Anyone else would be trying too hard

I just realized it's been 6 years since I watched this. I used to watch this weekly and wear my Hasil Adkins shirt daily. The shirt completely fell apart, and the original upload got taken down. Looks like someone put it back up. Watch it while you can.

RIP Bordertown

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/skatepark-under-oakland-freeway-torn-down/nFpNf/

This is really about so much more than skateboarding.

7 years of hard work and skaters' own money gone in a couple hours. Now it can go back to being a wasteland of drugs and guns. Thanks again, CalTrans.

It's a total bummer, but thanks to the nature of skateboarding and skateboards, another DIY spot will take it's place, and another, and another. They win the battles, we win the war.

This Saturday afternoon in SF

BBQ/Show/Rager at Culture Kids' house. Bands which I've heard are playing(don't hold me to it though...): Us, Forever Baby(members of Pterodacdudes from Fullerton), and the Filth Mongers? I don't know. Just come around 3 or 4 or 5pm with drinks and meat and a crappy attitude, cause that's probably easiest for you. We will purge you of bad vibes through the power of really inept country music.

Oh, here's a nice song:

Money over everything

Not just a Weezy quote, but America's mode of operation. Haven't updated this thing in forever, but I gotta after today.


Thank God for CalTrans, who recognized that the wasteland wasn't actually a positive thing for Oakland. It sure wasn't a place where people of all ages could go skateboard, be productive, and maybe even learn a new skill. The spot that used to be inhabited by crackheads and syringes is much worse with degenerate skateboarders, who took initiative and made something out of worse than nothing. It will look much nicer with a few billboards there instead. And crackheads again. That's what the community needs. Thank you CalTrans.

Oh, here's that slimy stuttering knucklehead in the video's contact info:
Bob Haus,
Public Outreach
Caltrans, Division of External Affairs.
111 Grand Avenue - Mail Station: 6E.
Oakland, CA 94612.
Ph: (510) 510-286-5576.

Public outreach.

“They’re not scared of you, they’re scared of what you represent. What you represent to them is freedom.”

Always remember, there's more of us...

Mental Revenge

Sunset Skatepark

Found 4 butter bench slabs on the street in a pile of garbage, so we made a bench. Made the flatbar a couple months ago for 5 bucks total. Who wants to hire me as a welder????

A few hours, 3 drills, 1 cut wrist, and 50 bucks later: The TROPHY!

Oh yeah, FUCK Alan Steel in Redwood City! Do we look like Stanford students?!

Upcoming Public Appearance

Gonna be a good time as always! Thee Parkside has great chili cheese tots and tacos!

Woah

DM Bob played with the Deficits again??!


If you don't know:

Now you know.

San Francisco

Standard procedure

RIP Eagle Tavern

Best place to see a band, best place to play. Not stoked.

http://www.baycitizen.org/nightlife/story/packed-house-eagle-taverns-finale/

You thought I was one-dimensional

I'm two.

What was the last thing...

to go through Kurt Cobain's mind?

His teeth!

Beat Farmers

coolest dad

RIP Ferlin Husky

Such a bummer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/music/ferlin-husky-country-singer-dies-at-85.html

One of his best:
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/GG/Ferlin_Husky_-_Ill_Sail_My_Ship_Alone.mp3

It had to happen

WANTED:

If anyone has any of these, let me know which LP's. I might want to buy them from you.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/starday100.html
http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/starday200.html
http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/starday300.html
http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/starday400.html

Thanks! pt. 2

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the Knockout on Wednesday. Great time. You're bummed if you missed The Ledge!

Next show is May 28th at the Hemlock with the Rantouls! Cool!

As always, hit us up if you want us to play somewhere.

Still the coolest dude ever.

UPDATE: TONIGHT! Wednesday, March 9th

More bands/different bands

@ The Knockout
W/ The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Teutonics
Superstitions
The Chuckleberrys
+ DJs. Of course.

9pm, 8 bucks.
The Ledge is one of a kind, and if you haven't seen him, I suggest you make it out to this.

Better than "Mardi Gras"

Mix Tape

Came across a bunch of blank tapes a while back, so I made some tapes for some friends who expressed interest in country. Too lazy to make inserts for em, so I'll just post the track list here. If anyone else out there wants one, email me your address and I'll send you one. OR, if you got a tape you'd like to trade me, even better.
I'll probably just keep making new ones as time goes on, but here's track list for the first:

Side A
Ferlin Husky - I'll Sail My Ship Alone
George Jones - Revenooer Man
Charlie Pride - Learning To Love Her
Warren Smith - Odds And Ends
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Mule Train
Willis Bros. - Motorcycle Bill
Roger Miller - I Ain't Never
David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Sanford Clark - It's Nothing To Me

Side B
Charlie Louvin - I don't Want It
Buck Owens - Tall Dark Stranger
Merle Haggard - Workin' Man Blues
Johnny Darrell - Mental Revenge
Johnny Bond - Sick, Sober, & Sorry
Johnny Paycheck - She's All I Got
Maddox Bros & Rose - Ugly And Slouchy
Johnny Horton - Cherokee Boogie
Carl Butler - No Trespassing

legend

WILDEST RIDE IN THE WILDERNESS

RIP Charlie Louvin

Damn.



and of course:

Thanks!

To everyone who came out to Oakland last week for a rad show at Eli's. Also thanks to everyone who came to see us at the Knockout a few days prior. The shows are gettin better and better, and we're always looking for more!

Bay Area country:

Tonight in Oakland

Jan 15th
@ Eli's Mile High Club
w/ Estrogen Highs
3629 MLK Jr. Blvd, Oakland, Ca

We play first at 9:00. Get there in time.

Wednesday, January 12th

SUPERSTITIONS play a show with theses bands:
Huff Stuff Magazine
Dirty Marquee
Tenement

WE PLAY FIRST, AS USUAL.

At the KNOCKOUT
at Mission & Valencia
9PM, 3-5 smackers

The good one.

SJC