Did he mean Winkipop?
The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach got underway two short days ago and surf fans would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know, by now, that it was the world’s first surf contest. Celebrating its 50th year, the iconic splash fight began as something of a novelty expected to last three years, if one is to believe Vaughan Dead. Now in its fifth decade, the Goons of Doom lead bassist declares it will go on for eternity.
It is understandable, then, that any surf news coming out of this particular calendar window must be related, directly, to the dramas occurring down those iconic steps (feat. the names of past winners, if you can believe) and into the bowl where wind wrecked chubsters beckon.
World Surf League chiefs, therefore, rightly confused when the world’s most prolific blockbuster film director, Steven Spielberg, cryptically referenced the Sport of Queens in an interview. Self-crowned the “global home of surfing,” the flailing organization has attempted to mainstream competitive water sliding since purchased for free by trust funded billionaire Dirk Ziff back in 2015 circa 1976.
A big coup, then, when South Africa’s Matthew McGillivray was featured soaring on a Bells banger in The Guardian’s “Pictures of the Day” between a starving Palestinian boy and aid being dropped into the Gaza Strip.
But the aforementioned confusion when Spielberg openly declared, “Surfing the sandworms is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Ever!”
World Surf League Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer certainly hurrying to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang in order to suss out which Championship Tour stop is referred to as “sandworms” by locals.
Any help would be appreciated.
Bells likely off today so the six hours watching mid face cutbacks can be spent researching.
Huzzah.
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When informed about Winkipop, the famed director howled and suggested that it sounds like the money shot from a pornhub presentation.
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As someone who lived within Steven Spielberg’s business community, knew his wives and met with him twice>First mistake is to assume any statement from Steven has truth in it. Most everything Steven says and does is the con of war propaganda. But,the creative team underneath his direction is a very different story. Bagus artists they are.
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wanna surf a wormhole with me? let’s play “who would the misso _____?”
mine would probably go for Carlos Munoz, or Gabs
Is this returning a favour to Hans Zimmer,since you get an acknowledgement in Dune final credits,Chas?
Short answer yes. Longer answer also yes.
Im sensing an anti bassist tone here and agree fully.
I knew you would.
Yeah, but Steve Harris still wrote all the best Maiden songs
That’s the cleanest asshole ever ya fucking cunt.
commenters a bit caustic today.
it appears crappy conditions, “On Hold”, cancelled concerts and hippies on couches has put a sandworm up arses.
cut him some slack. he’s a kiwi
You missed by about 7000 miles haole.
lucky I don’t have access to intercontinental ballistic missiles, moke
Spielberg looks sorta like an oldened Elo yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Lisan Al Gabby Medina loves riding big worms
That’s why I turn to you!
since I could give a shit about sandworms or Byron Bay festivals ..
*conditions yesterday were pretty pathetic, looked a lot like the ISA in Puerto Rico – just nuts that we let important things in this sport/activity/spiritual quest/existential journey into the heart of the human condition be decided in such terrible conditions. WSL forecast idea no. 1 = do a seance to convince the swell and weather spirits to quit shitting on them. WSL forecast idea no 2 = pull reverse psychology – announce the contest window as starting a few days after their permits allow and ending a few days earlier. Trick the gods into sending swell early or late, then pounce.
more random Bells thoughts:
*Sam Pupo’s shaper (i.e., his dad) deserves props.
*Sawyer > Cole.
*Ethan overscored, yadda, yadda, yadda – suck it losers, moving on in Surfival is all that matters.
*women were more interesting
*kaipo has helped me realize how great Strider is
*only Blakey’s in the booth
And old man Blakey! A fucken treasure!
Xox
I’ve seen uglier bottom turns
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I’ve done uglier bottom turns!
You have worms in your vaginal canal?
Surfing the sandworm was sick when they made it seem like not many could do it. Even cooler when what’s his name rode that massive one. Then they completely ruined it in like the next scene by showing a group of about 30 riding one like it was the 4 o’clock bus with one chick posted up in a full tent because she couldn’t be bothered by the sand spray. And I have questions. How the fuck did they all successfully mount that thing because the solo takeoff was pretty hectic looking.
More impressed they don’t all get killed blowing though the tops of those sand mountains.
All of this really true.
bro, it’s the solo worm hooking and riding that’s the hectic part. It’s usually done in teams with the other riders hooking on after the first worm rider slows it down, after which point you can turn it into Freman public transportation. Have you even BEEN to the planet Arrakis??? I bet you’ve never even handled a crysknife. smh
My guess is sandworms are the things that live in that pouch between Chad’s chin and neck.
savage!
Sandworms: from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
Herbert plagiarised Villeneuve.
Hurr durr.
Negs the Ignoramus puts in an appearance. Dune (written in 1965) is an internationally acknowledged classic of sci-fi. First editions fetch four (sometimes five) figures. Villeneuve is a contemporary filmmaker who will be all but forgotten in twenty years.
Easy fishing for Octopuses today.
Get a life.
So the 2 of you like each other?
Ahhhh the glowing satisfaction.
Villeneuve plagiarised the Castle https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
My old mate Sophie!!
Thats right.
Fuck I used to drool when she’d come on the tele
Top chick , despite her Newy heritage.