According to my iTunes, I've played this song close to 500 times in the last 18 months. Over double the amount I've played the second most played song... and that doesn't count how many times I've listened to it in my car, older computers, work computer and iPod. In my opinion, it takes something really special to produce a ten-minute song with no words, that keeps a picky bastard like me captivated until the very end, hundreds and hundreds of times over. I truly envy that ability every day.
If you already know this song, then you know. If you don't then hopefully I've introduced you to something new you might enjoy.
The new enjoi catalog is fun. They emailed me one day and asked me to do a few interviews for it (ie: the entire team), and I couldn't refuse. Read 'em over there, Or steal this.
I know, I know, vert's soooooo not cool. ESPN, the ultimate authority on skateboarding, even proclaimed it "dead," remember? Then, a day later, it was cool, I mean, "alive," again.
So as the éS tour continued, we did one of those "demos" in Virginia where no kids allowed the team to actually skate. They just asked for free shit and lurked the course. But Mike Anderson still tried to cruise a little. Then this happened:
Pretty sick back smith though, huh? Anyways, here's the rest of what was exciting from the demo:
For some weird reason, lots of people assume I hate Ryan Sheckler. I think there's this thing that if you're some dude in the "core" industry or whatever, you're supposed to hate on Ryan. I didn't get that memo... must've missed it. He's always been pretty cool to me and I'm always impressed when I see him skate, I know that much. First try 360 flip over a large gap from today's X Games Street finals:
