Jennifer's Blog — January 2010 Archive Blogger Profile

Tomorrow night (sat 23rd) Antisocial is holding the release party for a hip-hop video (yup) made by Simon Redekop. Should be fun times as usual, i'll see you there.

doors at 8, vid goes on at 9, entry by donation.

Not sure if you've seen this or not, but recently i revisited this epic series of melody-less soap operas from RKelly. It may have been 3am when i watched them, but somehow i was once again blown away by the videos. if someone were to send me a video rap-opera of their day it would make me really happy.

You can’t skate like Koston, but what you can do is  throw on these pieces from his signature Oakley capsule collection. The Frogskins and backpack feature wood-grain print details and colourway, but you’ve surely read all about that on his Twitter.

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This amazing, puffy, adult-snuggly was the brainchild of Brad Staba. Here’s what inspired him to partner up with Nike SB to have an extremely limited number of these made:

“You know when you go camping and have to take a piss in the middle of the night, then you try some Jedi shit to make it go away… but it doesn’t? Then you pump yourself up to freeze in the cold to walk on the dirt and find a tree to take care of this task? I know that feeling too well. People, I can solidly say that I will never have that feeling again. Why? Because I own the greatest sleeping bag known to man. This bag is a heavy duty S.O.B. and I dare you to argue with me. I also hope everything I’ve written so far sounds like an infomercial. This bag zips from the crotch, down the front, and around the back only to clip each of the lower halves of the bag to the sides. That pretty much means you can pass out anywhere in the woods, transform your bag to mobile mode, and start making a puddle on the ground. Of if you wanna just hang out by the campfire and get the warmth of a jacket this will do that. It has powers. Or it’s just a really cool sleeping bag.”
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Last night we got together with some friends to watch a couple videos, have some pizza and enjoy the free-flowing beer, right from the vats at the Molson Brewery. Yes, within that yeast and hop filled building lies a small little bar with an endless supply of Pilsner and party. Thanks Murf! Here are a couple of pics from the night, to see more, click here.

This series of city-specific notebooks from Moleskine let you design your own guidebook. They provide you with maps of the city, maps of the transportation systems as well as different tabs to create your own sections. Now you can have an entire part of your personal tour diary dedicated to the many splendid beers you taste in Brussels, Belgium, or as many pages as you want for keeping track of weird facts and travel stories picked up along the way. Choose from 45 select cities.
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Toronto’s Allister Lee has been hard at work collaborating with “The Godfather of Chinese Skateboarding” Jeff Han to rebrand and develop Gift Skateboard’s hardgoods and apparel lines. The theme for the company’s deck series came from Chinese firecracker label art and was developed by Chinese skaters for Chinese skaters and the community beyond. Keep an eye out for Gift’s first full-length video filmed in Mainland China to be coming out soon.
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So get rid of them and do something good for someone else while you’re at it. Volcom is giving you the chance to win a year’s supply of jeans with their “Give Jeans a Chance” program. All you have to do is grab a pair of jeans you have in your closet right now and drop them in the bin at participating shops and you can enter to win a closet full of denim. All of the donated jeans are being distributed locally by “The National Coalition for the Homeless” to folks who will really appreciate the gift.

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LIGHTNING BOLT
Earthly Delights
(Load)

Rejoice, mortals, Lightning Bolt has returned! Things were getting just a little too tame in their absence, and there's nothing we needed more than a refreshing blast of skull-crushing, bowel-wrenching, fist-pumping splatter-rock from Rhode Island's all-powerful, mask-wearing, comics-drawing caveman joker gods. From the opening salvo of “Sound Guardians”, the two Brians remind us that they, and only they, hold the keys of chaos. Is there any other band that reaches such heights of glorious, cathartic heaviosity? There might be noise rock bands that are harder, darker, or more abrasive, or metal bands more technical and more grandiose, but you know what those guys' problem is? They take themselves too seriously! Neither Pissed Jeans nor Merzbow nor Sunn0))) nor Mastodon have the sheer idiot glee of Lightning Bolt. Lightning Bolt are unhinged. They are wild and free. This noise is catchy. As you probably already gathered, this album is no letdown. It's no great leap forward, but it's every bit as boredom-annihilating as their best work, and you need it. http://www.myspace.com/lightningboltbrians

-saelan twerdy

'twuan's new face tat really brings out the pink in his eyes