📁 Some addendums to Antonio’s “Immigration” part: 1) His three enders on the World Trade stairs went down within 23 minutes. 2) BigHenDawg posted all the attempts of the switch frontside flip into the brick quarterpipe in downtown L.A.
📅 1) Alim Orahovac’s On The Corner video is premiering at Tenant on Saturday, October 11 @ 8 P.M. Flyer here. 2) Sexhippies’ Earth Mafia video is premiering at Palace Bar next Thursday, October 16 @ 8 P.M. Flyer here.
We have a homie named Piff and he’s excited about the future of the Piffskateteam. Needless to say, these fellas filed one of the best “Summer Trip To New York” edits of the season, and spent much of it on two wheels. It really ramps up a few octaves towards the end.
Hit You Off Management A.K.A. Paul Young dropped a quick new edit.
As far as the east coast / midwest crust-heavy parts go, Shawn Macmillan and Ted Purtell’s new “SHAWN” part for Orchard and Politic is top-tier. A first-ballot entry to the modern-day crust cannon alongside Front Row, Rust Belt Trap, et al.
“Downtown D.C. is so fire when the weather’s nice.” Mason Padilla spends $87 in the first minute on Skate Jawn‘s latest “$100 Chill” installment, and then wins some back.
Another part from 5301 and Joey Dennis out of the Charlotte skate scene: Free has Dyshon Whidbee’s section in It’s Always Something. Shout out to the line where he grinds through the chunks Parks took out to skate-stop the ledges on 110th and Seventh.
“Back when, after Rodney Mullen shepherded the flip trick out of the primordial oozes and got them walking upright, some cosmic fork appeared. Down one road lay the unhurried, floating kickflips done by the likes of Kareem Campbell, and down the other, the hyper-quick varietals practiced among Daewon Song, Tom Penny, Pat Channita and certain others.” Boil the Ocean weighs in on the Joslin Thrasher cover that got the writers writin’.
Joey O’Brien is the latest guest on The Bunt.
Stefan Janoski is the latest guest on the Lookback Library’s “Cover Discussions” series.
We are supposedly getting more snow this winter, with the “biggest storms expected around the opening and the final weeks of the season.”
Loosies Corner 🚬 — A quick bit of Ibu Sanyang loosies + a minute of Mike Carroll footage from what has to be one of the first Girl demos ever (Houston, Texas in 1993.)
QS Sports Desk 🏀 — “We always go to 2 in the morning. They said they’re going to give us time.” Barkley isn’t worried about ESPN ruining Inside, but we’ll believe it when I see it.
Quote of the Week 🗣
German: “I’m from Cologne, Germany.”
Joel Popeteur: “Everyone must smell really nice there.”
German: “What?”
Yes, The Tour is the 6th best rap album of all-time. Actually, why the hell isn’t it in the top 5?