E's Surf Report

Doc Wrote..

Hey Mexi

We didn't have problems with our dog for 15 years, then he took the lip off a toddler for reasons only known to him. I have to stand by my "uptightness" about people that won't take responsibility for their dogs running around while they're nowhere to be found...just my personal prejudice I guess

My response..

Most dogs that bite children do it in the comfort of the family home. I have been bitten by dogs twice, once as a child, my cousins german shepard bit my hand and I needed stitches, the second time I was bitten and attacked by a leashed pit bull as I walked out of the Elbow Room. The first bite taught me a lot about limits with dogs and boundries, the second was unavoidable. Dogs are genrally more aggresive when they are on a leash. A good dog owner socializes their animal at a young age including exposing the dog to children. Most kids who approach my dog ask if they can pet him, then I show the kids how to approach a friendly dog. It is the dogs that are always leashed and have little exposure to children that you've got to watch out for.

Went to a random surf shop in Redondo last night for a new leash. Store had all these vintage skateboards and a Lopez red lightning bolt board in the window. The owner, a short japanese/hawaiian guy came out and we ended up talking story for an hour. He was amazing cool and chill with all that he had done and seen. He came over from Hawaii in the 50's and ended up in Hermosa working with Noll, Velzy Webber, Jacobs....all the legendary board builders around here. Telling tales a of barebacking sessions at Steamers lane in the middle of winter b/c "they knew nothing else" Wetsuits came out and you were heckled and called a pussy if you wore one. Just all these tales of empty top waves along the Cal coast, driving to Baja and not seeing any other non-mexican for weeks/months, driving to SD to surf and knowing everyone out. I walked out of there and to my car and just had the chills and so stoked meeting this "legend". Just would say his name was Tak. Could this have been Guy? Donald still around?

Sessioning anything is the best!

That was me.. I want a sesh,,.,

HAVE A GOOD SESSION

skrew spelchek.........get a hasselhof filter PLEASE!

I cant believe they kicked Nikko off of American Idol, I mean Anthony's performance was horrid.

I think Constantine or Vonzel is gonna take it this season.

my money is on one of the guys, you know it is rigged. ps- Bo Sucks.

jesus how hard is ol' michael knight sucking in that gut???

Hb - which shop?

this sounds rough...
"Q: What’s a day in the life of Mulc’s like? Winter and Summer.
A: In the winter, when the midtown is good, I get up at the crack of light and surf all day, then go to bead early, around 8, so I can get a good nights sleep and do it again the next day. In the summer, I get up at the crack and surf the Ave., eat some breakfast, then go up the coast and kiteboard all day, till dark. Then I practically fall asleep while diving home."

american idol is nothing, it's all about america's top model

go rebecca!

Hb - That would have been Don Takayama at CHP Surf. I have family down there, so I always try to stop in and say hi to Tak and/or his pretty wife after I've had lunch next door at Riveria. Defintitely a legend, check his entry in the Encyclopedia of Surfing for some background, also he was mentioned in TSJ several issues back as a many time winner of some funky surf contest in Encinitas(?) back in the sixties, I forget the name (anyone?), where you had to do something like down a six-pack before you paddled out for your heat. Chill dude.

By the way, I was down there last week, where were the waves?

Right outside my window... There's a young guy bout 25 wearing hip-hop style clothes thats been standing on a the roof-top accross the street from me for the last hour. He's completely commited to watching (using a substantial pair of binoculars) someone around the corner of O'Farrell and Hyde. I think he's an undercover guy. I was watching him with binoculars too. Survailing the survailor, hehe.

Mexi, thanks for the tip on boards in Costa Rica. I will definetly check that guy out.

Get out if you can

Thanks for the insight con. Damn, so that was THE legend. Humble guy.

CHP shop. Yeah, Riviera is good. Waves have been crap. Beyond crap. Sorry you didn't come down here earlier in March.

Stoked!

(I hope this is an appropriate place for this..let me know if it isn't)I have a deposit on a trip to Ecuador via a surf travel company that I cannot take. The deposit is for $950. It was on a trip to Galapagos. It would cover the entire amount, (except plane fare)or close to it, on a mainland Ecuador trip, or about 1/2 on the Ecuador trip.The date is open ended. I will sell at a significant discount. Post a message if you want to discuss and we will email.

Dennis - Anyway you could hook up a webcam outside your window so we can place over/under bets on how many deals the dealer will make in 1 hour or how many cars stop by the corner to pick up the corner ho in 20 minutes etc??? That would be way more entertaining that watching 2 tigers in a cagek, migratory birds or sloppy waves....

Web, on the Galopagos trip, does that include Nat park fee to G, and airfare rom guayaqil (SP)???? Email me..

Getting back to the kids conversation... I mentioned surfing in the late 60's with a guy from LBI in NJ. His name is Bill Willem. Bill always had a very fluid and unique style. Here's a clip of his son Brendon. http://www.jettylife.com/crew-willem.shtml

It takes a while to load but you can watch it while it loads. Brendon rips it up pretty good. I think he inherited some of his dads style.

How about those chicks on The Bachelor?
They will do anything the producers tell them.
I am really surprised we havent seen some of the hotter ones in Playboy or on the web yet (if you know what I mean). AI.

Mexi- It includes the overnight Guayaquil both directions from Islands, dont know about the hopper flight to Islands. Will check. It should include park fee, because they have accomodations right there at that good right at the breakwater.(with boat to take you to whatever other spots are working) It is through Canoa Surf. You can check the site.

No Comments on the passing of Pope Juan Pablo II ??

I think they will be hard pressed to find a successor. Truly a great Pope!

Rest In Peace, JP-2!!!

Webcam him. Haha. That would be funny. Unfortunately, I cannot see who he's looking at. He's still there though. What a crappy way to spend a day.

con,
correction --that would be tak kawahara not donald takayama

see http://easyreader.hermosawave.net/news1999/july29/PIPELINE.html

I really like how i look in pictures.......surf porn rules.

Please Post more mysto desert pointbreak porn.

Gracias Amigos.

Snake - You're damn right! I stand corrected.

American Idol keeps getting better and better. I can't wait 'till they have a hip hop version.

Long live the Pope! I'm thinking the guy's going to sudenly get up and start walking around again and start telling Bush how much of a fake Christian he is.

one phish with a few older "fish". Who can identify them?

I remember surfing with Mulcoy as a teenager. Everyone in his group called each other holmes, hommie, homebody, homenuts, etc. I thought that was how he got the name. Santa Cruz was pretty cool back then, I loved sharing waves with who are now the current stars. I remember going down the bare cliff to the hook hanging onto some rope on the way down. The place seemed so surfing friendly compared to the san mateo coast I normally rode. Now I gots to agree it is pretty sterile.

Are the two surfing related TV shows, "The OC" and "The North Shore" coming back this season?

Flow fin front half is rigid, back half rotates.

Blakestah fin the entire fin rotates.

Waltie's Swivel fin is more similar to mine, just a different mechanism inside the box, and was intended to replace a REAR FCS fin only. Same plug side and everything, pretty well designed actually, but rotating rear fins (on a thruster) aren't very performance enhancing.

I also know of about 4 other rotating fins people have made.

Phish shows above.. Limestone Maine 97 and Las Vegas 03 ???

pete sears, jorma kaukonen, trey "look at me" anastasio, not sure about stealth dude though.

Mulcoy is the real deal.

trey"look at how many notes can i play" anastasio....
he can't hold zappa's jock.

everyone's entitled to their opinions korewin.. but. Trey brings the warm happy soaring celestial selflessness while Zappa gets bogged down in ego-driven, over-wordy melodrama. I love both but Trey is the man, imho. As a composer Zappa rules but as a musician i like Trey.

Not that i dont find swivel fins & retro hippy music interesting, but i must ask you all to direct your attention to wicked weasel dot com........thank you for your attention.

plus.. i love zappa's stuff.. love it. but.. in the end he was never a head.

let's see some Gratuitoius Media! Love the wicked weasel.

ok.. back to work!!

