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California has been great. Hanging out with Alicia has been more than amazing.
Yesterday I rode the BART for the first time, with the help of Alicia. We saw New Found Glory, it was a fun show. During Set Your Goals, Alicia lost her phone, but some dood found it and we got it back. We watched the rest of the show from the balcony, it was different, but it was a nice change and a break from always standing in a crowd at shows. NFG covered Gorilla Biscuits, played some acoustic songs, played dont you forget about me from the breakfast club, and a kind of dashboard cover. They had quite a solid setlist, it was a really enjoyable show.
Today Alicia and I hung out allll day for over 12 hours. I would post pictures but they are awaiting review to see if they're ok to be spread on the internet. Bowling, food, skating, meeting the sisters, meeting the mom, track, dinner, post it notes, and much more. Alicia's family rules, and I need to say her name more in my blog posts. :)


Today I didnt even have to use my a.k.
I got to say it was a good day.

50th post

yee! I'm in Moraga, CA right not at St. Mary's College campus. Its really pretty here. And its hot, everyone is nice. Theres a lot of rich people in spandex riding around on nice bikes around these parts.
Mike picked me up in Oakland, we drove around, skated, played basketball, went to Berkley, and got lost. Sweet, I'm really tired and sitting in the dorm. Everyone is upstairs partying. Theres gonna be a lot of pictures these days.

Great skate/snow shop in Moraga, surprisingly good selection, nice dudes, cool vibe. MILO





Berkley, ate some 'za at Fat Slice

Hit up all the cool shops, sweet displays, more skateshops. A lot of bums, rastas, hippies, and hipsters here.
The display of these obviously shows that they are really Trash Talk belt buckles.


Lame and overpriced tools of the trade.

Hit up Rasputin. 3 stories of glory, so wild.


More shops.


A taste of home sweet home, found in some thrift shop.



I need to get out and get pictures of all the graffiti that is EVERYWHERE.
Tomorrow's agenda: hang out and adventure with Alicia, see New Found Glory. :))

im goin goin

back back
to cali cali
All my belongings to last me the next 11 days are packed up. We're driving to Seattle at 3:00 in the morning, and I'm getting on a plane around 8:00am. The lame airline company d00dz won't let me bring my skateboard on the plane as a carry-on, so I had to fit it in my bag. And I decorated my big check in bag with an awesome Wu-Tang shirtpatch. I will be bringing the mothafuckin ruckus.

I'm going to be in California tomorrow, this rules.
Jack and I went for a bike ride today, it was really sunny and warm enough to just wear a t shirt and jeans. So great, it felt way good just riding around. We stopped by New Yak City, they sold their last Capita Horrorscope :( but I liked the Gnu Street Series. If it didn't have lame graphics I would consider getting it. I really want to stop by The Hundreds shop among so many other places in SF. I don't know where to start.
While on our bike ride we saw a fillin in an alley done by none other than the infamous, lame, over-rated, NYC bomber COPE 2.

But it wasn't cope2. This struck me as kind of odd. Well cope2 sucks, hes been bombing the same simple throw that was given to him by another for 20 years. Doing the same pieces for 20 years. Not progressing for the past 20 years. And making pathetic attempts at cashing in on the recent popularity of graffiti. But whoever did this sucks more. What does this kid write? COPE 8734587345983? Theres been about that many people that have tried to use the name. And did he really think that throwie was cool enough to straight up bite? Did he think no one knows who cope2 is? Yeah man, thats definitely not one of the most recognized throwies in the history of graffiti, more so of the internet boom of graffiti. You tool, go back to painting your fence. I usually have sympathy for toys that are trying but fuck this kid.

Oh, my mom is having a burlesque bake sale as a fundraiser for her non profit organization, Arts in Motion. You should be over 21 and come, or be over 17 and volunteer.


see you in da bay mang

spring bake

Hey Alicia, wanna hang out Saturday night?
David and I originally intended on going skateboarding but it got really windy. So we gave up and went on the computer and hung out. We ended up making cookies. Peanut butter with chocolate chip cookies, premade dough. So I guess we didn't even really make the cookies. All we did was put them in balls on a cookie sheet. But then we decided that was boring and lame, so we made an upside down cross. Trve kvlt black metal cookies.

before.

with david's mom, only one apron.

after.

then we ate it and got sick.


