yesterdays past

Yesterday, I spent my day busing around Seattle by myself for the most part. My camera was being stupid so I missed out on taking a lot of cool pictures.
Got off the bus early in the U District to look at this. Its amazing, and looks illegal too.
Lance Balderson, a hero. Panorama, too good for one picture.

Trees fillin.

Seco throw.

Eso fillin.


While in the U District I paid a visit to my friend Clay at his job at Crossroads Trading Company. If you're reading this, dood, sorry I didn't get back to you when you called later, my phone was being stupid. :// Anyway, I sold a pair of jeans there to make some quick cash. I then went to Buffalo Exchange where I found a new, current, awesome Flying Coffin crewneck that goes for 60 on there website for 19. I didn't ge it, but took a picture in it to look cool before Rodney does.


The Ave got boring pretty quickly, as usual, so I hopped back on the bus and headed toward Broadway. There was a lot of graffiti and other cool stuff on the bus ride there that I would have liked to get off the bus and take pictures of, but I wisely decided against doing that. While on Broadway/Capitol Hill I hit up 35th North, the skateshop. They have a good selection of well priced Vans, and their skateboard selection is awesome as well. The employees were really nice and friendly. Their clothing, however, is overpriced and lame for the most part.


After I was done there, I went right next door to Zion's Gate, a record store. There was a lot of metal and hip hop records there. But not many used records, and a lot of overpriced shit. 9 dollars for a backpatch, 3-5 for a normal patch, a dollar for stickers that are normally free, and a general overpricing of records. The employees there kind of gave off a snobby and anti social vibe, maybe they were just having a bad day. Anyway, I bought a Fucked Up Litany 7".


I walked back to Broadway to find some grub and spotted numerous signatures by a lot of good writers.
King KERSE. rip


Lunch at Noah's Bagels on Broadway, really good. Nice people, yummy food.
Gatorade, sesame bagel, onion bagel, cream cheese.


Once I was done bussing all about Seattle, I returned to Cole's to gather my things and headed downtown. I got there early like usual and had time to kill. I hit up Sno Con since its like right there, AND YOU WEREN'T THERE, ALLY. I might have bought some sweet boat shoes last night, but sadly, no one was there to talk me into it. Instead I talked myself into buying some Holden snowboard pants for 50% off. They're awesome, I've wanted Holden outerwear ever since I found out about the company and now here I am. Pictures of these later.

over the mountains

Its been a bit since my last post and a lot of important awesome things have happened. First of all, I'm officially set to be heading down to the Bay Area now. I booked my flight on Saturday, I go down on March 28th and come back April 8th. I'm more excited for this trip than anything, I can't even describe it. I hella get to see my favorite Californian in like about a month! So stoked!

Well, today I got on a Greyhound bus to Seattle. The bus came on time for once, and we arrived sooner than expected, it was totally awesome. I hung out a little downtown and decided to meet up with Rodney in the U District. We met up around 2:30 and just kicked it on the Ave for a minute. Cellophane Square didn't really have any good records, but they did have free 12" singles of some rap group by they door. Free frisbees!
Mira works at Noah's Bagels in U Village so we went down there and met up with her as she got off work. She drove us up to Northgate so we could chill up there before Rodney had to work at 5. He gave me an awesome coupon that got me a free slice of pizza and a soda in the mall foodcourt.
While at Zumiez, Rodney's work, I acquired more "free" things including some shorts, some Grenade gloves, and some dumb Obey stickers.


At 6:30ish, D-TRICK, one of my bestest friends and my token black friend that is the coolest person at Target met me at Zumiez. We walked around the mall and its perimeter for a bit trying to find something to do. He was hungry so we settled on into Chipotle. It was D-Tricks first time ever eating there.

D-Tricks friends Savannah and Victoria came and hung out with us, theyre fun and nice. We cruised around the mall with them for a while just killing time. Hella mall rat status and shit. Despite what D-Trick said, their nails did not look very hoot-ratish.

After they left and got on a bus to go home we decided to pay a little visit to my old workplace, Target! We saw Julia in there, she was just chillin too so us three just walked around for like a half hour killing time. We were waiting for Cole to get off work and she was waiting for her boyfriend to get off work. Julia is cool. Cool enough to hate me.


After Target closed at 10, Cole was off work downstairs at Best Buy. He was hungry so our new group of three took a trip back to the U District. He was craving the most awesome 24 hour Mexican food in Seattle known as Memo's. Eat there, its delicious, right on the Ave.


