rickless life

Workin' for the weekend and week and next weekend

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Been working like crazy, small break in a 20 hour day today. Got a shift tomorrow and Friday night then it's a 21" spooled wheel pointed to the Southwest with my knees in the breeze for the Love Cycle's 3 year anniversary party and bike show and to see this guy for a belated day of birth celebration!! Happy bday to one of my favorites of all time, PARTICULAR GRANDPA!!!

Ready for some time on the road, cause I'm burnt!

Back with a bang in 2012!

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Cheers to push towards updating this thing...PISS-CANO!!!

Perfect day...

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Chasing cows...

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I miss Indiana/Arizona...

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LBC

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Best dude...

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Stinson Beach

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Top right is the coast we were just jammin, Stinson Beach overlook from Mt. Tam.

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More sports ball!

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Sports ball!

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Born Free 3 preparation...

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New clutch, metal flake primary oil...

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...and drinking!

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Paulo and Baby Dude

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Out in Colorado for the next week, rafting and camping...

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LOMAX-imus

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Been gone...

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Come party down!!

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Lee makes flyers...

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We're going camping, everybody's invited...let's get out there with our knees in the breeze!!

Motorbike meet up:
Saturday April 16th, meet up at St. Francis, 24th and York in the Mission, at 10AM.

This is the plan...

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St. Helena Skatepark is close and it is amazing, so maybe we could stop and skate/BBQ, lemme know what ya think.

SHUFFL crew at the St Helena Park from theshufflvideo@gmail.com on Vimeo.

Camping is at Berryessa Shores Chaparral Cove Campground, campground fees can be found HERE.

I make flyers...

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The Canadians...

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Are killing it!!

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Everybody's workin' for the weekend!!

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Burnt Ones- Bury Me In Smoke video

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Burnt Ones - Bury Me In Smoke from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

New Burnt Ones video put together by our good buddy Rob Williamson!!

Tsunami-less summer. I hope.

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It was Thursday night and I had heard that Mean Jeans and Welcome Home Walker were playing at The Eagle Tavern, SF's favorite divey rock n' roll gay bar. I showed up in time to catch the last few Welcome Home Walker songs, those dudes were killing it!! Next up was SF's very own, Apache. Coming out strong and wild, there was little they could do to keep the attention of a crowd that had been washed into the mayhem that TV's from either side of the stage were offering.

It looked a little something like this...

FUCKING INSANE!!!

I stuck around for the rest of the show and as I'm sure you can imagine the vibe was deadened quite a bit, so I headed home and I started looking around at all the carnage on this here interwebs. I found out that there was a possibility of some tsunami trauma for SF as well and like the adventurous dumb ass I am, I decided to wake up super early the next morning and ride down to the coast to check out the action.

Giant camera for heavy documentation.

Giant camera view.

Fancy skate stoppers.

Other than some streets being blocked off by police and my much needed coffee at 8AM on the San Francisco coast, not much else was going on. There were quite a few people gathered to take in the sites that may have happened, but more or less it was just another beautiful, sunny morning on the beach. I got bored quick and decided that I should hike down to sea level in a less crowded and unknown to myself spot on the beach to watch the waves crash in.

The trail in Ft. Mason that I took down to the beach was littered with little makeshift homes like this one, all had been abandoned. I could only guess at the reasons, but settled on the idea that lord bum was awoken by a golden god and told of the impending dangers that could arise in the early hours of the morning. With these actions in motion, they gathered their crew and flew off.

Lord bums golden dog, Reefer.

Beach front.

Golden Gate Bridge lays in the background beyond some wreckage of homes past.

At this point I noticed the waves start to get bigger and bigger, causing a little bit of panic. I started back to the hill that I had descended and realized that I had walked quite a ways from where I had started and wasn't sure if I had time to get back to my original trail. I decided that I could find my way back up by instinct, this led to many dead ends, running in motorcycle boots, a lot of sweating and me having to tell myself to calm down because when you start to panic you start to make dumb decisions.

A calming flower in the middle of a self induced mess.

I ran through a swamp...

I finally got back on a trail that let me know I could get outta danger quickly if I needed too. I then went back to the beach, sat there and talked to myself about how much of an idiot I am for coming to the beach to check out a tsunami. Stooooooops.

