I forgot to mention, Jack is now able to go up with us, he's allowed back at the resort now lol. This makes it wayy more fun. It was cold and windy today but it was still hella fun. We tore it up with some really fun Olympia doods. Woody, Jesse, and Jeff mainly. It was awesome. I'm really worn out from 2 hard days of ripping but I'm probably going to get up and do it again tomorrow.
And I guess I caught a couple of good flicks in the park but I wont know until I get that roll developed. But thats not going to happen s00n.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
This Time, This Year
It has been incredibly long since I last blogged. I apologize to all you die hard readers of this blog. Seriously, I've been busy though but I am sorry. A lot has happened since my last post so this is going to be long. I will do it in a chronological fashion.
Saturday: Woke up early, went snowboarding at White Pass. Came home, chilled with the fam, watched 300. CUT ALL MY HAIR OFF. This was wyld, it was getting long. But I had to start looking acceptable for various reasons.
Sunday: Hung out with Jack, didnt really do anything, but it seemed weird to from Saturday to Monday. Bought a Greyhound ticket.
Monday: Took the Greyhound bus to Seattle. There were lots of sketchy people on this bus, and obnoxious people. I'm just glad my iPod didnt die, I would have died with it. I got to Seattle and stopped by Play it Again, Sno Con, and REI. I walked around downtown for awhile and ended up taking the bus to Northgate and meeting Cole. I stayed at Cole's apartment and we watched Heroes. It was my first time seeing that show but i didnt really get it because I started in the middle. I suppose its alright though.
Tuesday: THIS WAS ALICIAS BIRTHDAY! We texted a lot through the early part. Woke up at 5:45am, was downtown by 8. Cole came with me and that was really nice/awesome of him. We were in the stupid courtroom from like 8:30-11 or so. It was loooong. 8 hours of community service and 3 months of staying within the law isnt too hard. Cole went to work at 2, so i came with him so i could go right over to Target and visit my old work. I was looking for D-Trick but couldnt find him. Apparently he saw me though and called for me over the intercom, it was funny and really awesome to see him and catch up about our gatz and gangsta problems and all that shit. After that I took the bus down to the U-District where i met up with Clay who got off work at 3. We went to Recycled Cycles to get my bike fork threaded and cut, they estimated it would be done Friday but I told them I was going back to Yakima Wednesday and they pushed it to the front of the line for some root beers. Sorry i couldnt give you dudes real beer like you wanted, but they are def good dudes, backed hard. Then me and Clay skated a shit ton and went to some record shops i scored some sweet records and then we parted ways at about 7. Then Rodney met me in the U District at like 8 and we chilled at Yunnie bubble tea on their couches and we traded a From Ashes Rise 7" for a Spitting Teeth 7". That was dope. Then Nikki met up with us at 9. We kicked it hella hard until 10, which is apparently Rodneys curfew lolzzzz. Nikki and I went to Safeway and picked up some groceries, then returned to her apartment to kick it harder. We made browniezz and played Mario Cart and it was awesome. We're going to be pen palz now. I went home at like 12:30. I also recieved a pack of awesome stickers! THIS DAY WAS SO EVENTFUL AND FUN. SRSLY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICIA!
Wednesday: Woke up, showered, got ready, cleaned a little. Alicia skipped school to clean, i fully support this. I met Clay down on the Ave at 12:30, as he was getting off work. We skated around for a bit, and then headed to Lynnwood. Clay had an orthodontist appointment at 1:20, I skated around but there wasnt much more than a curb around, oh well haha it was fun. He got done with that at like 1:45. From there we headed over to Shoreline to check out a snowboard that was listed on craigslist. It is a Rome Agent 152, last years model, FOR 70 DOLLARS. Its in good condition, I bought it. Really good deal.
