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Smoking Ban in Washington State

So it's official. This blurry ass picture from my camera phone of me smoking a cigarette indoors in a Bar with what appears to be a mustache, is the last of it's kind in Washington State. I hate cigarettes, and yes i finished the whole thing (painfully). I think they smell worse then shit, do you? Everytime i go out i feel like burying my clothes in the backyard because they smell so bad. I am never going to have to worry about having to take a shower before i put my smokey hair hits the "smokey pillow". i also thankfully get to limit my exposure to the equavalent of hanging out in a gigantic smoker lung. this is going to change the landscape of the club scene, should be interesting to see how many people are going to stand out and smoke on the sidewalk in the cold pissing rain. I'll be warm and happy and watching you from inside. will people start wearing goretex outerwear to the clubs? i hope so. actually, they already do.. will they put up tents and carry rain ponchos? maybe R.E.I. can start sponsoring club events. in summary,,,, smoking outside, very hip. very cal E forn E ahhhh....

Some People Climb Mountains...

Other people climb buildings in Russia. This guy is INSANE. This is about the most extreme thing i think i've ever seen. WATCH. Can anyone translate the ending or know someone that can? anybody got a comment?.

Movie Review: First Descent & the Marines?

If you know me, you know i love snowboarding. Let me rephrase that, i'm addicted to it. So i was naturally excited when i saw this trailer for First Descent, watch it. Ian and i mobbed down to the theater to check it out yesterday. So before i talk about the movie i want to talk about the marines. Has anyone seen the commercial where the marines try to tempt you into killing people by showing snowboarders lost in the backcountry (funny how the snow is all packed out in the backcountry). they make it out because naturally they are leaders and work as a team! let me get to that recruiting office, that's ME! It's played on MTV often and targeted at the 18-25 male demographic. So what's the deal? why do the marines target snowboarders? Is it because we wear camo? I keep seeing ads on snowboarding sites and on mtv and there was a commercial before this movie that particularily rubbed me the wrong way. If the Marines are reading this, fire your marketing department. Snowboarding is not a team sport. That's the draw to it. It's for the individual and we all know there isn't room for individuals in the military. some people pick football in the winter to be part of a team. others pick snowboarding because they prefer to push themselves without a team or a position. these sports and there are others like them (think basejumping), are rooted in anti-establishment. we don't like your rules, we like our own. you are aiming at the wrong audience. what do you have to offer snowboarders? free heli-skiing? i really doubt it. so quit wasting my tax money and everyone elses. the mountains is where i go to pretend that wars aren't happening and that the politicians i didn't vote for aren't making poor decisions for the rest of us. a place that is peaceful and tranquil and makes me think that wouldn't the earth be cool if it just had people enjoying it instead of destroying it. i will not be vacationing in IRAQ on the taxpayers dime. the last thing i want to think about before a snowboard movie is picking sides and murdering someone that i don't know in a distant land over something i don't believe in. that just isn't me and i think i can speak for most snowboarders. Start targeting team sports and people who play first person shooters, those are your recruits, go get em. go target the red states, you voted for it so put on your camo and get to fighting for what you believe in. Put some commercials on the Country Music Channel and start targeting SKIIERS and people who like to hunt. Snowboarders aren't interested in joining the marines, IS THERE ANY SNOW IN IRAQ? if you are a marine recruiter i invite you to try to sway me into joining your "team". otherwise stand out in front of your local walmart and get busy.

Sorry, I had to rant. Back to the movie review...

This movie is unusual because it's out there educating people in normal theaters and i kind of like that. it speaks volumes about how far snowboarding has progressed. I remember when snowboarders weren't allowed to ride on "ski" mountains. There are still a couple of lame places like that, deer valley and alta come to mind as well as taos, but you also can't get a real drink in utah either so i guess that makes some sense, but what is new mexicos problem? i actually like skiing, it's fun. but not fun enough to give up snowboarding for a day. so here is an idea, marketing people listen up... how about a snowboard day at deer valley or alta? let snowboarders up there for one day and serve them free hot chocolate and chili in the lodges, actually open bar would be nice, but it is utah after all. i think the turnout would be better then ever. sure you will argue that snowboarders don't spend the money that skiiers do, but i will debate that. they are paying out the nose for your overpriced lift tickets aren't they? Plus this movie further proves that snowboarding is mainstream.

