World’s greatest race car driver Lewis
Hamilton takes page from “foil king” Mark Zuckerberg’s book,
blissfully glides off coast of Brazil to chill Fleetwood Mac
tune!
By Chas Smith
Influencer.
When a young Mark Zuckerberg sat lonely in his
Harvard dormitory room, perving-adjacent on the girls in his school
and creating the social media behemoth Meta neé Facebook, do you
think he dreamed he’d one day be an influencer?
Oh, of course people weren’t called “influencers” back then,
they were called “influential” but do you think Zuckerberg dreamed
people would one day copy his schtick?
Like, very wealthy and talented people like the world’s greatest
race car driver Lewis Hamilton?
Hamilton, who was recently in Brazil for an F1 race, pulled a
page straight out of Zuckerberg’s Facebook, acquired the
apocalypse’s “must-have” accessory, and went e-foiling off the
coast, filming self set to the very chill Fleetwood Mac tune
“Dreams.”
But is a lightly older Mark Zuckerberg now sitting surrounded by
servants wearing grass skirts and leis in his Kauai compound
giggling like an evil nerd?
He should be.
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"Lemme heal you."
Multiple tagged Great White sharks force
closure of iconic Western Australian beaches only one week after
swimmer killed by Great White thirty metres from shore! “They are
blitzing the metro beaches!”
By Derek Rielly
"It’s great every one of this endangered population
happen to be off Perth at the moment.”
A little under two weeks ago a male swimmer was killed
by what witnesses described as a “massive Great White” at Port
Beach, a mostly still-water sorta beach, pretty as hell,
near the shipping hub of Fremantle.
The attack came on the twentieth anniversary of Ken Crews’
horror death in a Great White shallow water attack at nearby
Cottesloe Beach, a hit that ushered in the brave new age of regular
human-Great White interactions in WA.
“They are blitzing the metro beaches,” ocean swimmer RichardW
wrote on Twitter. “On the other hand it’s great every one of this
endangered population happen to be off Perth at the moment.”
Last October, surfer Andrew Sharpe was disappeared by a Great
White at Kelpies, near Esperance, south of Perth; that January, an
Esperance diver was hit by a Great White and three years before
that, still Esperance, teenager Laeticia Brouwer was killed by a
Great White in front of her family at Kelpies.
More to come, I suppose.
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Be a lot cooler if Jonah Hill was cast in a Suicidal
Tendencies film.
Heir to Miki Dora’s Malibu throne Jonah
Hill set to star as Jerry Garcia in new Martin Scorsese film about
world’s most lovably ponderous musical grouping!
By Chas Smith
Friend of the Devil!
In just-released news, it is being reported
that Malibu stand-out Jonah Hill has been cast to play Jerry Garcia
in an upcoming Martin Scorsese film about The Grateful Dead.
Per
Deadline:
After stepping up as a producer on his next film Killers of
the Flower Moon, Apple has found its next Martin Scorsese project,
and its subject is a band the Oscar winner knows well. Sources tell
Deadline that Scorsese is on board to direct and produce a new
untitled biopic on the Grateful Dead with Jonah Hill on board to
play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia.
Hill will also produce the pic through his Strong Baby
banner along with his producing partner Matt Dines.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who received rave
reviews for penning American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J.
Simpson, are writing the script with Rick Yorn of LBI Entertainment
joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. The Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil
Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will executive produce along
with their late bandmate’s daughter Trixie Garcia, Eric Eisner and
Bernie Cahill.
As you know, well, I grew up on the Oregon coast and The Dead
would regularly lope through the state being followed by people I
considered my sworn enemies. I did not like The Grateful Dead’s
music, I did not like their dancing bears, I did not like their
fans, I did not like the length of their songs, I did not like the
overall, or underlying, aesthetics.
Psychoanalysts might discover that my dislike stemmed from the
iconic Grateful Dead “steal your face” or “lightening skull” logo.
When I first saw it, sometime in elementary school, I assumed the
band played some form of heavy metal or heavy metal-adjacent. When
I first discovered the song title “Friend of the Devil” I knew they
must play some form of heavy metal, not even adjacent.
Like Twisted Sister.
When I heard long acoustic guitar riffs, great confusion
descended and has not dissipated.
Do you like The Grateful Dead?
Will you watch the movie?
David Lee Scales, who happens to be named after David Lee Roth
from light welterweight metal Van Halen, and I discussed many
things on our podcast today including surf film and white tennis
shoes but did not discuss Hill’s turn as Garcia.
Would have been a lot cooler if we did.
Listen here.
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Founder of brand featured in professional
surfing’s most iconic moment in spotlight again with meteoric
success of docu-series “The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die
For!”
By Chas Smith
FTW!
Any person wandering this earth during the
2000s will certainly remember Von Dutch. Celebrities from Paris
Hilton to Ashton Kutcher wouldn’t be caught dead, outside, without
a trucker hat with a “Von Dutch” patch front and center perched
upon coiffed hairs. Later, that same “Von Dutch” was plastered to
everything from dog sweaters to blowdryers.
The logo was everywhere and then, overnight, it disappeared.
What happened? A new docs-series pokes into the rise and fall of
the brand and its three Ed Boswell, Mike Cassel and Bobby
Vaughn.
A wild story of betrayal, death, threats from Pablo Escobar’s
family and, reading about it suddenly remembered that I spent an
afternoon with Bobby Vaughn many years ago right after he founded
the brand FTW and sponsored Santa Barbara’s Bobby Martinez.
You will certainly recall the FTW cap riding high during the
most iconic moment in professional surfing’s history. FTW sicker on
surfboard nose.
Anyhow, Vaughn was a fantastic man, a surfer from Santa Cruz who
moved to Venice Beach, got in some trouble, helped Von Dutch rocket
to the moon then was brutally cut out of the business. He was
living in New York when we chatted, having started a surf shop
there, helping at-risk youth and maybe we even chatted in New York,
but I don’t know what he’s doing now.
Thankfully there is a new docu-series. I’ll paw through my old
paper Stab‘s and find the story while you watch the
teaser.
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You could be a keg with legs!
Win one-in-one-hundred-ish chance to surf
in this January’s famed Pipeline Masters for the low, low price of
$125!
By Chas Smith
Great odds!
But have you ever sat at home, in December,
chatting with your very best online surf friends whilst the
Pipeline Masters plays, typing less-than-charitable things about
Filipe Toledo and his decided lack of brazen?
“Look at that wave. It’s perfect. I would have gone.”
Well guess what? Starting a few days ago you can pay the low,
low price of $125 to win a 1 in 126 chance to prove yourself
bold.
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, you see, will have a video
component and the winner will be slotted right in to that Pipeline
Masters but let Dane Gudauskas explain the rules.
