Heavy.
It’s been a cold minute since a proper blood feud in our small but tidy surf world. Things have gotten… neat. Clean. San Clemente’s other other other first son Griffin Colapinto today, for example, granted an exclusive interview to olympics.com where he boldly declared “I don’t want to be the boring guy.”
An excerpt.
“It’s funny, I always see people getting interviewed and it’s always so boring to me and I’m like, I don’t want to be the boring guy! I don’t want to do things like anyone else. If I have an opportunity to tell a story or something, I enjoy doing that and just show my true self.”
He then proceeded to say, “I just focus on the preparation and working hard at training because that’s where you get your confidence from,” when responding to a question about what makes him such a daredevil. Adding, “If you’ve taken care of everything you can control and that you have improved wherever you can, you can leave everything else up to the ocean and just be in the moment. The rest will follow.”
Decidedly not punk.
Thankfully, we have Michael Oblowitz. The man known for his phenomenal turn in vampire porn just so happened to create the most notorious, arguably best, surf film ever. One, though, that has still not been released.
Oh you, unless your name starts with Emily and ends with Morgan, are aware of Sea of Darkness. I won’t even waste one second in telling you what you already know about the legendary piece or why it is not available.
But wait, why isn’t it available?
I have heard many things, from… well, listen to the podcast, but is it Taylor Steele’s fault?
The man who made Kelly Slater famous, via his Momentum masterpieces, recently posted an Instagram Stories feat. a bootlegged Sea of Darkness DVD with the caption “found this today.”
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Oblowitz, ever the provocateur, screenshoted (above) and added the caption “For 14 years I’ve been wondering who illegally stole a copy of my film, that I have been blocked from releasing and from which I have never earned a cent and today I saw this post …”
The New York Film Festival.
I went to one of those fine bacchanals with Stab’s handsome Taylor Paul and met, for the first time, surfing’s only historian Matt Warshaw.
Those were the days etc.
David Lee Scales and I, anyhow, discussed the aforementioned while also addressing the greatest question of our time. Should a man, or woman, call his, or her, in-laws “mom” and “dad?”
I dare you to listen.
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You’re overthinking it, but I will say, there are 3 boys to girls in our small town alone that work in stores.
I feel sorry for them. Just don’t ask me to change to accept them, you can’t expect society to roll over because you’re making a bad decision. Just do what you’re going to do and leave me out of it.
At a corpo fast food place, the kid handed me my bar b que chicken sandwich and I instinctively said, “Thanks bro” as I walked out.
It was slow and the kid followed me out and asked that I respect his transition, which I wasn’t aware of… dude is a goofy tall soft fat kid. Another visit a few months later and he has cut marks on his forearms.
Just leave me out of it.
That is Martin’s edit-Minus Zero Films. There are plenty copies of it floating around. As far as I know, there are only 2 versions, the original by Oblowitz and Martins shitty edit that could never be sold or shown because its a turd.
Is Chas going to keep throwing darts at Emily Morgan until he gets in a “fight” with her significant other at a dinner party?
I think Taylor is One Step Beyond the Momentum and Focus of Factory Seconds. The Good Times keep Drifting with The Show and I, All For One have plenty of Loose Change to Hit and Run the Arc on a Drive Thru. Taylor should lodge a Campaign or 2, but Sipping Jetstreams seems Stranger Than Fiction or a Trilogy Shelter. These are truly Days of Strange for The Drifter, a Modern Collective shaking his fist at Castles In The Sky. The Innersection is Here and Now… or This Time Tomorrow. Am I Missing anything in this Proximity?
I liked that Chris Malloy put that formula to bed.
Malloy
Must have been tough…
Ran into Mike today…
At the liquor store…
He bought his usual twelve pack…light
I bought my six…banquet beer…Coors…
“Malloy…”
“Hey, I know you…”
His eyes saw mine…
“How have you been?” He asked me…
I’ve been fine…
“Got the ranch?”
“Still got it…”
“How the hell are the boys/”
“Doin’ just fine…”
“How are your girls?”
“Prettier than puddin’…”
“Still mixing it up, Mike?”
“Not at Padre Juan’s…”
Great…
My girls are safe…
I’ll listen to it later
I don’t know what we’re missin? we need a scribe to jot down the highlights for the thread!
