The first best drug in the world a surprise reveal!
What do you miss most about the 1990s besides Black Flys girlz, young Ross Williams, slammed Nissan Sentras, young Paul Gosselaar, denim on denim, Jimmy Slade?
The all-female traveling music festival Lilith Fair?
A fine answer.
Lilith Fair, co-founded by Sarah McLachlan balanced the rowdy, egotistical and… frankly testosterone overload energy of the Warped Tour, all those Doc Marten wearing boys in Black Flag tees. It was the musical version of Plessy vs. Ferguson except not overtly racist.
In any case, Sarah McLachlan. And you are in the circle of trust here so can be completely honest. You have teared up once, at the very least, to her emotional hit Angel. Mourning a lost love or broken pair of Black Flys.
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But does it surprise you that a voice that dropped down straight from heaven (Canada) is also the core-est VAL of all time? According to a just published interview in the San Diego Union-Tribune it’s true and together we shall read:
“I learned to surf 22 years ago and surfing became the second best drug in the world for me. It still is, apart from music,” said McLachlan, who learned to ride the waves from a friend at Trestles, near San Onofre. “I spent 11 days in Mexico in January; we do surf trips there every year with a bunch of girls and whole families. And I live on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the summer so that I can surf every day.
“I love sitting on the board in the water and waiting. I’m not very chatty. I just want to sit and stare, and be in the moment. One of the beautiful things about surfing is, when you catch the wave, you are wholly engulfed in that moment and there is nothing else you can do.”
Did you learn to surf at Trestles?
No.
Do you go on Lilith Fair yearly surf trips?
No.
Did you move to a very cold island so you can surf alone and not be all chatty and lame?
No.
Sarah McLachlan is more core than you, than me, than Derek Rielly.
She may head up the More Core Division when BeachGrit relaunches it next year.
Quickly, though what is Sarah’s first best drug in the world? She says surfing is the second best drug, apart from music, so what is drug number one?
Cocaine?
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Sarah, I hope it’s love for you baby! Maybe it’s the first 15 minutes you when you get to the beach, sit down and study it’s potential, Nirvana !!
What I miss about surfing in the 90’s: no cell phones/social media, when you scored good waves you didn’t tell anyone, prices of surfboards (and rent), if you were a kook (or even a good surfer that was a wave hog) you got called out, the novelty of showing up at the beach to discover a good new swell with minimal crowds. However, crowds Notwithstanding, today is a much better time to be a surfer due to better equipment, tech’s influence on time management, and more general civility amongst fellow surfers. Double edged sword!
The best drug in the world are Canadian women.
At least she is not chatty in the lineup: +30 points right there in the Core Scale of 0 to 100.
She’s referring to poutine as the first best drug. Snorted off a sleddogs wet harness. It’s a Canadian thing
Tantric sex while surfing perfect waves on shrooms hearing polynesian drums booming from da beach. Ka B oom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrkDcefrwQ
Shameless self promotion is the best drug of all time ……
I miss waking up vaguely hungover as hangovers requiring ten Gatorades with hydrolite and $25 worth of Maccas weren’t a thing yet, and watching Recovery.
Oh the days when 25bucks worth of Mickey Dee’s would feed a small village….
Hahahahaha so true.
pornography in print form.
Ronnie burns
my hair.
Surfing Tofino:
7mm hooded wetsuit-Check
5mm gloves and booties-Check
2 Thermos of coffee-Check
Waiting for slack tide-Check
Finding someone to surf with…
Ahh fuck it, I’ll paddle out by myself🤣
Nuthin. Couldn’t giv a rats. Where’s Wiggs? RUOK?
Music and cocaine combined is pretty good.
Black Fly’s – haven’t thought about those horrible sunny’s in ages! They used to host “nights” at various night clubs, though this was the early naughties. Fanny’s nightclub was one.. Jesus, it was wild.. somehow I made it into the “vip” zone. Pingers were the drug of choice at that stage, and strangely there was women there too, not just groms like me having a pervy night on the eccy’s. Basically It was the warped tour in a nightclub, with added strippers.
20 years in the surf game, surfs by herself with little fanfare, goes on surf trips. Is she a Val? Certainly less so than ELo, no?
The beauty of the VAL label is it only applies to when you pick it up. She was one year over (in America).
I love drugs.
I miss them.
Whatever happened to them?
they’re still around working there magic. Or killing people who don’t have discipline.
What do I miss most about the ’90s?…
… hmmmm… Lucas Limon (Mexican lead filled salt candy), the Charlotte Hornets being cool, playing pogs (always for keeps), and not knowing Tom Curren is brain dead.
oasis, jack daniels, checkered shirts and big-emission pickup trucks being acceptable. The lack of instagram was also a highlight.
..Ahhhhh.. Film, Video stores, Rick Hammond quiver, Duke Nukem, Jardim De Mar pre sea wall, and F/V DAYSTAR…Douglas Coupland novels, Janes Addiction,Smashing Pumpkins.. Blues Travelers, Dr. Dre!
Well technically I just moved from one very cold island to another very cold island so that I can surf alone and not be all chatty and lame.
Ice hockey…duh.
Why do Canadian girls like if from behind? So they can watch the hockey game too.
Perfect time for Sarah to champion the abused and discarded pro surfers of the world. ‘Angel’ plays in the background as a sad faced Wilko looks down at a stickerless board then up at the camera. At us! Begging, pleading, puppy dog eyes. I’ve already got my wallet out.
BG sponno coming up?
Sex addict. For sure.