The New Boredom

I was digging though a bunch of old folders on a hard drive trying to find a shot when I stumbled across this old thing that I made from back when the news broke that the Iron Donkey was no longer going to have DW link.

yup.

Sam will be riding a bike that rhymes with orange next year. haha but no- not Orange.

So that’s the recycled news for today. check back tomorrow for more shots of Justice live in concert doing what they do best, pushing buttons.

never mind the bad aspect ratio.

never mind the shaky camera.

never mind the poorly remixed beasty boys song choice.

never mind the focus issues.

This was shot in two hours with Danny Mac on the same bike that I have and I cant do a single god damn thing out of this video. This is dope.

Who else is doing three bonks up like 8 sets, jam-whip drops… and that fakie manny to whip is just silly.

Everyone else does a Top 5’s so The New Boredom might as well do it too. I figure it is a fun way to give some insight into people you maybe have never met or learn something new about people you thought you knew. In the future, New Boredom contributors will be doing a Top 5’s of their own to show you a little bit of who is behind the pen (or keyboard rather). Some pro riders and some industry friends will also be up here doing Top 5’s soon. Stay tuned.

Anyways, here’s mine

Top 5- Riders to watch: 1. Sergio Layos 2. Chris Kovarik 3. Mike Aitken 4. Nico Vink 5. Dave Camp

Top 5 – Live Shows: 1. Broken Social Scene 2. The Arcade Fire 3. Mogwai 4. Matson Jones 5. Peaches

Top 5 – Movies: 1. There Will Be Blood 2. The Assassination Of Jesse James 3. In the Mood for Love 4. Blue 5. The Royal Tenenbaums

Top 5 – Celebrities I could do without: 1. Zach Braff 2. Paris Hilton 3. Miley Cyrus 4. Dane Cook 5. Zach Braff again.

Top 5 – Daily Website visits: 1. email 2. OTN 3. Defgrip 4. The Come Up 5. social network crap

Top 5 – Places: 1. On a bike 2. My bed 3. Colorado 4. Hvar, Croatia 5. behind a camera

Top 5- Smells: 1. Drier laundry sheets (used once preferably) 2. High altitude Colorado air 3. Thai food 4. pretty girls 5. Fog

Top 5- Things I am OCD about: 1. Hangnails or sharp corners on my fingernails 2. Folding my tee shirts the right way 3. In the fall I HAVE to step on a crunchy looking leaf on the sidewalk if I see one 4. Photoshop and Final Cut Pro work 5. Lacing up my new shoes so they match.

Top 5 – Ride spots: 1. Sol Vista 2. Curbs with friends 3. Whistler 4. Croatian coastline 5. Curbs alone

Top 5 – Ideal Jobs: 1. Teacher 2. Inventor 3. baller graphic designer 4. baller industrial designer 5. comedy writer

So there’s 50 things about me. Now you know. You’ve read it. You can’t un-read it.

Interbike sucks. Vegas sucks.

I hate everything about this city. It’s all fake. I imagine if this city were a woman wearing a skirt, that it would lift up that skirt and show you her penis. I feel thoroughly disgusted by this place and I couldn’t wait to leave even before the plane landed.

This is like all the worst parts of covering a bike race except here, there is no race. You cant really just sit down on a log for a few minutes. You can just go pee in the woods. You are on your legs all day blowing out your knees and walking around in circles to find a disgusting bathroom, paying a 500% convenience tax on food and drinks. The result is that you are cranky, tired, dehydrated as fuck, hungry- and it’s only 1 in the afternoon.

Here are 5 quotes from the trip so far that are keeping me sane:

“Shave that thing for me Friday night.” –Our cab driver from the airport on his cell phone to what he claimed was some one else’s wife.

“I’m hungry… I wanna get fucked up… I wanna see some titties.” –Matt walking down the hall to our room.

“Yo…  Is that my toothbrush?” – me to Steve, we have pretty similar toothbrushes it turns out.

“I was drunk, ya know. I was curious.” Moga. priceless.

“I cant believe it’s been ten years since these girls changed the world for the rest of us chicks.” –some drunk lady from Newfoundland- out of no where, no context, during NWD video premier (which also sucked a sack of dicks by the way).

I’m off to Vegas- or as I like to think of it, “Everything that is wrong with America in one small shitty place”

Expect coverage of stuff on the Dirt website tomorrow evening and links to it up here.

See ya soon, Sin City. I hate you already. But I love In-n-Out.