The classics never get old
My copy is about an hour and 20 mins.
Presumably I don’t have the secret 10 mins, and getting that secret 10 mins creates a challenge.
That challenge will be put to the design team at the FUCKIN’ TALL LADDER ©®™ ladder company at tomorrow morning’s project development meeting.
With the world’s top mega-ladder designers on the job, there is little doubt that the secret 10 mins will be available soon…
As seen as n tv
Gerry and Rory and Maui Mafia wouldn’t be happy…
not if chris rock sets it straight…nigga vs SPAM…essentially spicy…old spice!
last call? i’m just gettin started!
1972. Cabo Colonet. Dad bought 40 acres and somehow drove two trailers that served as headquarters for a dozen more trips. two familes on this trip. there was a surfspot several miles down the coast that I had previously visited. this trip included a brand new Chevy 4-door sedan that I (age 14) drove to that spot…coming back I took a low tide road when I should have taken the hightide road. company car stuck in the shoreline mud. (mentioned this at his eulogy.) am radio was working and I was listening to Abbott & Costello’s Who’s on first and was distracted. abondoned the car and walk/ran 2 miles in near pitch black looking for the trailers…and kerosene lamps. the trailer door swung open and the fish was cooked, the clams were fresh, mussel salad was entree, the booze was flowing…”Dad, the car!” He said: “Relax Bird. We’ll get in the morning.” DRINK SOME TEQUILQ!”
“the most notorious, arguably best, surf film ever. One, though, that has still not been released”
Oblowitz did his job as Director very well, telling the story – unfortunately, the Producers were amateurs and did not clear the necessary copyrights and liabilities for the finished film, thus it was unreleasable for commercial screenings.
getting music rights is a bitch!
There are so few of these fucks and if you stop giving them attention they will stop seeking it.
Let it go brother.
I know you’ve been to Fiji.
Had me interesting until you wrote “David Lee Scales” and “listen”.
I’ll upvote this later…
I’m not
This story was interesting two years ago when the movie was posted to YouTube. Call my in-laws they/them.
Wrong, the real movie has never been posted anywhere. Martin bought it after a few showings and buried it so he and his buds could stay in Indo without going to jail. You saw an edited version that took out all the juicy and incriminating bits.
wow
takes a jab at Peter Mc Guire in the end…. good on him.
https://stabmag.com/news/wh…
And he fucked the movie up. I have a copy of the edited version and its shit. Took out most of what you would want to know and made it more about Martin and his “good” choices to take the right path as opposed to documenting what was really happening. Part of why it was never released, went from great to a turd after re-editing.
Did not know anything bout this movie until now, thx
Makes sense. Didn’t see anything of controversy in version I watched. In fact, it was pretty boring.
Its still interesting to those who were in Indo around those times but nothing controversial or salacious about it. Just makes Boyum out to be the bad guy because Martin isn’t much of a fan.
We might have our first Blood Feud leads to defamation lawsuit. Oblowist might have some public retraction demands heading his way over that “illegally” part.
statute of limitations and/or non disclosure agreements…released on time served…characters depicted were not characters after all…none of those named have been apprehended since…
Never call your in-laws. Full stop. Make your kids do it, and do it often. Otherwise, well let’s just say that it won’t be your wife’s fault.
What are your thoughts on seeing in laws? I try to keep it to once a year. Wondering if I can push it to every other year.
The key to pushing it to every other year is packing your kids on an airplane as unaccompanied minors to go visit grandparents on those off years. Sure your kids will hate the idea, but what idea don’t they hate?
Ahh so that’s why people have kids
J Phoenix was such a great villain in Gladiator.
epic opening scenes with Rusty
Yeah, it’s like Tombstone where you remember all these great scenes.
The end where he’s dying walking through fields of wheat.
Next level.
He sure got fucked up in the head after watching River die right in front of him at The Viper Room. If the 911 tapes from his call that night are any indication.
You ever been to the viper? Was called the Central back in the day.
Lotta bands warmed up for tours in that shit hole.
Oh yeah. Been there quite a few times. Both when it was The Central and as Viper Room.
Oscar worthy, tbh. He was great in Signs (Shymalan film), too. Good in most everything he’s done, actually. Unlike Griff, definitely not a boring performer.
I don’t watch much film, but the role I liked most was his Joker.
That was knock dead good.