Thrasher back issues from August 2005:
Sold out.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2005; Richards, John ... So I'd thought that Thrasher had been removed from the shelves of the stores here in my town (paranoid, crazy man thinking). Just turns out that it sold out. I guess that is what happens when you live in a super skate city like Vancouver. My, how times have changed. Growing up in Edmonton, ...
Travel time.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2005; Robertson, Stephen ... Hey, I've got a question: you ever filled your mouth with a liquid and shook your head? It sounds crazy, huh? You ever filled a water bottle with water and flipped it and tried to catch it open-palmed and standing up? Or how about flipping an empty one as many times as possible and then ...
Colum bine.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2005; Heikkila, Taina ... I purchased a Thrasher subscription for my 12- and a half-year-old son this past Christmas. This week he had received his new duly 2005 Thrasher--and I was so shocked to see the cover that I immediately took a look inside. Inside I found the same type of unhealthy, morbid drawings. In this ...
Geography.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2005; Henry, Todd ... Michael Burnett's "Short and Shitty" lesson about New Zealand on page 119 of the June 2005 issue sure was shitty New Zealand is located off of Australia's East ...
The saurus.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Here is a skate lexicon that I have been working on for a week or so ... (Carve): To make or to create for oneself. "He carved out his career." / (Coping). Adaptation to environment, enhances control over behavior, gives psychological comfort. / (Grind): 1. To oppress, torment, or crush ....
Weekend with Gilley.
Aug 01, 2005; Sieben, Michael ... OK DUDES, CHECK IT OUT. Maybe you've noticed that in general my articles don't really touch on what most people would consider "real skateboarding." And by "real skateboarding" I mean the stuff that most magazines write about. You know. Professional skateboarders (or ams who are soon to be ...
Gearhead, Spring '05.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... After a four-year hiatus, Gearhead is back with a vengeance. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, one of the forefathers of custom and hot rod culture. It's got tributes and a never-before-published interview, as well as a piece by someone who worked with him, ...
Low card, #8.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... A perennial favorite and underdog, I don't know what it is about Low Card that makes it such a go. This one has got coverage centered around the Bay Area, but it don't stop there: East Coast, Northwest, you name it ....
Tickled pink.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... This one is a collection of drawings and sketches done by Todd Bratrud, who also does art for Consolidated and bands, among other stuff (some of the stuff here has appeared on posters or ads elsewhere). It's a ...
Stolen sharpie revolution: a diy 'zine resource.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... I got a bunch of coo] stuff from Microcosm Publishing out of Portland, a little too much to read in time for this, but they also sent a handy little tome: The Stolen Sharpie Revolution. It's the an idiot's guide to making a 'zine, which could be helpful and lessen some frustration ...
The journal, #7.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Holy shit! It's countercultural phenom Ed Templeton looking aggro on the cover and throwin' up double overhead horns] This 'zinc has become a cultural journal of sorts, with varied content that is usually top notch. There's always some skating in there (including stuff by our own O'Dell, ...
Adbusters #59.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... To our most bitter opponents we say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey unjust laws, ...
Adbusters #59.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Perspective is a good thing. Some people go years, or whole lifetimes, without considering a thing out of their narrow field of vision. World debt, abject poverty; "Yeah, but how does it affect me? That's their reality, not mine." This mag shows how there's only one reality and we're all ...
Arkansas spring break: a natural state.(Zine Thing)
Aug 01, 2005 ... File this one under the good times and good ridin' road trip section. A coupla guys from Missouri head south to Arkansas to skate and see what's there, and the best part is that the whole thing was a photo project at school. As with any first attempt, it's a little rough ...
The never ending story: the ongoing saga of the Channel Street skatepark, San Pedro.(CHANNEL STREET CHRONICLES)
Aug 01, 2005; Beardo, El ... EVER SINCE THE BEGINNING of our little project under the freeway here in Pedro (pronounced Peedro), I have harbored the idea of doing some big photo essay in the mag once the whole park was finished. Well, as some of you already know, Channel Street has been under construction and skated ...
Bros before hoes.
Aug 01, 2005; Cardiel, John ... IT TAKES A LOT OF TOMATOES to make a good sauce, and this contest was straight Ragu. A few weeks back I got a call from Steve Van Doren telling me about a combi-pool competition he was throwing. He was pumped up, talking about an OG skate jam and inviting a bunch of OGs, as well as the New ...
Any given Sunday: the first annual FTC flatground invitational.
Aug 01, 2005; Randall, Steve ... June 5th, 2005, San Francisco, CA THE FLYER ADVERTISED names like Carroll, Appleyard, Koston, Iannucci, Foster, Ladd, Creager, and Daewon, but when the big day arrived there were seventeen pros entered--and none of the aforementioned on any heat list. There was some amazing ...
Fun is a long ride: consolidated Baja tour.
Aug 01, 2005; Tsocheff, Karma ... A WEEK AND A HALF IN BAJA, MEXICALI, we find the Consolidated crew and Thrasher photographer Otter Ogden heading south with our first stop at Campland Campgrounds in San Diego, CA. This is a favorite stop of ours when down south, which is basically a weird, over-blown RV park with ...
Jason Graham.(CANVAS)
Aug 01, 2005; Bluejay, Latron ... TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, Jason named me Latron, he said I had street cred Fell 10 branches down, from my nest onto my head Didn't even shed a tear, when my real folks wouldn't feed me Just chipped and flexed on cats, 'cause I'm straight up G So I got this homie ...
Tossers in Texas.
Aug 01, 2005; Burnett, Michael ... MATT MUMFORD AND CHAD BARTIE love going to the Outback Steakhouse. The first time I ever went to one was on Matt's 27th birthday, and I've been several more times with them on various tours since. The Outback is an Australian-themed chain restaurant that carries the torch of America's Down ...
Mark Gutterman: "rich people piss me off".(HEADS_GUTTERMAN)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Scurich, Nick ... So you're a Valley kid? Yeah, I'm from Agora Hills, CA. You done with high school? Yeah, I'm 19. But I didn't graduate. I dropped out my senior year. Why would you go through three years, then quit with only one more year to go? I ...
Dallas Rockvam.(HEADS_ROCKVAM)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Deville ... So how old are you, and where are you from? I'm 19, and I was born in Minnesota but I'm from Sioux City, Iowa. I heard you were a pyro as a kid. Any comments on that? Not really, but I guess I burnt down my house when I was little. It was Easter Sunday ...
Florida sucks and you know it.
Aug 01, 2005; Ogownn, G. Ed ... YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, another Florida article--seems like a lot of skate trips have been hitting it up as of late. The Tampa Pro and Am contest brings a lot of skaters to the Dead End state. This isn't going to be an article that starts off with "I woke up at 6:00am and drove to the airport, ...
Periodic breakdown.
Aug 01, 2005 ... DOES ANYTHING REALLY MATTER? Yeah, all of it, actually. The universe in its entirety is made of matter. Everything near, far and in between is made of the stuff, even the dark, empty spaces (which is most of it). Break down matter as far as you can go and you get elements. There's 116 of ...
Hightower.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Furtado, Ryan ... EVER FIND YOURSELF listening to an old JFA record, jumping on your couch singing "We Know You Suck," but then as the needle skips, you're ripped out of your self-induced 1984 time warp and realize that there hasn't really been that much of a skate rock scene for the past decade? Sucks ...
Dr Dog.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; O'Neil, Luke ... TUESDAY MORNING, way too early for me to be up, and I'd already been lost for nearly an hour on the way to an appointment or class, or job or meeting I didn't want to go to in the first place. Two months of snow and sand and salt, and my little burnt melon shit box of a car was wheezing ...
Single Frame.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Graham, Ian ... IF YOU COMBINED Fugazi, Man Ray and an old Atari into a blender, the result would be Single Frame. The Austin-based trio acquired quite a buzz after the release of their first album Wet Heads Come Running on Volcom records, and with the release of their second album approaching, alongside ...