I need to pack my bags, I can't put my excitement in words.

corpse without a souuuuuul

Go listen to Mercyful Fate.
I'm at David's house right now being awesome. This video is awesome. All I ever post is videos.

the straight edge

oh, 90's hardcore. lol
apparently i like to spend my time on youtube.





hahah, shit. does anyone even watch all the weird videos i post?

and automator

I hate how big the video is sometimes, but I'm too lazy to change it.
Oh, and I like snowboarding.

radikvlt

One more week. I'm posting right now and its weird. Today is the first Saturday since I moved back here that I haven't gone snowboarding. It doesn't feel right lol. Last night I watched The Big Lebowski, it was my first time seeing it. I know, I'm a little late on this. Everyone is always talking about how awesome it is, and I agree. This was always one of those movies everyone talks about but I hadn't seen. Well now I have. Thanks David!
Rodney and I have been iChatting all morning, hes pretty much inspiring this post.
holdenonastick: im blogging all this
holdenonastick: lol
-rodneyofarabia: man do it
rodneyofarabia: mention me
holdenonastick: okay mang
-rodneyofarabia: put this aim convo in yer blawg
holdenonastick: you got it
-rodneyofarabia: put this right here
-rodneyofarabia: aye yo, blog.
holdenonastick: hahahahha
holdenonastick: ok
Well, there ya go Rodney, now everyone has our screen names. haha.
I want this.

AugorxKeegan Gibbs always good.

burning books

Rode my bike around, got around to taking decent pictures of it for Velospace. I stopped at Taco Bell to see whats up since I hadn't eaten there in a grip. A few weeks ago David told me of some awesome nachos that are super cheap there. The cheapest ones were 79 cents and were also the ones that just had beans, cheese, and hot sauce. Just what I wanted. So I ordered them and they were placed in my hands rather quickly. Once I saw them in front of me I was devastated. The dish they came in was tiny, and they didnt even fill it up all the way. I don't know why I was expecting much more out of 79 cent nachos, maybe it was all the hype, but I was. They weren't even that good. I should have bought a cheesy bean and rice burrito. Fuck.

Fuck these, they suck, Taco Bell sucks. I want to be eating burritos in San Francisco already.
And I cut my hair today.

skate 2

Finally got around to this game. Didn't really play it, but I watched David play it. Its awesome, makes me want to but a PS3 and that game only.



And we actually skateboarded IRL a little bit. YEAH! And watched The Berrics SKATE videos on youtube. How awesome, skatebaording FUCK YEAH!

Haircut tonight or maybe tomorrow. I hate my hair

guidos

These things are so fucking fascinating, like juggalos. But I see juggalos all the time. I have never seen a guido in real life, and I really want to. It seems they dwell mostly on the east coast, specifically New York and New Jersey. I hope there are some in the Bay Area when I visit. If not, there should be some Metal Mulisha bros to gawk at or something. Also, if they aren't there when I am, someone should plan a trip with me and go to NY/NJ with me. How anyone finds this remotely attractive or cool or anything is beyond me. Hilarious, on the other hand, yeah they're fucking hilarious.





club wigger roided out oompa loompa idiots.

On a different note, I love RZL DZL. What an awesome party band. I want to go snowboarding.

milk

My family and I just watched the movie Milk. I saw it when it first came out in good happy fun Seattle. If you haven't seen it, you should. And I just had some chocolate milk. I'm in the market for some new Vans, all of mine are getting trashed. Maybe I'll have to hit up Sno Con, boat shoes and shit. Ally, I think I saw Holden Street once, maybe. Alicia and I are having a tent party when I come down. Less than 2 weeks and I don't know how I'm getting to the airport.

quality work

24 hour ski was a bust on the fun and wild side, for the most part. Saturday I came up early as usual, shredding by the openings of the chairs. Not really any new snow, yet. It took a while for anyone to really get there. A lot of people were supposed to show up and party but I guess not snowboarding and partying all night is cooler. Laaaaame, oh well. All Saturday our snow crue was reduced to Jesse, Jack, Sean, and me. Jeff and Kelly came up by like, midnight, but by then I was too tired to snowboard with them that night. There was a bit of smoking, drifting cars in the snowy parking lot, heavy snow, funny wasted minors, angry people trying to sleep, and fun. We made do with what we had. There were some fun people up there, just not the usual hang out brahs. It snowed way hard all night, every run there was a fresh layer to cut. Swollen ankle and big bruised shin.
Went to sleep at 3ish, slept shitty, woke up at 6:30ish. About two and a half feet of powder to kill. We destroyed it all day, as tired as we were. I realized that I really want a rocker board, next season maybe. Jeff has a Signal Park Rocker and that looks way butteryer and funner than all the other company's. Also, staying the night in the lodge and waking up to the fresh snow with my friends kind of invigorated my dreams of renting out a house at a ski resort. Anyone who wants to move near an awesome resort with me, holler. I don't think I could live anywhere that requires a drive over an hour and a half to a ski resort.

just dance

I am addicted to Lady Gaga. So damn good, I'm not kidding at all. Rihanna too. I just can't get enough. Well we skated today, at the old skatepark. It ended up being David, Sean, Michael, and I hanging out in the parking lot and messing around. I cracked my beloved BAM/HAM Element board. Sean gave me a lightly used Manik deck so I could continue my skate legacy.

