The Drago We__ite: No BS Allowed

This is old news by now, but my friend was in China for the last week so he probably missed it and I’m trying to help him out.

Fuck the haters, this picture is sexy.

Plus, the blade is clearly pointed away from the other girl’s neck. They’re not stupid, c’mon.

Apparently, there is a big controversy going on in the skateboarding world right now over blank decks. If you don’t know, blank decks are skateboards that shops or small companies make which don’t have any graphis on the bottom. Blanks cost slightly less to make, but the real savings are in the design and marketing areas. Blanks cost less to the end consumer and are bought by people who like skateboarding more than they like looking cool.

Unbelievably, the big companies who make the heavily designed and marketed boards are casting themselves as victims in this situation, saying that blank boards hurt their sales and will eventually ruin skateboarding. They are saying that if pros can’t sell boards, they will not be able to have teams and then they can’t make videos, etc. etc. They’ve even made a website about it, A World Without Pros. One of the people who is supporting this campaign is Tony Hawk, who has got to be a millionaire several times over by now. He probably wipes his ass with the money he makes off of his pro model boards. It’s like Jay-Z getting mad at cd bootlegging or something.

We think that whole thing is completely ridiculous. Back when we used to skateboard, we just bought whichever board was the widest. We always had size 13 feet, so fuck a graphic, we need that 8.5 inch. (That’s what she said)

In response to this BS, some guy has made A World Without CEOs to expose some of the myths about board making and graphics designing and all that. It’s almost an exact copy of the Pros website, which is awesome. Go look at it and school yourself on some skateboard politics.

It’s funny to think about the old days before blogs were popular. You know, a few years ago. Blogs were just for pretentious and precocious high school students for a while, with their LJs and their message boards and what not. Then they became big business and bloggers were getting invited to everything from sporting events to political conventions. Old people couldn’t believe the influence that bloggers had, they were all “Just because the guy from Ain’t It Cool News said my movie sucked, nobody came to see it? WTF.” Then there was a huge backlash where all the hipsters (such as ourselves, yeah I said it) were like “I detest the term ‘blog’” but we still kept writing down everything we did that day for the whole internet to see, because we needed to. At this point blog is just a regular word that our generation would be lost without, like website or douchebag.

Here are some of the blogs that we check every day hour chance we get. Not in any order.

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This Film is Not Yet Rated is a documentary which discusses and investigates the MPAA and the film rating process. It’s actually kind of terrifying how similar this movie is to Why We Fight. They both are very cynical about media in America and they both cover the way huge corporations regulate the news and information that we as a people have access to. But fuck all that serious stuff, here’s why you should see the movie:

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Why We Fight is a documentary about September 11th and the war that followed. Yeah, I know we are all tired of this whole situation and we’ve all heard that “We’ll be greated as liberators” sound bite and scoffed at it dozens of times, but this movie is different from a lot of the rest of the stuff out there.

Why We Why fight goes deep into the origin of Saddam’s power (hint: we gave it to him), it speaks on the integral part that business contractors play in wars and how they got to that point, it analyzes the part that the media and marketing play in convincing a populace that they need to go to war.

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Gym Class Heroes is our favorite band. You won’t hear us say that about anybody else. Their lyrics resonate with our souls, their music makes us want to dance and their swagger makes us want to copy them.

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Shop Gentei is a small store with big connections. They operate out of a small space at 1010 Morton St in the the Mt. Vernon area of Baltimore. They are one of the only stores in Baltimore with a coveted Nike SB account and they also get a fair amount of rare Jordans and other Nikes. They also have Japanese connections and get brands that few other American stores can. For example, they just got a bunch of stuff from Japanese streetwear brand Swagger.

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Don’t you hate when a movie comes out in theaters and you totally sleep on it, only to find out about it later from your friends that it was awesome? What’s worse than that is when you know a movie is going to be awesome and you can’t get anyone to go see it with you. Imagine this conversation, if you will:

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We make money not art is an art blog. A very good one at that. We’ve only been following them for a short time, but they are consistently interesting, esoteric and witty. Now here is our beef with them…

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