Korewin, I taught 2nd grade too and i also thought is was tough, I think Kinder would be a challenge also.

E, the shows? where are they?

started smoking weed in 7th grade for me. freind's dad used to hang plants upside down in the cellar and we'd pick off the buds.

sounds like the good life, but I now wish I never smoked the shit and instead got good grades, went to a good college and got a good steady job (with flex hours).

filter = RayBan. The Point of Kings.

as for guitaristas... i'll take mine hecho en frisco... la guitarra mas fina... Jerry Garcia! he touches mi corazon.

3 out of 4 for kookdom! Mike Falzarano is the other.

John Paul II fits in the better off dead for those still living anyway. He was a fucking asshole when he declaired condoms a no no, even if your a married African woman whose husband has contracted aids but still demands sex form you. How bout the silense of the alterboy fuckers? or my favorite for the ladies- you are here to breed so you can't be a priest or consider contraception. So what that he visited Africa a bunch? He could have made ManY lives much better. Like Reagan a dead asshole is still to be remembered as an asshole.

Beyond Blazing Boards, Bitches!!

it's called "being catholic"

I would like to practice breeding with some of those REEF girls that Kaiser posts. Holy crap. I wonder who are the guys that get to tap into those thingys...

web...

can you please email me at iane at sfsu dot edu. I'm interested as well, but have a few ?s.

Thanks

Blazing Boards - Martin Potter segment to Men with out hats song "ideas for walls" changed my surfing life.....

it could have been in BBB, i forget i'm 41.

The pope made me proud.

Ian-check your email

e—yeah i am a little biased with my zappa pref...
i think i got jaded after the third dozen phish show
and wanted MORE from trey and the band. zappa
was just always trying new and weird stuff and really
going out on a limb (see—yellow shark). trey has, imho,
been trying to re-tread phish since the first hiatus.

yeah zappa was not a head, head case fer shure.

i have an appleton wis. bootleg from the mothers (1970)
with a solo that i cannot even attempt to describe...
speaking of which any suggestions on getting tapes
to digital?

mexi—being an authority figure is tiring (period).
it all drains the life force. i have been advising for
the last 4 hours and feel like a pack of chi vampires just
did the buffet on my life force.

bummed i missed the surf yesterday. seems to have
left the building for a while as the wind HOWLS outside....

Lotsa teachers in the house eh? Actually I'm planning on teaching if I ever get outta college. I'd like to find a job in Kauai. Probably be working well in to my 70's.

I hear that they are going to sit George Bush near the Iranian "president" tomorrow at the Pope's funeral. That is rad! Also, they will put Mugabe next to Tony Blair. AWESOME! Vic.

The answer to Slayer's question and Kaiser's dreams---I learned recently that the son of a old NJ friend is sponsored by Reef. Anyone want to trade places with this dude? Livin' the life....

Smoking weed in the 7th grade doesn't sound like the good life to me... a waste of life and a lack of direction.

i know people who started puffing in 9th grade. smoked heavily in high school. still got into ivy league schools.. Now have solid lifestyles and are happy/engaging/well-adjusted people. not a waste of life at all. Most of the people i know who went to Exeter/Andover/Choate/Deerfield/Lawrenceville puffed hard in high school. I didn't even see the stuff in my lower-middle class public high school.

e - i feel ya on that. some of the smartest people i know have been puffin hardcore since freshman year of high school. Always kinda pissed me off to see these people just breeze by school without even trying, while i am working my ass off to get a C.

I live with 3 huge stoners who have been dippin into all kinds of other drugs since they were young and still get strait A's. not the drugs, it's the person.

The tension between trying to create something and creating something, between succeeding and failing. Tension is a part of what makes music work - tension and release, or if you prefer, dissonance and resonance, or suspension and completion.

on the drug topic....i was one of those drug-free kids til i was 24. in hindsight, being that way stunted my social growth and variety of experiences. my circle of friends was entirely too narrow/like-minded and my self-righeousness turned people away. moving to sf changed my attitude towards drugs and users. some of the sharpest people i know out here were into drugs (even hard drugs) at a young age. initially these people baffled me, but over time i saw that their experiences gave them perspectives and ideas that staunch anti-drug types would never have or understand. but on the other hand, some people do abuse drugs.

and i agree with guru. the pope's beliefs caused suffering and death to innocents.

jerry garcia interview

I think the world would freak out if they knew all the famous/influential people who puff daily.