From now on I no longer want to pay for skateboards and parts. I want to get them all from friends and trades. If you'd like to donate, feel free.
Tomorrow begins the 24 hour ski Vertical Challenge. Us hooligans take this as a time to snowboard, hangout, get wild, and party at White Pass for 24 hours. Its gonna be awesome. But at the same time I'm not going to be able to text anyone, especially Alicia. This totally sucks! She called me today to talk about our plans to go to the NFG show. I get more excited the more I think about it, so awesome. 2 weeks away.

animalz

I love animals. Fucking awesome.

you vandal

Well I need a haircut. Its awkwardly shaggy and I don't like it.

I got my awesome super great best thing ever NEW FOUND GLORY TICKET. Yes, finally I have it. Ticketmaster is still a big bunch of shit, as I've always thought. Lots of bullshit fees, more money than I would have liked to spend.

Yesterday, I went into a snowboard shop and saw something lame. What a surprise. lol
Its a The Hundreds x Forum collab snowboard. It looks dumb and Forum still isn't cool, they try real hard though. I dislike just about everything about this board and I might just have to take my The Hundreds sticker off of my board.

And my picture of JT and Bobby in the shower was deleted from photobucket for terms of use violation. The only "nudity" was a butt, everything else was covered up. Harsh.

sickrad!

Promo trailers featuring the friends. Edited by Bobby.
BROCAM PROMO

BROCAM PROMO! from bob dean on Vimeo.

Bomb Hills Not People.

Bomb Hills Not People Promo from bob dean on Vimeo.

sickstick

Well first of all, Sean isn't sending me the pictures I took on his camera so this is going to be 2 seperate posts for this trip. Also, today sucks because I rode my bike all the way to the ticketmaster booths thing only to find out it opened an hour later and that they don't even sell ticket master tickets there anymore. Its only ticketswest now. Fuck them, I need my New Found Glory ticket and now I'm going to have to pay hella to get it online.
Friday: Sean and I go snowboarding at White, drive to Oly with EJ, get chased by a police, get away, ditch beer, take off snowboard racks, continue driving to Oly.

Got to Oly, Cody wasnt there yet, he was still on his way back from Snoqualmie. Met up with Jeff, always blunted, always down.


He showed us a bit around Oly for a bit, but it got dark. Hit up the double tunnels for a quick bit.



Met up with Cody at Taylors house. Went back at his house, met his parents, got situated. Headed out for the night. We met up with Bobby and JT at a gas station, theyre down for the fun. We all drove to Grayson's house way out in the middle of nowhere with horrible reception. Sean fell asleep, everyone got drunk, Jeff and I didnt and we ate a lot of pizza.
Saturday was spent just chillin, Codys house, Bobbys house, Oly mall.
JT, Sean, Bob, Cody.


Picked the lock on Bobby's shower, JT joined in.

Somehow Bobby has managed to break 2, not one, but two Capita Stairmasters in the past like 3 months.


The night turned into a lot of Jack in the Box, graffiti, walking around Oly, Bob's house, visiting Tolo goers, and being down.

We ended up walking hella far for a party that got shut down in like 30 minutes. We went to bed at like 4:30.
Sunday, woke up. Picked up Jeff, went to White, went snowboarding, came home.

I should just post pictures. I dont like typing this shit out. More pictures to come when Sean sends me them.

Olympia

So, I haven't been blogging that much lately. The fact is, I've had the time, just not the material. I honestly have had nothing to blog about this week due to the fact that I haven't really done anything interesting or even left the house much. This is all because I've been trying to regain my health this past week and recover from my nasty cold. Being sick totally sucks.
I've been wanting to go ride my bike, skate, hang out, and just do the normal things I do. But noooooo. Also, being sick has made me feel kind of anti-social, so if I haven't been texting you or talking to you in general as much, I apologize. I don't mean to not be talking to anyone, I'm just feeling quite shitty.
Anywayzzzz, Sean and I are leaving tomorrow to go on a great fun adventure. I'm hoping that this will make me feel awesome and help me to snap out of my anti-socialisms and mopey-ness. I am feeling quite a bit better than I was at the beginning of the week, but not fully recovered. The plan is; friday: go to White Pass, snowboard, get done, drive to Olympia, hang out; saturday: just hang the fuck out and party on in olympia; sunday: go back to White and snowboard a bunch then go home.
I'm going to try to document all this through siqq picz. My hopes are set quite high for this weekend. It better live up to my expectations. Once I return there will probably be a blog post very similar to what I just described. Sorry for the spoiler. Oh, and I'm going with 12 dollars, actually 7 now because I bought some cheap food. I love you all, see you on Monday probably.
RODNEY, GET A NEW PHONE OR FIX THE ONE YOU HAVE.
ALICIA, <3. caps lock means its more important

estebano

All I have been doing lately is snowboarding. And I love it. This weekend was Winter Carnival. So much fun, a few new friends, and a free t shirt. Cool shit, we should do it more often. Sean and I went up Friday, it was beautiful. 2 feet of fresh, deep, wonderful snow to destroy. Saturday and Sunday everyone else was up too. Long lift lines, night skiing, and I'm sick now.
Its also March now, California is less than a month away! Still so excited, Alicia should text me back though.
Alicia, text me back. PLZ