Va-va-va-vooooom!
The greatest surf movie ever made, The Endless Summer was released exactly 56 years ago today-adjacent. The Endless Summer II, greatest surf movie ever made starring Pat O’Connell and Robert “Wingnut” Weaver, was released exactly 28 years ago today-ish.
28 + 28 + 56 and 28 + that equals now.
It is time for The Endless Summer III and a beautiful listener to The Grit! podcast mentioned this fact and I instantly agreed but who should star?
Which handsome blonde?
Which gorgeous brunette?
David Lee Scales knew and instantly offered up Stephanie Gilmore, as blonde, Julia Muniz, as brunette, and whoa and wow and genius?
I think so.
I think very smart and, without doubt, we could rally Bruce Brown’s son Dana to the cause and also Steph and Julia (though, to be honest, I can’t really remember if the brunette was Julia) but where should they travel?
Where should their endless summer take them?
Time for you to embrace the roll of “producer” and get rich or die trying.
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This was women’s soccer …. Waltzing Mathildas got up over England in a 1/4 final Tokyo thriller !
Surely there is one British newspaper calling it “The Chokyo in Tokyo”?
Well sadly enough , for the Poms , just over 50% voted fir BrExit and now it’s becoming contagious with an early BrExit from the competition
Just goes to show that a team named after a sheep stealing suicidal freedom loving colonial vagabond can slay a team of the Royal dragon slayers
Waltzing Matilda Waltzing ….
The Handsome Hynson ! I always had him short like the leprechaun O’Connell …. Ah memory . In France it was called The wave hunters ou Les Chasseurs de Vagues …. because endless summer must not have captivated the spirit of French Surfing like hunting did ?
His History of the World Part One and Blazing Saddles were so far ahead of its time …. And they made me laugh so Fkin Hard
Would be much more fun and relevant to make the story of the original little blond dude from the original endless summer and his post film journey to become …..a Drug Lord ?
Regards casting. If you didn’t win a medal at the Olympics I don’t want your loser woozle CV on my desk for consideration.
If you don’t have at least 500k following you on Instagram don’t waste my time either asking for an audition . Casting =culling!
Like the Galapagos Islands, the locals on isolated Australia are evolving into a seperate species than the rest of us.
You are onto something David …… they even have a city named DARWIN and a footy teamed named after the Captain of the Beagle , Fitzroy , who sliced his own throat as his father had before him , while he was the chancellor of the exchequer, And a 1969 surf film called ….. wait for it
EVOLUTION ! ……..though possibly the B52’s devolution would better describe the descent into hell of the modern hipster movement
B-52s? What about Devo? The band that tried, but couldn’t get the world to see the joke.
Silly old me confused the crazy gang from the B52’s with the very serious plastic pot plant hat wearing Devo ….. The school holidays are killing me ….only one day to go
Instrumental is where it’s at for surf movies. Sandals, Dick Dale and Martin Denny.
Wes Brown would be the better call. He is married to a beautiful blonde.
Matter of fact he was talking about a movie a few years ago and I gave him an old school raunchy surf comedy idea to illustrate how a big swell is generated using the Butterfly Effect.
The movie goes to Siberia where it finds a primitive mountain man chewing on a shank of brown bear.
We all know brown bear is highly flatulent so the chap goes outside of his shack to pass gas so as not to disturb the wives and kids.
He rips a branch-trimmer and that gas rises and rises some more and starts a low pressure system that moves across Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula and into the North Pacific where it becomes a raging storm that sinks crabbers and akes widows cry and generates a giant winter swell.
A giant winter swell which the movie follows along it’s path to the Queen Charlotte Islands – where the hundred foot wave might yet be undiscovered – and then the tombolo at Frank Island in Tofino and then the Olympic Peninsula and La Push and on to that big reef outside the Columbia River mouth and the Coast Guard flipping their boats and then Nel Scott and on and on down to Mavericks and then big Palos Verdes and all the way to Tijuana Sloughs.
