Alright, first things first, if you like Broken Social Scene don’t read this. I have no idea why you would like them, but if you do, move along. I’ll also add a disclaimer that I was in a horrible mood all day leading up to the show.  I would never have gone, but Jack went through the effort of getting me on the list so I had to go.  Thanks Jack!!!! I really don’t know much about Broken Social Scene other then the main dude Kevin plays on the new J Mascis album.  I figured they must be pretty good then.  Things started looking up when we found out the No Love crew was in the house!

These dudes are rad.

Plus whenever you are hanging with Fuzz and Leslie you are pretty much guaranteed a good time.  Top it off with lots of lyrics where the band yells “NULL!” and you got the making of something sick.

We were right by the sound booth and the sound was great.

They even had a pretty cool stage, but unfortunately I knew the show was going to suck the second the main singer came out in a poofy winter jacked pumping his fist like he was in Wu Tang.  Add a couple of annoying girls jumping around like idiots and bumping into Leslie and things were looking grim.  They had four guitarists on stage and yet the guitaring wasn’t powerful.

The brief cover of U2’s “With Or Without You” put me over the edge and Leslie, Fuzz and I agreed we’d had enough of this band.  I really don’t see what people see in them.  They were boring, the lyrics were cheesy and their stage presence would be better suited for an arena rock show.

Oh, and yes, they were selling Boring Social Scene scarves.  Wow.

Woke up in a bad mood. Wasn’t sure why at the time, but it turns out I was in the process of getting sick so it makes sense now. Anyways around 11 I took off with Ollie and his friend Gabriel to bring boards to Community and Crisis. We stopped at the old metal park on the way. It was an ok session. Ollie did a front 180 which I’ve never really seen him do before. He thinks back 180s are easier. Gabriel tried to do ollies. I haven’t skated tranny much at all lately and it showed. I felt weird even dropping in on the cement bank to start the day. Doh. I ended up having some fun though. Started trying a line where I would manual the fun box after riding up the kicker, axle stall the cement bank, then nose manual the box coming back. That felt pretty good. Also did a long flip trick run with lots of horribly landed tricks.

After the shops, lunch and a nap Mikey showed up and we went out to do some filming. We warmed up at St Julien. I had fun there and did a line I was kinda hyped on. Ollie a milk crate, crooks, turn around, front 5-0, 360 flip on flat. Neat. The wind was pretty intense so we didn’t get to filming there. We drove around and checked a lot of spots where I didn’t really skate and was definitely feeling weird. We ended up at the double set rail in Boulder that Jack did the boardslide to hurricane. Mikey wasn’t feeling that spot either. I wanted to ollie the flat gaps in the parking lot, but had some type of mental breakdown and it took a ton of tries. I got super upset. Ugh. In hindsight I probably should have realized I was starting to feel sick.

Jock shoes are still jock shoes.

Pretty tired and Liz wanted to hang out after work. While she cooked dinner I skated flat in front of the house. It actually went pretty good. Treflips were pretty consistent, but I didn’t get a treflip, nollie treflip combo that I wanted to get. At the very end I landed primo on a heelflip and it hurt worse then it should. I guess my foot isn’t 100% yet.