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This week in “close but no cigar”…

Being a snowboarder from Washington comes with its benefits, but it also carries a burden.

That is, it requires you to be gnarly. Real gnarly, all the time. The cognitive process of non-Washingtonians follows:

Washington + snowboard = Mt. Baker = gnarly, all the time.

While it does follow that Mt. Baker = gnarly, not all snowboarders in Washington are fortunate to call Mt. Baker home. This is our curse. Instead of being born just a wee bit further north in the shred mecca of Whatcom county, we were born in the birthplace of the “yuppie“, suburban Seattle.

Instead of growing up on flapjacks and pillow lines, we were weened on Capri Sun, laser tag, and lattes (which we began drinking in grade 4).

That is why we are not in the new video from Baker “super loc” Nate Lind. And rightfully so: by the looks of the line-up and teaser, this is a “heavy-weights only” flick.

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Winter Renaissance, a film by Nate Lind: “An epic adventure into a season of winter bliss.” Featuring; Nick Ennen, Tarek Husevold, Tim Carlson, Eric Jackson, Kurt Jenson, Nathan Lind and many more…”

Hell yea boys, thanks for keeping the Evergreen state burly. We suburbanites are trying to keep up. Check out our new badass tattoo:

We’ve had an ultra bangin’ year here in the Northwest and have finally turned the ward drobe over to shorts and tank tops. Now that the season is finally winding down with a break between the Northern and Southern hemisphere seasons, it’s time for all those 32-bit HD tapes to get thrown into a beautiful 3:00 minute timeline that gets you begging for more and anxious for snowboard movie premiere season come September.

With the teaser competition ridin’ high and after last weeks release of Autumn Line’s Technicoulor, we give you Teenage Love Graffiti by Isenseven.

You know these guys have been busy. With a functional website finally out after the Norwegian Independence Day (May 17th), we supsect that they have been so busy producing quality entertainment that web updates and web 2.0isms were put way on the back burner.

Enjoy!

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.

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…

See exhibit A:  

 

 

*Does not apply to Taylor.

 - 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.

See exhibit B: 

 

Pray for us…. 

Burton’s 08/09 Idiom line. A collaborative design effort between Staple Design and Fragment Design. Also some hard goodsl. (via highsnobiety.com)

(image via highsnobiety.com)

(image via highsnobiety.com)

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)

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Watch out Mack Dawg. Yours truly over at Sandboxland.com aren’t messin’ around any more.

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.

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.

Until Canada….

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.

Hows-about an interview?

The Signal Park Rocker

agr: You have quite an interesting history, but not many people know the Park Rocker story. When did you begin rocking?

Signal Park Rocker (SPR): You’re kiddin’ right? I have been making rocks roll since the Stone Age man. You know Bamm-Bamm?

agr: Bamm-Bamm Rubble? Sure, Barney’s kid.

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!

agr: Wow. Who were you playing with at the time?

SPR: Hanson.

agr: ….

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.

Getting gnarly, man, getting gnarly.

The details:

The Signal Park Rocker

Get some…

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
-Lao Tzu
Wise words Lao. Unfortunately, claiming “vagabond” as a profession doesn’t sound as cool to everyone as it does to us.
Plus we really miss the hippness of Seattle . As delightful as the snow of the Wasatch was, the scarcity of chai and incomprehensible indie music that no one knows about left us culturally starved. So we’ve returned home, to the city where drinking malt liquor is cool as long as your pants are snug, your hair unkempt, and your suede vest was made before 1980.

(image via Off The Wall)
Join us as we reintroduce ourselves to society:
-The only thing that hipsters like more than obscure music is remixes of obscure music. Remix kings The Hood Internet get a double A+ for their downloadable mixtape, get at it: The Hood Internet Mixtape Vol. 1, The Hood Internet Mixtape Vol. 2. So good.
-Snowboarder’s can be hip too! Burton is getting remixed and breaking collab records with the Head Porter Plus x Honeyee x Fragment x Burton Excursion Sleeper Hoodie. Damn… Count the x’s: 3. Wild. (via Highsnobiety)

(image via Figure)

First of all, your mom lacks substance. Disrespect agr and we blog about yer ass…that’s right fool. Libel for dayzzz.

We have been haunting Brighton Resort lately. A top notch establishment if we ever saw one: good folks, good shred, and free soda. Not free for everybody, just for agr, because we are sponsored.

This is the kind of soda that pros get. It says: “Drink Up. Throw Down”. We do.

Another reason we like Brighton is because it is home to the Dino Bots, and we love dinosaurs. The Dino Bots are our favorite kind of dinosaurs, the snowboardin’ kind. Here is a video of them getting prehistoric at Brighton: