Happy America Day !!!!!!!!!

Or more formally known as Independence Day or July 4th is a day in which The United States of America Celebrate Americanism... Better yet, not unlike our very own Australia Day they love to get Boozey. This day in particular was special with Huntington beach celebrating their centenary, 100 years of Huntington Beach !

I took a look at the Huntington Beach parade and found some interesting things.

Trumpets

Cheer leaders, good shot haha

salute the soldiers

Flags

Nayyyyyyy

P.T and friends get shacked on the international surf museum float

We then moved on to bike patrol... The trend for underage teens and alike is to hop on a pushy and ride obscenely drunk around the streets and go from party to party. We had a mob of 15 strong and with only 1 stack and 1 arrest i'd say we had a successful day indeed :)

Bikes and me

Ppl partying in red and blue

Beer Pong

a game these Americans play involving a bunch of plastic cups with beer in them, in which you try and throw a ping pong ball into. If you get it in the cup, they drink whats in that cup. Throw until they are all drunken. NICE

It takes total concentration

until you play a few games, then things get weird

later on we checked out the fireworks display at HB pier. Chickity-check it out...

FIREWORKS

4th of July Wrap up: 1 bad bike stack, 1 MIP (minor in possession) + one arrest, millions of drunken youths and a lot of fun.

see you next year.

ily xo

Cereal and junk...

eating ceral out the back with a mongoose... or 2 mongeese... or a bunch of junk. or art ?

silly cirlces

xo

Vans Warped Tour 09

Pomona... kind of in the middle of no where, inland LA. Stinking hot, people everywhere, Lots of water and alot of great bands. If you want to see the full line-up and alot more info about the day go to www.warpedtour.com and check it out there.

In the mean time here's some dodgy pictures and clips with horrible sound from some of my favourite bands at Warped.

TROUBLE where actually pretty cool. There were only a few peeps watching but i happened to sit down for a rest right infront before they came on and i actually enjoyed it.

Trouble Andrew is that guy that sings, "do you, wana see my gun ? go bang bang bang bang"

SAOSIN Were a crowd pleaser and one of my favourites. The crowd sang all the lyrics for them. I wish i had some footage of the crowd singing but i was too into it to film anything.

SENSES FAIL played alot of newer stuff which i didn't really know that well. but they finished up with "Can't be saved" (the track off Guitar hero Rock band) which was awesome.

GALLOWS were in typical gallows fine form, raw as fuck and blasted the fuck out of the crowd with raw music and rude slander. One qoute in particular that was interesting, imagine his pomy accent.

"It's good to see so many people out here to see real music " (crowd aplause)
"you don't see any computers or fucking synthesizers up here do ya ? " (aplause stops, hush)

hahaha

A DAY TO REMEMBER surprised me, first of all they had a huge turn out, and all in all they blew up!
Opening with "dowfall of us all" went down well.Everbody watching was moving at some point. Whether it was a sing along, a little fist pump or kinds moshing on other kids heads.

THRICE played a variety of material from all of their many albums and didn't play much from "the artist in the ambulance" which was dissapointing. But they did play the title track off that album which was enough for me to enjoy. i was a million people back because main stage was full of peeps, but oh well

ALEXISONFIRE I enjoyed these guys most, purely because i was able to get up the front and actual see and enjoy it. They played a good mix. few new ones, few good ones and one old one. fucking good live...

If you dig Alexisonfire check out their new video for the new single "Young cardinal" off their new album "Old Crows/Young Cardinals"...




ily

xo

I'm Going !!!!!

WARPED TOUR YES PLZZZZZZ

26 JUNE 2009, pamona California

i will be seeing

3OH!3
underOATH
Saosin
Alexisonfire
Anti-Flag

and 50 other great bands

And yes for those who cannot make it due to being on the other side of the world i will be doing my best to provide photographic and footage evidence of some of the sickest shit ever...


click the poster to check line-ups, tour dates, ticketing info etc.

YA DIG

The Candy Phone Dance # 3

No better way to celebrate graduation day then a sly little candy phone dance on a main rode, riding no hands on a bike !

enjoy x

CLASS OF 2009... CHUG A BEER

So My Cali host Hilly Bopkins has become a grown man now

(if you don't know hilly bopkins check out the latest chickity-check-yo-self, look in topics on the blog).

He has finished high school forever and had his graduation today. For those who have never been to an All american graduation it's just like our Aussy graduation days but 1000 times bigger and therefor 1000 times more boring !

So after the hours of boring shit and watching kids wearing those smart caps, we came back to the trailor park for some "American Tradition"

i believe it's called "shotgun a beer" (or several)...

It goes a little something like this...

Cut a whole in the bottom, pop the ring and go !

