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Jennifer Useldinger

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THE MARS VOLTA

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Jime Litwalk

The best looking thing to hit the waves since seaweed.

Smaller, faster and redder than the Jupiter Volta.

Ink, monkeys and a Brazilian fetish.

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SPORTS

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30 MAVERICKS

The biggest waves since… um… I got nothing.

32 UFC 79

Guess who got owned? Go on. Guess.

34 SUPERCROSS

The best of all crosses. Ever.

MUSIC

40 EMERY

How your dry cleaner pronounces Emily.

42 UP & COMING

Outskertz, Rumble King.

LIFE

56 CHOLO

When regular body piercings just aren’t enough.

58 BARAK SCHURR Ticketing for dummies.

IN EVERY ISSUE

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Hearsay/Dr. Dick Action Sports Round Up For The Record Products Movies

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Video Games Audio Skinnie Scene Horrible Scopes

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EDITORIAL

Editor-In-Chief Hans Fink

Senior Editor Donald C. Stefanovich Fashion Director Halle Grano

Contributing Writers Donald C. Stefanovich, Kat Galvan, Jasen T. Davis, Matthew McLaughlin, Jeffrey Easton, Alex Mendoza, Eric Bonholtzer, Bobby D. Lux, Brook Ellis, Brett “Felix” Ulery, Alan Weiler, Kristie Bertucci, Bethany Cravahllo, Dallas Johnston, Sean Cooke, BJ Cummings, PJ Yatar, Dr. Dick For editorial submissions, email editorial@skinniemagazine.com

ART & DESIGN

Art Director Robb Sackett

Lead Graphic Designer Stubbs Graphic Artist Johnny Clinton

Dr. Dick Illustrations Alex Julian

PHOTOGRAPHY

Contributing Photographers Joanna Tichauer, Jeffrey Easton, Alan Rivera, Jonathan Ho, Dave Gatson,

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ADMINISTRATIVE

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Hendrickson, Daniel Torres, Jason Bernal

RETRACTIONS

Special thanks to Rockstar Energy Drink for hooking up the Andreas cover story in last month’s issue

Special thanks to Bookoo Energy Drink for hooking up the Dave Dillewaard interview in last month’s issue Blah blah blah blah.

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As I strive to meet my monthly obligation of writing this horrid editor’s letter, I am sick, my stomach hurts and I am generally irritable for what should ideally be a letter of largely positive emotions and sentiments of general camaraderie. This is our 6th year anniversary, which in of itself is a wonderful thing, and this marks the beginning of our 7th volume. Like a weepy-eyed parent I am very proud of this magazine and how far we have come. It flatters me to no end that wherever I go, people know the Skinnie. However my current state of health may cause this letter to read something along the lines of a rant from an embittered sociopath (which I am not I merely portray one on television). I just happen to feel crappy. Every year I have this long, drawn out battle against the season of Winter (which is why I live in the Southwest, where the winter is weakest). I have done pretty well this time around, until recently that sonofabitch caught up to me and caught me off guard. So as I stated, as I try to write this pointless diatribe (the Editor’s Letter is only here out of literary tradition), I am currently doing my best to keep all bodily fluids contained. Lord, I do not want to be here, please have mercy on my bowels. I suppose I should totally change tracks and write about something positive and exciting… um… well, George W. is almost out of office… God knows what he’ll be replaced with though. I’ll be honest, I don’t like McCain, Romney, Clinton, Obama, Huckabee or that trial lawyer douchebag with the fake smile. Edwards, I believe. But I suppose it’s like this every election cycle; it’s like getting a really, super-shitty tattoo covered up with a different tattoo of equal or shittier value. I’ll admit, I am a Ron Paul supporter, but I am also a realist. Or maybe that’s just a self-important way of saying “pessimist.” I am certain he won’t get the nod for Republican nominee and will end up running as an independent. Since this is the space for my rant, I will encourage you to go look up Ron Paul on the internet and see what he is all about. He is actually very Libertarian in his policies but is running under the Republican banner in the hopes of getting America’s attention, since nobody seems to have faith in third parties anymore.

Even if he does not get elected, his message is already gaining the attention of many a disenchanted young adult. So hopefully whatever happens will get people thinking today about the next election cycle. There’s your optimism right there. Right on. That being said, regardless of our national politics Skinnie has some cool shit lined up this year so stay tuned for next month’s issue. I’m gonna’ go mainline some sedatives now and sleep through my ailments. Cheers! Oh and happy Chinese New Year.

Hans Fink Editor-In-Chief

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Dr. Dick, Why do all them white boyz think they bad with them big trucks and shit? Don’t they know it’s about style and class when it come to the ladies, not just makin up fo yo little dick?

They just be hatin when they see me rollin on 22s! p.s. I love how you mag diversify when it come to music and shit. Props to Skinnie fo keepin it real!

-Jamal, Culver City, Ca

Q.

Um… okay, I think I understood most of this message. I don’t know why white people drive big trucks. I don’t know about style or class either. I cannot speak for the rest of the white community, but I don’t hate you just because I’ve seen you rolling on 22s. Instead, I hate you because of your poor literacy skills. I mean seriously, I am fucking tanked right now but I can still hit the spell check button. But you know, that’s how I roll.

And stuff.

Rx

Dr. Dick, What are your thoughts on the upcoming presidential election and candidates? Please let me know whom you’re voting for, so I may do the opposite.Thank you for your time.

-Amanda, 26, Las Vegas

Q.

Vote the opposite? Okay dumbass, I’m voting for Hillary. Cuz it’s not like she already had her eight-year shot in office. Some critics contend that a menstruating president could only lead to trouble but I think those critics are wrong. Hillary should be well past menopause by now.

Rx

Dear Dr. Dick, I’m just wondering if there are any known cures to the nemesis we know as “whiskey dick.”

Other than having to wait it out and sober up, if you have that one shot with a beautiful girl but you already had one shot too many… is there any fast-acting remedy to get your soldier standing at attention once again? I’m desperate. I’ve tried smacking it off the sink and running it under hot water, but nothing seems to work. I figure since you’re both an alcoholic and dick, you’d be the one to ask.

-Signed, Soft in San Diego

Q.

Look, you only need to get your dick hard if you are looking to actually please whatever woman you are with. If you want to get her off but can’t get it up, use your mouth and fingers. But if you don’t care about if she gets off or not then don’t worry about it. In fact, sometimes it’s funnier to bone someone with a limp dick. Sometimes. But if you insist, carry a small baggie of Viagra. Or shove a thin metal rod down

Rx

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your urethra so it’s just constantly rigid… then it will be up regardless of whether or not you are!

Dear Skinnie, I heard a rumor that you’re being bought out by Fox News and Dr. Dick is being replaced by Bill O’Reilly. Say it ain’t so! I mean, Dr. Dick is a dick – but O’Reilly is just evil!

-Brandon, 24 Riverside, Ca

Q.

Yes I am being replaced by Bill O’Reilly. The rumors are all true. The only way to prevent that from happening is to send a package of booze to Skinnie Magazine,ATTN: Dr. Dick. It’s the only way. So get on that. Stat.

Rx

Dr. Dick, I feel so ignored in this world. Seriously, I feel like I am constantly doing nice things for everyone around me and I am never mean and I never argue, I just try to be nice and agreeable, and I feel like people take advantage of my good nature. Actually, they don’t even take advantage of my good nature, they just ignore me. Even my own family didn’t notice when I couldn’t make it out for Christmas. Nobody called me or anything. What gives? Why do people ignore me? I guess I could be more assertive but that’s just me. But I feel so worthless, like I could reach out to anybody but nobody would care. I might as well just die. You are my last hope, Dr. Dick. Please don’t ignore this letter, please advise me.

- Linda, 23, Fullerton

Q.

Rx

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If you’ve got a question for the doctor or if you just want to see more of Dr. Dick, go to: www.MySpace.com/TheRealDrDick

Words by: Jasen T. Davis & Matthew McLaughlin

Star Wars Geek-Fu Successful

Across the pond in Swardeston, U.K. an 11year old boy wielding a plastic Star Wars lightsaber beat an adult assailant who had punched his mom over a traffic incident.

“Pleased with this padawan, I am.” The Jedi Master Yoda told reporters. “Continue, his training will.”

General Motors Corp has announced that it believes “driverless cars” that have the ability to drive themselves down and street and park on their own could be “ready for sale” within a decade.

Congrats old people. Now you won’t die in a fiery head-on collision on the road and can actually enjoy your Matlock DVDs on your way to the supermarket to buy your diapers. I guess you’ll have to settle on dying the old-fashioned way – mixing up your pain medications!

There is No Fun in Rhode Island

16-year old Alex Noel, a finalist in the Rhode Island Great Pumpkin Weigh Off, explained how his pumpkin achieved the record weight of 1,224 pounds. “You spend all your time with it. No sports.You just come home and be with the pumpkin.” Sacrificing all social pastimes to stare at a vegetable that does nothing but gain weight? This kid is trained for the latter stages of a depressing relationship with a boring girlfriend.

C’mon, guys, we’ve all been there.

A Chattanooga, TN woman was arrested after she drove her SUV into the house of the woman her husband was having an affair with. For a little more fun, the woman got out of her truck and repeatedly slapped the other woman.

Hillbillies rock. Twenty bucks says that the other woman she was slapping was her sisterin-law, or in other words, her husband’s sister.

Because remember, under Hillbilly Code, men can sleep with their own sister because, “it ain’t matter if she my sister as long as she hot.”

Florida Manatee Invasion!

The waters of the Tampa Electric Power Plant in Apollo Beach, Florida were invaded by nearly a hundred manatees that sought to escape the freezing winter waters by hanging out in the 75 degree sauna the power plant creates. Florida is in a state of panic. George Bush has promised to protect the state, and claims terrorists are responsible. Stand by for the next Hearsay topic entitled: “Electric Mutant Islamic Extremist Jyhadist Manatees Destroy Florida!”

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FOREPLAY

A 102-year old man is leaving his home in London to “start a new life with his wife in New Zealand.” Instead of moving, he could just die.

How Not To Stop Criminals

A 23-year old police officer in San Francisco shot himself to death at a party while demonstrating law enforcement handgun techniques to his friends.While playing with firearms at the party won’t impress chicks, being dead won’t score you digits, either.

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STRIKE BUSTER

What TV Shows Would Look Like With No Writers

words by Bobby D. Lux

Strike! No, not the 1925 classic of silent cinema by Sergei Eisenstein. I’m talking the writers and how it’s affecting our television. Rights schmights, I want my effin’ TV back!