We all continued the mass hangout till about an hour ago. I need to go to sleep, I have community service in the morning. I forgot to mention I saw Alix Isom while I was waiting to meet up with Rodney, shes baller. I'm listening to Sleep "Dopesmoker" and laying on a completely deflated air matress. Goodnight, I will probably blog tomorrow.

dead man running

Film photography is becoming obsolete. I've denied this for so long, and I've now admitted it to myself. Everyone is selling their darkroom equipment on craigslist and switching to a DSLR and laptop. This is nice for some projects, but my new project is to scoop up one sweet enlarger set up and give it a new home in my basement. I visited my old photography teacher, Mr. Prout, today and it was way fun. He gave me a catalog to order really cheap printing supplies from, as well as advice on building my own dark room. I went to pick up one of my prints that he had displayed somewhere dumb, but I ended up not taking it home due to its size and the fact that he uses it as an exaple now.
Mr. Prout told me of his new teaching plans for next trimester's intermediate/advanced zero period class. Film=plastic Holga cameras, digital=cell phone cameras. Back to the shitty basics. I think its awesome. Caitlin Malone is in the class I visited today, she's cool. At one point she told me to "Sit yo ass down!" This is said to be the "blackest thing she's ever said."

After school got out we had a Coca-Chola skate and filming session. It was quite productive, very professional. If David can throw one together we might have a trailer for our upcoming video soon. Apparently a nice video camera and dudes skating attracts random people to come over, hang out and skate with you. This has happened multiple times while filming, they usually end up being better than us to.

I'm wearing fuzzy slipper-boot-things my sister got me a couple christmases ago and listening to the Black Breath record on repeat. Shits good.


I'm going to be in Seattle on Monday.
I'm trying to making California plans and everything is difficult and complicated. Someone in SF let me stay with you.

Coca-Chola

I don't have my drivers license. I also don't know how to drive. This kinda sucks being 18. Well today I decided to fix that, my dad and I went over some stuff in the drivers manual and I drove for a bit. I've driven a little before, but today I drove more and learned how to drive a stick. I'm glad I'm finally learning this, as long as its taken.

David came by my house and we headed over to John Young's house. I hadn't seen that dude in forever. We hung out and watched a lot of youtube. David and I tried to tape an exercise ball to his ceiling and it fell down and knocked a bunch of shit over. It was pretty cool. John gave me a skateboard that wasn't really his. Its an Element Bam board. I hate that shit so I changed it to a pentagram HAM board. Holden Asshole Manderville. Or Anvil, Avalanche, Alberto, anything with an A really. Thats my new skate name. I also put Bones wheels on this board instead of what was on it. Its like an 8.0 though so that makes it sort of OK.

I also covered up the remains of a DC sticker with a Low Card sticker. Fuck yes

We left John's house to go back to mine and eat pizza. 3/4 of the Coca-Chola skate team then proceeded to session a sick gas station parking lot, and another weird parking lot thing. We were just practicing for filming for our upcoming video.

Deja Vu

I'd like to take this time to express my joy of food. Well, a few foods I've felt like expressing my appreciation for. Bananas are awesome. In smoothies, in sandwiches, with peanut butter, in the form of candy and ice cream, by themselves, they just rule. Smoothies themselves are also pretty sweet. Grilled cheese and tomato soup has always been one of my favorite meals. Thats what I had for dinner tonight, still so delicious, still one of my favorites.

I began to watch the first season of Sex and the City this afternoon. Its pretty fucking entertaining. Some lols here and there. Prior to this, all I had seen was the movie, which was pretty funny. I really enjoy chick flicks like that, they're just so damn entertaining. Anyway, I'm more than halfway through the first season and I'll probably finish it before I go to bed.

It was decided through text messages that I am going to be getting a Coach purse for Alicia. And a scarf. And a clutch. And we're getting mani/pedizzzzzzz. I also share some common interests with old women. I don't think thats a bad thing.

Tonight I went with my family to see a musical performed by Eisenhower High School's drama department and directed by a family friend. It was called HONK, its a musical version of the story of "The Ugly Duckling". It was pretty entertaining, had some funny parts, some funny actors. During the intermission, I went out to the vending machines to quench my thirst. I was so stoked to be getting a Hawaiian Punch, and then THE STUPID THING ATE THE ONLY DOLLAR I HAD ON ME. This ruined my night at the theater. Not cool.