After we got done with all that business, we headed over to Northgate mall to meet up with Rodney. He didnt have his skateboard with him so we went to his house got that and some other things, one of which is that awesome Hundreds sticker that is on my new snowboard. Yes! We hit up greenlake skatepark after that and shredded the p00l a little. That was fun, kinda made me wish I had a normal skateboard though, oh well. After we got tired of that, actually we were just hungry, we went to the U-District once again and ate Jimmy Johns. That place is the shit, I say this everytime. Skating continued afterwards, scoped some dope graffiti, saw some toy do a signature with kiwi shoe polish. Cole picked me up at about 6 and I took the bus downtown with all my belongings including my snowboard and skateboard. I got to the area where the greyhound bus is really early, so I decided to head up to Snowboard Connection to see what was poppin. After walking around in there for a while, and making small talk with a couple of employees, a nice woman approached me and asked me if i needed to try on any of the shoezzzz i was looking at. And then she started telling me I should get some dope Vans boat shoes. They were brown though, not my style. If they were blue, I would have gotten them. This fine lady is Ally. SHES RLLY C00L. She informed me that not only does SnoCon carry skateboards and shoes, but theres clothes there as well haha. But seriously though, we talked about lots of things some of which touched on the subjects of boating, photography, religion/antireligion, fixed gears, rome snowboards, different parts of the country, hardcore, and acoustic anarcho folk punx. All of these things are awesome things to talk to someone about IMO. And theyre awesome to talk about whether youre trying to sell shoes or not. ALLY. You had a blogspot but dont anymore, BLOGS ARE COOL. YOURE COOL. WRITE BLOGS. Oh, and somehow she seemed to know everything about me, it was weird. She judged me and correctly guessed a lot of the stuff that I enjoy quite a bit. Weird. Either I'm quite judgeable or Ally is quite the judge,
ALLY SNO CON IS MY HOMIE.
Then I took a Greyhound bus back to Yakima and thus ends my adventure and my blogging dryspell.
ride bikes to the river and wreck them along the wayyyyyy.
Saturday: Woke up early, went snowboarding at White Pass. Came home, chilled with the fam, watched 300. CUT ALL MY HAIR OFF. This was wyld, it was getting long. But I had to start looking acceptable for various reasons.
Sunday: Hung out with Jack, didnt really do anything, but it seemed weird to from Saturday to Monday. Bought a Greyhound ticket.
Monday: Took the Greyhound bus to Seattle. There were lots of sketchy people on this bus, and obnoxious people. I'm just glad my iPod didnt die, I would have died with it. I got to Seattle and stopped by Play it Again, Sno Con, and REI. I walked around downtown for awhile and ended up taking the bus to Northgate and meeting Cole. I stayed at Cole's apartment and we watched Heroes. It was my first time seeing that show but i didnt really get it because I started in the middle. I suppose its alright though.
Tuesday: THIS WAS ALICIAS BIRTHDAY! We texted a lot through the early part. Woke up at 5:45am, was downtown by 8. Cole came with me and that was really nice/awesome of him. We were in the stupid courtroom from like 8:30-11 or so. It was loooong. 8 hours of community service and 3 months of staying within the law isnt too hard. Cole went to work at 2, so i came with him so i could go right over to Target and visit my old work. I was looking for D-Trick but couldnt find him. Apparently he saw me though and called for me over the intercom, it was funny and really awesome to see him and catch up about our gatz and gangsta problems and all that shit. After that I took the bus down to the U-District where i met up with Clay who got off work at 3. We went to Recycled Cycles to get my bike fork threaded and cut, they estimated it would be done Friday but I told them I was going back to Yakima Wednesday and they pushed it to the front of the line for some root beers. Sorry i couldnt give you dudes real beer like you wanted, but they are def good dudes, backed hard. Then me and Clay skated a shit ton and went to some record shops i scored some sweet records and then we parted ways at about 7. Then Rodney met me in the U District at like 8 and we chilled at Yunnie bubble tea on their couches and we traded a From Ashes Rise 7" for a Spitting Teeth 7". That was dope. Then Nikki met up with us at 9. We kicked it hella hard until 10, which is apparently Rodneys curfew lolzzzz. Nikki and I went to Safeway and picked up some groceries, then returned to her apartment to kick it harder. We made browniezz and played Mario Cart and it was awesome. We're going to be pen palz now. I went home at like 12:30. I also recieved a pack of awesome stickers! THIS DAY WAS SO EVENTFUL AND FUN. SRSLY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICIA!
