It's go time!
Ooooooooeee! Aunty Chas is on a heater today and yes it’s vodka fueled, thank you very much to the anonymous listener/reader who sent Kingsley Amis’s On Drink to me today for it has already changed my life, but also ooooooooeee! Not only is Stab virtue signaling in the most obscene way but the World Surf League fully showcased its vision and intentions yesterday, through its charlatan Erik “ELo” Logan” and surfing is in a dire, dire spot.
Oh not dire for us, not yet, but any Hardened Purist™ who claims, “Whatever, the culture doesn’t matter, I just go surf…” is missing the damned point.
Surfing has always been about more than surfing and this weird snowflake, Robust Horizon™ co-opting is egregious.
I”ll say, right now, that it is worse than the damage missionaries wrought in Hawaii when they forced locals to cover their nakedness and stop surfing.
A soft co-opting.
And fuck them. It’s time for a proper revolution. For surfers to stand up and say, “No. This is not what I am/do.” Because do you want to watch Chasing Mavericks for the rest of your life on loop?”
That’s what Erik Logan wants. He wants his made-for-studio Oklahoma born and raised Laird Hamilton worshiping version of what we love to take over the entire narrative of what we love.
FUCK THAT!
Fuck Laird Hamilton, fuck the World Surf League and super fuck Chasing Mavericks. It was awful when I saw it the first time (when the studio invited then Surfing magazine’s skeleton staff up to watch an exclusive screening) and it is even worse now.
Fuck the whitewashed version of the Pastime of Kings.
We don’t need to go along with this, we won’t, and it’s time for a proper rebellion.
Need more rant? Listen here! And also….
…This is our time. We can actually take down a co-opting billionaire and how often has that happened ever?
Just listened last night. V disappointed that you gave even the slightest legitimacy to astrology. What a load of codswallop.
I’m not trying to be a ‘no-guy’ to be on topic, but this was not a very good episode.
On the subject of the same surf film being rolled out over and over again, have you guys ever seen Toby Cregan’s already classic surf flick “Nix Nic Nooley” where surfers come back from the future to surf after the oceans dried up? They use tin foil and ultra cheap thrown together aesthetics to represent their being from the future- something you guys either ripped off (for your wetsuit New Zealand vid) because you’re lazy or it’s an idea you stumbled across because, like Creed and Duncan, you are also lazy- in which case you have never seen Nix Nic Nooley and are blowing it as surf journalists. Either way here’s a refresher of one of the best surf vids to have come out in the past 5 years.
https://vimeo.com/124268884 It’s worth a watch.
The boner stickers were a nice surprise but I hesitate to put them anywhere publicly visible
It feels a bit like Fight Club.
Thank sun bear, that’s high praise. Hope to work to be even close to as funny as those films and shows that you mentioned someday. Appreciate you taking the time to watch it and actually think about it. I just wanted surfers to be able to see a movie I made about surfers for surfers. But if you’re the only one that ever sees it from here then I’m cool with that.
Always thought in the back of my mind that people here would watch it and relate, otherwise I wouldn’t be sending it to them and posting it in comments. There was a comment by Negatron the other day about surfing being mostly sitting around and bullshitting and he broke it down by what he thought surfing consisted of and like 1% of it was actually riding waves. It was almost identical to the dialogue in a scene I filmed that didn’t make the cut. It was weird, but then again a lot of us are on the same wave length. Thanks for the support sun bear. Be on the look out for another true film for the people made by the people sometime next year.
I been growing them for years. I love them for adding to juices etc.
Fkn rats eat em tho. grrrr
You’re my only fan sun bear! I put the vimeo link up under the wetsuit video article. kinda already felt cringey trying to promote my shit in the comment section of someone else’s video so if anyone really wanted to see it they can find it.
I liked Chasing Mavericks, Point Break, The Northshore, Blue Crush, Gleaming the Cube, Hot Dog the movie, Ski Patrol, and Josh Brolin’s brilliant performance in Thrashin’. Isn’t catching inaccuracies and spotting ripping surfers who deserve some Hollywood $$$ essentially a sport in itself to the Hardened Purist? Let Hollywood butcher surfing to make a buck. Just make sure they over pay some of my favorite pro’s to say cheesy one liners. Throw Laird in every fricken movie! Seriously, Lance Burkhart as Gabriel Medina’s coach in The Northshore 2 and 3 to finish out the trilogy, I’m all in.
I’ll listen to it later
I sent you and Derek a film of what could be surf entertainment that’s not chasing mavericks. It’s surfing and it’s real. At least to me. And most likely the people that read this. Not sure if it was cause you didn’t like it, which is totally fine, or if it’s cause it semi coincided with your own surf comedy that you ignored it entirely, but don’t pretend that it’s all Elo and lairds our there trying to do this. Some regular guys are as well. You just been ignoring them. It’s all good, some regular guys need to get better before they can whine. I’ll be back with something better next year. Maybe something decent by 2024. Wish me luck!
Very very boring
C minus
is that a passionfruit flower?
Do the pros travel business or economy?
Kelly first class?
Anyone know?
… often thought that.
I guess if they had a decent Accountant, they undoubtable travel business… ?
One for squire Carroll to investigate / elaborate… Nick?
kelly once posted one of his boarding passes on twitter. Had his United FF number on it. Like everyone, I tried to log in as him. I got a bit stuck with the password and tried Ke11y15God and it actually came up with “sorry, this account is locked”. Haha.
… er, ran OVERNIGHT here in OZ. (I blame the Loratadine/pseudoephedrine combo. for this omission)
… wedged between Ads. for fucken Gambling Apps. and Hay Fever relief Meds. – the original ‘Pointbreak’ ran on a certain commercial network here in the antipodes … loading-up on Pseudo Ephedrine then trying my luck on abused-then-murdered GG’s seemed a wonderful alternative. Almost.
Gg Allen (?)
‘GG’ or ‘Gee Gee’ or is oz slang for ‘racehorse’ – not the punk.
Love most punk rock, but not a fan of old mate GG.
Horse Racing is an insidious, barbaric & corrupt industry – not unlike the music industry – just better dressed and hiding behind a smug veneer of respectability …!
ooooh, i’m from aus but have never heard that. but yeah, never bothered to take any notice of horse racing so no big surprise.
GG was mainly shock value anyway. i’m more of a jello biafra guy.
I hope this rage never ends
It’s only getting started.