Back on top of the trail that took me down to the beach. When I said that I thought I could quickly get out of dangers way, I was wrong. Way wrong. There were so many stairs to climb that I literally wanted to take a nap in the middle of it. 3 hours of sleep the night before, no breakfast and hiking for 3 hours made me feel crazy.

Saw this sign on the way out that made me laugh.

My thoughts are with the people of Japan.

Some oldies I came across...

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Roller coastin' June 2009.

Hellmouth Summer 2009.

My brothers, Mike and Tom, at my Grandparents lake house in Brown County, Indiana, early 90's.

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Stoked I don't gotta be the one to empty this, holy piss.

Mr. Cohen tinkerin'.

Highway 1 North.

Coastal.

Seedy. I love the way film looks, even though these last 3 are from a shitty point and shoot camera I bought from Walgreen's nearly 10 years ago. There is a grit to them, a certain quality that I can't get from anything else...even my other film camera, mostly because everytime I take the film to get developed there is something wrong with it. Sometimes my fault, sometimes their fault. Lost 2 whole roles of film that I shot in the last week, bummed.

Smirkin'.

Went to see Dan Deacon play at the Independent. I had never listened to or even heard of him before, but was stoked!! The live performance was AMAZING!! He had the ability to get the entire crowd involved in a cult-like psychedelic dance party.

This is the show that I went to in it's entirety that somebody else filmed and I found.

Ryan Lay sighting!! This photo included Ryan completely by chance, I stuck my hand in the middle of this people made snake to sneak a shot and it just so happened that I ended up all in his grill. Too perfect. The last part he put out through I-Path just so happened to be edited to a Dan Deacon song, check it out below...

RYAN RIPS!!!

Zach Byrne, he's so hot right now.

Dog party on the top of Bernal Hill Park with the Struts.

Bro Gro!!

Mark Tester getting LOOSE!!!

This is the flyer I made for the show at Thee Parkside. Trying to learn my way around Photoshop, slowly but surely!!

The Downtown Struts!!

Fader faced... The last coupla weeks have been a blur. WHOA!

Cruz Skate Shop 3 year anniversary eating contest!!

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Cruz Skate Shop's annual eating contest held at Thee Parkside. It was all based on a point system, most points win. Points were awarded for chili dawgs eaten and beers drank, limit 1 beer per dawg consumed. If you got up or puked you were out and you had to keep the goods down for at least an hour to take the title. First one out had to take a shot of juice from Gordon and Sandy's hot tub that had been the nightly shower zone for the 15 or so stanky skate fuckers that have been staying with them for the past week. Unfortunately for Lazer, he was the first to count himself out...he did the shot of tub juice with a smile too...Drink up and be somebody!!

Reed sporting a chili dawg eatin' grin and lazer still feeling the after effects of last nights bird bathing...hahaha.

Sandy with the reinforcements.

GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!! GIMME SOME MORE!!!

Sandy keepin' the tallies going.

Deep breaths...

And we have a winner. So long as he can keep it down...

Congratulations were in order, this dudes chili hole is gonna be hurtin' for the next week...ughhhh.

Glen took the title with a grand total of 13 points, 7 chili dawgs and 6 brew dawgs.

Final scores.

Next year I'm gonna convince them to have a vegan chili dawg option and see what damage I can do...

Tsunami 2011

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If these waves are a tsunami, then I must be a tornado...

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This Saturday at Pop's Bar!! This is the 2nd installment of the monthly DJ night Ms. Eva Von Slut and I are doing at my favorite SF dive bar. Come out and shake some action!!

2010 vs. 2011

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Feb. 2010

One in, One out.

This is what Lee and I were doing a year ago, almost to the day. If it was above 35 degrees we were road ready.

Feb. 2011

Stoked.

Shorts.

Lookin' out over the bay.

Feels good to know that you are taking full advantage of being able to do what you want when you want.

The Crew

The Pope settin' shadows.

My camera takes horrible photos while I ride...

I take crooked ass photos while I ride...

"Trees are sick."

Blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is better than burrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, but not as good as beeeeeeeeeeeeeeer which in itself causes blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

One came out ok...

Me llamo es Ricardo.