Since these writers have been picketin, and all that’s left are stupid reruns, I had to resort to reading a book. BORING!!!! I got 10 pages into it and forgot what happened, so it went right under my table leg, giving my dinner table a proper horizontal balance once more. I got to thinking, “how would our favorite shows look with no writers?” Well, if I had my way, (and on this page, I do!) this is what would become of our television’s biggest programs while these snobby writers are all butt hurt over wanting more money.

American Gladiators – Hulk Hogan is hosting a “competition,” so we know that this show has a gaggle of writers attached to it. It’s barely been on and is in trouble. Pretty soon, they will have to resort to actual athletic competition… which will spell doom for that show. That, and a worldwide shortage of HGH.

LOST – Maybe, just maybe, we’ll actually find out what the hell is happening on this damn show. Crazy numbers. Four-toed statues. Pirate ships hanging up in the damn jungle. Polar bears. Flashbacks and now flashforwards. What gives?

Sopranos – HBO has always been ahead of the curve on the television front. Their shows are cutting edge and have set the tone for dozens of pale imitations. Turns out, they’re also on the forefront of current events. It’s clear that HBO writers went on strike waaaaaay before the rest of the writers. Proof: uh, duh, the final episode with no ending. Clearly, a non-striking writer would give America closure by letting us know if the guy who went in the bathroom kills Tony or not.

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CSI: America’s Safest Cities - No writers. No crime. Cops just sort of hanging out, giving tickets to skateboarders, harassing the homeless and taking long lunches at Mexican restaurants.

Prison Break – Well, when you have a show set in prison and no stories… I guess it’s Amnesty for everyone. Prison overcrowding becomes an all-too real issue for inmates, so the governor just lets them all go.

24 – In his most treacherous day yet, Jack Bauer suffers from a meal he ate last night from the 24 hour Thai joint across the street.

He spends the day (and season) going back and forth from the bathroom and trying to play career mode on Madden ’08.

The Office – No more witty repartee. It truly becomes like a real office. You hate everyone. Bum around on the Internet. The boss is never there and Jim, Pam, Dwight, and the gang waste their lives by figuring out new ways to pretend to be productive. Their souls die with a lonely, barely audible whimper.

In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a man was arrested for sneaking into the room of a two year old girl and stealing $20 from her piggy bank while she slept. The police used DNA evidence to convict 30-year old Ryan A. Mueller to the crime. Really? DNA evidence?

Sheboygan must be boring as hell that the cops have nothing better to do then waste money and resources on such a petty theft. I guess I’ll get more of the story when I see it on CBS’ hit show CSI: White Trash City.

Porn Hurts

A policeman in Yokohama, Japan, accidentally shot himself in the butt while arresting two men who were vandalizing a vending machine that dispenses erotic films. Now he has to explain to his wife how he got it in the ass from a couple of guys over a porno movie.

Japanese electronics giant, Matsushita Electronic Industrial, has introduced a 150-inch plasma television which it claims to be the world’s biggest of its kind. This doesn’t have anything to do with the stereotype that Japanese men have small penises and watching Japanese porn would now make their man-parts look bigger, does it?

On Second Thought, No Dessert

New York City closed the Serendipity 3 restaurant after health inspectors found live mice, flies, hundreds of cockroaches and mouse droppings in the kitchen. The restaurant was world famous for a $23,000 sundae that contained edible golden flakes. Further proof that the very rich are also very dumb.

Daniel Michael Miller from Akron, OH, has legally changed his name to “The” Miller Experience. Yes, his first name is “The” (with quotes), his middle name is now Miller and last name, Experience.

Idiot. If a bunch of kids start cropping up with the last name “Experience” then we know that our gene pool is doomed.

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FOREPLAY

Not a Difficult Police Lineup

Francis Rocca of Pittsfield, Massachusetts decided to rob a liquor store but unfortunately made a poor choice for a disguise: a clear plastic bag. Someone needs to explain to this guy how light works. He was later arrested and charged with a felony. Someone in the criminal community needs to introduce mandatory IQ testing.

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HOW TO REALLY STOP TERRORISTS

Screw The War and the Patriot Act, Here’s the Real Deal!

words by Jasen T. Davis

Terrorists are always the same. Inevitably they are young men who are religious fanatics that want to slay Americans so they can end up in an afterlife that awards them with 72 virgins.WTF? Sounds like they have way too much time on their hands. Here are some ways to stop them before they blow themselves up and take us all with them.

Show the Terrorists MySpace!

Between tricking out their pages, adding friends to improve their online credibility and waiting for one of those damn pages to load during peak hours, long years will pass before they are able to even think of defeating America.

Throw Them into Community College!

Most of them are horribly without a legitimate education anyhow. The obvious solution is community college, which drains time, morale and self-esteem. Between grappling with counselors who haven’t the foggiest clue how to get the hell out of community college (which is why they are counselors) and dedicating their existence taking classes that may or may not transfer, the terrorists will lose years of their lives realizing that junior college pays nothing and provides no real opportunities to move upwards… just like the minimum wage jobs we are trying to avoid by attending a community college.

Hit Them With World of Warcraft!

World of Warcraft, a multi-user online game in the geek flavor of Dungeons and Dragons, is proven to utterly waste the lives of so many sad souls across the internet that wakes are held for friends who purchase it.

Terrorists would find themselves far more interested in getting their avatar the SuperDuper Sword of Killing Everything and would languish for hours as they crossed deserts, oceans and vast, lame expanses of electronic landscapes to get goodies to help them get more goodies. They would get fatter. Acne would follow. All other pursuits would be abandoned. So much for the great Jyhad.

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Stop Them Cold with Dating!

Ultimately, these young guys want to destroy Americans to go to a bizarre heaven that grants them the dubious award of 72 virgins.

72 virgins? Where do they come from, the souls of girls who screwed up in their lives and now are doomed in the afterlife to serve the carnal impulses of fundamentalist martyr zealots? These guys are into terrorism because they don’t get laid. Dating will fix that little red wagon. It’s truly impossible to consider religion when you are consumed in the wholesome pursuit of chasing tail. Why blow yourself up on Friday when you have a chance of getting totally laid on Friday night?

Crush Them with Girlfriends!

Many great men have been flatlined in their pursuits of greatness because they had to spend quality time with their conniving girlfriends. It’s impossible to procure explosives when he has to talk to his girlfriend for the third hour of the fifth conversation on his way to her parent’s house to celebrate her mom’s hysterectomy. Plus, have you ever tried to keep anything from any girlfriend? It’s in their DNA to be suspicious of any activity their man undertakes and deeply jealous of any nanosecond any guy spends not basking in the glow of their affections. “I’m sorry, my fellow warriors of Allah, while I am entirely willing to martyr myself for the most holy cause of Jyhad, I must unfortunately abstain because Judy, who is a typical decadent Western whore but also my significant other, wants me to go to the mall to obtain the appropriate shoes for her to wear to her best friend’s sisters wedding, which I also must attend. Please give my regards to Allah.”

Disneyworld has banned children from its fanciest restaurant, Victoria & Albert’s in the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa citing a reason of wanting to make the restaurant “available for that adult experience.” Adult experience, huh?

Does that mean I can get drunk and bang Minnie Mouse and Tinkerbelle behind the bumper cars in TommorowLand? Either way, banning children from Disneyworld? Hell yeah! No word yet on if they plan to ban hillbillies, fatties and Japanese tourists with cameras bigger than their heads.

FDA Contemplates Cloned Meat

The Food and Drug Administration is reading a decision on its six-year deliberation on whether or not cloned meat is safe for human consumption.This can mean only one thing: the companies that create cloned meat haven’t given enough money to the government yet to sufficiently bribe them.

While the timid amongst us fear Frankenfood, the carnivorous amongst us just want to know when they can go to the store and by some cloned human meat to fry up for a cannibal barbecue. Maybe chickens really just taste like people.

The state of New Jersey has become “the first Northern state to apologize for slavery.” Too bad they still have yet to apologize for Bon Jovi and his mullet.

Vladimir Lenin Conquered South Pole A group of Norwegian and U.S. scientists trekking deep into the South Pole discovered a giant plastic bust of Vladimir Lenin left by Soviet scientists in December of 1958.The Norwegian/U.S. scientists have decided to leave it there to commemorate 50 years of communism kicking so much ass.

The economic minister of Italy has proposed a tax break of the equivalent of $1,400 after noticing that a large percentage of men in their 30’s still live with their mothers in the country that brought us pizza, pasta and Benito Mussolini. The tax break will be awarded to the young men who finally move out of their mom’s house. One could propose a similar plan for California, but how else will our male twentysomethings

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At One With The Ocean

words by: PJ Yatar photos by: Jonathan Ho

People are often products of their environment, which is why after spending her adolescence traveling the world, sleeping inside bungalows in Indonesia, picking coconuts for food and growing up with the children in the South Pacific, Jennifer Useldinger is an island girl. Blessed with the surfing genes of her father and world class ability of her mother, Useldinger at an early age displayed world class potential. However this “free spirit� left the professional rankings at 19 to search for larger waves. Transforming herself from a traditional tour surfer to a free spirited, large-wave thrill seeker, Useldinger finds faith and tranquility inside the sheer mass and beauty of waves that tower 20 ft tall.

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Congratulations on your recent success with Sports Illustrated.

Yes, I am going to be featured as an athlete. I am not sure if it is going to be the swimsuit issue or the one right after.

How did that come about?

Well my cousin is Marisa Miller the Victoria’s Secret Model and she had gotten asked to do the swimsuit issue for a surfing magazine. They were doing a piece on her family up in Santa Cruz and she asked me to come up for that. Her husband is the owner of Cartel Management so when I found that out we had started talking a little about business. So he was interested in taking me on. And since then he got me in Sports Illustrated and I will be in the swimsuit issue for Surfing Magazine, which is real cool since there will be only four girls in the magazine.

Who introduced you to surfing?

Well I got into surfing from my mom and my dad. My mom actually surfed on tour back in the early ‘80s. She made the top five in the world, she did really well. She used to surf with me a week before I was born I guess.

She had me in the water since I can remember.

Rather than compete on the tour you are a big wave specialist. Describe the difference between your approach to surfing versus what one might see at the X Games or The US Open of Surfing.

What people see at the X Games or at the US Open or any competition is part professional tour made up of a group of women who trained all day long every day, day in and day out training for these competitions. They basically travel the world and accumulate points so that they can win a world title. As for myself I am constantly training everyday to push my limits. Not only do I live a healthy lifestyle but a mentally healthy life style too.

What do you mean by a healthy mental lifestyle?

When the waves are at 20 ft you have to know that you are at the right place with God because you can die out there and that is something I do come to terms with on a regular basis. I am not afraid to die because I believe I am at a place I need to be. It is a real spiritual thing for me.

When was that transformation from settling for average surf to almost thrill seeking on the bigger waves?

Pretty much when I was nine years old when Mark Foo had passed away at Mavericks I just always wanted to surf it. I was always a tomboy and doing what ever people told me I could not do. And there were no girls that had surfed Mavericks so I said I am going to be the first girl to surf it. I was actually the third girl to do it. I had been touring in competition and trying to beat my mom’s ranking until about 19 years old when I kind of figured out it was not for me. That’s when I ran into my good friend Jamiliah Star who holds the world record for riding the biggest wave by a woman. She told me “you can do it.”

What was her role in your development?

She invited me to come out to the North Shore and to train her and her team. So I moved out to the North Shore when I was 19 just for a month. She kind of showed me the ropes by leading by example. Just watching her drop in on bombs, it was so inspirational.

Share the type of training you went through to prepare because in truth you were learning how to surf a completely different type of wave.

It is a lot of mental training, a lot of mind over matter if you are paddling over the ledge you got to believe that you are going to make it. I do a lot of meditation and

singing. (Pause) When you run you hold your breath and count your steps… underwater rock running.

You are an attractive young lady. What is the balance between promoting yourself and not losing your identity as a surfer?

It’s something that you have to call quits sometimes. It is something that I have been able to do my whole life because I had that love, trust and commitment with the ocean. Sometimes I wonder how did it get to this point.

You do something your whole life, it’s naturally going to progress.

What’s next ?

I am going to be going out to Papa New Guinea February 22. I am going to spend about a month down there kinda’ traveling around looking for new waves on a film called Isolated. It should be pretty fun. That’s what really captivates me; the whole adventure of things. So I am really stoked on that.

AT A GLANCE... + Shaved her head at 19.

+ Her cousin is Victoria’s Secret Model Marissa Miller. + Is an active environmentalist.

+ Her mother is former professional surfer Anne Bayly.

+ Home schooled by her mother. She lived in Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia. + Does not own a television or iPod.

+ Sponsored by Roxy, Future fins, Ocean Earth, Plantronics, Stretch Surfboards, Dick Brewer Surfboards, Mendo Mate Tea and Mana Pearls Tahiti

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2008 MAVERICKS SURF CONTEST

words by: Don Stefanovich photos courtesy of: Peter Buranzon

Although winter generally is a season of snow sports, it also brings with it massive swells to certain coastlines, perhaps most famously the region known as Mavericks between Mendocino and Santa Cruz California. On January 13th, 2008, 24 of the world’s best big wave surfers arrived in Half Moon Bay on a mere 24 hours notice for the legendary Annual Mavericks Surf Contest.

San Clemente, California native, Greg Long would emerge as the champion after riding an unprecedented perfect 10 in the 30 foot swell. His historical run would come shortly after all six finalists agreed

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to evenly split their shares of the prize money in an inspiring show of camaraderie. Grant “Twiggy” Baker (ZAF), Jamie Sterling (HAW), Tyler Smith (Calif.), Grant Washburn (Calif.) and Evan Slater (Calif.) took home even cuts after a day which prior to Long’s run was full of lead changes and was mostly too close to call. Long also took home a one-ofa-kind high performance Reactor watch and a hand shaped Jeff Clark surfboard and Jamie Sterling was honored with the Jay Moriarity award for the intense spirit and passion he exemplifies for bigwave surfing. Clif Bar presented Grant “Twiggy”

Greg Long

Baker with the Clif Bar Green Room Award, for getting the biggest, deepest barrel of the day, which is vied for and voted for by the surfers themselves. A record number of surf fans enjoyed the action at the beach as thousands descended on Pillar Point, more than 250,000 viewed the free-live webcast on MySpace.com and more than 1,000 people watched the competition on the big screen at the live viewing party at AT&T Park in San Francisco as some of the world’s best surfers descended upon one of the most infamous and dangerous breaks on the planet and made history once again.

Grant “Twiggy” Baker and Seth Migdail

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IFL in Vegas

SUPERCROSS ANAHEIM 2

A Star is Down but the Race Goes On

words by: Sean Cooke photos by: Joanna Tichauer

After being off to an impressive start, Supercross star James Stewart is now out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury. Supercross Anaheim 2 would find a tribute to the decade that spawned motorcross, the ‘80s, an underlying theme as announcers and crew sported mullets and awful neon colored clothing.

Supercross Lites Main event 1.Ryan Dungey 2. Broc Hepler 3. Austin Stroupe 4. Dan Reardon 5. Brett Metcalfe 6. Robert Kiniry 7. Billy Laninovich 8. Gavin Gracyk 9. Justin Brayton 10.Thomas Hahn

Supercross Class Main Event 1. Chad Reed 2. Joshua Hill 3. Kevin Windham 4. Mike Alessi 5. Ivan Tedesco 6.Tim Ferry 7. Nathan Ramsey 8. Josh Hansen 9. Andrew Short 10. Charles Summey

Current Points Standings AMA SUPERCROSS LITES CURRENT STANDINGS 1. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., Suzuki, 72 2. Broc Hepler, Kittanning, Pa.,Yamaha, 50 3. Dan Reardon, Murrieta, Calif., Honda, 49 4. Justin Brayton, Murrieta, Calif., KTM, 47 5. Jason Lawrence, Carlsbad, Calif.,Yamaha, 38 6. Brett Metcalfe, Murrieta, Calif., Kawasaki, 38 7. Austin Stroupe, Corona, Calif., Kawasaki, 36 8.Tommy Hahn, Alvord,Texas, Kawasaki, 33 9. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Honda, 31 10.Wil Hahn, Decatur,Texas,Yamaha, 30 AMA SUPERCROSS CLASS CURRENT STANDINGS 1. Chad Reed,Tampa, Fla.,Yamaha, 72 2. Kevin Windham, Centreville, Miss., Honda, 56 3. Mike Alessi,Victorville, Calif., Suzuki, 48 4. James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Kawasaki, 47 5.Tim Ferry, Largo, Fla., Kawasaki, 46 6. Andrew Short, Smithville,Texas, Honda, 43 7. Ivan Tedesco,Tallahassee, Fla., Honda, 38 8. Nathan Ramsey, Menifee, Calif.,Yamaha, 38 9. Joshua Hill,Yoncalla, Ore.,Yamaha, 37 10. Josh Hansen, Murrieta, Calif.,Yamaha, 27

The International Fight League has made some major changes to their product, which will be on display at their Feb. 29 event from The Orleans Arena at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Vegas. The IFL will now feature individual champions and a gym vs. gym format instead of their previous city vs. city team approach. In addition to the three title fights on Feb. 29, fighters representing Xtreme Couture will take on fighters from Mario Sperry’s World Class Fight Center, and Ken Shamrock’s famed Lions Den will take on Matt Lindland’s Team Quest.

Don Vito Update

For those of you who’ve been waiting for news on the status of Don Vito (real name: Vincent Margera) and his legal troubles, your wait is over! Vito won’t face any jail time stemming from his sex charges.

However, he will be on probation for life, he will be registered publically as a sex offender and cannot play the “role” of Don Vito for 10 years.

Another Milestone for Tony Hawk I swear, this Tony Hawk guy, just when you think he can’t possibly do anything else to help promote and give back to the sport of skateboarding… he now passed another milestone. The Tony Hawk Foundation has now raised over $2 million to be donated toward skateparks for low-income areas in the US. The Tony Hawk Foundation has been working since 2002 with local leaders and skatepark advocates to advise them on skateboardingrelated projects.

Middleweight Title Unification

As in the light heavyweight division, mixed martial arts will soon have an undisputed champion at 185lb. At UFC 82: Pride of a Champion, UFC Middleweight champ, Anderson Silva will face Pride champ, Dan Henderson to see who the king of the middleweight division is. Henderson, the first mixed martial artist to ever hold titles in

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two separate weight classes, lost his first chance at unifying a title when he dropped a decision loss to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 75 for the light heavyweight crown.

Silva’s last fight was a successful title defense against Rich Franklin at UFC 77.

2007 ASP World Championship Rankings

The final results are in. With 8136 points, Australian Mick Fanning is the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour Ratings winner. The top 27 surfers automatically qualify for the 2008 campaign. The rest are as follows:

UFC 79

Nemesis

words by: Hans Fink photos courtesy of: Josh Hedges

Originally welterweight champ Matt Serra was to fight Matt Hughes but pulled out due to a back injury. Georges St. Pierre stepped in on short notice to fight for the interim welterweight title. Meanwhile, the energy in the event center was palpable as the years-long anticipation for the showdown between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva came to a head.

Georges St. Pierre defeats Matt Hughes Armbar 4:54 Rd 2 Chuck Liddell defeats Wanderlei Silva Unanimous Decision Eddie Sanchez defeats Soa Palelei TKO 3:24 Rd 3

Lyoto Machida defeats Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou Head & arm choke 4:20 Rd 2 Rich Clementi defeats Melvin Guillard Rear naked choke 4:40 Rd 1

St. Pierre Showing Hughes which way his arm doesn’t bend

James Irvin defears Luis Arthur Cane * Cane disqualified for kneeing to the face of a downed opponent 1:51 Rd 1 Manvel Gamburyan defeats Nate Mohr Heel Hook 1:31 Rd 1 Dean Lister defeats Jordan Radev Unanimous Decision Roan Carneiro defeats Tony DeSouza TKO 3:33 Rd 2 Mark Bocek defeats Douglas Evans Unanimous Decision

Palelei tries to make Sanchez smell his shoulder

2.Taj Burrow (AUS) 7104 points 3. Kelly Slater (USA) 6516 points 4. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 6432 points 5. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 5774 points 6. Andy Irons (HAW) 5151 points 7. Pancho Sullivan (HAW) 4938 points 8. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 4770 points 9. Dean Morrison (AUS) 4690 points 10. Bobby Martinez (USA) 4582 points

In Case You Missed It

The Super Pipe at Mammoth has been open for a month now. The Mammoth 450 foot long pipe with 18 foot walls has been one of the top rated rides in North America for the past two years.

The brand-new Wonderland Park, an entry-level terrain that’s focused on freestyle development, is also now open. Finally, the Quicksilver Signature Jib, a hybrid three sided pyramid and battleship box, is also open at Mammoth as well.

Got $30k and a Time Machine?