I digress...

so back to the movie i was expecting something close to dogtown and z-boys or riding giants but for snowboarding. Stacy Peralta pretty much rules and it was too bad he didn't get to making this film first, it would have been cool if he had the trilogy of all the greatest sideways sports together. but with that being said, i think it would have been a different movie altogether, so Stacy if you are reading... up the ante and make the sickest most infomative snowboard movie ever. Where this film differs from other snowboard movies is that there is a story that unfolds as 5 riders go to alaska to ride the BIG BACKCOUNTRY, the kind you take a chopper to. Remote. HUGE Mountain riding. The kind where you get to the top of peak and the worlds best riders sit up there and debate for a minute about uncertain death and call the helicopter back to pick them up. dropping in involves a 20 foot high windlip, there is only one line down and it involves a gigantic rock cliff and a leep over a crevasse. The film brings that emotion to the screen about the nerves involved in tackling this. Avalanche scenes are frightening. great movie great concept, my only complaint was that jeremy jones didn't join them. Terje more than made up for it though. if you want a movie with a little bit less of a story and a little more of the sickest Alaska riding ever, go pick up Absinthe's "POP" from last year it won't dissapoint.

Parking Lot Rage this morning

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Originally uploaded by friskyb.

I pay for monthly parking downtown, so i have card access into the garage. i'm a little impatient with the holiday shoppers that park in my building. call me an elitist but i'm a "regular parker" and they are not versed in the ways of "regular parking". How i do it: flash the badge and head to the top, no door dings no waiting. How they do it: creep along at 5mph and try to squeeze into a spot on the lower level. So needless to say if i see you at the gate waiting for your ticket i'm gonna flash my badge and get out front. my car goes 0-60 in about 5 seconds so i'm gonna beat you. everytime. so i flash my badge this morning, the gate goes up and i go. this lady next to me, after a two second lag, guns it BEHIND me and just lays on the horn. OHMYGOD how embarrassing for her. The parking lot is pretty empty of people but the people that run the booths and the office are right there all just in awe of what's going on. There is a car backing into one of the office spots so i'm not speeding off i'm at dead spot with this really angry woman with gigantic teased up fried hair hanging out of her car screaming at the top of lungs at me. Here is an excerpt "you're a fucking asshole, i'm gonna fucking kill..." this goes on the entire time i'm waiting for this car to just finish backing out so i can race up to the top and park door ding free. i looked back, smiled and said something to the effect that she clearly lost that race, and flipped her off. why? because i'm a true sportsman. so i get to the top of the garage, park and get in the elevator. i'm tapping madly on my sidekick (i'm not really mad like in a roadrage kind of way, i just type fast) and "boong" (or at least that is the sound i think the elevator doors make when they open..) and the big haired lady piles in. it's just me and this aggressive woman. she reaks of perfume and her hair is really high. i'm frightened. I laugh. it's definately an uncomfortable situation. before we get to the bottom she says "excuse me". i ignore her and keep tapping on the sidekick. and then again she emits something, but this time it's "excuse me, SIR." and when you call me SIR i can't help but to die a little laughing on the inside, i'm only 30 and look like i'm 20, don't call me mister either. So i turn and look her in the eye and she's got her hand out like she wants to do a truce. it's her left hand. maybe she has never shook a hand before or maybe she's not adjusted to society and it's handshaking norms. but she apologizes to me, and it was genuine. "i'm really sorry, i have a very bad temper and i was clearly wrong and NEEDED to tell you that". WOW, are you kidding me? I offer her my left hand taking a quick mental note that i need to wash the cheap perfume off of it when i get into the office, making me even later to my meeting. and i say "that's very big of you", what else do you say to that? So to whoever that woman was and i hope you are reading this, i truly appreciate you apologizing even if you are bipolar and need serious therapy.

Old boy

ummmm.... anybody seen this? three words... 1. Oh 2. My 3. God. put it together and repeat three times. 1. oh my god. 2. oh my god. 3. oh my god. This is hands down the most messed up movie i have ever seen. ever. on the cover it says "...arrives with the Quentin Tarantino seal of approval..." and not in the Hero kind of way.

Here's a Plot summary from the back of the box.
"Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter. After a drunken night in town, he is abducted and locked up in a strange private "prison". No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is and his fury builds to a single minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell phone and 5 days to unravel the mystery and discover the identity of the enemy who had him imprisioned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemy's tortures are just beginning."

the ending is brutal. watch it. if anyone has any links on this movie or has seen it comment on it, but don't ruin the ending.