Next, feel extremely average but manly...burp a few times.

What bitch ? Give me another one !

So next time your about to crack a beer, think to yourself... "If i shotgun it, i'll get drunk 5 times as fast..."

oh and congrats billy !!!!!

xo

NAWWWWWWWW <3 <3 <3

Nawwwwwwwwwwww

whosss a cuteyy wooootyyyyy ....

you areeeeeeeeee !!!

meet Bear... name says it all. he's 8 weeks old and cute as a button... defo blog worthy...

xo

don't you just love it onshore and crowded ?

Monday 8/6/09

Around 10:30 am after Billy finished catching up on his weekend detention, and filmer jimmy skips class we head off for a lowers mid-morning session... Heres a few waves from Billy Hopkins, Brother Andino, Nat young, Levi Gonzales, Luke Davis, Dylan Goodale, Myself and others...

CHICKITY-CHECK-YO-SELF: Billy Hopkins

So im Currently staying in Huntington Beach in California hanging out and having fun, staying with the Hopkins family. So what better way to get to know my new friend billy then to have him talk some shit as the next chickity-check-yo-self victim...

Introducing Hilly Bopkins

Age: 17

Hometown: Huntington Beach, California

Sponsors: Quiksilver, Katin Surf Shop

Wavedancing Spot: Barra De La Cruz, Mexico

Music: Rap, Sca, Reggae

Billy is Huntingtons local shredder and all round hell man just surfing and having a good time. Freshly graduated from HB high school and ready to light it up on the North American junior series and beyond.

Check out this Regaton loving ragamuffin at www.myspace.com/hillybopkins

ALL DAY ANTICS ! Arnette pro junior 09

The Arnette pro junior at Newport beach California wrapped up this weekend...

I was on the scene the whole weekend waiting for a spot to open for me to put a rashy on and attempt to win some heats... Turns out i was an Alternate and i didn't get to surf at all...

Naturally devo'd i took 2 pooey photos and went and got drunk with friends saturday night. (see party section for details)

I'll be brief with comp details here.

Nat Young won...

A hawaiin kid named keanu Asing placed 2nd....

Corey Arambide placed 3rd

Cody Thompson came in 4th

My honest opinion, the judging was out of wack alot of the time, Common in most junior contests but this was weird. It Could just be a bias opinion comming from a competitor from another country with a different criteria or something. But they through out some huge scores for some average surfing.

But ohwell, thats expected in shitty waves...

Check Mat Meolas perfect 10 -the only one of the event.

http://www.arnetteprojunior.com/photo/matt-meolas-perfect-10/

Was that 1 manouver wave a 10 ? you be the judge...

Apparently this was pumping Newport , It was 1-2ft and closing out a bit... This photo is a decepticon, makes it look alot better then it actually was...

My opinion... Nat was the best surfer of the event and that keanu kid tears.

and quinn Mccrystal got ripped off in a heat...

Check the highlights at http://www.arnetteprojunior.com/

Other then that, great event, Pyched for the Nike 6.0 pier pressure at the end of the month.

stay tuned for that... x

posca pens+alcohol+smallgathering=this...

So we had a small gathering...

Cute,drunken girls find posca pens and a surfboard...

Ryan Norrie, Tyler newton and mysefl watch on...

This = artwork...

Then it escalates....

And we decide drawing on people is fun....

then it ends up something like this :)

way funnier pics and a few funny film clips from the fun will be up soon.x

get angry...get red... get rock&roll

kinda drunk... kinda angry...kinda red looking bathroom...

makes for kinda rad looking pictures

ROCK ON xxx

TRESTLES RULE 1:Don't surf lowers the day before a contests

LOWERS

Tyler Newton, Ryan Norie of DS surfboards and myself trek to lower trestles

So Today we decide to hit lowers around midday to try and "dodge the morning crowd"

I was naturally excited about my very first trip to lowers and was pyched to get out there...

As we walk down the last bit of the track we see perfect 4 ft lines rolling in... PYCHEDDD !!!





We get to the bottom and there's gotta be at least 50-60 people sitting on one peak...
And not just any people, not just kooks... The Hobgoods, Taylor Knox, Where's Wardo and not to mention the entire North American junior series contingent !!!

I've honestly never seen anything like it in my entire life...


Worse then pipe on a packed day.

Worse then D'bah or the super bank ever gets..

Worst ever...



Although i do apologise for the photo's or lack there of...


The surf in the end was proper pumping so no one would take photos, everyone was out there, Everyone was having too much fun... take a look (.) (.) !!!

Next Lowers session i garauntee there will be photographic evidence of fun wave dancing i promise.....................




Seriously i promise...




does this face look serious to you ?