If so, you can hold the UFC heavyweight title… at least the one that former UFC heavyweight champ, Ricco Rodriguez won from Randy Couture at UFC 39. Rodriguez put his title belt up on eBay to be auctioned off in early January with a starting bid of $29,999. According to the auction, the money is to be used to help Rodriguez open up a new MMA school in the south.

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words by: Brett “Felix” Ulery photos courtesy of: Ross Halfin

Even if you are ready for it, what seems like half a second before you press play, The Bedlam in Goliath screams to life:“HAVE YOU SEEN THE LIVING, TIRED OF THEIR OWN SHELLS!” The fourth studio album from the unclassifiable, jazz-infused / Latin-influenced / progressive / experimental rock group,The Mars Volta has a sound that can only be described as otherworldly. As if their previous efforts didn’t already dive head-first (almost literally) into death-related themes, depending on who you ask, Bedlam has... numerous hands touching, if

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not in direct contact with some unseen influences. During a trip to Jerusalem, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, guitarist and leader of The Mars Volta, picked up an antique Ouija-style talking board and brought it back to singer-lyricist, Cedric Bixler Zavala. Unknowingly, they unraveled the story of a sordid love triangle between a mother, daughter and an abusive man who collectively referred to themselves as Goliath.

Entranced by the story, Cedric found inspiration in the tale and began incorporating passages, phrases and names into the lyrics and song titles

for their newest album. Creative, passionate, and completely uncompromising, the masterminds behind The Mars Volta, Cedric and Omar are determined to create albums that sound nothing like their predecessors and will do just about everything to do so, even if it means knocking on a few unwelcome doors. Armed with a new drummer, a blind devotion to their creative vision and thousands of loyal fans, The Mars Volta is about to unleash an epidemic onto the world. That is, if you believe everything The Soothsayer tells you.

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In the liner notes for Amputechture (2006), The Mars Volta is described as a musical partnership between Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez and that The Mars Volta Group plays the compositions. Can you explain the reasoning for this type of arrangement?

Cedric: Well Omar is the main leader; he’s the spine and glue behind the band. Like a year into the band being a band we started doing it that way. So we just took everything by the roots really and decided to get rid of the whole idiotic notion of there being a democracy in the band.

Omar: We learned our lesson long ago by trying to have a fake democracy, which most groups try to have. We learned that in the end you just have compromised art and that both parties think it’s OK and nobody says “that sounds fuckin’ awesome, that’s exactly what I want.” So we learned from that experience and it’s made it so that we love what we do and if we end up not liking it, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Creatively, what inspires you? What drives you?

Omar: Everything. This is how we understand ourselves

in the context of the world. Whether it’s a nice film or a

nice conversation or being embarrassed in a grocery store and you trip and you fall on your face… all of these things are inspiration for what ends up in the music.

Cedric: Well it really depends. From novelists to moviemakers to kind of some of the unsung heroes from the ‘80s as far as the skateboarding world goes. I had a lot of pictures of Mark Gonzales in my vocal booth while I was tracking because he reminds me of what I think the modern skateboarder should be, which is sort of like this mutated Basquiat on four wheels. If it’s got soul and we can recognize it, it’s got soul and we’ll recognize it.

There are essentially nine members of The Mars Volta. What does one need on their musical résumé to be in the band?

Cedric: They need to be sharp and on their toes about recording material, like getting material 10 minutes before you go in the studio and then playing it right there. Also, what’s required is blind faith in our leadership.

Thomas Pridgen finds himself a new addition to The Mars Volta on Bedlam... Where did you find him and how did you decide on Pridgen as the new drummer, ultimately replacing Jon Theodore?

Cedric: Thomas was suggested by our bass player. It was

impossible to get a hold of him so we got a hold of his grandmother, then we found a YouTube clip and asked him to come hang out. Omar beat boxed this beat to him and said “we’re going to improv, are you down?” and that was his audition and he passed with flying colors.

Can you explain what The Soothsayer is?

Cedric: It’s an antique board game that in my opinion, served as a prison for this love triangle that happened. It was the female spirits that contacted us and it was the male spirit that threatened us the most. It’s all their slogans and threats and challenges and one-liners and names that we used for everything lyrically.The music came first, but it was playing the board that was a gigantic muse for the album.

Omar: In terms of pure physical occurrences, I got it on my trip to Jerusalem and to me it was a very beautiful antique piece. I gave this particular thing to Cedric and we started to mess with it. Even though from my upbringing, I should have known better and it sort of for Cedric became the central metaphor, the central force for his lyrics and [he got] some from the poetry that we found on the board, which was dilapidated and falling apart. So we hired two people to translate this poetry and one of them didn’t want anything to do with it.

Cedric: I just know it was something that we played out of

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AT A GLANCE...

This being an election year, whom do you favor for the big job? + Cedric: None of the above. + Omar: I don’t favor anybody because there’s nobody up there that speaks for me, and while I think it’s an exhilarating milestone in fucking history that it only took however many hundreds of fucking years for there to finally be a Goddamned minority candidate and a Goddamned female candidate, at this point, it’s too late. I don’t believe it.

FAVORITE ARTISTS + Cedric: Vic Chesnut. I haven’t felt the need to cry at a performance in a long time and he really dug that out of me.

Beth Ditto from The Gossip Ellen Page. I consider some actors to be artists and I think she’s pretty fuckin’ awesome. + Omar: Frita Carlo’s paintings are unbelievable.

Marcel Duchamp.

Luis Buñuel. The Milky Way FAVORITE AUTHORS + Cedric: Grant Morrison. Always Grant Morrison.

Helena Blavatsky, but she’s not modern + Omar: Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl Frederick Douglass. A Narrative of the Life of Frederick, an American Slave Pablo Coelho.

Pablo Neruda.

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Nothing is ever as obvious as it seems

naivety and boredom and we got a fun record out of playing it.

Omar: For me, I found it to be kind of a negative influence on him so I took matters into my own hands and disposed of the thing and what ensued is what those of us who believe in spirituality and things beyond the unknown call a curse or punishment or bad luck or penance. Or what Rich Costey our mixing engineer who is a very scientific man would call “quantum entanglement,” which is a scientific way of saying “that which cannot be explained.”

Can you summarize the story that was told to you without giving away too much?

Cedric: Well it’s this love triangle that happened between a mom and her daughter and this kind of abusive guy that ended up with people trying to get revenge on each other where murder became the outcome.

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trapped herself in this prison, which is a board.

Omar: All the more straight-ahead lyrics that are not so much stream-of-consciousness, which is what Cedric’s work usually is, and song titles come directly from the board, like “Goliath” and “Tourniquet Man”.

Cedric: The more I look into it, the more I realize it was this marriage that went wrong and this kind of Muslim honor-killing and keeping women under foot. To me it was the female spirits trying to use us as antennas and utilize the fact that we have the courage to talk about this kind of thing because most Muslim societies don’t want you to know about this kind of thing because it gives them a bad name.

Who is Goliath? It’s not Goliath of Gath from the Old Testament, is it?

Cedric: Not at all. Goliath was what it kept calling itself.

It was kind of like the schizophrenic combination of the two women and the man. That’s the thing with our band.

Nothing is ever as obvious as it seems. Everything about this band, even the dynamics of the family orientation of

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the band is really complicated and really deep and there’s always hidden meanings behind everything. It’s always a gigantic riddle, which is what forms the root of our audience participation.

The recording process seemed to be cursed.

How did The Mars Volta manage to overcome these obstacles?

Cedric: I had to convince everyone not to give up. I played the board a lot by myself and I think it used the closest flesh around me as an example. So I had this notion that since it wasn’t affecting me directly that I could convince everyone around me to go through with it. A lot of convincing that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.

Omar, John Fruscante played a majority of the guitar parts on Amputechture so you could record and produce the songs a little more objectively. How much of this process was used on Bedlam… or did you find yourself

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playing more on this album?

Omar: By the time we got to Bedlam… I was so starving to play guitar and [before] I gave myself the excuse, “oh I can be more objective and blah, blah, blah.” But by the time I got to this record, I learned to not take it for granted that I can play, so the way I utilized him on this record is I had him double the guitar solos. He memorized entire passages of guitar solos and he doubled them. So on this album it’s two completely different hands. On the left it’s the original solo, which is mine, and on the right is John. He learned the solo note-for-note and plays it perfectly every single time.

Cedric, your lyrics tend to be very descriptive yet very vague at times. Do you feel you leave room for interpretation or that you have definitive meaning in your words if people are willing to look for it?

Cedric: I have definite meaning, but I prefer individual interpretation. Some of the times there are some things in there that I’ve tapped into that are very pri-

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vate. I just want people to dig a little deeper and not be so obvious about some stuff.

The album art for De-Loused… and Frances… was done by the legendary Storm Thorgerson specifically for those records, but on Amputechture you used existing

pieces by Jeff Jordan. Was the art for Bedlam… created solely for this album?

Omar: These were created by Jeff for the album and he finished these pieces even before we finished the album.We sat with Jeff before we went to record this album and gave him demos but we didn’t tell him anything about The Soothsayer and clearly he got his own image of exactly what we were going through because to me, the art couldn’t reflect more the record if we had told him everything.

You guys intended on releasing this album in order to somewhat relieve the band of some unseen burden. How do you feel

about some of your fans that might take it upon themselves to use Ouija boards to try to summon Goliath?

Omar: At first there was a discussion that this was our experience and why don’t we just invent something to tell people what it’s about to throw them off the track. But I don’t know why it didn’t even occur to us that the young people that are very impressionable and very naïve would try and do things like that. But for me, I think what they’re doing is in vain because I feel like by actually completing the record we just sealed this thing once and for all, but maybe I’m completely wrong.

What is The Mars Volta not ready to admit?

Cedric: Defeat.

Omar: Defeat? Yeah.That’s a good one.We’ll die fighting for what we believe in so I guess that’s a good thing that we’re not ready to admit.

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EMERY Breaking The Scene

words by: Jeffrey Easton photos courtesy of: Jerad Knudson

Emo, screamo, pop punk (or whatever you are calling the scene this week) has just received a punch in the teeth. Emery, the band that continues to break barriers, has taken the wheels off of the band wagon and left a trail of parts in their wake. Devin Shelton, the voracious bassist/vocalist of Emery, is adding fuel to the pop/rock fire that is their career. His bass playing is driving, not just playing to the music but adding to the music, shaping the twists and turns.

When you pick up their enigmatic album I’m Only A

Man, the first thing you see is a bathroom sink and a mirror. “I am in the bathroom in the morning seeing who I really am, stripped down and bare,” Devin comments. “I am just a human and I know that, I make mistakes just like everybody else, hence I’m only a man.” My personal take on the album cover is that it is the true reflection on the human condition, that we do indeed take ourselves too seriously and sometimes we need to quit making the MySpace poses and actually look at who we really are.

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scene-stealer. It’s very possible this album could be remembered past the demise of the screamo scene, if listened to and interpreted for what it actually is. The diversity from track to track is too great not to notice and according to Devin, many fans have expressed their opinions. “At first the fans did not know what to expect from our third record but for the diehards it has grown on them,” contended Devin. “Some who are casual listeners who just want to hear screamo will probably not give this a chance after one listen though.”

It is the opinion of this journalist that the kids who have followed Emery up to this point should look deeper into the new album than just the surface sheen and discover something new, not just what MTV is driving down your throat. The album is that different. The textures from track to track drift from guitar driven, scream laden tracks such as “Rock N Rule” to the melodic and acoustic “From Crib To Coffin” to the introspective nature of “What Makes A Man A Man.” The masses that listen to music want something different and we wanted to expand our sound but not far out that people would not recognize us,” states Devin.

“We do go through different dynamics on this album, one song might be super heavy and another might lean to a more poppier direction. We have been around for several years now with three records now so it would be unfair to our fans to make the same record again although as I said some fans have grown comfortable with our old sound.”

Possibly one of the reasons for the dramatic shift in sound is the choice of producers. They enlisted the help of the very diverse producer Ryan Boesh, who has produced artists as far reaching as The Cure to the Foo Fighters. For a scene band to get such a diverse producer is often unheard of, usually only one sound is needed.

Is it possible that the renowned Boesh helped sculpt the band’s sound for this album in the studio or did they have the direction already, with Boesh merely acting as fascilitator? “Ryan brought a really good ear for sound and that helped as we are not usually very good at picking out our sound,” Devin admitted. “He found the tones we wanted and he was very hands on with getting the sounds in our head onto tape.” Devin went on to

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It’s a Dog, Dawg, Dogg World

Bodog Music announced the major addition of rap mega-star DMX to its artist roster. “I’m thankful for the fact that Bodog believes in me,” DMX said, “that we share the same vision… I’ll show you how it’s supposed to be done and we’ll get to where we’re supposed to be. You got a dog for life.” To which Bodog responded, “Now fetch us a platinum record, bitch!”

Everyday’s a Green Day!

Pseudo punk band Green Day said they had 45 songs for their new album. The band’s manager said that although they would be hitting the studio, no release date was set for the follow-up to the mega-selling American Idiot. With 60 million records sold, they may sound good, but it’s so not punk.

Our Heart Will Go On

After 717 shows and $400 million, Celine Dion ended her five-year residency at Caesar’s Palace. Successor Elton John will soon grace the Colosseum stage in early ‘08. Hope it’s a sturdy one. Celine may have sung the theme song but elephant-sized Elton IS Titanic!

Corporatallica add, “Our drummer, Dave Powell, is an incredible drummer and we wanted to bring the drums to the forefront, give them a Led Zep type tone to them.”

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With all of the diversity that we hear on this record there must be something that best represents the band and Devin felt that it was “Rock N Rule.” “‘Rock N Rule’ has an edgi-

Scenes usually do not last a few years with only so many bands transcending the genre, just look at glam and grunge, the end of those killed untold bands with a few stragglers gasping for air. Where would we see Devin in five years or more? “I think screamo is almost over, in fact I hope it is, I am tired of it,” Devin asserts. “I think bands that keep going even though they are done are sad and I do not want to be

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er sound and it translates well in the live setting as well as ‘After The Devil Beats His Wife’.” Devin maintained. “From Crib To Coffin” closes the album on a 10 minute note of melancholy which is unusual for a band of their supposed ilk.

“We wanted to end our album on a serious and powerful display of musical ability,” related Devin. “We are usually jokesters having a good time but we wanted to be serious this time, show that we have goals in our music.”

Three media companies, G8wave Holdings,AEI and Alchemedia, are collaborating to bring Metallica to giant TV screens in Japan. Together they will broadcast ‘tallica’s music videos with visual prompts and audio promotions. The pimping is designed to encourage fans to buy music videos, video ring tones and other exclusive content for mobile phones. Remember when Metallica was cool?

Neither do I.

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that band. We are getting older and some of us might want to start families and I do see myself writing songs for other people or some other role in the music business,” continued Devin. The current scenes have had their share of good and bad bands but when it is all over only a few will prove to have timeless staying power and if it is based on last albums then I predict Emery and I’m Only A Man to fall into that cat-

egory. I’m Only A Man is more than skin deep; see if you can follow.

G is for Go Away

The shame of Jazz, Kenny G, has a new album exploiting the emerging popularity of the Hispanic market, putting his soulless signature on a collection of classic Latin love songs. Just what the Latin community needs – a nerdy white guy patronizing them.

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Poor lil’ Bow Wow

When Bow Wow did an interview for BET’s Punk’d-style The Black Carpet, he got upset and walked off. “Don’t ask no other disrespectful, stupid-ass questions,” Bow said. “If it had been 50 Cent or Game or any other man who would have stepped up in that interview, it would have went a lot differently. We want our respect, man. We want our respect as men.” Dude, you call yourself Bow Wow. You’ve never had to work a real job in your life, and your music is average – you gotta’ earn it, dog!

THE OUTSKERTZ

Coming up in the rap game today is pretty hard. First you have the fickle industry, greedy executives and fans who are tired of listening to the same old beats and lyrics. However, the Outskertz hope to change all that with their upcoming debut album Monster.“We have a lot of storytelling on this album,” Seefor Yourself says. “My partner Burger and I wanted to make music people can relate to. You don’t even know what most hip hop songs are about nowadays.” Seefor Yourself and Burgertyme formed the group back in 1998 after they were the last two in their MC battle group. They decided on the name since they lived beyond the boundaries of L.A. (in the I.E.) and they considered their music as pushing boundaries. “We’re bringing all types of music and experimenting with all sorts of things,” he says. Since then, the duo has been growing a name for themselves at various MC battles. Currently, they’ve been on Power 106’s Sunday night “Wake Up Show” for the past couple of months. With their career on the rise, Outskertz hope to continue making more music in the future. “We want to make timeless music that people will remember.” myspace.com/outskertz

words by: Kristie Bertucci

When swing became a cliché in the ‘90s the posers packed up and left while the real animals kept rumbling in the jungle.

Swing today isn’t exactly hardcore but it’s underground and the people doing it are doing it for real. Rumble King are the real deal and their latest masterpiece, One For the Road, is the third record in a series that only gets more refined as the band rocks on. But Rumble King is more than just a swing band; they are a final distillation of all that is good from what inspired them when they formed in 1996: blues, rockabilly, punk and of course, rock and roll. Lead singer, pianist and de facto voice of Rumble King Aaron Deily uses a term that needs using; “live music scene.” There was a time when you couldn’t download music, burn a CD, listen to an iPod or even pop a cassette tape in a stereo, when people had to go to where the music was, the bars, the clubs, that juke joints and the beer stained blues grottos, and that’s where Rumble King can really swing. The video on their myspace page of the band performing almost catches that spirit, with all of them dressed to the nines, hair slick and perfect, wailing with the sax, the piano, the guitar, the tenor, the bass and the drums in a crowded night scene that reminds you that swing is here forever and live is where it’s at.

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Terror Squad’s Remy Ma is being sued for $10 million by her friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph for “willfully, wantonly and maliciously” shooting her.

Since Remy isn’t exactly Platinum, the suit also names her record company, Universal Music Group, alleging they encouraged Remy Ma to engage in violent behavior as part of her image.

Hmm, I’d like to sue Kinkos for encouraging their employees to act like useless jackasses!

Smells like Children

In response to a $20 million breach-of-contract suit, Marilyn Manson is countersuing his former keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy. Manson says the pair’s business partnership was dissolved in 1996, and that Bier (Gacy) had provided confidential information to the media without Manson’s consent. The suit seeks a court order to prevent Bier from releasing more personal information. Could you imagine if word got out that Manson is a freak? Or that he was involved in something controversial? It would destroy that wholesome image!

Viva Tequila!

RUMBLEKING

myspace.com/rumbleking

Another Bad Rap

words by: Jasen T. Davis

Red Rocker Sammy Hagar has made Forbes Magazine’s list of Top 20 Paydays of 2007. Did he have a big tour? A platinum album? Nope. He added $80 million to his bank account when he sold 80% of his Cabo Wabo tequila company.

Jose Cuervo is rolling in his grave.

The Demon Apprentice

KISS’ Gene Simmons on his appearance on TV’s The Apprentice: “The disadvantage I had is if you’re in the rock world you’re supposed to be big and bad... So in some ways this Apprentice goes certainly against what I’m supposed to be projecting.” Gene, your reputation for epitomizing the stereotype of a moneygrubbing Jew has long eclipsed any reputation you may have once had as a cool rocker!

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Freeline Skates

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blurring the lines between skateboarding and inline skating, these “decks” are completely independent of one another (like inline skates), yet your forward motion is sideways with a stance very similar to being on a board (like skateboarding or surfing). Also much like a board, you’re connection is via standard skateboard griptape.The deck’s wheels are attached via reinforced swing style arms able to withstand 3,000 lbs. of downward force – much more than any joint in your body.This innovative design combines elements of existing sports in a way that allows for endless new combinations of tricks, maneuvers and trips to the emergency room.

$134

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Escient Vision VS-200 Media Server/Player

The Vision line of Escient’s Media Management products is a revolutionary technology that allows storage and streaming of all music, movies, photos and other digital media to any room in your home in High-Definition. Perhaps the cream of the crop in Escient’s state-ofthe-art Vision line, the VS-200 server/player features dual 1TB (1TB = 1,000 GB for all you non-geeks) drives, HDMI 1.3 support and upscaling to 1080p for the ultimate image quality from any source. Just imagine, Jenna Jameson in one room and Whinny the Pooh in the next, all from the same high-quality source. Now that’s fun for the whole family.

$6,599

escient.com

Absolut 100 Vodka

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Super smooth and strong, like Miles Davis on steroids, this 100 proof vodka is true to Absolut’s heritage, made exclusively from winter wheat grown in the fields of southern Sweden. From there, it undergoes the process of continuous distillation pioneered by Absolut in 1879.The result is a remarkably mixable vodka. In what seems to be an unprecedented act of affirmative action in alcohol packaging, Absolut 100 has been packaged in an intimidating black bottle, giving it quite a distinguished appearance.

$30/bottle absolut.com

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Runco PlasmaWall XP-103 DHD

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Insecure about your screen size? At 103 inches, Runco’s latest offering is the world’s largest plasma display and offers full 1080p resolution.

Boasting image quality of the highest levels, the XP-103 DHD features impressive brightness and contrast ratio, deep black levels and the most accurate colorimetry yet available and 16-bit digital video processing resulting in 4,096 steps of graduation for seamless images and is only five inches thick. Exciting, I know. Does it look good? Hell yes. Does it pose a great seizure-inducing threat to epileptics? You bet.

$99,995 runco.com

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Meccano Spyke Wi-Fi Spy Robot

Although assembly is required, once built, this spy-robot stands about one foot tall and acts as your walking, talking spy complete with a wireless VOIP phone, a webcam, a digital music player for your MP3s and personal video surveillance thanks to Spyke’s motion detector. No word yet on a waterproof version capable of infiltrating girls’ shower rooms.

$270

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Porsche Design Dashboard P 6612 Pac Automatic Chrono

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The PAC series is linked with the first chronograph from Porsche’s drawing dashboard combining two unusual materials: titanium and aluminum. I’m really not sure what all that means, but it looks cool and says Porsche on it.That should be enough to impress somebody or at least justify having a monthly payment on a watch.

$5,100

porschedesign.com

Alchemist Lamp by Nicholas Furrow

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$760

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Who’s Your Daddy Energy Drink

“Who’s Your Daddy” is a phrase which has long been synonymous with refreshment…wait, no it hasn’t. Let’s start over. One of the new kids on the energy drink block,Who’s Your Daddy packs a punch and tastes pretty damn good.

Available in original and sugar-free versions of cranberry pineapple and green tea citrus, a rumored pomegranate flavor is said to be on shelves soon.

$1.99/can

kingofenergy.com

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FANTASTIC SAM The Many Hair Styles of Samuel L. Jackson.

Pulp Fiction

Although this is one of the best films in his career, the Jerri Curl will never be cool.

Resurrecting The Champ

A weathered face, dredlocks and a receiting hairline, you’d almost think he was in the band KoRn.

Black Snake Moan

With this hair style, how was he still able to keep Christina Ricci in her underwear most of the film.

\ \ / FLICKS /

JUMPER

20TH CENTURY FOX

FEB. 14TH

Directed by: Doug Liman Starring: Hayden Christensen & Samuel L. Jackson It’s a mini Star Wars prequel reunion as the boy who turned Darth Vader and Mace Windu assume different roles in a different place that is definitely far, far away. Christensen plays David Rice, a charismatic young man who has the power to teleport. Aside from using his ability to escape his abusive father and find out who killed his mother, he also takes nightly trips to rob banks and travel the world in the blink of an

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eye. This is where the Paladin organization steps in. Led by a silver-haired Samuel L. Jackson, they eliminate Jumpers who’ve become too powerful to exist. Left with no other choice, David allies himself with another Jumper named Bell and the results are rather entertaining. The movie is a thrill-seeking chase movie of sorts, only laced with amazing special effects and adrenaline fueled directing from Mr. & Mrs. Smith helmer Doug Liman. Add superbabe Rachel Bilson and you have all the immediate ingredients for summer blockbuster potential in the dead of winter.

Formula 51

This movie must have made SLJ his millions. I mean, c’mon, corn rows and a kilt? For millions, I would too.

Unbreakable

I don’t know what they were thinking when they tried this style.

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Strange Wilderness

Strange Wilderness is the type of film that will be driven by its success due to the hilarious shark bit at the end of its trailer.

Thankfully, though, the rest of the movie proves to be an entertaining comedy that features familiar faces in a rather unfamiliar premise. With their show on the edge of being cancelled, Zahn and crew head on an expedition to find and capture footage of Bigfoot in hopes of boosting ratings and boosting job security. While this film is a far-cry from the superior comedies from the Apatow crew, it is a step up from the general mediocrity that tends to plague cinemas this time of year.

FEB 1st

Lionsgate

Directed by: David Moreau & Xavier Palud Starring: Jessica Alba

Meet The Spartans

Directed by: Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer Starring: Kevin Sorbo

Vantage Point

FEB 1st

Paramount

Directed by: Fred Wolf Starring: Steve Zahn & Justin Long

The Eye

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Much like the Japanese horror film that inspired it, The Eye is a supernatural thriller that deals with the paranormal. Jessica Alba plays the role of a young woman with a bit of an eye-sight issue. She receives an eye-transplant and everything seems to be going well, except for the minor detail that she can see dead people. Obviously this version is superior due to the fact that uber-hottie Jessica Alba stars in this thriller but the movie manages to work on various levels. There are keen moments of genuine fright and no real cheap scares plague the film.

However it does seem a little tiring to keep making US versions of Japanese horror films. Seriously.

JAN 25th

20th Century Fox

In the spirit of other spoof films such as Scary Movie and Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans is more or less the same usual spoof fest. This time, though, 300 goes under the spoof microscope, providing over-the-top gags and rather interesting comedic interpretations on one of the best films of 2007. Either way, movies such as these are a love-hate relationship. You either love them or you don’t and it’s nice to know the spoof genre still remains. While this movie is no Airplane or Naked Gun, it’s not an entirely hit-or-miss affair either. I mean – it has Carmen Electra garbed in the same robes as Queen Gorgo and that should be enough to entice adolescent minds everywhere.

FEB 22nd

Columbia Pictures

Directed by: Pete Travis Starring: Dennis Quaid & Forest Whitaker

Guaranteed to be the mind-fuck movie of the month, Vantage Point will be a lofty commitment for an audience that tends to be impatient with rather high-concept films. It features five branching storylines, all of which are connected to a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. The use of multiple storylines is always a mixed affair; especially when it tends to involve a poignant connection that is supposed to make the audience scream “ah-ha!” the moment the plot unwinds on itself. In our rather tense-filled political climate, however, this movie will definitely stir some interest and provide an intriguing portrait into a reality that might be closer than we think.

COMING ATTRACTIONS...

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MOVIE TITLE

STARRING

IN THEATRES

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Freddie Highmore, Seth Rogan

February 14th

In Bruges

Diary Of The Dead Semi-Pro

Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes

Shawn Roberts, Joshua Close

Will Ferrell,Woody Harrelson ~ by Alex Mendoza ~

February 8th

February 15th February 29th

Yo, a GI Joe Update

By Bobby D. Lux

The live action version of GI Joe is expected to be released by Paramount Pictures in August 2009 with Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Scorpion King, and Van Helsing) directing. The cast includes Sienna Miller as the Baroness and Ray Park as Snake Eyes. Recent additions to the cast include Rachel Nichols and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (from LOST).

If Chuck Norris Had a Sense of Humor…

OK, I want to go on record as saying that I always thought those stupid Chuck Norris jokes were really lame. Guess who else agrees with me? Chuck Norris, who recently sued the publisher and author of “The Truth About Chuck Norris.” The crux of Norris’ case is that none of the so-called truths are actually true… No shit, Chuck. It’s a joke. You can go back to hawking the bowflex, endorsing nonsense politicians, and being irrelevant now…

RIP Borat

Sacha Baron Cohen has decided to stop playing his satirically sexist, racist, homophobic, and beloved character Borat, who became a household name after the success of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Bascially, Borat became a victim of his own success as too many people recognize him as a one of Cohen’s characters. Cohen is finishing up work on a new film where he portrays the third and final character from his HBO series, Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion reporter. So long, Borat… all we have left are drunk frat boys who do lousy impressions of you.

There’s No Way This is Good

On paper, it makes sense. Pop music icon, turned attempted actress tries her hand at directing… wait a second, that sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen. Especially when said performer is Madonna. Her film (that’s right), Filth and Wisdom, will premiere this month at the Berlin Film Festival. The film is described as a low budget music-based comedy. I had plans to go see the premiere, but I realized I had to go to the bathroom that day, so I’m leaving my schedule open. Wow, that just sounded really snarky.

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Movies That Suck From B Movies To Big Budgets, These Are Some Of The Best Vampire Movies

DRACULA

The count from Sesame Street and Count Chocula wouldn’t be nearly as cool if it weren’t for the great Bela Lugosi.This Is the movie that started it all.

FRIGHT NIGHT

Who can forget that Cryptkeeperesque Fright Night and the first and only time Marci D’Arcy was attractive? Every frame of this movie screams 1985.

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30 DAYS OF NIGHT

SONY PICTURES

Available on DVD: Feb. 26th

What do you do if your town is overrun with a bunch of bloodthirsty vampires and it takes 30 days for the sun to come out again to scare them away? Probably die. Welcome to Alaska.

Across The Universe

Set to the music of The Beatles, Across the Universe is a musicallyenhanced visual journey through the 1960s war-time era. Two young lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood, Running With Scissors) find themselves living through a time of great change.

Available on DVD: Feb. 5th

Justice League:The New Frontier With the anticipation for Harold and Kumar 2 mounting, you can get your Neil Patrick Harris fix right here. This should hold you over until Guantanamo Bay. NPH provides the voice for Barry Allen (AKA The Flash). Oh yeah and there’s superheroes and animation and crap on this too.

Available on DVD: Feb. 26th

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Hide in your crappy igloos and hope you don’t become a blood-cicle. Hopefully the vampires are smart enough to keep some “food” stocked-up for the inevitable 30 days of day.

Into The Wild

Based on a true story, Emile Hirsh (Alpha Dog) plays Christopher McCandless, a free spirit that abandons most conventions of the material world, donates and burns his life-savings and treks north to the great Alaskan Wilderness.

Featuring Vince Vaughn, William Hurt and Catherine Keener.

Available on DVD: Feb. 12th

Perfect Strangers

Seasons 1 & 2

The original Borat, Balki Bartokomous comes back to your TV set for the first time on DVD. Now you can throw out the worn-out VHS tapes you dubbed in ’86.

Special features include a “Dance of Joy” musical montage. Pass up your chance to relive these great episodes?

Of course not! Don’t be ridikalous.

Available on DVD: Feb. 5th ~ by Brett “Felix” Ulery ~

THE LOST BOYS

Kiefer Sutherland sported the only mullet that would still look good today in easily one of the greatest vampire/Coreys movies ever made.

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE

Brad Pitt plays Tom Cruise’s gay lover who’s afraid to completely acknowledge his eternal love for Cruise.

FROM DUSK TIL DAWN

Hopefully you’ve seen this one already because listing it under a list of vampire movies is the kind of a spoiler if you don’t know what it’s about. Selma Hayek + big ass snake = one hot scene.