"I'd take the one with the red hair" Grandma's wanna love me up, hahaha.

18% grades, nude beaches and a hell of a view.

The Downtown Struts- B. H. C.

Find more artists like The Downtown Struts at Myspace Music

Glad to be out west to say the least.

11 years in the making

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Atwood photo

Retired...

New skins and a go chord!!

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Burnt turds

Safety issues

Fresh turds

Blown out go chord

Naturally...

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fART

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Jerimiah and I pushing our luck...

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I randomly stumbled across this today and laughed my dick off, Jerimiah Smith and I lurking in the Grand Canyon in June of 2010 on our way across country to the Born Free II show in Long Beach. Fuck yes!

Lee and I wasting time

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This is what Lee and I do when we're board, go up and down steep shit. Testing limits, jumping soon...

PHX reunion

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LBC, now raps to himself on the long drives that he is calling work. Proof on a future phone at 6:30 in the AM. Thanks for the rides sLEEp, Siagon Sangwich is on me next time!!

PHX

Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan rocking the new RISE/Zero collaboration board.

DA GOON!!!

"Tell me why do the children play-ay-ay-ay-ayyyyya?"

Brad is a ruler. We lived in the same neighborhood growing up, but we didn't really know each other back then. He's an adventurer, jammin' skateboarder and all around good guy, I'm glad to have been able to get to know him a bit better over the years. He turned me on to a rad project that he has been involved with for some time, check it out. FILM POR VIDA

$3 dollar sushi rolls for happy hour can't be beat, drown your brain in wasabi!!

We hid Rob's sushi and this is what he found in his to-go box...HAHAHAHAHA!!

Squints!!

Sister Nikki and Paulo!!

AZ has a beer cave in just about Circle K...col' ber.

I had to ride bitch on the back of Doug's bike to get to the Love Cycles 2 year anniversary party, felt damn good to have my face in the wind though...plus I got to drink as much beer as I wanted and didn't have to worry about riding hammered.

DJ Horsepussy can't seem to decide on what name he is going by these days, but he still plays rockin' jams and has a killer ride. The masked one and his moto.

CINDY!! Click for hours of entertainment, bikes and boobs!!

The anniversary party turned into a family affair...Laura and Trent, of Cowtown fame, made a much welcomed appearance. Also, found out that Jeremiah from Love has been frequenting cowtown since he was just a youngster, pretty rad.

David Lee Boss and Paulo cuddled up on the way back from the party...

Guilty as charged...SFP!!

DA GOON shedding some tears at the "Boyish" video premier cause it was soooooo damn insane. Seriously, skateboarding is fucking fucked. BUYISH

P Harp caught in the act, padless dismount.

Remember when I was all like "it's cool that I don't have to ride to the Love anniversary party cause that means I can drink as much as I want."? Well, me neither, cause when you drink all day and all night and don't eat anything until the next day you want to die...PARTY!!!

Til' you puke, a lot. Filibertos, hello again old friend...ugh..

Shooting range remnants at Casa De Price

I've seen Fau wear worse...SERIOUSLY

I really wish I had a camera that took the photo exactly when I wanted the shutter to snap. I'm saving up for one now, but until then I'm playing a guessing game. Fau with a tail block skidder and Horsey pumps one to fakie at the infamous Love bowls.

Thug life.

True, true...

More GOON!!

Particular Grandpa!!

Hot sauce that later got strategically placed all over Erik's room, hahaha. FILIBERTO'S!!!!!!!

Prehistoric. Erik has had these since they were about the size of a silver dollar, wild.

Erik told me that if you walk into the backyard barefoot you are liable to lose a toe or two...I reckon this guy wouldn't be a-feared. "AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYEEEEEEE!!!!"

That's why you gotta keep your feet elevated, duh...

DA BRATTT

This right here was the best moment of my entire trip to PHX. My good friend Michael Patrick Tubbs VI was involved in a skateboarding related injury that was so gnarly I can't find words to describe. Michael is incredibly lucky to be alive, let alone rolling around on a skateboard with his friends. This is his story, this is not for the faint of heart. Michael, I love you man, it means a ton to be able to roll with you again. Keep it up, the Northwest is calling.

WEED BUTTER!!!!

What did you do?!! Double Pasty guilt, hahaha.

