Thrasher back issues from June 2005:
Bold type.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Sun, Dylan ... This is sad. No Comix. Just Skate Coach?! Too much SF fecal focus or something. Even if the Comix sucks it reflects the kids' daydreaming at school on notebook paper, or people that love it so much they can't wait to be free and roll once again. Comix, shitty or not, reflect other opinions ...
More slag.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Hatfield, Jesse ... I must say, T-ed, I'm terribly upset you would waste valuable space in Mail Drop with such negativity over the terrible loss of Marty Heddings. You have triggered my aggressions as well as everyone who knows Neil. As I read further into the firing line brought forth, my blood boiled. If ...
My Dad.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Holbrook, Timothy ... The whole King of the Road issue was so awesome. I loved the Zero team's part in the magazine. Is the King of the Road 2004 DVD going to have a bunch of bad stuff in it? Because my dad doesn't let me see the skating movies with bad stuff in it ....
Break sprung.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005 ... It was 30-degrees out but it wasn't windy. Seeing the sun that day was unusual. The ground was dry and there was not really any salt to get caught on. So, we drove to the spot, a Jersey barrier with some transition concreted in. The run up was blacktop but at 30 degrees it feels harder ...
How you.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Sevels, Kristaps ... I just want to say that I hate this thing which is going on in skating now. Isn't it just sketchy? Most of the pros, mostly American pros, skate for money, less for fun, I think. I do not personally know any of the American pros, but I think that these young kids are just killing ...
Hate crime.(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Salvan, Fred ... What's up with those quitters? Who are they to claim glory because they quit? What is their final motivation? Why do they need to brag about it? Weariness, injuries, a lack of talent, advanced age, genetic goofiness--none of those things turned me away from the wheel-board faith. Would I ...
Rap music.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 01, 2005; Percy, Constance P. ... I'm a Sunday school teacher here in Racine, WI. And, as a congregation, we are appalled at pages 126-127 of your May issue. ...
Paying in pain, #16.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Color cover and some color content, this one is comin' up. Not exactly comin' up roses, as most of the spots inside are the kind of spots that smell like scummy water, pigeon shit, etc. Pools, street, parks, pretty much the whole shebang including overage of Chicago and the Strawberry ...
Cold ones, #12.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... This is without a doubt the most hilarious thing going this month. Cold Ones should be a institution, man. Sarcasm is thick as mucous and even funnier. The funniest thing is the background story behind the San Rafael skatepark, which is actually a dissertation on the origins of Retarded ...
This axe was made to grind, DVD.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Awright, not really a 'zine, per se, but a self-produced DVD. The story goes something like this: as 151 was destructing, the team manager Zach had a ton of footage that was supposed to be used in the upcoming 151 video. Dorfo bought out 151 and homogenized it, Zach held on to the video ...
Totally harsh on your mellow chortle scene, #3.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Killer dudes, an anorexic junkie on the cover? The image was disturbing and I thought twice about reading this before I ate my breakfast. But turn the page and there's Neil. Hey man, I thought we would be skating by now? Malodorous putrefaction, THOYMCS is a death-metal induced farcical ...
Sick and tired funnies, #4.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Going with the thread of this month, but purely by coincidence of arrival time, comes Sick and Tired Funnies. These are among the funniest self-published comics I've seen. Familiar cliches are skewered left and right, and no target is safe here. The ...
Armpit, #3.(ZiNE THING)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Just got three issues of this pussy-power skate 'zinc outta Montreal. Regardless of what some people think there are plenty of girls who rip, and these guys, uh, gals, got something goin' on in Montreal. The issues cover street, parks, pools, transitions, etc, and there is plenty of ...
Shredding for Heddings II: San Diego, CA February 26th, 2005.
Jun 01, 2005; Hammeke, Joe ... NEIL HEDDINGS has been in jail since early March of 2003. The promise of a speedy trial seems to work differently if you want a true shot at justice. A court date was set for early March of 2005, but was postponed until Neil can raise the $10,000 needed for expert witnesses who can explain ...
Do what you do.
Jun 01, 2005 ... There isn't a right or wrong way to do it individuality in skateboarding is what fuels the whole gig We've been building on that belief since we ...
Anatomy of freestyle is dead forever: although it helped birth much of modern street skating, history hasn't been kind to those funny little boards ...
Jun 01, 2005 ... "College was killer ..." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Union and proud [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wardrobe malfunction [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Yeah bitches! Just like Mullen at the '84 championships! Yeeah!" ...
A serious article about the Banana Farm.
Jun 01, 2005 ... HI, I'M MICHAEL SIEBEN. You might remember me from such Thrasher articles as "15 Things You Couldn't Give Any Less Of A Crap About The Ditch Down The Street From My House" and "How To Be A Skateboard Artist." Well my readers, today I am going to put aside such childish ranting in order to ...
Valley concrete.
Jun 01, 2005; Freitas, Nik ... WINTER DESCENDS on the San Joaquin Valley with a blanket of fog. If you're heading down Highway 99 after 7:00pm, the visibility can literally leave you driving blind. The fog creeps in and settles all around you like the ghost from everybody's Christmas' past. The sun eventually burns a ...
Making friends is easy *.
Jun 01, 2005; Burnett, Michael ... COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SIZE of your airline seat on an all-expenses-paid trip across the world to ride skateboards is like complaining that the chocolate chips in your cookies are too small, or that your girlfriend is just too damn fine. It's the territory of assholes, a territory I've ...
Goin' am.(THRASHER MAGAZINE'S 2005 AM HOTLIST)
Jun 01, 2005 ... WHAT DO YOU MEAN you can't "Go am?" I don't care what the dictionary says. What? Shut up, college boy! I know for a fact that you can go am! No? Well don't tell these guys, 'cause they're already doing it! NEEN WILLIAMS / BACKSIDE SMITH / PHOTO: DEVILLE Already ...
We Jam Econo: the story of the minutemen.
Jun 01, 2005; Beardo, El ... ALL RIGHT, BEFORE I EVEN GET INTO THIS I know what you're thinking: another fucking story about San Pedro and Mike Watt by that guy with the beard. That's all this dude writes about right? Well, yeah, this one is about Pedro and Watt, but damn it was a good night--so stuff it. ...
Last of the Blacksmith's.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2005; Henry, Ryan ... SAN FRANCISCO'S LAST OF THE BLACKSMITHS began recording their first full-length in March 2004. Using a Tascam 388 (a 1980's era eight-channel mixing board-slash-I/4" reel-to-reel recorder, of which only seven channels worked), the band committed to tape--live--more than a dozen of the ...
Tim version.
Jun 01, 2005; Taylor, Todd ... THERE'S A TERRIBLE WEIGHT hanging over all our heads. News is not good these days. It's not just because we've got a supreme dick in the White House who's galloping the entire nation towards the Apocalypse. Shit's bad all over, from jobs to housing to a revolving door of idiots attempting ...
A-frames.
Jun 01, 2005; Locks, Jesse ... SEATTLE'S A FRAMES ARE NOT WHAT you'd expect from a traditional drum/bass/ guitar combo. Best described as lo-fi experimental with elements of punk and new wave a la The Fall or Wire, the A Frames' approach to rock is methodical, minimal, even clinical. Erin Sullivan's razor sharp guitar ...
Jeff Parker.
Jun 01, 2005; Gray, Guy ... JEFF PARKER IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN as a member of Chicago sound experimentalists Tortoise, but many folks are unaware that he is also quite an accomplished jazz guitarist who frequently collaborates with a lot of other artists. His newest solo record, Relatives, came out earlier this year ...
RPG.
Jun 01, 2005; Coyle, Michael ... TYPE THE LETTERS RPG into an Internet search engine and you'll get pages and pages about Dungeons and Dragons and other gaming geekery that has absolutely nothing to do with the rock and roll band from Richmond, VA, that call themselves by the same three letters. Their drummer, Michael ...
