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Myself and a bunch of friends rallied out to La Push last weekend. Left the big city at 2pm just in time to hit a mega line at the Kingston Ferry. Evidently the Lavender Festival in Sequim was hoppin so lotsa baby boomers were en route. After watching some agro ferry-frequenters go ape shit on some ‘outta town line cutter’ we made the ferry only 1.5 hours late.

We made it to La Mush by about 8:30pm and were in the water shortly after. It was cloudy that night so the post sunset light went quick–usually this time of year you can surf well after sunset. Water was glassy, waves were waist high and punchy. As the evening went on the waves melded with the horizon and became really hard to see. Luckily a little Quileute firework show helped out with some depth perception. We got out of the water in more or less complete dark. The rest of the gang showed up that night.

The waves Sat. morning were (more…)

The Foals played last Monday (6.14.08) at Neumos.  They had a secret/special guest who ended up being Wolf Parade.  I was really only going for Wolf Parade who i’ve yet to see. That day i checked out The Foals online, listened to a few songs but wasn’t immediately stoked on their sound.  It usually takes a few listens for me to dig on most stuff though.

Hardstab went to the Sub Pop 20th show at Marymoor the previous weekend and mentioned that The Foals were awesome live. The lead singer of the Foals was going ape shit breaking stuff on stage.  Sounded like it was gonna be a great show.

The Foals went on around 10 and the lead singer def showed some onry rockstar traits right off the bat.  Rad.  After about the third song Hardstab yelled out “break your mic!”.  Or something like that.  Dude replied “I’ll break something, where you at”.  Whoa!  Sweet…Hardstab was taunting the rockstar.  The next song, dude jumped off the stage with guitar and started moving through the crowd towards Hardstab.  Uh oh.  Nothing exciting panned out but it was a bit intimidating to see dude moving toward us after a half-assed threat.

Wolf Parade was awesome.  Sound was good, crowd was stoked, Band was rocking.  Stoked i finally got to see them at a small venue before they reach stadium status.  Next time The Foals come to town go see them.

Here’s a vid i took from the show of “Wolf Parade - You are a Runner and I am my Father’s Son”

A month ago i wrote how i’d heard that there was a shark sighting in Westport by a bunch of people. At the time i thought it to be a bunch of bull shiz but later heard from a legit source that it was indeed legit.

Below is an email i received from a friend who actually saw the shark.

“Hey man,

I’m not sure what to say on this one as I still don’t know what to think. I have always thought of W-Port as the Shark free zone of the NW. Living and surfing in Oregon for years, I always knew that there (more…)

Gas is expensive. Therefore surfing is expensive. If you live Seattle it’s even more expensive. Have you ever really stopped to add up how much gas you burn surfing?? I know math is hard so here’s a handy table i calc’d that breaks down estimated cost to various surf spots in WA, OR based on fuel economy and the price of gas at $4.50 and $5.00.
We all pretty much knew this but it’s pretty nutz to see it in spreadsheet form. Gas probably isn’t gonna get any cheaper either. Try not to factor in beer, camping fees, food or ammo for your airsoft gun. Ouch.

Here’s an interesting read on other oil related impacts to surfing. Thanks Dax. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25571902