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BITS & BYTES X Box Live Not So Live

During the Holidays Microsoft broke records with a staggering number of online subscribers. As such, though, performance was piss-poor at best. As consolation, X Box Live General Manager Marc Whitten made a formal apology for the less-thanstellar service. There were a record number of calls regarding performance and connectivity issues, so for all the stress Microsoft is offering a free download of an X Box Live Arcade game. Details are still yet to be announced but this response has only further angered the subscribing community.

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THE ORANGE BOX

EA GAMES/VALVE SOFTWARE

Available on: xbox 360

The Orange Box represents the pinnacle of gaming in the respects that it contains a bevy of content and hardly any of it simply functions as filler. With the exception of the somewhat weak expansion installment Episode One, every other game featured here is a classic in its own right. Half Life 2 and Episode One were released in 2004 and 2006, but along with those games players get

Episode Two, a thought-provoking puzzle game known as Portal, and the multiplayer “capture the flag” type game Team Fortress 2. Of all the games, Portal stands as the shining gem.

The Episode Two installment to the Half Life 2 series is notable and a definite improvement upon Episode One. It is heavily overshadowed, though, by Portal’s unique and simple premise of using portals to escape your surroundings. It’s clever, humorous, and fun all at the same time.

Soul Calibur

CHEAT, TIP OR TRICK

GAME: Half Life 2 Invincibility

Namco/Bandai

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Wii

If there’s one tragedy here it’s the fact the Soul Calibur name is tarnished in what appears to be a last ditch effort to make a quick buck. Here was a game that was set up for success but with clunky game design, a horribly cliché storyline and boring, repetitive gameplay mechanics, Soul Calibur Legends is about as bad as video games come. The only saving grace happens to be the decent in-game score and decent voice acting. Otherwise, this title comes off as nothing more than an awfully dirty stain on a what used to be a clean track record.

Kingdom Under Fire

Enter this code anytime while playing the game for invincibility: LB, Up, RB, Up, LB, LB, Up, RB, RB, Up

Rockstar & Valve Partner Up

Microsoft

XBOX 360

Dungeon crawlers and button mashers everywhere will flock in droves at the prospect of tackling endless hordes of enemies. That’s all fine and dandy until the redundant button mashing and rather dim-witted enemies affect the overall gaming experience. Granted some people are perfectly content with mindless button mashing and no detail to the story, Kingdom Under Fire’s central premise fails to keep general interest throughout. With the ability to play as six different characters, though, all with various and useful tactics, the gameplay does change for the better.

Rockstar Games is planning to rev up its digital distributing efforts by partnering up with Valve. Now for anyone who is interested in classics such as Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne, they will be pleased to know they will soon be available for digital download through the Steam PC download service.

Jade Empire 2 for X Box360?

One of the most critically acclaimed games in history is possibly going to have a sequel. A story featured on a website called The Mercury News has a man named Dean Takahashi saying he spoke with someone who saw the code for Jade Empire 2. Of course, this is all a rumor and neither BioWare nor EA could be contacted for official confirmation.

Another Tales Game in 2008

At the famous Jump Festa in Japan, Namco Bandai had a busy booth with plenty of announcements. While it featured upcoming titles for 2008, the biggest news was that of a new Tales game entitled Tales of Vesperia. It will feature cel-shaded graphics and character designs from Kousuke Fujishima and animation from Production I.G. Release is set for 2008 but no platform details were made.

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Songs that your friends won’t laugh at you for liking.

Artist: Linkin Park Track: Shadow Of The Day Sounds Like: You can never get enough of hearing a rock band biting on the sound of U2.

Artist: Foo Fighters Track: Long Road To Ruin Sounds Like: So Dave Grohl must have made a deal with the devil to make great music.

\ \ / AUDIO /

EYES SET TO KILL REACH

Release Date: FEBRUARY 19th

BREAK SILENCE

It’s not clear if this is a hardcore-metal-screamo album or a mainstream pop album and it probably doesn’t matter. Simply put, the deliberately and tastefully mixed

contrast between the two styles makes Eyes Set to Kill an instant hit. Reach is an album that is every bit as enjoyable as it is addictive.

Artist: Muse Track: Map Of The Problematique Sounds Like: Isn’t the point of shooting on a green screen is to replace the background?

Temposhark

HorrorPops

KRS-One

Jack Johnson

Revered contemporary artist Banksy has a little known music project called Temposhark.

Contrary to my cynicism, Temposhark actually does put out good music (in spite of being a British electronic pop duo) which is all at once well orchestrated, intelligently layered and lyrically catchy. Enjoy.

Drops: FEB. 4th

With a killer combination of rockabilly, psychobilly and other things that may or may not end in “billy”, The HorrorPops continue with the trademark sound that put them on the map in the first place. In short, this album rocks as hard,if not harder,than all previous efforts.

Arguably one of the most prolific and socially conscious MCs out there,KRS-One actually has a slew of discs coming out soon. This one is a collection of songs KRS-One has penned over the past few years and finally acquiesced to recording.

By golly, what a guy.

Jack Johnson returns with a new album that, as much as I want to make fun of it, is actually fairly decent. It’s as good as any of his previous efforts but relies less on upbeat hippy anthems and more on showcasing Mr. Johnson’s musical versatility.

The Invisible Line Paper & Glue

Kiss Kiss Kill Kill Hellcat Records

Drops: FEB. 5th

ALSO DROPPING... ...these CDs might be less gay

than typical Valentine’s Day tripe.

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ARTIST

Simple Plan

Iron Maiden HIM

Lenny Kravitz

Adventures In Emceeing Echo Vista Group

Drops: FEB. 5th

ALBUM

Sleep Through The Static Brushfire Records

Drops: FEB. 5th

Simple Plan

Live After Death - 2 Disc Venus Doom Live

It Is Time For A Love Revolution ~ by BJ Cummings ~

Artist: Snoop Dogg Track: Sensual Seduction Sounds Like: So it seems Snoop has turned his efforts from rap to softcore porn music.

DATE 2.12.08 2.05.08 2.26.08 2.05.08

Artist: Finger Eleven Track: Paralyzer Sounds Like: It’s the same pattern and sound that every band today uses, that’s why it’s so good.

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JIME LITWALK

From Motor City To Sin City “I came out of Detroit about a year ago, been tattooing there pretty much my whole career. It was time for a change,” says Jime Litwalk (pronounced “Jimmy”), Hart & Huntington’s most recent standout artist. “Detroit is in kind of a dying state for me; all the automotive companies are leaving. It’s one of those things where the opportunity to come out here and work at Hart & Huntington arose,” he says, relating the story of how he had tattooed artists who would go on to recommend him to the prestigious tattoo shop; and with good reason, considering Jime’s vivid style, easy-going demeanor and over all professionalism. In spite of Hart & Huntington being the focal point of the reality TV show Ink’d, Litwalk found the transition from Detroit to the desert easier than expected. “I guess when I first started here my perception of the shop was a lot different. You see it on a TV show, inside of a casino, in Las Vegas, but the environment, the core of the shop is the same. We got a great bunch of guys that we work with so there’s friendships in here, we joke and laugh just like we would at any

words and photos by: Hans Fink

other shop. So really it’s no different than any other place I’ve been to. It’s kind of like a second family.”

Litwalk has a flair for making a still piece of art pop at the eye as if it were animated. His style seems to incorporate the big gun, go-for-broke style of the “Big Daddy” Roth hot-rod era while simultaneously borrowing from a graffiti artist’s aesthetic and the incorporation of realistic shading techniques.

“When I was a kid my whole ambition and dream was to be an animator,” confides Litwal. “All through high school I used to airbrush and the place I worked at was next door to a tattoo parlor. So it was always cool in high school to say that ‘I hung out at the tattoo shop,’ it was the cool thing to do and just so many years of just being there and hanging out, actually getting to learn about the artwork. I grew a real interest in it.” Ink and airbrush would prove to be worlds apart from each other. “There’s so much more that actually went into tattooing that I didn’t know about,” Litwalk recalls. “There’s blood born pathogen classes, cross contamination, there’s a whole ethic, certain people skills you’re taught

AT A GLANCE... + Hometown - Detroit

+ Movies – “I like comedies more than anything.” + Music – “As of lately I like a lot of old NY hardcore; Sick Of It All, Orange 9mm,Agents of Man, Killswitch Engage…

I’ve tattooed Pete from Sick Of It All before. I grew up listening to them.”

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+ Favorite Food – “Brazilian food.

Also I like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. My wife is from Brazil and having home cooked Brazilian food every day doesn’t suck by any means.”

+ Vices – “Work is my vice. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke and I don’t gamble… I hang with my kid, watching him grow up is another vice. Drawing, paint-

also, there’s a lot of behind the scenes stuff before you actually get a hold of the machine. In theory you could basically teach a monkey to tattoo. But to do a proper, good tattoo and being able to read your client and give them exactly what they’re looking for, that’s a whole other trait. It’s a whole other skill.”

Litwalk’s passion for his career stems partially from the social aspect; “Everybody’s got a different story.

It’s like I’m a bartender but without all the dumbasses. I mean we get drunks in here but I don’t have to serve them,” he muses. But an even greater allure is the wealth of experiences Litwalk has from traveling. “Tattooing [has] taken me all over. I’ve tattooed in so many different environments. I’ve tattooed in third world countries… when I was in Brazil, I worked this little tattoo shop, they had a dirt floor.

I was just baffled by it. I’ve tattooed in Japan where you have to tattoo barefoot. I’ve tattooed in London, I’ve tattooed in Mexico, I’ve tattooed in Canada, I’ve tattooed pretty much all over the United States. I definitely owe a lot to tattooing.”

ing and traveling...” + Worst Airline – “All of them.” + Artists looked up to – “Gunnar, Joe Cappobianco, obie Hughes who also plays in the band Rumble King, Rocky Jellybean, Chris Sanders… Dennis McPhale taught me how to paint.”

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Body art has become so popular that it’s almost impossible to walk down the street without seeing someone with a piercing or tattoo. Often viewed as an extension of one’s personality, piercing has become more acceptable in today’s culture, with everybody sporting the usual lip, eyebrow and belly button piercing. However there are those who see piercings as more than your average body modification but as a work of art. Enter Cholo, the ultimate body piercer, who currently works out of Artistic Element tattoo parlor in Yucaipa, California. Known for his outrageous facial tattoos and numerous body piercings, Cholo is the go to man for all things pierced, having been in the industry for more than 10 years.