OM.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Jun 01, 2005 ... OM Variations on a Theme (Holy Mountain)--Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius (brain children of Sleep) reappear with brooding rumbles of low-end research. Basically it is what the title says, ...
Corrosion of conformity.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Jun 01, 2005 ... CORROSION OF CONFORMITY In the Arms of God CD (Sanctuary Records)--HOLY Volume Dealers, first studio album in five years brings to mind Blind& Deliverance era COC with obliterating stoner grooves and killer ...
High on fire.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Jun 01, 2005 ... HIGH ON FIRE Blessed Black Wings2x LP (Relapse)--Joe Preston (Melvins/Thrones) joins in with Matt Pike (former Sleep guitarist), It starts off where Surrounded by ...
Enslaved.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Jun 01, 2005 ... ENSLAVED Isa (Candlelight)--The genetic engineering on/sa mutates the trademark Nordic ideal of necroblasting blasphemy of waging war with lengthy ...
Leviathan.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Jun 01, 2005 ... LEVIATHAN Tentacles of Whore 2x LP (Moribund)--Wrest returns to bastardize all nonbelievers of the realm. Necrotic symphonies swallow the souls of worthless men wandering through forgotten ...
Notes from the underground.
Jun 01, 2005; Lundry, Wez ... ON THE LIVE FRONT, DMBQ rolled through town a bit ago. They're a Japanese foursome who play real stony, acidy, '70s-style guitar rock, complete with psychedelic period get-ups. They played an all ages place known more for indie rock stuff and a crowd of young 'uns, replete with Spock ...
Photograffiti.
Jun 01, 2005 ... $15K college photo-class tuition not necessary. Send to: Photo-G, P0 Box 884570 SF, CA, 94188-4570 Tommy Gunz gets his 5-0 satisfaction by any means necessary. Boston, MA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ever-photogenic front feebs. Sharp trick. Toby Evans. ...
Sk8 coach: a highspeed/fairbanks joint.(THRASHER[R] comix)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Here to whip the pros into shape Groom that goatee ... ...
Vs. Josh Kasper.(THRASHER[R] comix)(Cartoon)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Lights out ladies. Vanessa, Elissa, no more horse play. We have a full day of skating tomorrow. Hey, who's the new girl? That's our new friend Katie. She's filming with us tomorrow. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's something's fishy here. Time for a ... ...
Vs. Jamie Thomas.(THRASHER[R] comix)(Cartoon)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Why the long face, son? I've done it all Coach, but I never got to land the Leap of Faith. I think I can help here ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This Leap of Faith tour will be a hit. We'll hit every Wal-Mart in the area for big fun and big gaps. ...
Vs. Ed Templeton: part 2.(THRASHER[R] comix)(Cartoon)
Jun 01, 2005 ... This disrespect cannot go unpunished. I think the enjoi tour is going to have a little 'visit'. Now go do my bidding. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Meanwhile, Coach battles Ed's minions! Must ... reach ... whistle ... Must ... alert ... friends ... ...
Summer skool.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... AFTER GRUELING NEGOTIATIONS, THE 2005 KING OF THE ROAD teams have finally and officially been confirmed. Reigning champs Zero will be defending the title against the awesome powers of the Alien, Element and, dum-da-dahhhh: Flip team! In a related story, the 2004 KOTR DVD is finally ...
Second shift.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Leave the pads at home, boys. This shit is raw street (style). To suitably accommodate the raw, awesome power that is to be the new Plan B, Syndrome distribution was forced to shit can their popular Status Inc and Hellrose programs. While the Status team may disappear into nothingness, not ...
Milk carton.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Where's Fernandez? No, really. Anyone seen Chad Fernandez? Texas' Mike Crum can do every invert ever invented which might at least be half of the reason he has a new pro model coming out on the little known Power shoe brand. Has Daewon sworn off photos as the final ...