All from some dude farting in Siberia. I thought Greg Noll would be good to play the Siberian bear farter but it’s too late for that now.
Stuff!
Wes would be the one, but.
Let me see if I can find a photo of Wes Brown and his wahine. An attractive couple.
Well here’s Bruce and Dana and Wes up at the place in Refugio.
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And here’s the attractive couple.
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I, from very very far away in my third world country full of bananas, humbly give my suggestion
The Endless VALS Summer
Director…
Starring…
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The WORST types …. Old Fit Strong K@nts , who can’t surf but paddle fast and never look at you until they feel obliged to enlighten you with ….
THE OCEAN IS FOR EVERY ONE
Hey wait a minute Bicko…
This recently enlightened man, deserves his space in the ocean!
And I’m still thinks that this arm, elegantly posed like an english man, was teached by Knost, The Alex
Ah Paulo , you wonderful disciple, always stirring the pot ….
Are we not forgetting the ultimate; Val Kilmer?
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Iceman!!!
`28 + 28 + 56 and 28 + that equals now.`
maths on fire here
Up 3 kilos allready
Cracked the ton, well done!
Great Britain BMX Gold!!
Pomi Pomi pomi
Joy joy joy!!!!!!
We are creating re-education camps for people like you …..
Football is a girl and she is coming home to Australia .
4/3 was good to see …. Bit like the original Ashes ?
It’s a dual passport thing
We will give you the gift of freedom from choice !
Just kidding champ…. as an Australian and former immigrant in France , now Germany , I sometimes don’t know if I am Arthur or Martha …or
Jakob , Jacques or James
28 years ago Surfing was so much cooler.
A memoir by Ben Marcus.
Mental health is nothing to joke about.
I really enjoy watching you all get triggered by him .
I like having Grandad stay with the family. Nice recliner in the lounge, a dribble napkin as not to stain his shirt. Won’t be sending him to the retirement home.
Nice idea but just repeating the Endless Summer with chicks isn’t going to work. Part of the magic of the original was Bruce Brown’s sly commentary which you couldn’t get away with these days”Being good Africans. they.. threw a few rocks!”
The second movie didn’t really work and really it was the sea plane crash that was the most interesting part. The worst part: Nat fuckwit Young.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, if you want two girls, they have to be photogenic (sorry Tyler) and be able to surf. Put two of them on a yacht and get them to sail it around the world. Yeah, that could work. Malia and Alessa would work for me just fine.
how about 2 washed up pros go around the world heavy on the persians. Some jail time mixed in with sponsor promo obligations, ashton at every stop telling them they surf like Gerry
Endless Summer I, happened in a special place and time continuum, it won’t happen again.
Da tribe is too jaded I think, and that ‘age of innocence’, has probably been destroyed by surf porn by surf industry exploitation.
Is your screen name missing “am water” between those two s’s?
Was wondering what happened to Sam.
Tools on Tools.
Lexicon Bexicon …Poet Laureate.
Just sayin.
Elo and backwards fins Beth on a global wave pool journey.
That’s pretty much exactly where the elite pro sport is atm!
Another volume of Endless Summer, but with female stars? Yawn… because everyone knows how exciting Women’s surfing is, right? If you really want to sink a great surf flick series, replacing male surfers with females is a great idea. I don’t mean to sound sexist, but this needs to be said.
Thank you for getting straight to the point.
Yeah. Cos the whole premise behind The Endless Summer series has been to highlight great surfing. Besides the sexism, which I can’t even be bother touching on, you are a fucking idiot.
At least he’s fucking.
S. Gilmore has no appeal at all!
Let’s all be real here. Women athletes look like dudes, save for a few. How about Tia Blanco, and one of the Coffey babes!?
I like women’s surfing.
I’ll star in it. I could be the comedy foil to the actual talent.
Please speak to my agent.
First, please actually get me an agent.
99 or 86?
Missed it by that much!
Sorry about that chief.
Now to smoke the cone of silence ….
Wise up and get smart