Wednesday: Woke up, showered, got ready, cleaned a little. Alicia skipped school to clean, i fully support this. I met Clay down on the Ave at 12:30, as he was getting off work. We skated around for a bit, and then headed to Lynnwood. Clay had an orthodontist appointment at 1:20, I skated around but there wasnt much more than a curb around, oh well haha it was fun. He got done with that at like 1:45. From there we headed over to Shoreline to check out a snowboard that was listed on craigslist. It is a Rome Agent 152, last years model, FOR 70 DOLLARS. Its in good condition, I bought it. Really good deal.
After we got done with all that business, we headed over to Northgate mall to meet up with Rodney. He didnt have his skateboard with him so we went to his house got that and some other things, one of which is that awesome Hundreds sticker that is on my new snowboard. Yes! We hit up greenlake skatepark after that and shredded the p00l a little. That was fun, kinda made me wish I had a normal skateboard though, oh well. After we got tired of that, actually we were just hungry, we went to the U-District once again and ate Jimmy Johns. That place is the shit, I say this everytime. Skating continued afterwards, scoped some dope graffiti, saw some toy do a signature with kiwi shoe polish. Cole picked me up at about 6 and I took the bus downtown with all my belongings including my snowboard and skateboard. I got to the area where the greyhound bus is really early, so I decided to head up to Snowboard Connection to see what was poppin. After walking around in there for a while, and making small talk with a couple of employees, a nice woman approached me and asked me if i needed to try on any of the shoezzzz i was looking at. And then she started telling me I should get some dope Vans boat shoes. They were brown though, not my style. If they were blue, I would have gotten them. This fine lady is Ally. SHES RLLY C00L. She informed me that not only does SnoCon carry skateboards and shoes, but theres clothes there as well haha. But seriously though, we talked about lots of things some of which touched on the subjects of boating, photography, religion/antireligion, fixed gears, rome snowboards, different parts of the country, hardcore, and acoustic anarcho folk punx. All of these things are awesome things to talk to someone about IMO. And theyre awesome to talk about whether youre trying to sell shoes or not. ALLY. You had a blogspot but dont anymore, BLOGS ARE COOL. YOURE COOL. WRITE BLOGS. Oh, and somehow she seemed to know everything about me, it was weird. She judged me and correctly guessed a lot of the stuff that I enjoy quite a bit. Weird. Either I'm quite judgeable or Ally is quite the judge,
ALLY SNO CON IS MY HOMIE.
Then I took a Greyhound bus back to Yakima and thus ends my adventure and my blogging dryspell.
ride bikes to the river and wreck them along the wayyyyyy.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Long Johns.
Last night was wild. I cut all my hair off. Picz later. Im going snowboarding now. PEACE. And this is an Alicia ahout out.
Friday, January 23, 2009
BVTTER
I got my diploma yesterday haha. I graduated last year and just now got around to picking it up.
I also stumbled across this gem just now,definitely worth sharing. Uber Ky00t Punx. i dont know why the end is just blank though.
I also stumbled across this gem just now,definitely worth sharing. Uber Ky00t Punx. i dont know why the end is just blank though.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Art Brut.
I reaaallly need to clean my room and shit, my unpackings have been getting out of hand. I texted lots today, Alicia got out of sk00l early and i thought she was in a park. My mistake, she was actually in a shopping center parking lot. All we do is blog and text and read each others blogs now. Its a simple but good life.
I played with some play doh today, so awesome. I also got some things together for a pack of goodies to send to Rodney.
Play Doh.
Alicia and I with our house, car, and lawn. As requested by Alicia.
I played with some play doh today, so awesome. I also got some things together for a pack of goodies to send to Rodney.
Play Doh.
Alicia and I with our house, car, and lawn. As requested by Alicia.
theres aint no such thing as halfway crooks.
