Thrasher back issues from August 2003:
Mail drop.
Aug 01, 2003 ... Keep it tight, make it right, let 'em know, their shit bites: Mail Drop c/o THRASHER P0 Box 884570 San Francisco, CA 94188-4570 HATE CRIME I am wilting you guys regarding the article "BMX Jihad." So you are calling for a war against BMXers, and the writer doesn't ...
The adventures of Boxlor. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... OK, this one is a little on the weird side, but pretty funny (apparently some of those Canadians have some free time on their hands). Boxlor is the protagonist, and is, uh, some guy wearing a box with a face drawn on it. The stories follow Boxlor as ...
Cold ones, #8. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... The 'zine that keeps promising to die but just won't, lucky for us. More mayhem outta San Jose and environs, with an ode to slappies, park reviews (Santa Cruz, Greenfield, Martinez) and a feature of the funnest disaster ever, Randy's Ramp. And don't ...
Bored, #3. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... This one asks the eternal question: "Why Bother?" It's got some stuff about bands and skating, but some of the random stuff is: the best, including the retort to a review that hated his 'zine. Spots ...
Gutted world, #5. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... An example of a totally shitty photocopied and hastily thrown together lump, Gutted rules. Could definitely use a halftone scan of the photos and the writing is nearly illegible, ...
Coffin to fakie, #3. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... Another 'zine that takes my jabs at snowbrucing in snide, this one's funny as shit at times and not afraid to take a few jabs at whatever. Trick of the Month, "I Am Better Than Your Kids," Longboarder of the week (yes!), the Shred Shed ...
The journal, #7.3. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... Undeterred by my incessant heckling of the snowbrucing content, I get another Journal in the mall and it's another good one. A high-quality photo 'zine with some skating (an Anthony Shetler interview), photo essays, band ...
Free fake ID! (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... Alright kids, cut out the license below, color it in, laminate it (the more ambitious may cover the photo with their own), and prestol Welcome to the glamorous world of spending all your loot on ...
Threesixteen, April/May. (Zine Thing).
Aug 01, 2003 ... Arrrgh! Not another one of these Christian skate 'zines. Hey man, in case you haven't got the message yet, keep that shit to yourself. This one's named after a verse from the Bible but do you really care about the 3:16 2003 contest series? Didn't think so. And the t-shirt design is funny: ...
!Cubalibre!
Aug 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... WE WANTED TO GO SOMEWHERE DIFFERENT for our honeymoon; I mean, that's the point isn't it? How about a trip back in time? How about somewhere the US government bans its citizens from going? How about one of the world's remaining Communist holdouts (talk about an anachronism)? I ...
Sunday at Lohrman's.
Aug 01, 2003; Harris, Andy ... MIKE'S RAMP is actually at his mom's house in Mission Viejo. I think Mom owns a cosmetics company or something like that, but whatever the case, the place is really nice-killer view, nice swim pool, bling bling blab blah. I've probably been over live times and it's pretty much been the ...
At age 13, Ryan Sheckler is the youngest skater to ever win the slam city jam.
Aug 01, 2003; Hammeke, Joe ... I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 13. Eighth grade. I was skating everyday alter school, but like me rest of my eighth grade class our parents had us all signed up for little league baseball. Our team lost every game that season. Most of us didn't want to be there. Some of us just wanted to ...
Warren Jenkins. (Canvas).
Aug 01, 2003; Barletta, Louie ... MY EARLIEST MEMORY OF WARREN would have to be from 1987 when I bought an old, beat up Powell-Peralta Tommy Guerrero off him for five dollars. Back then I had a subscription to Thrasher and he owned a copy of Future Primitive. This was our life. All we knew was skateboarding and from the ...
Everybody **'s Leo.
Aug 01, 2003; Burnett, Michael ... DAY IN AND DAY OUT, in the ghetto that never sleeps, Leo Romero is young, restless, and determined to escape the bile of despair that most humans never overcome. His skating demonstrates an ambition to break free of this steel clutch while becoming one of the finest amateur riders, all ...
The hunt for Hensley: in god's land of hot ditches.
Aug 01, 2003 ... Rhino WHEN ASKED TO BE THE PHOTO GOON on board the Duffs' van to Arizona and New Mexico, I said hell yeah! Damnit, Hensley can't make it? Then I thought perdium, which meant skaahh. No, not the noise of a skateboard tail cracking an ollie, no, not the noise of my camera firing ...
Jereme Rogers: "buy a dog, name him something cool". (Heads).