Sooooooo, Nikki here introduced me to a new drink, Jager, Jack and a splash of coke over ice. I call it candy river moonshine and I love it.

SCOTTY!!! Rockin' a stache.

Don Naughty has a .com tattoo...whoa.

Laddy: "Ask me if I give a fuck!!!"
Me: "Hey Laddy, do you give a fuck?"
Laddy: "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

HAHAHAHA!!

Denim Demons

Don't mind if you do...

Rad print of Hank.

HEY HO! LET'S GO!

Not too shabby for a bunch of bums, hahaha. The "grass" is actually astro turf.

Ft. Hills park session. Sun was a bitch at first, but then it was a blast. Simple and built right!!

FFEJ and MANIMAL!!

After sesh BBQ'n

Hey Justin, look tuff...

Vegan brats with grilled peppers n' onions and a col'ber...stoked!

Dylan eating one with a cheese danish of some sort, ahaha

RALPH BUENO!!

I wanna ride motorbikes across this stretch of road!!

Santa Cruzin'

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7:30AM, up and ready to hit the road with the Van's man.

Foggy doggie.

BK, lil' Reese cup and boner bender!!

Father son moment on the pier.

"Watch out for the wet one's"

Tiny dancer.

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My time spent in Indy while Foo Foo and Jon were here was just this...blurry. Hahahaha.

Pea-sghetti!!

The Mayor!!

Brown and Brown!!

Teef's

Baby Otto!!!

TOMMMMMY!!!

Family times during the holiday

Mike can never get enough balls in his mouth...haha

On our way back to SF from Indy Mike and I had a layover in Vegas, a cab ride to the MGM Grand was in order!!

45 minutes and $140 later we are headed back to the airport...FML, haha

Holiday party in Indy is a go!!

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HAHAHA!!!!, Was so stoked to see this in my inbox...

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Black lips show that was actually just a test to see how much rum I could possibly put into my body...

Pop's karaoke party!!!

PARTY ANIMAL!!!

Sunday bloody Sunday

Fuck yo couch!!

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Going, going...

Gone

Amy trying to make Rob piss himself using an age old trick.

When a problem comes along? You must WHIP IT!

Parkside circus themed roller derby prom

Sometimes you swing a bar stool around by your nipples...

Back from vacation with a fresh fade...

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Delay in posts due to a reason I have yet to come up with...hahaha

I found the fountain of youth in a beard trimmer, whoa!!

It's for fun...

Stiff Dinner!!!

2010-12-18T23:24:00.000-08:00

Has a blog...$teal Everything, Cheg it!!!

Pizza monster!!

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Burnt to lose: Settling up.

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Epic green room in the Detriot Bar in Costa Mesa.

Classy.

Classier.

Tourism.

GARETH!!

Third times a charm, Brad doin' it up in LA.

Twinzies...

Where's your uniform?!

"Where's my hat?! That's not MY hat!!"

Northbound.

Great American Music Hall in SF, hospitality to no end.

Jookabox getting their sound check on.

Loungin'.

"Do you take Sacajawea's?"

Departure.

Foggy to clearest day ever in less than a minute...

Stay sick.

Every bar we went to in Portland was a ski lodge.

Seattle Rain.

Presents for the ladies.

Kristien and Bridget!!

My buddy Noel game me this rad King Diamond mannequin head for my Bday!!

Van party with the king!

Gabby!!

Justin blowing Mark's mind with precious gifts...

Jookabox killing it!

Saturday night in Boise? One of the funnest nights on the entire trip!!

Dance Party!!

I believe that everyone would agree that this may have been the worst day of tour, everyone of us was sick, hungover as hell and we got caught in a winter nightmare...STRESSFULLLLLL DRIVE!!

Cars were off the road all over the place. At one point we hit a patch of ice/snow slush going about 75 MPH and somehow managed to pull it off...sliding all over the place.

Purty.

Stuck in a blizzard at Donner Pass on Highway 80 near Tahoe...oh, good. When we first got to the entrance of the mountain pass we were told that we had to go back to the last town and buy tire chains or we wouldn't be allowed on the mountain. It took us about 45 minutes to get back to the town and intall the chains, all the while the storm was getting worse and worse. When we got back to the mountain pass entrance there we almost no cars on the road, talk about an unsettling feeling.

