AGoodReed / takes lotsa knocks to bust rocks!

Howdy ‘goodreeders! It has been a hot minute, and gosh did we miss ya. Lots of goings ons these days. Namely, we have been trying to get our act together (GOAT, bitchin’ acronym). Stay tuned for progress on that.

Part of GOAT is spending lots of time looking at magazines in grocery stores. This keeps us in the know about the types of things that folks should know. Here are a couple of these things:

Shaun White is taking over the world, and he is doing it by getting covers on magazines called Nylon. Nylon is a fashion magazine, and Shaun White is fashionable. agr doesn’t read fashion magazines, not even close. A friend told us about this one. We only read magazines about guns and model trains. (via Kevin Zacher)

Not to be outdone, Mr. Ryan Sheckler has a nice spread in Men’s Fitness, where he states: “I skate a lot with my shirt off”, and “seeing your body change, and seeing yourself get bigger and more toned and cut, makes a big difference in how you feel about yourself” (via Men’s Fitness).

Indeed it does Mr. Sheckler, indeed it does. (via Men’s Fitness)

This is what it looks like when agr takes off our shirt.

Hell yea. (image via boingboing)

A high five to Obama.

Ron English presents, Obama Lincoln my friends.
(via upperplayground)

This will be a limited run poster series from Upper Playground and you must order direct from them.
via hb

I do find girls highly attractive. And mind the hating of some individuals over at twsnow.com, this movie is on AGR’s list 2 see!

Peep the what looks to be a Utah low bright light high school stadium opener ultra banger. I believe this to be Desiree Melancon. Correct me if I’m wrong. And yes she’s already on Ashbury!

via thirtytwo!

We have been known from time to time to get into the business of fine garments. Mostly just extravagant tall tees. XXXXL and up only. Only available from super discreet locations in the Southern I-5 corridor.

Our first and only AGoodReed garment now belongs to this guy. Check out his postings here…

For those of you who haven’t heard of the latest 3 star surf documentary, it may be one to check out on one of the dreary Northwest rainy days.

It’s a little more than a standard documentary with beautiful HD footage, or one with a compelling story that makes you walk away a changed person. Not saying that Surfwise won’t change some or your views or thoughts, but there are many scenes that make you laugh and go… “Did they just refer to sex by the kids as “fucking”?” That’s why it gets AGR certification.

Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, a man of many wisdoms, lives a life the standard American would consider to be insanity. 9 kids. None put through the education system. 24 foot motorhome as the mobile housing unit. Yet their lifestyle breeds them to be 3 things, “a bum, a pro surfer, or a rock star”. Two of these would be considered desirable for most and well… the third for some of us. Me included.

“Eat healthy, live clean, surf clean.”

I think he should have added, “live primitively”

Some have dabbed into primitive life and if gas prices keep rising, the next trend will be “a bum”. One who lives primitively away from raging gas prices and standard life.

Surfwise explores this life and shows it. There is no persuasion involved. Nor did I feel like having 9 kids and becoming a surf bum. But it did do it’s job of churning some thoughts.

Big ups to Alex for the shout-out and the thoughts on positivity.

Hoping, dreaming and positive attitudes lead to good things.

Does it take two positive thoughts to outweigh negative thoughts?

AGoodReed is once again rollin back in the U S of A.

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 freak snow falling 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.

Well the results are in, and wearing the new Ullr crown is snowboardette Bev Vuilleumier. YAYYY!!!! And what’s more is that the top three are all snowboarders.

Though finalist Caley Vanular didn’t get the loot, she did get something much more valuable: the prestigious agoodreed indeed certification.

We have had our eye on Caley for a quick minute here, and we are definitely diggin’ her stuff. First off, she rips. Forealdo. Furthermore, she is an artist, and we are suckers for the artsy types. And it don’t stop there! She makes hats, and is quite the designer to boot! Click on over to her website, caleyvanular.com. As if this cake wasn’t frosted enough, she is a blogger!

Caley V, frontin’. (image via snowrev.com, by way of caleyvanular.com)

Caley V, self-portraitin’ (image via caleyvanular.com)

Details, details, details (totally not stolen from shredbetties.com):

Age: 17

Home Mountain: Whistler/Blackcomb

Sponsors: Electric Visual, Frontline, Home, The Circle

Candy: Caramilk bar, sour keys, crispy crunch

Snowboard movie: Lame, Afterlame, Childsupport

Caley, your contract is in the mail…

Despite the daily exchange of verbal blows  between the hesh and the fresh, there are still somethings that all snowboarders can agree on:

LNP (Laurent-Nicolas Paquin) rips.

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.

Can you spot LNP?

Get HEALTHy:

HEALTH - Crimewave (via Stereogum)

HEALTH - Heaven (via Pitchfork.tv)…hell yea for ski jumping.

Get LNPee:

A good friend of mine has been traveling now for 6 and a half months in Eastern Asia. The occasional G-Chat and the Picasso Gallery check up is all I hear from him.

Recently on a mission to one of the more remote places of his trip he said, “People look at you very strange when you’re 1 of 4 white people in the whole village.”

He then sent me this picture. Singkil, Indonesia.

To sum it up. This girl looks terrified.

You’re the man Darren.

I spent the summer of 2007 living on the island of Oahu in search of good waves and good times. While the good wave and fun times were aplenty, as was the search for new threads. While sitting at the bus stop outside the Kahala mall shopping center, I glimpsed a sign reading “Fitted”.

Assuming that it was a surf, skate shop, I opted out of walking 2 blocks to check it out. After ripping it home on public transit I popped open the laptop to see what the shop was all about. Little to my knowledge and assumptions, Fitted as a hat boutique.

Hot Damn!

My new favorite store on the island.

Remembering what it was like to find that store for the first time always brings a smile to my face. And so does ordering new lids! Like this one I picked up today from FreshJive out of LA. Peep them cause their ish is legit!