Thrasher back issues from September 2005:
Can't wait.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Heddings, Neil ... Hey dude, I heard that they posted notice of my freedom on your website today, and I am sorry but you got false information. To be honest with you, I do not even know what happened today. Somehow I got left behind on my own scheduled court appearance and even though I was not there it all ...
Happy meals.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Gumpright, Broderick ... Recently the Nike corporation ripped off Minor Threat cover art for a skate tour ad. And McDonald's is going to make skateboards. These people are not skateboarders, and they are now using our way of life to make a buck and to try to make their products look cool. There are far too many ...
Cards up.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Sanchez, Maria ... Just wondering how John Cardiel is getting on? I met John on the day of his accident. We had a chat about this and that and I said to him there were so many people in New Zealand that have been influenced by his ripping on skate and snow, that he was a legend in NZ a decade ago. Here I was ...
Scared silly.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Richards, John ... The first time you do something on a skate is pure epiphany. You must be balanced, ballsy and creative at the same time. The whole world makes sense for an instant. Like the first time I hit over vert I pooped a huge skate woody. There was this chick named Jamie who had tried the week ...
Bad stuff.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Rosales, Yvette ... I think you might know this guy named Julio Prieto. He was featured in your magazine in 2004. On Feb. 5, 2005, five friends were forever lost due to a horrifying accident. Tammy Uresti, Julio Prieto, Andrew Tibbits, Matthew Escemilla, and Evan Khun were at a party in Monterey but then it ...
Girl school.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; Feguer, Nicki ... This is referring to a Mail Drop letter that appeared in the March 2005 issue. In the letter the person says something about: "open the eyes of the thousands of boys and young men who read your magazine," and I am sitting there thinking to myself what the fuck?! Why would you go there and ...
Excuses for not going skating.
Sep 01, 2005; Sieben, Michael ... NOT GOING SKATEBOARDING? Why would you not want to go skateboarding? Shit, I don't know ... Maybe you're too hung over, maybe your lower back hurts from sitting at a desk all day, maybe you'd just rather sit on the couch and drink tall boys and watch reruns of Dynasty. All I know is ...
Wooooo, #2.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... This one is a little hard to peg. It's not a really a skate 'zine but sort of a subculture interview 'zine, however that makes sense. It's got interviews with a guy in a Smiths cover band, artist Paul Pope, filmmaker Patrick Daughters, painter Dan Colen. techno DJ Bruce Tantum, and Moby ...
Elk #8.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Only from the mind of Jocko Weyland, it's, Elk #8, and it's different, but more of the same. Jocko compiles seemingly random stuff, mostly images (but some interesting excerpts from written works in this one too), and throws 'em down for your enjoyment. Some of the stuff is juxtaposed on ...
Concrete cruiser.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... This one here is the brainchild (what the does brainchild mean anyway?) of Rick Charnoski (of Buddy and Rick fame). It's mostly photos and captions of the underground pool riding variety, with some parks thrown in and a good amount of hilarious random stuff like the newspaper article of a ...
For fun 'zine, #8.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... This mag keeps getting better with age--tighter layout, great photos, but it keeps the personal touch as well. It's also an interesting phenomenon in that about half of the content comes from Brazil, so it's like a Colorado-Brazil connection ...
Smelly Curb, #36.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Rising from the grave it's another issue of Smelly Curb. This mag goes back to '87, and I haven't seen one in ages. But Donny Humes, the man behind the 'Curb (and Dodge skatepark in Ohio) felt motivated by apparently a number of things: he's got a new son, there's skate spots everywhere ...
Danzine, #1.(ZINE THING)
Sep 01, 2005 ... A dude ran out in the middle of the street to give me this one, so it must've been important. From the looks of it, the guy went through his sketchbook and threw together some prime examples of spare time expression, and some of them are pretty hilarious. Most of the art is graft-oriented, ...
Damn Am: 3rd Lair Skatepark: Minneapolis, HN, June 10-12.
Sep 01, 2005; Rhino ... ONCE AGAIN, 3RD LAIR HOSTED the Damn Am Contest--and the series is getting even larger. With 130 kids from all over the continental US, and travelers from Brazil, Columbia and Hawaii, this was quite the weekend. The skaters have to be legit ams with appropriate sponsors to enter, so ...
Vilcim NYC.