Of course it's all good if you dabbled in blow and whiskey in your early years, you could be president!

Thanks for the Jerry Garcia interview link. Sitting in this here cubicle can get me down and his POV is honestly uplifting. Anyone who knows firsthand...what event these days gives you a similar feeling to a dead show?

i miss jerry.

similar to dead show:
- A fun surf with just a few friends in the rain.
- Jamming hard for hours.
- good-vibes house party where people end up raging harder than expected.

similar to a dead show - Darkstar Orchestra, Further Fest/Dead show, Rainbow gathering or possibly Burning Man.

E - Just curious, any chance you went to Lawrenceville? I know some peeps from there but i think i could be a little younger.

IMHO a fun surf with just a few friends has absolutley nothing in common with a Dead Show. Dead show has six trillion smelly hippies twirling as they are tripping balls on acid. I can name 10,000 places I would prefer to be.

Alas music is one of those things like beauty that everyone has their own opinion on and there is no definitive answer.

While I am no fan of the dead, last night at the Giants game they played a Dead song that I am not familiar with that had one of the funkiest beats I had ever heard, seriously someone call Dr. Dre and tell him to sample that. Anyone know what track I am talking about?? Very catchy tune.

didn't go to lawrenceville though i grew up close to there. Tons of my college friends went to all those schools. I went to a sub-par, white-trashy big-ass suburban Philly public high school called William Tennent (next to council rock/bensalem/Truman/CB East). It was pretty weak and a bit scary but i had a little crew.

e,

If you don't have the bills for a Keeley mod, then check out ebay (I included a link below). I just bought a modded TS-7 with the 808 chip (from a non-famous modder) for $70 and the thing makes my amp scream.

On the dog topic, my wife asked a guy if our two year old could pet his leashed dog, and he said yes. I wasn't around or else I would have told her to keep away from that half pitbull/half Jack Russell Terrier mix. Anyway, owner and my wife start chatting, not paying attention, while girl and dog go behind park bench. Next thing you know the previously friendly dog has torn a 9 stitch gash in my daughter's cheek and lip. I don't blame the dog or my daughter. I blame the owner and my wife for not paying attention.

The similarity between Dead shows and surfing is a no brainer. They both make you feel good and are shared with cool people. They are both free form and outside the structure of the norm, and are experiences that can only be understood by those who have been there. I started fanatically surfing the same year I saw first Dead show, '78,(new years winterland) and the two went hand in hand for many years. Ventura, south swell at the point and in to the show....Coincidentally I quit going to Dead shows when I felt the crowd changing it's vibe, early 90's. Hmmm, connection with surfing vibe? I refuse to quit surfing. The assholes will not ruin it for me.

Good stuff E, I pretty much have the same story but it was public school on Long Island. College friends went to those school as well.

Reality - I think your talking about Shakedown Street, from the album of the same name...

You tell me this town ain’t got no heart. well, well, well, you can never tell.
The sunny side of the street is dark. well, well, well, you can never tell.
Maybe that’s cause it’s midnight, in the dark of the moon besides.

Maybe the dark is from your eyes, maybe the dark is from your eyes,
Maybe the dark is from your eyes, maybe the dark is from your eyes,
Maybe the dark is from your eyes, maybe the dark is from your eyes,
You know you got such dark eyes!

Nothin’ shakin’ on shakedown street. used to be the heart of town.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. you just gotta poke around.

You think you’ve seen this town clear through.
Well, well, well, you can never tell.
Nothin’ here that could int’rest you. well, well, well, you can never tell.
It’s not because you missed out on the thing that we had to start.

Maybe you had too much too fast. maybe you had too much too fast.
Maybe you had too much too fast. maybe you had too much too fast.
Maybe you had too much too fast. maybe you had too much too fast.
Or just over played your part.