Our top speed for almost 3 hours was 30 MPH, which most of the time seemed like we were going too fast anyhow. Fuck snow.

Safely made it back into SF!! WHOOO!

Why am I awake???

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Scorpio

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PORTLAND!!!

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Has rad record art hanging about...

Burnt to lose: Installment two

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The view outside of Amy's mom's house in Sedona...

Downtime in Albuquerque.

Ol' vesty.

Sometimes you gotta use whatcha got...Ramen noodles with straw built chop stick/spoons.

Get in where you fit in.

I didn't fit in here...haha.

Cookies was so damn stoked, rated a 9 out of 10 on the chili dawg scale!

Headed into Flag.

This show ripped! Sold out venue and saw tons of the Phoenix crew!!

Chad's out...

Chad's BACK!!!

Boogie, boogie hedgehog...boogie, boogie hedgehog...

Reverse 69.

"I like turtles."

Damn yeah!! 2 times in 24 hours, I love that shit!!

Basking in the glory before the casino took all my money...

Road repairs.

Stayed at my Uncle Joe's house in Tucson, a very gracious host...head high bonfires, a coupla roll n' twists from about 4 years prior, colber, a resort like setting to lay our heads and all the sugar water smells we could handle...

Lookin' out my back door.

Runs in the family.

Uncle Joe is a wild man...got to see pictures of a plane crash that he survived, pretty epic. He's traveled all over the world collecting these "specimens"

PIZZA PARTY!

Doobage...

San Diego county mountains lookin' wild.

10th and E St.

William goodness down in SD at Dustin's house...check their blog here------>MUSHROOM.NECKLACE

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Flagstaff

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Updates from the road: Three days in...

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"I don't love it."

One last look at the city on the way out...Adios SF.

God's country.

These wheels keep on turnin'!

Promised land.

Welcome to LA, help yourself...haha

Oh, check it out! My favorite title: "She's got a dick"...Oh boy...

Getting Burnt. Too loud for the crowd, otherwise I'd have some video...

Ran into a girl that I used to live with in Long Beach, haven't seen her in about 6 years. Turns out she's playing the show tonight...random. She also made all the hanging hand stitched murals, as well as the monster costumes...wild style.

Karaoke after hours bar in Hollywood with Mae!! After hours Miller Light served in coffee mugs and bogarting the next ups songs...soooo fun!

Mark was the fist to get up and sing. Roy Orbison's "Crying" in the tune of popped...haha

Eating or throwing up...Barful!

Camouflage to hide the $20 bill stuck in the air vent...

ANDREW CANNON!!!

Wez in a dress, dude's got heart...Happy Burfday Whiskey!!

Marynn and a heavily intoxicated Bethany..."Rickster!!!!"

Denim demons.

Flock of Mark Gulls.

I miss the shit out of Arizona! Lake Saguaro mission!!

"If this makes me loco, then I'm loco!"

Swimming in November...soooo rad.

I love livin' in the city!!!

2010-11-05T04:06:00.000-07:00

Fer real.

They're really fucking doing it!!

2010-11-04T17:58:00.000-07:00

Two people that I got to spend a while with while on Emerica's Wild Ride 2008 have been on a mission of great proportions for over a month now. They left Long Beach, California on September 21st geared up on bicycles with their tires pointed towards New York City. Check out their progress along the way...werereallydoingit

Hold fast boys!

Burnt ones all up on NPR...

2010-11-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

Get it, get it!! I leave for tour with Burnt Ones this Saturday. The tour is gonna cover the Southwest and the entire West Coast, so if we're in your area be sure to try and make it out!! They've been all over in the internet media in the last few months, definitely seems like their move from Indianapolis to SF was a hell of a good choice! Yeah Mark, Amy and Cookies!!

NPR All Songs Considered mix featuring Burnt Ones "Bury Me In Smoke" off of their new album Black Teeth &Golden Tongues

Pick up Burnt Ones new album, Black Teeth & Golden Tongues, on Roaring Colonel Records here

See them live in SF...

Wednesday November 3rd at Milk Bar
Thursday November 4th at Amnesia

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Lee Bender dropped some knowledge on me yesterday. Our buddy Kelly has a dad and that dad did some shit. Gene Clark everybody, I really dig his voice and the album artwork on this is rad.

