Tom Curren brought only a quiver of high-performance surfboards made for Joao Chianca and was “hell-bent” to surf just like the frenetic Brazilian.
It’s no secret I’ve lost several imperial gallons of transparent viscous goo on the comedic collaborations between Nick Pollet and Vaughan Blakey, two men with handsome glands and Herculean eggs.
Together, Nick and Vaughan have collaborated on Postcards from Morgs – a film on the one-time world title contender Morgan Cibilic prior to his catastrophic failure to re-qualify for the tour and the explosively popular Free Scrubber whereupon Tom Curren is revealed to have a personality worth close examination.
Recently, their dollys-with-cocks animated film The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe (“More cock than a women’s college swim meet”) was panned by the race-obsessed, left-tilting propagandists, The New York Times.
In roughly one month, their newest film, Lazer Breathing Dragons, a title inspired by a drawing by Vaughan’s son Milo when he was eight, will come online, and starring Stephanie Gilmore, Mason Ho and Tom Curren.
What makes the movie so special, says Vaughan, is the trip through Indonesia, chasing waves through that storied archipelago, flying, driving, boats, coincided with all three “searching for what their purpose was in their lives.”
Vaughan says a good example is Stephanie Gilmore “coming off the tour just as women’s surfing is going absolute bananas. She’s, like, fuck, what does that mean for me? Can I go back? But she’s absolutely frothing about being in that position. She’s not sweating it. Fuck, what a champion. It’s crazy you would feel that excited.”
Sixty-year-old Tom Curren, he says, brought only a quiver of high-performance surfboards made for Joao Chianca and was “hell-bent”, says Vaughan, to surf just like the frenetic Brazilian.
“Tom goes, ‘I like how he’s here and then here there. I just wanna be able to go from here to here right now.’ No one would believe the most patient surfer in the world wants to surf like the most frenzied. He loved the instant nature of Joao’s A to B. There really is no space in between.”
Mason? Less searching, more prostrating before surf gods Curren and Gilmore.
“When I asked him how does it feel surfing with Steph and Curren he said, ‘Well, it’s pretty much like hanging with God. Tom is God to me, Steph is like God to me. I just have to get in tune with what they’re trying to tell me with their surfing and be full disciple of that.”
Lazer Breathing Dragons, cruelly short at twelve minutes, debuts in October.
In the meantime, give Free Scrubber another run.