REALLY LATE CHRISTMAS PICTURES.
I miss working at Target. As shitty of a job as it was, I worked with some really awesome people. D-Trick in particular. We were good at being mean.
D trick, Santa, and I.
Santa holding me haha.
I miss working at Target. As shitty of a job as it was, I worked with some really awesome people. D-Trick in particular. We were good at being mean.
D trick, Santa, and I.
Santa holding me haha.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Nosebleed
Im about to punch a ho in the face.
Vans x Suicidal Tendencies. I like these so much more than any other Vans/Band collab shoe. So not-obnoxious.
LOL.
Vans x Suicidal Tendencies. I like these so much more than any other Vans/Band collab shoe. So not-obnoxious.
LOL.
Wordz
NO BLOG POST YESTERDAY.OMG. Sorry for letting everyone down. Im sorry,I suck. Fuck youtube, its beefin with Alicia's video over some dumb copyrighted music shit. Lame,i really want to see it. I skated the new skatepark yesterday, it was dry this time, but I have turned back to using film as opposed to digital in cold/action situations. I like it more and it works better. I skated again today, but with David, at St Pauls church, they banks were snowy at the bottom but it was fun anyway. I dont know how I feel about my digital camera, but i dont have access to a darkroom anymore so I dont know how i feel about film either. This is hard. I HAVE TEXTS BACK. Well I did yesterday, but Im just now talking about it. Its nice to feel apart of this world again.
I started organizing my spare bike parts last night. Which turned into multiple bike projects. As of now i have 6 pairs of petals that are not being used. Thats ridiculous. Also, back in September there was an art show in SF showcasing RVCA x Cinelli bikes. I was actually down there the weekend BEFORE this happened. Im pretty bummed I missed it because I like bikes, RVCA, and Barry McGee. They made some dope bikes.
OBAMA IS OUR PRESIDENT. ALICIA AND I ARE DOWN 4 THA KING OF THA BURBZ AND TXTINGZ.
kaws.
barry mcgee/twist
I started organizing my spare bike parts last night. Which turned into multiple bike projects. As of now i have 6 pairs of petals that are not being used. Thats ridiculous. Also, back in September there was an art show in SF showcasing RVCA x Cinelli bikes. I was actually down there the weekend BEFORE this happened. Im pretty bummed I missed it because I like bikes, RVCA, and Barry McGee. They made some dope bikes.
OBAMA IS OUR PRESIDENT. ALICIA AND I ARE DOWN 4 THA KING OF THA BURBZ AND TXTINGZ.
kaws.
barry mcgee/twist
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Expedition.
I ran out of texts today. This was horrible, I couldnt text anyone. Especially Alicia. She is making a video last I heard, and it has old people ghostriding the whip. Keep an eye out for that.
I was too tired to go snowboarding so I sat around, went skating for a bit with Jack, and ate cake. Somewhere in there I bought an OutKast record for 2 bucks. Spring break isnt coming soon enough, I should find a job. The cake was getting dry so Jack and I destroyed it. He took the last bite like a beast.
Rodney got his tattoo finished, which is awesome. Awesome tattoo, awesome quote, awesome artist. Go get tattooed by Mark Bentley.
Mikey LeBlanc is down for the toboggan.
I was too tired to go snowboarding so I sat around, went skating for a bit with Jack, and ate cake. Somewhere in there I bought an OutKast record for 2 bucks. Spring break isnt coming soon enough, I should find a job. The cake was getting dry so Jack and I destroyed it. He took the last bite like a beast.
Rodney got his tattoo finished, which is awesome. Awesome tattoo, awesome quote, awesome artist. Go get tattooed by Mark Bentley.
Mikey LeBlanc is down for the toboggan.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Beautiful Videos.
Best Skate Video Ever. Def worth the whole ten minutes. Stolen from an old WC post.
Billy's Balls 2. WYLD.
William Spencer.
MORE 2 CUM.
Billy's Balls 2. WYLD.
William Spencer.