Nothin’ shakin’ on shakedown street. used to be the heart of town.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. you just gotta poke around.

Since I’m passing your way today. well, well, well, you can never tell.
I just stopped in ’cause I want to say, well, well, well, you can never tell.
I recall your darkness when it crackled like a thundercloud.

Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.
When I can hear it beat out loud!

Nothin’ shakin’ on shakedown street. used to be the heart of town.
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. you just gotta poke around.

7th grade and highschool are completely different. 7th grader are in the midst of puberty, when the body is developing. It is a tough time for kids, pot is not what is needed. From experience dealing with emotionally disturbed teens and preteens, especially in middle and elementary school I see nothing but negative effects in children of this age doing any mind altering substance, they have poor judgement at this age, especially boys. On the other hand I see some of my past students that went on to become heads in highschool and it makes me smile because I know they are well-adjusted and have developed well and they are supported at home. I know of a few of my students who puff and I see that along with the weed there are gangs, absent parents, and trouble. I teach in a tough school where nearly 90% of the kids get free or reduced lunches.

Anybody see the pic of OB surfer Sean Bradey in the new Water??

That might be the song I will look it up online..very catchy beat.

Oh, and getting A's in school has nothing to do with learning, in hind sight I think we all realize we could have gotten A's...

re: grades, werd mexi.

ain't wisdom great?

Right on Mexi its nice to hear that from a teacher. I couldn't agree more that the connection between grades and learning is limited at best. Some of the biggest idiots I've known got straight As in what ever school I knew 'em from.

My younger brother (kind of a smart ass) said in high school that to really capture anything meaningful with grades you have to factor in the amount of time spent. He got As and Bs with very little effort. Some people figure out grades are a racket earlier than others.

Regarding the drugs in 7th grade issue, I knew some kids who were smoking pot and doing other things (coke maybe, 3rd base) in 6th / 7th grade, and they all pretty much ended badly. They were the burn outs who taught kids like me how to smoke bongs in the back of a van in the high school parking lot & sold us bags. The kids (like me) who waited 'til highschool seemed to do better. Pretty heavy smoking & psychedelics for a few years didn't prevent me from going to decent schools later or from doing ok in them. The background for both burn outs & non was supportive & middle / upper middle class. I went to both public and private schools k-12.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-697.htm

night review says:

fucking solid!

waves coming to bali again

4-6 for 2 days and then 6-9 for 3!

last three days have seen inconsistent head high, bump, rain and ......but we wait it out with bintang.

no barrels yet after the three pumping days of my 7 here.

next swell?

we will see......

---i know people who started puffing in 9th grade. smoked heavily in high school. still got into ivy league schools---

Yeah, but W's dad was Vice President. Not the same.

Less concert photos, more surf and bikini pics please.

Hasselhoff pics bad!

looking back at the people I knew, I think that in general the later in life a person started smoking pot the happier they are with their lives today. As always there are exceptions, but I think those prove the rule, so to speak. I don't necessarily think pot "caused" whatever challenges these people faced, but it was either a contributing factor or sympton of larger issues.

hey bruce - looks like my car has room for that safe. i submitted a message to you via your site, you can reach me at pnmcs at comcast dot net to make a plan to hand it off. thanks!

http://www.eviltree.de/zoomquilt/zoom.htm

Fun mid-morning session a little south, in the driving rain. Not many out, but several really good surfers, whom it was fun to watch.

rad link j. thx

brewfest tomorrow. kinda spendy, but i guess it IS all you can drink/eat and money goes to a cause of some sort.

DAVID HASSELHOFF FOR NEW POPE

I ACCEPT THE NOMINATION

J.O.C. - If you get this, call me on my cell tomorrow. I'll be in the hood for late tomorrow, early Sunday.

No friends on powder days!

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Blowin' hard wind.

Got some funky but kinda fun little waves this am at egj. GWC was smokin' but scary looking. LM closed out.

surfed ricon friday everyone rips there also it was small

bagel, how many times did you get dropped in on?