Magnolia Electric Co.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Palmer, Brian ... "HEY DOUG," JASON MOLINA SAYS as he walks by a bandmate. The man looks up and a flicker of recognition passes across his face. "Hey Doug," he says to Molina, and they go their respective ways. "We've got two Jasons in the band and two Mikes. Now everyone's 'Doug.' Maybe we should have ...
Glasses Malone.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Woods, Shelby ... TODAY IS THE OPENING of LA's hot new West Coast hip hop vinyl/mixtape store, aka Lab Records on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, CA. And we're kicking it, waiting for Watts rapper Glasses Malone to show up. Glasses is going to do an in store to promote his new album Beach Cruiser and ...
The Velvet Teen.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Duncan, Jody ... NOT SO FRESH off of a six-week stint in Europe and Japan (they had just flown in the night before and were feeling a tad bit groggy), I caught up with the Velvet Teen in the basement of the Great American Music Hall. Difficult as it was to hear over the din of Nada Surf cavorting in the ...
Bane.(Interview)
Aug 01, 2005; Telch, J.W. ... MOST BANDS HANDLING early press for a forthcoming record release tend to lean on any number of common hyperbolic sentiments: "This is our most innovative work," or "this is the most creative, collaborative recording process we have ever been through." Yeah, whatever. It's a warm-up act ...
Rickter scale of doom.
Aug 01, 2005 ... GARGANTULA Infinitasm (Self-release)--This shit rips. Most impressive and I need to make it a point to see them live. Gargantula employs ex-Spaceboy members and is a more accessible beast of heaviness with sustained moments of prog-mathiness. How can you miss with song titles like ...
Notes from the underground.
Aug 01, 2005; Lundry, Wez ... BECAUSE IT'S MY FUCKING PREROGATIVE, I am gonna write about some local hands that are kicking ass, and since they're starting to travel you might be lucky enough to see 'em. First up is the Bindle Stiffs. It's a bunch of local Phoenix area guys who skate (Mike, the drummer and singer, has ...
Photo-G prime cuts: St. Augustine Park, Florida.(PHOTOGRAFFITI)
Aug 01, 2005; Ayers, Steven ... WHERE: In a fairly wooded area of Saint Augustine, FL. You could call it the "outskirts" of town. The park bumps up against a wildlife preserve or a nature conservatory or some sort of wooded area. The I-Path dudes would love it. WHAT: A Team Pain-built beauty with a big area ...
Thrasher comix.(Cartoon)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Vs. Bam Margera Alright Margera, my bull crap detector is on high alert. I heard you're the best Coach, I need some skate pointers. Why'd you bring friends and why the high-voltage cattle prods? Oh, don't mind them ... What about ...
Straight shot.(TRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... GEOFF ROWLEY WANTS IT MADE PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT regardless of crawdad cookouts to the contrary, Ali Boulala is strictly a promoter of the popular Flip clothin' line. In some other Geoff news, flickering images of prairie car chases and canyon-clearing heelflips have been spotted on idiot ...
Tied knots.(TRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Waimea Bay on Oahu was the place where Jay Adams chose to be married to Alissa. Was this a baptism also? The reception was hosted at Steve Ellis' North Shore skate compound. A big congratulations to Baker's Andrew Reynolds and Erik Ellington as they both, along with their ...
Poser of the month.(THRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Poser: Captain Cooked Crime: Salty Suzy ...
More dead.(TRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... In an ironic turn of events, the original Creature line-up (minus Chud) has reformed including Navs, Hitz and Partanen (who pulled the plug on his Dogtown deal), and rail wrecking bail Josh Perkins. Get spooky, y'all. Pat Duffy bounced back from the Legacy meltdown with a top ...
The City of Los Angeles is moving forwards with the process to create a skate facility on the site of the old Damson oil field in Venice, CA.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... The City of Los Angeles is moving forwards with the process to create a skate facility on the site of the old Damson oil field in Venice, CA. This is said to be the most valuable land ever procured for a skatepark, as it is located on the beach where the old Venice Pier used to be. In its ...
