agoodreed went out with a friend for coffee the other day.
Why coffee?
1) Not quite late enough for adult beverages.
2) It is still cold as hell.
3) “Going for coffee” is a mature kind of a thing to do.
It has been scientifically proven that IQ is linearly related to the amount of money you spend on coffee. For example, agr orders a drip, sidles on up to the supplement-station, and upgrades the hell out of our bare bones beverage with cream, sugar, honey, paprika, and whatever else we can get our mitts on.On this occasion, it was about 5 pm.
We weren’t fixin’ for a caffeine-pick me up, and wanted to get a good nights rest to kick ass in the morning, so we ordered “decaf”.The cafe went silent. The barista started to fidget. Our “friend” quickly distanced himself, and left us to stand trial for violating this cultural taboo. The barista ignored our “decaf” order and proceeded to the next customer, who scoffed at us as we exited the cafe.
We share this as an example not of our social ineptitude, but to demonstrate our cultural infatuation with extreme.
Nowhere is this more true than in eXtreme/action sports. Surely we are all familiar with Mr. Dan Winslow, snowboarding’s newest poster boy:
But Mr. Winslow has some new competition among those who consume drinks that look like engine-additives and do things that are gnarly. Pierce Hodges, 23, is one of the winners of Red Bull’s First Person competition and is looking forward to phone call from Shaun White to go kick some ass.
The competition asked college students to submit one-minute video demonstrating how they get eXtreme with Red Bull.
If they are one of the five finalists, they get some Red Bull (YES!) and a cell phone that they will receive a call from one of Red Bull’s extreme athletes. Pierce means business. Not only does he do eXtreme shredding, but he also bikes, drives, runs, swims and talks eXtreme. Take a gander at his winning video. Also note the name of his youtube user account: LiquidNitroMagnum. Hell yea.
We are going to have some chamomile tea and take a nap.
Broke out the slip-n-slide this weekend for some slashin’ and thrashin’ at Snoqualmie.
Feda is a gentleman. Here he washes car windows at the gas station, at approximately 9:41 am.
The Signal Park Rocker was there, wild style.
So was Edgers. Edgers knows a thing or two about snowscootin’. But what’s more, he makes a mean guacamole.
Yea Edgers. Get it. All about that cilantro.
Oh yea. This is really important. The Dingo is a hipster.
Very important snowboarding information. (image via lolhipsters)
Heard through the grapevine: Edgers is the newest member to the BME Click. Totally saw this one coming.
agr has been busy squeezing the last bits of shreddin’ paste out of the tube that is our 07/08 season. We are all about sloppy spring slush sliding, but we have been getting real anxious about that looming “final day”…real anxious. Of course, the urgency that comes this time of year is experienced by snowboarders the world over, but we have a few more eggs in this basket. Allow us to elaborate…
At agr, sealing the lid on the 07/08 season has several serious implications:
-We were supposed to get good this season. Seriously, this was the year. While we weren’t too set on contracts with Fortune 500 retail stores or our own pro models, we were at least hoping for “local ripper status”. We even bought tight pants to better harness our shred radness. And for what? There are still infants at our local hill that jibjumpbonk circles around us*. And their damn pants are tighter too…
- What the hell are we supposed to do now? Skateboard? Don’t get us wrong: we are way down with kickin’-n-pushin’, but our skate skills make our snowboard skills look like Olympic material. We are considering either hipster skatin‘, fixin’, or scootin’.
-We cannot be in public places unless we are fully clothed, beanie and all.
And on a sidenote…We couldn’t agree with our boy Prodigy more: blogger’s = street as all getout. Recognize:
“P.S. ANYBODY THAT GOT SOMETHING AGAINST KEEPING A BLOG, YOU SHOULD STAY FARRRRRR AWAY FROM THE FOOL AND NEVER TRUST EM’. A BLOG IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY, JUST LIKE RAP MUSIC ISN’T FOR EVERYBODY. A BLOG IS INTERNET SLANG FOR A LOG AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT A LOG IS—IT’S WHAT BOAT CAPTAINS WRITE AND KEEP IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT THE DAYS OF LONG VOYAGES AND TRAVELS…IT’S LIKE A DIARY.SO FOR A YOUNG, VETERAN, HARDCORE RAPPER LIKE MYSELF, THAT’S BEEN IN THE GAME FOR OVER 16 YEARS TO KEEP A BLOG ON MY OWN WEBSITE MIND YOU, IS GROUND BREAKING AND VERY INTERESTING. AND WHOEVER TELLS YOU THEY DON’T DO THE BLOG THING, THEN THAT’S THEIR CHOICE…BUT IT’S THE CHOICE OF A DINOSAUR WHO HAS LITTLE TO NO PLACE WITH THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE.” (via hnic2.com)
As AGoodReed was in the house the last weekend for the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival. So was Sandbox. The the 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown is an event held at the Telus Festival each year and always ends up turning heads with some wild entertainment. Sandbox premiered the above teaser raising some eyebrows of many. Not to mention that Steve Cartwright is the man.
Featuring: Andrew Hardingham, Kevin Sansalone, Andrew Geeves, Rube Goldberg, Ryan Hall, Brendan Keenan, Rusty Ockenden, Max Ritchie, Steve Cartwright, Dwayne Wiebe, Nash Lajeunesse, Geoff Brown, Mikey Pederson, Ryan Tiene, Logan Short and Etienne Gilbert.
Some of us are wil-n-out in Whistler, and some of us are not. Some of us are taking care of business. Good thing we have freaksnowfalling in the city to remind us that we are not snowboarding, drinking real beer and throwing bros hi-fives.
Another thing some of us are missing out on is the crowning of the If Ullr Was A Girl champion, which happened this weekend at the Telus Festival in Whistler, B.C.
We will spare you the details of the comp, but the skinny of it is pro shredettes and skiettes compete against a couple of ams in four competitions during the course of the Telus Festival. The overall winner walks goes home renamed Ullr and with $25,000. Sicc.
T Minus 20 minutes until AGR departs to Whistler. This will be round 2 of the Telus Festival. A weekend talked about for months filled with nothing but grime. If you haven’t been I suggest making it up one of these years. This year the army is larger (14), the house is bigger, (2500 sq ft) and tall tees are even longer.
National Television is a creative agency specializing in advertising, motion, design and making cool stuff. If you have 20 minutes click on over and relax. These guys are genius.
But does he also rock? agr is currently investigating whether Mr. Paquin is also a member of the hipster-recommended and agoodreed indeed certified band HEALTH.
Pardon our absence, we have been rather busy collecting our multiple Pulitzer and popping corks at VIP parties. But we have returned, attended to our affairs, and are ready to roll up the ol’ shirt sleeves and get down and dirty.
SPR: Ha! You think the seed of Barney could rock like Bamm-Bamm? No way dude, Betty came backstage after a show in Bedrock, and damn did we make the BEDROCK!
SPR: Kids knew how to party…just out of hand. Taylor and I used to just totally wile out, and one time I took it too far and swung a power saw at him. I kind of fell out with the guys after that. I jammed for a while the Mayhem guys, but then they started killing each other off.
agr: And now?
SPR: Just smokin’ cigs, drinking JD, waking up at noon, shreddin’ like a demon, stealing girlfriends, listening to Sabbath, and making fun of your favorite band.
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