Air time.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Straight out of the slammer and into the cash, Christian Hosoi has recently signed deals with Quiksilver and Spitfire, with rumors of a DC spot available once he is back to his fighting form. Recent sightings of tilted methods in the Combi round suggest strongly that time might be sooner ...
Down for life.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Broken boards and broken hearts. It looks like Florida's Randy Browne ...
Hall of meat.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Heather Taylor displays with pride her new mini-ramp purple people eater [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Sunk ships.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Raymond Molinar on Habitat? That is the trout--but only after Danny Renaud and Rob Pluhowski got the boot. In other shake-ups, Anthony Mosley is off Krew and Mike V is off Etnies. Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose and Brendan Fowler are said to be launching a non-commercial ...
Fat free finger flip.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Danny 'Snap' Supa done gone haywire cross-marketing ...
Ray dar.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... The drop for Nike's signature zapato the Zoom Air Paul Rodriguez occurred on the upper tier of Hollywood down low at the Concorde. P Rod was gifted with a diamond conked platinum necklace replica of his Zoom Air, which set a new standard in board bling. And ditto for the ...
Same thing.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005 ... "I wanted to be part of something fresh and redo history."--Paul Rodriguez "The best thing about skateboarding is that there's no room for retro."--Fausto Vitello "Having the advantage of the best ramp in the world--yes, I'm ...
Volcom bowl bash: Costa Mesa, March 3, 2005.(Trash)
Jun 01, 2005; Randall, Steve ... VOLCOM'S WORLD HQ, site of pros and hos and those who know, were down for a good ol' fashion rip ride. Bowls, bros and seriously funny handshakes all were on call this evening. The best things to happen were in the big pipe ....
Firing line: Sam Hitz.(ON BOARD)
Jun 01, 2005 ... DOB: '74. Mopar, bitches! POB: Milwaukee, OG hesh crew Years on board: Sixteen or 17 Income: Highs 'n' lows Tunes: Darkthrone, Kool Keith, Anal Cunt Latest band: Gnargasm Hate: Quarter-pipe Larry Love: Morn and ...
Five ...(ON BOARD)
Jun 01, 2005 ... No Tattoos and Rippin' 1. Rick Howard 2. Billy Marks 3. Tony Cox 4. Keith Hufnagel 5. Pat Channita --J Wehler, Hutchinson, MN Raddest Dressed Skaters 1. Ali Boulala 2. Jim Greco ...
Awful truth.(ON BOARD)
Jun 01, 2005 ... SKATEBOARDERS JOYRIDE IN EMPTY POOL, COPS SAY The allure of an empty pool led to the arrest of two skateboarders at a Monte Sereno home, police said. Brian Starn, 29, and Beau Godfrey, 25, reportedly admitted to skateboarding in the empty pool and trespassing at a home under ...
Funbox.(ON BOARD)
Jun 01, 2005 ... Q: Why don't oysters give to charity? A: Because they're shellfish. --Alex Freeberg, Memphis, TN ...
Poet's corner.(ON BOARD)(Poem)
Jun 01, 2005; Walters, Chris ... <Pre> SKATEBOARD It's only as my feet go numb from the vibrations and all is drowned out by the roar of urethane on asphalt that I truly begin to focus to such an extent that everything begins to f-a-d-e ... Phoenix in flight, I rise above ...
Flash flood.(SOMETHiN' ELSE)
Jun 01, 2005 ... IT MAY NOT BE FLEA at Mav's or Ranquet out-running an avalanche, but Steve Fauser is ...
After the rad.
Jun 22, 2005; Burnett, Michael ... WHEN I FIRST GOT the job at Thrasher I could barely take photos. Don't believe me? Check out Jason Dill's interview in the Oct. '97 issue! I had to put myself on a strict photo training regimen--taking notes, shooting tons of test rolls and buckling down to figure out exactly what the "F" ...