I felt much like this woman. I love youtube.

adapt

My dad is officially a super duper ski patrol machine now. He took his final test on Saturday and now he wears a red coat with some logos on it and gets safe. Thats pretty cool. I'm really worn out from snowboarding the past three days, this always happens. Today the power went out at White Pass for a bit, they turned the generators on and then the lift was running slow so we left. Sean and company are really fun to ride with, we pretty much just lapped the same simple, easy runs over and over again. I like doing this. Watch this gem.



Alicia and I should hang out soon. Tents, skateboards, hyphy hyphy hyphy, and pasta.

Night Skiing

Today was beautiful. There was a thick bit of new snow all over. The groomers were nice and soft, and the powder bits were way fun. Snow was soft all day and was only a little icy through the trees and on the steep parts. Sean and I totally ripped on rollercoaster and were Flying Coffin crewneck twinsies today. Jesse lost his pipe and seemed rather bummed about it. Bummer. We stayed into the evening to get down with the night skiing tonight. I tried to ski as opposed to snowboarding, and that was hard, and it kinda sucked. Some good doods were sessioning the big kicker in the park till it got dark. I took a few pictures but I was using film so we'll have to wait and see about those. We went home at about 8, what a good Valentines Day. On a side note, I burned my arm on my waxing iron last night and I hate waxing again.

First Outline

Jack and I rode bikes today, its nice to be riding around again. Just for fun, around the city. I went to a local snowboard/skate shop today called New Yak City. It turns out their selection, layout, employees and overall vibe are almost as bad as their name. I was less than impressed with this shop. They had a few good things, but it was outweighed by the awful wannabe street wear and gangster ish. Not that cool, but Midstate is closing and this is going to be the only local skateshop. :(

Alicia and I talked about our awesome spring break plans, which I can't wait for. I also talked to my sister about it and am planning what days I want to go down there. I really hope I can stay there for like a week and a half. We're going to party so hard.
Speaking of fucking awesome, I ran across this hilarious video on youtube. A parody of one of my favorite radio rap songs, probably a late pass though.


Jack and I waxed a bunch of skis and snowboards today. Pretty productive. Prepping for the first new snow shredding in quite a while. I only really wax my board like once a year though, I'm lazy.


So I've been thinking about getting everything straight and where to go next. I'm just kinda hanging out now. I should get my drivers license sometime, as well as a job. From there I want to move out again. I dont know if I want to go back to Seattle though. But we'll see how I feel after I spend a bit of time in California.

Telephone Lines

A text from Alicia woke me up this morning. I really like being woken up by the sound of getting a text rather than an alarm clock. Its much less annoying and I am more interested in what it says and who it is. So feel free to text me early in the morning, I won't mind. I texted all throughout the morning and then got and unexpected awesome surprise in the form of a phone call from Alicia. I was shocked to say the least, but it was really really cool. We haven't talked on the phone since I was last in San Francisco, and I think its only happened like 4 times lol. Well that was a fun 15 minute conversation. It was established Rodney and I talk the same and say similar funny phrases. Thats quite a compliment, he's funny as fuck. This call: highlight of my day!

Well the snow melted away for the most part today, that kind of sucked. Its still supposed to be snowing in the mountains though. Righteous! My parents are gone and in Seattle, where I wish I was. I want to move out pretty bad, I don't know where to live or who to live with though.

I wrote a letter back to Nikki last night and put some totally sweet things in the envelope. It was sent off today. Speaking of stuff like that, Alicia should send that best ever care package this way so I can compile one twice as good. hahaha

The dudes at Valley Cycle took forever to work on my wheel today, but at least they got it done. And they did a good job too. Thanks Axel. Getting this wheel back was the final piece in my single speed road bike build up machine. Its finally done, built with spare parts I had laying around, bought nothing specifically for this.
My bikes:
fixed gear.


single speed.


At some point today I downloaded this:


New Found Glory's new upcoming album. It leaked a few days ago, but I still can't wait to buy it. I've been bumping this all day. I really like it. I'm glad they took a more pop punk direction as opposed to hardcore. Tip Of The Iceberg wasn't one of their best releases because of that and the whole International Superheroes Of Hardcore thing just sucks. Anyway, it was produced by Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 fame. Who, on a side note, are getting the fuck back together! I really want to see NFG on this next tour, the other bands on the lineup aren't that hot but its whatever, they never are. IMO it sounds more like they Self Titled and Sticks and Stones, which is totally awesome. Fuck yeah, I dig this, if you dig NFG, you should dig this too, dig it out of the internet, then dig up some change and dig it out of a record store.

