It's a white rabbit!
Surf journalism is hard work. I woke up this morning ready to greet the day and smash out some important, lively yet restrained words. Taking my customary place in front of my alcohol-soaked computer and its wireless keyboard (a necessary purchase allowing me to type), I began searching for inspiration.
The hours passed and… nothing.
Kelly Slater did nothing noteworthy.
Laird Hamilton did not release any innovation.
The World Surf League is on hiatus for six more days and Mavericks is still cancelled.
Then I was forwarded this video announcing Gucci’s pre-fall 2019 line. I had, in fact, been forwarded it many times though hadn’t watched it. Desperation forced me to push play and I was swept into a glorious world where surfers and muscle people, punks and basketballers, tightrope walkers and artists live peaceful lives together in the acropolis.
I’m supposed to hate it, the coopting, cultural appropriation, the Jesus Christ Superstar vibe but…. I can’t help myself.
What’s wrong with me for loving this so much?
Is it because my mother forced me to watch Jesus Christ Superstar when I was a young boy?
Speaking of, what is the worst movie your parents forced on you as a child?
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I have no desire to do acid anymore. Done it over 100 times easily back in my teens and early 20s. Back then u could buy a sheet for $50, sell hits for $5 and have plenty left over to eat. Some memorable times are watching Pink Floyd movie at Reuben H Fleet Imax on some Blue Unicorn 🦄 blotter. And surfing OB jetty in high school Tripping HARD when it was just grinding like Kirra, just staring into the sand grinding barrels. Way too altered to even talk to other surfers, could bately communicate with my friend who was as high as me.
But I still do take part in some mushrooms I find occasionally when hunting, I usually eat em right on the spot.
Yeah, wasn’t it filmed in San Diego?
Wasn’t a movie…..Televised event, The Edinborough Military Tattoo. I knew Mum hated me from that point forward.
that surfing…so hot right now.
…but, “they” say, not adopted by the porn industry and thus fell behind lickety split.
Tevye’s Dream has a special place in my heart .
…just re-watched it last week with my 7 y.o. daughter, and yes, she liked that bit the best.
L’CHAIM !
Grace Slick–Jefferson Airplane–not to fond of ‘white rabbit’–but they did make some clsssic music. The video–no thanks…..
yeah someone went to Burning Man last year and is still coasting off that…
Whats up with all the models looking half dead? Seems its been that way even before the opiod mess.
The music, album, actually was pretty good….
Creepshow, I and II
Thanks for the ride lady.
someone tell Surfbort they finally made it (on kook of the day)
I’m gonna make my kid watch
Trouble,
a flick by the some hipster doofus
That clip was made for Brazilians – that’s their fantasy world…
When I was little mum made me get Alice in Wonderland from the video shop and they put the pornographic version in by mistake, I was so happy.
But did mum let you continue to watch it after realizing the mix up? Might as well, kids have to see it at some point in their lives. And it is a natural part of life.
No, and an oversexualised man in a bunny suit is not part of natural life.
The Blob scarred me. A B-grade sci-fi/horror flick about a green slime that over took everything in it’s path after being introduced on to a spaceship inadvertently. Made worse by the fact I was watching it while stuck inside a (green) sleeping bag with a stuck zip, so felt like I was being engulfed enough already.
Think the highlight was the wetsuits – could I just wear 80s style wetties all year?
Nice and yeasty
Nice and yeasty
Nice and yeasty does it.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
“Boy in The Bubble”!I’ve forced “The Deer Hunter”and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” on my kids over last two holidays next in queue is The Warriors and/or Kramer Vs Kramer..
Kramer V Kramer is a bit harsh.
Try “the Getaway” with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw…a bit of punching of women in the face and buckets of tomato sauce, but a good Dad/ Kid night.
Warriors is a great movie. Good call to have the kids watch that masterpiece.
That was pretty terrible Chas. There’s no way round it, it’s a hollow attempt to imbue something completely meaningless with some significance in the most cynical way.
Well I hope it’s your profession. Gillan was one in a million. Believe me, I know the other 999,999
Yeah, but could Plant and Gillan build a house?
The Exorcist