Kelly on his Panhead. Photo: Lee Bender.

My resident crackhead...

2010-11-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

Video by Chris Brennan. Smoke that shit...

Giants win, Mission goes full blown retard.

2010-11-03T09:13:00.000-07:00

You never go full blown retard.

That girl is someone I run into all the time in the neighborhood and by the looks of it she's wearing a RISE shirt. "Rise and Destroy" pretty much summing the night up...

This is a video that my roommate,Chris Brennan, shot of the chaos that ensued just after the San Francisco Giants beat out Texas for the World Series.

Chris Brennan's Flickr

Tempe park Halloween bash!

2010-11-02T14:15:00.001-07:00

Wishin' I coulda been there...

a very TEMPE halloween from theHIGH5 on Vimeo.

2010-11-01T14:18:00.000-07:00

A Parkside Halloween. NOBUNNY!!

"I've been doing this since 86'!"

The pink lines are for homosexuality...Ethan the gleaming unicorn!!

Beirdo's...

Stop 3: Twin Peaks. Watching Kelly stress about his bike possibly getting hit by tour busses full of vacationing Asians was hilarious..."Dude, I lost my helmet!"

Stop 2: Golden Gate bridge. You'd think that I'd put up a photo that had the bridge in the background or something, but no. Use yer imagination internerd, haha.

Stop 1: Coit tower, helping ruin your family vacations...haha. The bus driver called for backup.

Mind the stache broseph...

The guy that was riding this pan was rad, leather skin from years of abuse.

Fuck yes.

10th Annual 49 mile ride meet up spot. Over 200 bikes showed up, rad dad...

As if parking meters didn't suck enough already, now they are hiding them...haha.

Pierced Arrows fucking killed it, soooo good!

Burnt Ones sound check drawing in the big crowd.

First Potluck in SF, ripping. Vegan pigs in a blanket, stoked!

Halloween spirit...

Mountain top BBQ'N!!

Ad-VAN-turing!

I tried to get that line outta this lil' guys beak, but he kept flying by and almost hooking me...I bet he's a hell of a fisher-bird.

Bring out yer' dead.

Too Late to pray...

Pierced Arrows

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Her voice chills my bones...I love it.

Oakland easy livin'

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Beach life

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Sometimes you have to have a satanic pentagram made of dicks with a
pussy center piece...just sayin

Well, theres an oxymoron if I've ever seen one

2010-09-07T16:25:00.001-07:00

Dead end kids forever

2010-09-05T15:26:00.001-07:00

2010-09-05T15:25:00.000-07:00

Mark with a quick run to the gas station...

Getcha jump on!!

2010-09-02T20:56:00.001-07:00

The fridge...

Learned that Mark can walk on water...

The crew.

Tired as hell, welcome to my night...

Here comes the summer...

2010-09-01T10:18:00.000-07:00

CHILI HOLE CHAOS!!!

CHILI BOWL CONTEST 2010 LOWCARD MAG from lowcard magazine on Vimeo.

Laurent cold chillin'...

GGB on the way to sunshine.

Canoe launchin' spot.

Good morning.

Beached.

The good life.

been gone...

2010-08-24T12:28:00.000-07:00

Many friends in town as of recent and many adventures...got a camera now, it's held together by duct tape and sometimes it looks like people are having out of body experiences. EPIC.

High Five is tite...

Ms. Mason doin' the damn thang!!

SF babes...

Shots and Rage

Josie and Tracy jammin'!!

Weekend festival checking ID's and drinking whiskey...got to see Social D!!

Tony and Kiki came into town for about a week, so we did all the site seeing type o' stuff that I still am enjoying the hell out of...

SOUL SUCKER!!!

Bernal Hill day picnic, this is the raddest view I have found of the city so far.

Total Trash Fest at Thee Parkside hosted a ton of disgustingly rad bands all weekend...it almost killed me, literally. Starting it off is Shannon and the Clams!!

A terrible shot of Hunx and His Punx, they however were not terrible...just extremely gay and awesome!!

I've ended up spending a lot of time in Delores Park and I am just fine with that.