Danny Way.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Danny Way's Great Wall of China jump has been postponed while governmental types sort out the ...
Contemporary mogul Damon Dash, reputedly the new owner of the Pro Keds shoe company, is also said to actively be considering drafting Tony Alva.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Contemporary mogul Damon Dash, reputedly the new owner of the Pro Keds shoe company, ...
Independent has added Matt Mumford to the roster.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Independent has added Matt Mumford to the roster. King V claims that he is considering selling the prototype Indy truck on eBay for a million dollars. He recently bought a ...
Billabong has seemingly attempted to appropriate Go Skateboarding Day by proclaiming the same day, June 21st, as Go Surfing Day.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Billabong has seemingly attempted to appropriate Go Skateboarding Day by proclaiming the same day, June 21st, as Go Surfing Day. This ...
Deanna Templeton and Ed have executed a photographic exhibition on the walls of Rick McCrank.(MOVE OVER)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Deanna Templeton and Ed have executed a photographic ...
Gonz.(IN TOUCH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... The mad genius of Gonz continually manifests itself in innovative ways. Word has it that Gonzales has largely abandoned speech in favor of issuing barrages of seemingly random text messages. Tight associates receive disconnected missives at ...
The Williams Brothers are now rumored to be rehabbing the interiors of their mid-century architectural monument better known as the City/Hubba Dorm.(IN TOUCH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... The Williams Brothers are now rumored to be rehabbing the interiors of their mid-century architectural ...
Tony Vitello.(IN TOUCH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... The bootleg DVD of Tony Vitello's appearance on Good Morning America is attaining wide-spread distribution. Was ...
Dirt napster.(TRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... If Felix don't do it for you this TV season, you can always switch over to Stereo's Jason Lee and his new white-trashsploitation sit-com My ...
Confusion session.(TRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... "Talking takes too much energy. I am into text messaging now."--Mark Gonzales "It is interesting that Venice, which is only a mile square area, has produced over 50 pro skaters."--Jesse Martinez ...
Lords of Dogtown movie premiere: Hollywood, California 5.24.05.(THRASH)
Aug 01, 2005 ... GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE on Hollywood Boulevard was the setting for the world premiere of the long awaited film Lords of Dogtown. With a reputed 75-100 million of Sony's ducats invested in this rollout, a lot of people were watching. Particularly bright was the block-long, ...
Firing line: Tom Penny.(ON BOARD)
Aug 01, 2005 ... Shoe size: Ten DOB: April 23, 1977 Years skating: Fifteen Book: Catcher In the Rye Food: Sushi Strength: Nice Weakness: Lazy ...
Most likely to 10-foot boneless.(FIVE ...)
Aug 01, 2005; Lunz, Jeff ... 1. Jeff Phillips 2. Danny Way 3. Peter Hewitt 4. Ken ...
Relatively rare tricks.(FIVE ...)
Aug 01, 2005; Dell, Alex ... 1. Big backside nollie 360s 2. Nollie heel backside shove-it 3. Switch backside 360 ...
Contest results.(ON BOARD)
Aug 01, 2005 ... PRO-TEC POOL PARTY AT VANS COMBI-POOL, Orange, CA, May 13-14th, 2005 Pro Men Pool Jam 1. Rune Glifberg 2. Omar Hassan 3. Brian Patch 4. Benji Galloway 5. Bucky Lasek 6 ....
What's the definition of ...(FUNBOX)
Aug 01, 2005; Towen, Will ... 1. Testicle: a humorous question on an exam. 2 ....
Poet's corner.(ON BOARD)(Poem)
Aug 01, 2005; Gillen, Nikki ... <Pre> Just a simple deck and trucks, for a crappy match, Don't forget the wheels and grip tape or the hardware batch Now add to that all your tickets, skateboarding costs too much. Driven through pain, through passion and love. Cops don't see it as such. If Michael ...
Pump it up.(SOMETHIN' ELSE)
Aug 01, 2005 ... CHAD OLSEN, in conjunction with his new sponsors at the American Heart Association, recommend skating upstream and eating ...