MORE 2 CUM.
Snow and Cake.
Early day today, I woke up at 6:30 and was up at White Pass at like 8:00. Chairs opened at 8:45, it was sunny but kind of icy, no new snow. The rail jam was today, but the camera i brought did not seem to work in the cold, otherwise there would be pictures. Lots of sick tricks and product were tossed, and the prizes and sponsors were dope. Came home and ate some cake and texted with Alicia, we're getting closer. And cuter. The cake is half gone and getting dry.
Friday, January 16, 2009
ZONNGG! ALICIA!
Second post for today, I'm just getting addicted to this I guess. Maybe I'll slow down in the future.
I hung out with David Funk to day, we played mario cart and each ate half a pizza. Then we went to Value Village and I got the cool, unused, in the box, with a manual camera flash for $3.
I went home and found a package waiting for me, it was full of zines and stickers from an old friend. Permanent Ink volume 11. Hit me up if you want one.
Then Jack and I had more cake, and my dad took a cool picture of the christmass tree my mom insists we keep up.
I hung out with David Funk to day, we played mario cart and each ate half a pizza. Then we went to Value Village and I got the cool, unused, in the box, with a manual camera flash for $3.
I went home and found a package waiting for me, it was full of zines and stickers from an old friend. Permanent Ink volume 11. Hit me up if you want one.
Then Jack and I had more cake, and my dad took a cool picture of the christmass tree my mom insists we keep up.
frostbitten skatepark
My brother, Jack, had a half day today, whuch means he got out of school at 11:30. I woke up at 10:30ish, Alicia texted me at 7:30 but I didnt wake up. I checked the two blogs that i normally check, one had some awesome graffiti flicks, the other had an awesome picture for me, and both had shout outs that made me smile.
By the time I had finished showering and getting ready, Jack was home and he held me to my promise to go skate with him today, despite the bitter cold and the frost on the ground. We went to the new Yakima skatepark, it was my first time skating it, it was awesome. The brick banks, pole jam, and ledge/grass gap were all sweet features, but the real party is in the bowl. Now that thing is fucking gnarly. I cant wait to shred the park when its dry and not slippery.
This is Jack.
After we got home we decided we wanted some cake. I am now blogging about the progression of the eating of Alicia's cake. Jack and I each had a slice.
The H and A are for HOLDEN AND ALICIA. Since we are engaged, ya know.
By the time I had finished showering and getting ready, Jack was home and he held me to my promise to go skate with him today, despite the bitter cold and the frost on the ground. We went to the new Yakima skatepark, it was my first time skating it, it was awesome. The brick banks, pole jam, and ledge/grass gap were all sweet features, but the real party is in the bowl. Now that thing is fucking gnarly. I cant wait to shred the park when its dry and not slippery.
This is Jack.
After we got home we decided we wanted some cake. I am now blogging about the progression of the eating of Alicia's cake. Jack and I each had a slice.
The H and A are for HOLDEN AND ALICIA. Since we are engaged, ya know.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
First Post
So, this is the beginning of my blogging career. I would like to take this time to say that over a year ago my sister, Lily, told me to start a blogspot to display my art on. I told her that I would make one later and i was too lazy to do so until tonight, when i was inspired by my good friends Rodney and Alicia. They both recently started awesome blogz and are probably the only people that will read this.
Anyway, back to the subject on hand, my life. Today i woke up feeling awesome, yesterday Alicia proposed to me via text message and we're getting married now. Spring break in San Francisco, Rodney is going to be my Breast Mang. This is good news, but sadly, no one answered the door when Alicia came to visit me last night, to make it up to her i promised her a cake.
I went to the store to get some cake things and on the way home i stopped by the bike shop to see an old friend named Luke. He gave me an awesome 50% off deal on this cool red fork.
After returning home I baked a birthday cake for Alicia, its chocolate with vanilla funfetti frosting. I'm really glad shes not vegan anymore because a cake without eggs would have been awful.
this is my day so far and its been a good one, i think i should shorten my posts though. less words, more pictures.
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