The Barreracudas, rad band from ATL.

Gentleman Jesse and His Men, also from Atlanta, put on a hell of a good show too!!

The Mean Jeans, from Portland, are soooo fucking good!! This show had so much energy, this was the show that I was waiting all weekend for.

Nobunny was amazing as always. Stoked that they are from Oakland, cause that probably means that I am going to get to see them a lot!!

Santa Cruz mountains with Cherri and Lady to check out the moon rocks and remains of the trees from the fire there a few years ago.

Burn victim

Mountains, forest and ocean all wrapped into one place...YES!!

Sometimes you just gotta let those tits bleed...fuck it.

This is the craziest bark I have ever seen on a tree. It looked like paint, but just naturally peeled like this!

The Lost Boys bridge in Santa Cruz. The last time I was here there was only sand underneath it, weird to see it all filled with ocean waters.

Open up and wail!!!

2010-08-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

Chuck Ragan, of Hot Water Music, hailing from Gainesville, Florida is playing tonight at Cafe Du Nord!! SUPER STOKED!!

I've been listening to the jams that he's been putting together since I was in 8th grade, I still get chills every time I hear it... Every single skateboard I have ridden in the past 10 years or so has had the song title "Turnstile" scratched into the grip tape one way or another without fail.

Years ago Rise did somewhat of a mini ramp demo at one of the Warped tours that Hot Water Music was playing in Noblesville, Indiana. While we were skating the mini ramp Chuck Ragan climbed aboard and we started talking a bit in between runs, as the conversation slowed I saw him look down at my board that had "Turnstile" scribed down the side of the grip. He looked back at me, smiled and dropped in... He never said anything of it, but he and I both knew it, and we just kept on skating. One of my biggest inspirations in life is to try and be a good person and I owe a lot of that thought process to the lyrical content of Hot Water Music songs, so needless to say I am siked, to say the least, to get a chance to see another one of his shows.

"Turnstile"

Raise your voice in swells, find your meanings then
Use your signs inside to relive and never care.

No point in holding back on what you're holding
No matter it be shit or it be golden
Foundations shift, they're still shifting
We set up, we set up our falls

Hold on tight to your fears
Cause that's your hatred
And that's your love as well

Learn to use all your fears
As a fuel, an engine
To get you where you need

I must always remember...
There's no point to surrender

No point in holding back on what you're holding
No matter it be shit or it be golden
Foundations shift, they're still shifting
We set up, we set up our falls

Hold on tight to your fears
Cause that's your hatred
And that's your love as well

Learn to use your fears
As a fuel, an engine
To get you where you need

I must always remember...
There's no point to surrender

I shift.

I shift.

2 ends of the spectrum

2010-08-06T20:10:00.000-07:00

2010-08-05T19:54:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you gotta make it fit...

2010-07-31T12:34:00.000-07:00

Safety photography

2010-07-29T20:59:00.000-07:00

All packed up and ready to rumble...

2010-07-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

That's how we roll!!

2010-07-29T20:53:00.000-07:00

Getting burnt

2010-07-29T20:52:00.000-07:00

The Burnt Ones last Indianapolis show, soooo good!! Glad that they're
making the move to SF as well!

Thanks Lee...

2010-07-29T20:51:00.000-07:00

Monster truck fuck you's...oh, good.

Clinton Walker

2010-07-29T20:50:00.000-07:00

My main man!! Rat bashing and flame throwing became routine during my
stay in Indy...

Nathan's shovel

2010-07-29T20:48:00.000-07:00

Fred and Nathan making moves into unknown directions...

Moon Tower

2010-07-27T06:34:00.000-07:00

Nothin' but trouble tonight!!

New York Times piece...

2010-07-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

Excited to have been able to be involved in this for sure...definitely kinda crazy for me. Being looped into an article of this caliber is mind blowing. I like skateboarding and I like riding motorcycles...let's go jump some shit!!

check it out...

Article and video here

A huge thank you goes out to Austin Considine, Lee Bender, Greg E. Andrews and all the dudes that I've ridden skateboards and motorcycles with over the years!!!

Swimmin' hole!!!

2010-07-17T18:10:00.000-07:00

Lee, Tracy and Gus!!

2010-07-17T16:27:00.001-07:00