Sep 01, 2005; O'Dell, Patrick ... I'VE REALLY GOTTEN LAZY, I KNOW. Every time the caller ID says 'Jake Phelps' or any 415 area code phone number, I swerve it and go into a whole spin-out where I say to myself "Well, that's it, I'm fired. Time to go get a normal job." I've been waiting for the call for years, and when that ...
Lucian Moon.(CANVAS)
Sep 01, 2005; Hotchkiss, Jesse ... Lucian Moon is on the move. In fact, movement is at the very core of what he stands for. Having shared the experience of starting skating with him, I've always known of his natural ability and his eye for obscurity. His artwork speaks a similar, if not more complex, language. His work ...
The Jim Greco interview.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Burnett, Michael ... Who is Shark? Shark is Todd Lucier. He's a homie we skated with back in the day. We grew up in West Haven, Connecticut. It was Updog, Shark and me. That's it. That was the crew. What was Shark's specialty? Oh my God. Riding grinds at Hall of Records ....
"Send me a postcard darling" zero and mystery European Tour 2005.
Sep 01, 2005; Shigeo ... THE FULL REALIZATION of the Zero/Mystery Europe tour didn't really hit most of us until the train ride from Zurich, Switzerland to Milan, Italy. At our three cramped tables sat Jamie Thomas, John Rattray, Adrian Lopez, Jon Allie, James Brockman, Ryan Smith and Lindsey Robertson. As our ...
Og de Sauza: "Barehanded is rough sometimes, but it works".(HEADS_DE SAUZA)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Bourqui, Dan ... For those who don't know your story, could you please tell us what happened to your legs? When I was a kid my neighborhood got flooded, causing an epidemic of a disease called Poliomelite, which I ended up contracting. I can move my legs but they don't have enough strength to ...
Rodney Jones: "I get necknmes".(HEADS_JONES)
Sep 01, 2005; Rhino ... Rodney, where are you originally from? Baltimore, Maryland. Isn't Baltimore kind of sketchy? I saw a shirt that said "Welcome to Baltimore. Duck Motherfucker," and it had a gun on it. Fuck yeah it is! That shirt is fucking funny. Who did you ...
Top raw men.
Sep 01, 2005; Smyth, Sam ... THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME Fourstar has ever been on an actual tour, and only the third time all these people have even been in one place at the same time. Fourstar in Japan was, without a doubt, going to be special. Most of the team, BA, Koston, Guy, Rick, Carroll, Ty, Morf, Meza and myself, ...
Iggy Pop: "that has nothing at all to do with a major record label in the 21st century and their demographics and marketing schemes and their velveeta schemes and Janet Jackson's boob.".(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Maerz, Jennifer ... I'M NOT GONNA EXPLAIN WHO IGGY POP IS. Names like the Stooges, Fun House, Raw Power, Lust for Life, The Idiot should all ring some fucking bells. If not, arm yourself with a copy of the scumbag Bible Please Kill Me and the new career-spanning, two-disc Iggy "Godfather of Punk" Pop ...
Bear vs. shark: "if someone comes in with a riff or an idea we do not really attempt to analyze it.".
Sep 01, 2005; Peterson, Brian ... WITH MODERN MUSIC'S current focus of placing emphasis on the almighty dollar bill over artist development, words like "original" or "unique" are constantly bandied about in an effort to help hype the next "big thing." But, truth be told, how many current musicians or groups really are ...
Smoke or fire: "a lot o people are dehumanized.".(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Taylor, Todd ... I ALWAYS LIKE BANDS even more when the people in them aren't assholes. Especially socially conscious bands, because it's nice if bands care about folks in foreign lands, but if they're dicks to their friends and family the whole enterprise rings of suspicion. I also relate to self-assured ...
Beauty Pill.
Sep 01, 2005; Tunney, Brian ... CHAD CLARK, formerly of the eclectic Washington DC group Smart Went Crazy, formed Beauty Pill. You might also recognize Chad's name from his production credits, including the Dismemberment Plan's Emergency and I, and the continued re-mastering of previously released titles from Dischord ...
LCD Soundsystem.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Pulver, Sarah ... JAMES MURPHY, WISE-ASS MASTERMIND behind dance-rock punk-funk LCD Soundsystem and DFA Records, makes cowbell-laced disco-infiltrated tracks that are making people move on dance floors around the world. For all his years in the biz, he remains passionate about his old records, is ...
Team Sleep.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Locks, Jesse ... SACRAMENTO'S ESOTERIC ROCK GROUP Team Sleep began five years ago as a simple musical exchange on a 4-trackbetween childhood friends--guitarist Todd Wilkinson and Deftones front man Chino Moreno--then rapidly grew into a chaotic group of talented and diverse musicians probing their ...
Thizz Ent.: artist profile: Miami.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; Vitello, Tony ... LIKE ONE OF THE THREE KINGS, on my sojourn to visit God's son, I would arrive bearing gifts--Incense, Mir, and Hennessey. Even a few nuggets of purple weed. I guess that's just how they get down in Bethlehem ... Apparently not. My offerings would not be received with thanks, but instead ...
Heartaches.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2005; John, Swami ... MOLDED FROM THE NEGLECTED SCRAPS of quintessential punk purity. Compressed by greasy, nail bitten hands scarred and bloodied from the rock and roll crusades. Forged in a misguided abuse of high voltage electricity and wound steel. These are the ways of the Heartaches, the most exciting ...
Notes from the underground.
Sep 01, 2005; Lundry, Wez ... HOWZABOUT STARTIN' OFF with a truly great reissue? An' I ain't just sayin' that because of the topless nubile band photo on the cover. Check out the Slits Cut LP reissued on the 4 Men With Beards label (who seem to be doing a great job of getting out-of-print stuff back in print). It's a ...
Photograffiti.
Sep 01, 2005 ... Man, you guys send dusty photos sometimes. Send to: Photo-G, PO Box 884570 SF, CA, 94188-4570 Huck, huck and away. Tyler Kline has front shoves on lock so figured he'd toss an FDR beauty. Photo: Britt Spock drops from the E at South Jordan, Utah for a ...
In my eyes.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... YOU WOULD THINK THE OVERLY-EFFICIENT MARKETING/ legal/public relations/athlete development departments over at the swoosh Nike SB would have thought better of co-opting a Minor Threat record cover to promote an East Coast demo tour. Will an apology and claims that said Nike empire's ...
Cash cow.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... McDonald's Corporation has announced that it will begin selling skateboards and bicycles bearing the fast food 2company's brand in a new effort "to burn off burgers and fries with exercise." No word yet if, when, or how sometime McEndorser Tony Hawk might be involved in this rather odd ...
Poser of the month.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Poser: Eric Sunvold Crime: World disease ...
Red China.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The Danny Way Great Wall of China jump ramp is being constructed out of steel in order that it can be reused and reconfigured for future events. To better understand the scale of this mega structure, the landing area alone is 100 feet in width. Chinese governmental hosts are rumored to be ...
Certified piece of suck.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... More proof of alien life here on Earth. Coos Bay, OR ...
Down for life.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Shoulder tats bite but Jason Balckford will bust up ...
Loop zero.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... A design and fabrication combine comprised of titans Bob Burnquist and Team Payne have been quietly working on major additions and manipulations to Bob's back acreage skating facility. A forward throwing open spiral of ...
Buck buck.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Red Dog Muir checked into the hospital for an all day wrist reconstruction surgical session. The procedure was duly warranted by various past vertical misalignments and assorted off-axis impacts. Terry Kennedy is recovering after taking a couple of rounds in Long Beach, CA. ...
Fast track.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Fausto Vitello bought an actual thoroughbred racehorse. He maintains his famous sense of alienation and ...
Suck time.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Go Skate Day happened and was a measured success despite it also being simultaneously declared Go Surf Day, and All Aborigine Day in Canada. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee declared it an actual official state holiday. Ed Riggins pointed out that industry wide business was off since ...
Hall of meat.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Beers + Bombing hills = broken nose. Billy Deaton does the fuzzy math [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Lite speed.(TRASH)
Sep 01, 2005 ... "The skateboards and the bikes will be a great value and are designed to help make fitness fun."--Larry Light, McDonald's Global Chief Marketing Officer "I'm TA, I don't need no stinking wristband."--Tony ...
On board.
Sep 01, 2005 ... Send to On Board at: PO Box 884570 SF, CA 94188-4570 or e-mail us your Fives, jokes and chimp-like chatter to onboard@thrashermagazines.com FIRING LINE: LIZARD KING DOB: October 18, 1984 Home: Anywhere a couch accepts me Years ...
Easy rider.(SOMETHIN' ELSE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... NO WAY! A LINE? In mid-'05? Not content with the standard double-set fare, Lizard King gets a little off-roading action in between his noseslide ...