Aug 01, 2003; Smyth, Sam ... How old are you? 18. And you're still making crank calls? Yeah, sometimes. Are you still a vegetarian? Yep, for life, You ever consider eating meat? Not really, it's gross. Do you remember the last ...
Lincoln Ueda: "everything else is complimentary". (Heads).
Aug 01, 2003 ... What's up with Texas? I came down for the ESPN Global X-Games thing, whatever they call it. We practiced a little bit today and we'll probably practice again tomorrow. But I'm just here as an alternate; they invited two riders per event from each country--not country but ...
Nate Jones: "I had to take him for his money". (Heads).
Aug 01, 2003; Newton, Matt ... Nate, where are you from and how did you get here? I came from Dayton, Ohio. Real and Stereo were coming back from New York on their summer tour. I just got dumped by one of my girlfriends and decided to jump in the van and get a ride out to SF and see where that took me. This ...
Turbonegro.
Aug 01, 2003 ... Turbonegro are more exciting and crazy-perfect than any rock band playing today. Formed in Oslo, Norway in the early **90s, the group is legendary as much for its hardcore-by-way-of-arena-rock sound as it is for its denim fetish and on-stage anal pyrotechnics. Back after four years apart, ...
Bottles.
Aug 01, 2003 ... Retodd IT'S THE SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR REACTOR. It's gotta be. Those big concrete boobs spewing hot water into the Pacific Ocean just fuck with people. No, no one's glowing green, no aliens are in a '64 Malibu's trunk yet, but people around there are just plain weird, like the ...
Immolation.
Aug 01, 2003; Denver, Nate ... FOR 15 YEARS Immolation has been grinding out death metal songs about the church and gaining fans along the way (including Corpsegrinder, the singer of Cannibal Corpse, who seemed to be wearing nothing but Immolation shirts while on stage for over a year). This summer the band will embark ...
AESOP & Eligh.
Aug 01, 2003; Harvis, Mark ... WE BROUGHT YOU the Living Legends interview a couple issues back and you craved it--here's part two. These guys have a fine taste in liquor, especially AESOP with his 100-dollar bottle of tequila he was gracious enough to share with me. I met up with Eligh and AESOP at a show they did in ...
(Somg).
Aug 01, 2003; Orzeck, Kurt ... BILL CALLAHAN is fed up with noisy neighbors. The guy living above bun just put on a Bjork record, which sounded nice up until he whipped out his saxophone and started playing along, totally out of key. Callahan promptly left his apartment, which he doesn't always do. He usually wears ...
Mother truckers.
Aug 01, 2003; Sterling, Eben ... AT THE FOOT OF MARIN'S MYTHIC MOUNT TAMALPAIS and just down the street from the 7-11 stands the home of Josh Zee and Teal Collins. There's power in the mountains over there that-inspired Jack Kerouac, but currently fuels the fire that is the Mother Truckers. The band is a trove of talent ...
Vaux.
Aug 01, 2003 ... Jiczen THE INSTANT the three-pronged guitar attack of opening track "Set It To Blow" body slams its way out of the speakers, it's clear that Vaux's sophomore album, There Must Be Some Way To Stop Them, has nothing in common with the watery punk-lite and dumbed-down nu-metal ...
Notes from the underground.
Aug 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... STARTING OFF WITH THE SMALL RECORDS, you gotta check out Sonny Vincent's Old School Motor Punk on Flapping Jet Records. On this double-sided slab are two barn burners from the frontman of the Testors, backed by an illustrious all-star cast: Scott Asheton of the Stooges, Richard Lloyd from ...
Letter Bombs.
Aug 01, 2003 ... UNLESS YOU'RE a complete bird-brain, you know by now we rock Letter Bombs on an every-other-month basis. Why is that? Because we're trying to filter out the sludge, slime, and suckedry we get flooded with every month. The good go to Mail Drop. The great are deemed Bombs. Are we clear? ...
Trash.
Aug 01, 2003 ... SEITCH STANCE ALBEIT AMICABLE, REESE FORBES MADE THE SPLIT FROM long-time Element and is now thinkin' 'bout hippy-jumping his way on over to the new Deluxe-forwarded Matt Field/Nate Jones ensemble, as yet to be named. Whatevs though; it'll be rootsy and rockin' and radical, in a ...
On board.
Aug 01, 2003 ... FIVE ... Looped Out 1. Tony Hawk 2. Dan Sturt 3. Al Partanen 4. Bob Burnquist 5. Jake Brown --Joke Cuthbertson, LA, CA Extinct Moves 1. Good buddy 2. Wooly mammoth ...