Stay Cold.

It started snowing again today. I guess this means our skate video filming adventure is on a hiatus. That totally sucks, but its awesome that White Pass is finally getting new snow. I took one of my road bike wheels in to the bike shop today to get the 7 speed cassete removed, a single speed freewheel put on, and the wheel re-dished. That should be cool. On that subject I think I fucked up my back wheel, it makes a funny noise and doesnt spin well anymore.

Spring break is getting closer and closer. I dont know exactly what days I'm going but I definitely am going down to California. I should buy my ticket soon. I cant wait to kick it in the warm weather and skate and buy records, AND GO DUMB WITH ALICIA. My sister went back to school and its totally not as fun here anymore.

I want to see this movie.

7XL

Reeeecap!
-Woke up at 8 because Rodney texted me. And laid in bed texting for 2 hours or so.
-Wrapped my new handlebars with some spare bar tape that I had laying around. The bar tape on them is a celeste or seafoam green, like the Bianchi color. I don't like it but it was all I had. It will have to do until I get new grips. I also changed the seat on my bike, its now an old Sekai saddle thats beat up and cool looking.
-Rode to Jake's bicycle shop. Nothing there was too amazing. Then, this is where i came to a realization, I rode to Valley Cycling. This was the first time in quite a while I had ridden a semi-long distance at a relatively fast pace in forever. Its been months. Due to snow, gravel, ice, rain, me being lazy, and other excuses, I haven't really ridden hard in a while. My lungs hurt so bad and I was completely worn out. Luke made fun of me and I decided I should ride more.
-I think I should become a private air plane pilot.
-David Funk texted me while I was resting up at home and we decided to hang out. It turns out he has a really nice, awesome video camera. We equipped ourselves with awesome colorful headbands, trucker hats, some spare grip tape we found laying around, and this super duper camera. We are now in the process of making a skate video of our skate team that we're sponsored by. The team is just me and David, our name is Coca-Chola. First we hit up Foursquare Church, got some c00l tricks filmed. Some weird kids came up to us and totally sucked at skating but it was all good. They called my board "not a real board". One of them rode a 7 inch wide board. Now THAT is a gimmick board if I've ever heard of one. Jackie met up with us from there and we dipped to go get Slurpees. They dont let you film in 7-11. Then we skated St. Pauls but it was too cold by then to do anything cool or film.
-I went home, ate, chilled, watched The Italian Job, and wrote this blog.


Ally has a blog again. :) Win.



COCA-CHOLA 09 HIT DAT ISH UP, NEW VIDEO DROPPIN S00N!
KEEP YO EYEZ OUT, ITZ ALL HYPE, BELIEVE ME

WEE

Shralped.
There was a boardercross and skiercross contest. It wasnt that cool. Some of the park got blocked off for it, the prizes sucked.

fridaze

Went snowboarding once again today, whats new. I woke up and showered, texted a lot. Had a bowl of Cheerios and a donut. Took my sweet time getting ready because we didn't leave till like 9. Today was different though because Lily came skiing, which she only does like once or twice a year I think. Weird. She brought up her camera and we took pictures.

Shred.


Post-Shred.


Walking Home.


On the way back to the parking lot there is a pathway marked off and made quite obvious as to what it is. A walkway pathway thing is so obviously NOT a parking space. Anyone with common sense knows this. You don't park on the sidewalk by a parking area do you? Anyway, today some asshole decided it might be a good idea to squeeze his cool new Lexus SUV of sorts into a small not parking space that is right in front of a pathway that is prone to heavy foot traffic. Heavy foot traffic, as in people carrying ski and snowboard equipment through there. Well we needed to get by and with no care in the world, we did. Maybe our skis and boards rubbed and scraped and collided with this guys shiny paint a little. Maybe he deserved it. It wasn't completely intentional. Maybe he was walking right behind us (we didn't know it was his) as we tried to get to the parking lot in this now small space. Well he didn't say anything, only gawked in horror at his stupid car and looked longingly over at us as we unloaded our gear. He left without saying a word. I wonder if he'll park in a NO PARKING spot again. Or stop by at a ski resort on his trip over the pass again. I hope he doesn't drive his stupid car again.
/rant

Well COLE came and stopped by in Yakima on his way to Pullman. We went to Best Buy, I got a 4gb flash drive for 12 dollars which was a pretty good deal.

