John and I went pretty late on a Sunday night.  I stopped off at an apartment on the way and bought a Beatles Rock Band kit from a craigslist ad.  So hyped for that!  Ha, it’s one of the first times we are way ahead of the schedule on her birthday gift.Anyways, we missed a couple opening bands, but on came local band Pacific Pride.  I had listened to some tunes on myspace and thought they sounded decent.  They had some weird stage props that weren’t really even worth shooting photos of.  It seemed like all of their friends came to the show and they were all the overly hipster dancer types.Neither John or I were very impressed.   A couple song sounded ok to me, and they were clearly having fun, but for the most part it was boring and contrived.  Maybe they didn’t put much effort in because it seemed like John and I were the only ones there not in one of the bands that played.Poison Control Center came out blasting. I took pretty much all of these photos within the first two songs. It was insane. They were doing acrobatics on stage and going crazy. There was so much energy it was almost overkill.Yes, they were seriously doing shoulder stands and not losing a note.I’ll give them some credit they managed to keep it up throughout their set.I was kinda hoping at some point the drummer would play with his feet or something, but nope, he just kept it real.This dude only took breaks from doing the splits, shoulder stands or whatever this is to sing.See, the splits! Ouch!Whoa, they were all just standing there like a normal rock band!John thought this guy was an ultra hipster. I figured he was just a Iowa music dork. After seeing him dance for a whole song I’m pretty sure I was right.Some dudes from Pacific Pride jumped on stage at one point and air guitar’d while PCC did acrobatics. What is the world coming to?To sum it up, wow, what a show. Sure it made for lots of interesting photos and conversation, but did they really need to do acrobatics to sell these songs? No, they sounded pretty good as is. Sure it was exciting, I’ll give it that. And some of it was awesome, but everysong was over kill. I was also bummed on the lack of songs off the new album. Only two songs when your on tour to support a new album is whack. No one manning the merch booth is whack too.I promise to take better photos if I bring my camera again. You have no idea how shy I am when it comes to shooting photos of non skate stuff.

I was looking to see how long it’s been since those Ipath Stash’s were new so that’s why the last entry was so late.  Can’t believe I forgot to hit ‘Publish’.  Oh well.  So yeah, the stash’s felt like crap the last time I had them.  Very thin and flat.  They didn’t last as long as the time before that, but I’ve been doing more flippers lately.  My knee still hurt, but not as bad as I would have thought.  The knee cap looks pretty gross.  Maybe in a couple days when the bruise spreads it’s black and blue all over I’ll take a photo.  Anyways I setup a new board as I cracked my board pretty bad the night before.  Perfect time for new shoes!After a run to Community to sell boards, eating a bunch of cookies and reading to the kids I went out for some light skating under the street light.  I bent down for the first ollie and it hurt way worse then I had thought.  Doh.  Kickflips somehow didn’t hurt so I went for them.  I had a couple 10+ streaks.  The most being 16.  Pretty weak night, hopefully my knee gets better.

** this was supposed to be posted a long time ago, but I just saw it in my drafts.  oops ***New board time.  This one is an ode to my favorite skater, Ryan Sheckler and his amazing Oakley ad about bucking expectations and rising to the top.  Or maybe it’s about how that is the worst ad in history and Brian called Oakley on the way to Ft Collins one day resulting in the funniest conversation ever.  Either way, I now had a board with that griptape art on it.  Great.A new deck isn’t complete without new shoes to go along with it.  Round 2 on I Path Stash’s.  This time in a bright color.  Neat.I thought it was gonna be a mellow day when I woke up.  Turns out that Tyler and a crew of Denver Shop dudes were coming to Boulder and wanted to meet up.  We met at Sussex ledge where it became clear that I would be the poser of the day with my new setup.  This round of Null decks came with really small noses for some reason too.  Ugh.  That was throwing me off.  Neil and I played half a game of SKATE before I started filming Tyler try front tail 180 heelflip out.  Two hours later I couldn’t handle sitting anymore and my camera was overheating so I tried to play a game of SKATE with John who had shows up with Meta dudes Jack, Max, Davis.  But that got interrupted by Tyler actually landing his trick.  Prolly should have just stuck to filming as I didn’t land anything anyways.   Ha.Next we went to a plastic ledge spot where Shardy and Max did some neat stuff.  The rest of us either sat around or tried to do this weird wallride that only Jack landed.  Next we went to Southern Hills.  Some sat around, some skated, some filmed and some got in peoples way (me).  It was fun though.  Jack and Max both got neat tricks.  Whitney almost got a neat line, but went the dramatic route and focused his board.  Justin almost got a quick up to 360 flip noseslide the gap which would have been completely ridiculous.  I had fun trying boardslides, noseslides and crooks on the good ledge, backing a couple with 360 flips and then getting in someones way.  It was fun though.  Here’s a couple photos from the day.It doesn’t count unless you film it.Footie review!Nullers at work!High five means a make!