Alicia and I are getting matching tattoos when I go visit the Bay Area for spring break. Which by the way, she's going to be gone for the first 4 days of it :(. But I'll survive. Oh, we're getting the word "HELLA" tattooed in the inside of our lips. Yeah, we're just that cool.

Productivity.

I hate when blogs dont have a "Follow this Blog" link. Sorry, I just want to follow your blog. Anyway, today was a good day. Alicia and I are starting a band. Our name is Glue Mound Glory and shes singing and I'm doing whatever else.
I went to a super secret location that distributes all the sticker vinyl to all the sign and sticker making places in Yakima and picked up some vinyl. 3 yards for 12 bucks. Each sheet is 15 inches wide, yellow, green, and white. Pretty good deal.

I'll be making some awesome stickers in the near future.

After that Jack came home with an awesome drawing in his hands. He drew Mac Dre if you can't tell. And its done in crayon, thats my favorite part.


Picked up some Soma track drop bars for my bike from Luke. Good deal on them too.


And then I came home to find a letter from none other than NIKKI! It was awesome, we're pen pals now. Take note of the Black Flag bars on the label closing the envelope. Awesome touch.


At one point today Jack and I went into the Craft Warehouse. 2 out of the 3 employees kept following us around and trying to act all sneaky like. They thought we didnt notice for the longest time and thought they were quite clever. We werent even stealing anything or planning on it. I found it very annoying and rude. There were quite a few other people in the store that they werent paying any attention to and I hope they robbed them for all they're worth. They also followed us to the door and kept watching us as we left. I hope they try to accuse me of stealing some day.


And I'm going snowboarding tomorrow because I'm c00l.

iPhoto

The old version on my st00pid iBook is st00pid. NO, I dont want to import the 1000+ pictures from my sisters camera. But there is no option to only import the 5 I actually want so I can post them in this post. Well, thats not happening to tomorrow, sorry.

Alicia bought a longboard. I skated with David today and drank a lot of grape soda. It really wasn't that great of grape soda but I wanted to drink as much as i could to spite John Young for leaving them in David's car. We skated Four Square church and then St. Pauls church. It was fun.

soda, skateboarding, and cool sunglasses.


David Funk.


At home I made brownies with my brother and sister. I usually make brownies with Nikki. Shes more fun to make brownies with and doesn't take all the credit for them, haha.

Eggz.


Lily is not stoked on mixing the brownie mix.


After that I watched The Devil Wears Prada for the millionth time but this time it was with my family. I do a lot of stuff with my family now. Being home is nice but I miss living in Seattle, I want to move back.

pictures tomorrow.

Youtube Findz.

Well first of all, apparently you can show full on exposed bewbz on youtube now. Maybe I'm mistaken but i swear you couldnt show any sort of nudity before. I suppose its somewhat nice that Youtube is getting less strict, but at the same time the fact that they are letting stuff like that slide yet not letting people upload videos because they use copyrighted music is totally stupid. Youtube needs to stay more consistent.
New t.A.T.u. music video which shows exposed bewbz mulitple times. Weird, Youtube, weird.


Way better: kid high as a kite after getting a tooth pulled at the dentist. LOLZ.

Everyone In The World

"Everyone in the world at White Pass has a Rome. Get with it dude."
I went snowboarding AGAIN yesterday. 3 days of straight shred really wiped me out. I slept in today. Yesterday Woody brought up his camera and filmed a little bit. Mostly Jesse hitting the big kicker though. Woody himself almost landed a frontflip of the little mini park jumps, which was mighty impressive. JT has the same birthday as me, but hes two years younger, and a whole lot better at snowboarding than me.
My sister, Lily, came back from Mexico last night, she's home for a week then back to California. She gave us the presents she owed us from Christmas. Jack and I each got a handmade bracelet and a hand knit earflap beanie, dyed organically and all made by hand and shit. I like it.

I just finished watching The Man Who Knew Too Little with my family a bit ago. Man, Bill Murray is so good in that movie. Its the shit, if you've never seen it or just haven't in a while WATCH IT. Its worth it. Funny shit. But watch this first, this guy slays on a unicycle.