Cholo first became interested in body modifications when he was younger and used to hang out at random tattoo shops in San Bernardino. He got his first tattoo at 14 and since then, has almost accomplished tattooing every place on his body. “I got my first tattoo out of a garage by some cholo guy,” the 31-year-old piercer recalls. “My first piercing was my tongue. The funny thing about that was, I would tease my brother because he had one. I’d tell him it was for fags… and look at me know. That first piercing started my love for it.” From there, he dabbled in doing tattoos but later found his calling with piercings. “I just fell in love with it,” he says. While he still likes to draw and cre-

ate art in other mediums, Cholo won’t ever go back to doing tattoos, even when specifically asked for. “People still want me to do tattoos but piercings are my calling,” Cholo explains. “I leave the tattoos to my best friend Roman, owner of Artistic Element. I just don’t have the same feeling for tattoos that I have for piercings.”

Cholo’s passion for piercing is what helped his name circulate around the industry and has gotten him the recognition he deserves for his impressive piercing work. But don’t think he basks in all his glory; Cholo is as humble as they come. “I’ve just been in a lot of shops and have been around a lot of great artists,” he explains. “Plus, having my whole face tatted up kind of helped, too. People know me for my face tattoo.”

Besides his obvious face tattoo and whole bodywork, Cholo also has numerous piercings. Not only is he addicted to doing them; he’s also addicted to getting them. While he can’t exactly pinpoint just how many piercings he has, just know that it’s a lot! “I’m pierced from head to toe and everything in between,” he says.

“I’ve done every kind of piercing. From tongue splitting to dermal anchoring and implants. I hope to get more in the future.”

Having been in the industry for while, Cholo has seen his fair share of piercings. “I’ve pierced just about

AT A GLANCE...

+ Working at Artistic Element – “There isn’t one day that’s boring. Everyday has a story in here. I have the greatest time keeping the place alive and on its toes.” + Music – “Punk.” + Hobbies - “Drinking.” + Pet Peeves – “Going to gay bars and people who don’t drink.”

every body part on a human body,” he says. “Nothing surprises or shocks me anymore. I’ve pierced everything from balls to guiches and every other bizarre body part you could imagine.” To most, all the body modifications Cholo does might seem extreme, but not to him. It’s just another day at the office for Cholo.

“To me body modifications aren’t the most extreme thing a person could do,” he explains. “It might be to some, but body building in general is more extreme than body modifications.” While many might not share the same sentiment as Cholo, most agree that you have to be committed if you’re going to get some type of tattoo or piercing. “I never regret anything I’ve done to my body. But, I can’t say that I’ll think the same when I’m older,” he adds.

As for the latest trend within the piercing industry… it’s all about tongue splitting. It’s not a procedure he does everyday (as opposed to belly buttons, lips, labrets, eyebrows, etc), but Cholo has been getting many requests for the daring body modification.

“Dermal anchors are also trendy right now,” he says.

“They are gems anchored under the skin. I get a lot of stuff other shops don’t really do. The industry is progressing, I’m really excited to see what will be possible to do to the body in the future.” We just want to see what else Cholo can do to his already over-modified body.

+ Hang Outs – “I like going to bars all over. My favorite one is Liams, an Irish bar in Colton.” + Favorite Food – “I really don’t eat much because I’m on a liquid diet… JACK! Nah, I’d have to say pizza.” + Random Injury – Cholo’s left earlobe was stretched to the point where it blew out. It was repaired on the show Dr. 90210, resulting in one lobe being smaller than the other.

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BARAK SCHURR One Way Ticket To The Top “I started taking flights out to different cities and acquiring other accounts,” says Barak Schurr, sounding much like the Tyler Durden of the ticket world. “It wasn’t until we actually got some of the bigger accounts in New York City that my current partners approached me about purchasing the site.” Barak, the founder of Wantickets.com, recalls the turning point of his site and ultimately, the beginning of his success. He single handedly founded the largest primary online ticketing outlet second only to Ticketmaster and he’s now a major partner in Track Entertainment, whose holdings include Clubplanet.com, Wantravel.com, Cooljunkie.com, Nochelatina.com and Neweyears.com. But his story goes back a bit farther.

“I was in a band at the time and I ended up scrapping all my scholarships and moving out to L.A. to do the music thing. I moved to L.A., did the band thing off and on for about 10 years. After my last band broke up I decided I needed to get my shit

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together. The music thing wasn’t paying the bills and I was sick of sleeping on the floor.” Barak would inevitably find himself grasping at the coattails of the dot-com boom. “I ended up trying to do a website that was a clothing site. At the time a buddy of mine had a shop on Melrose called Booth 7,” says Barak.

Little did he realize that things would eventually come full circle, reuniting his career with the world of music and nightlife but in a way he least expected. “The whole idea of selling clothes kind of fizzled out and didn’t work so I had to go figure out another way to make this thing work. I bought this beatup old tent and I put some stickers on my truck and I got a few guys to start taking photos and we turned into a nightlife site.” Booth7.com became a nightlife staple in the Los Angeles area but Barak’s greatest revelation was yet to come. “I noticed that when we were at these clubs, every time there was a big DJ playing, there were these big-ass lines outside the club,” Barak says of the moment the prover-

bial light came on. “I approached some of the promoters and I was like,‘I’ll promote your club for free basically if you let me sell tickets.’ They all loved the idea.” A few partnerships later, he changed the name to Wantickets. It wasn’t long before he had accounts all across the country and even attacked untapped markets in Canada. “It wasn’t easy getting this thing started, I had to put up all my savings. There’ve been times when it looked like it wasn’t going to work out and I was going to lose everything.” His deal with Track would prove to be his saving grace and now,Wantickets.com is an internationally successful, one of a kind online-entity. “Our system is completely self administrable. Someone can get an account with us and post their own events and admin their own events and be able to get all their customer information. I would compare us to the MySpace of ticketing.” Needless to say, he’s made his savings back.

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02.05 Winds of Plague (CD Release) @ The Whisky, Hollywood

02.06 Velvet Revolver @ Wiltern 02.07 James Blunt @ Wiltern 02.07 Scary Kids Scaring Kids & Haste the Day @ El Rey Theatre 02.08 Wyclef Jean @ HOB, Hollywood 02.09 T-Pain @ HOB, Hollywood 02.09 Highlands 6 Year Anniversary @ Highlands, Hollywood

Epic New Years Eve Party @ The Vanguard Travis Barker at the New Years Eve @ Les Deux

Perry Farrell at the New Years Eve @ Les Deux Skinnie Party @ The Highlands

02.13 Willie Nelson @ Nokia Theatre 02.12 Common @ HOB, Hollywood 02.14 Fabolous @ HOB, Hollywood

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02.14 Katt Williams Long Beach Convention Center Terrace Theatre 02.16 L.A. Fit Expo and Gladiator Challenge @ L.A. Convention Center

02.19 The Hives @ Wiltern 02.19 Iron Maiden @ Forum 02.22/23 Marilyn Manson @ Wiltern 02.25 All That Remains @ HOB, Hollywood 02.28 (hed)p.e. and Kingspade @ Vault 350

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WEEKLY CLUB LISTING

Tuesday: Tuesday Nights @ Mood (Hollywood) 21+ Hip-Hop, Rock and Old School: DJ Vice Wednesday: Wednesdays @ Mood DJ Crash (Hollywood) RSVP: guestlist@lushonline.com

Thursday: Thursdays @ Social Hollywood 2 floors, 2 djs, 5 rooms RSVP: jenn@redlightpromotions.com No Cover College Night @ SACHI (Long Beach) $3 Bottled Domestic Beers and $5 Long Beach/Islands.

Enjoy the best DJ's in town and party like a Rockstar!

College Night @ Basement Lounge (Long Beach) 21+ Every Thursday is College Night (562) 901-9090 Fundamentals @ Cheapshots (Long Beach) 941 E. 4th St (corner of alamitos) FREE, 21+, 9pm-2am Hip Hop, Breaks, and beyond provided

by DJ’s A-1, Frank(e), and Analog, plus guest dj’s and live art. info: fundamentalslb@yahoo.com or (562) 912-4350

Friday: Club South Beach @ Level 3 (Hollywood) 21+ Celebrity DJ’s, Fashion Shows and More (323)-461-2017

Friday Nights @ The Lobby (Hollywood) 21+ Call to get on the list (323) 974-LIST Body Rock @ IVAR (Hollywood) 21+ Indie Rock, House, Electronic Funk (213) 321-5886 Fusion Fridays @ Highlands (Hollywood) 21+ 10 p.m. – 3 a.m.

(323)461-9800 Friday’s @ Avalon Hollywood (Hollywood) 21+ DJ and Hip Hop (323) 467-4571 Saturday: Spin Doctors @ Highlands (Hollywood) 21+; 10pm-3am (323)461-9800

Giant @ Vanguard (Hollywood) www.giantclub.com Avaland @ Avalon Hollywood (Hollywood) 21+ (323) 467-4571 Party @ The Stock Exchange (Los Angeles) 21+ DJ, Hip Hop, House (213) 489-3877 White @ The Day After (Hollywood) 21+ McCadden & Hollywood (323) 874-LIST

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Guitar Center Drum-Off 2007 Grand Finals The Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood, CA was a full house on Saturday, January 5th as the Guitar Center Drum-Off crowned Donald Marple of Keyser,WV the 2007 Grand Champion. The Drum-Off began last September with 213 participating Guitar Centers and Marple battled his way from West Virginia to Hollywood and walked with a prize pack including a Toyota FJ Cruiser, $10,000 cash, a feature in a Guitar Center ad campaign, a $2,500 Levi’s shopping spree, a custom designed drum kit from Roland TD20 electronic drum-set, a set of cymbals custom printed with the winner’s signature, a one year drum, cymbal, stick and head endorsement deal and a write up in Modern

Angels & Airwaves

words by: Donald C. Stefanovich photos by: Mary L. Hines

Drummer magazine valued at more than $40,000. “I am so in awe, this has been such a wonderful experience and I am thankful for the opportunity that Guitar Center has provided me” said Marple.“I have met new friends, my idols and this has changed me as a person.

I have no idea where this contest will take me now, but I do know that I want to play the drums for the rest of my life.” Thomas Lang, Joey Castillo of Queens of the Stone Age,Vinny Appice of Black Sabbath, Ray Luzier of Army of Anyone and Korn, Kenny Arnoff,Alan White of Yes, and drummer for Rob Zombie, John Tempesta all looked on in awe as Marple performed a devastating five-minute drum solo which would cement him as the

greatest undiscovered drummer in the country. Judges Steve Smith of Journey and David Garibaldi of Tower of Power crowned him as the winner. Hosted by Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction, the night also featured performances by the four Drum-Off finalists as well as Angels & Airwaves, “Go Get A Late Pass!!!” featuring ?uestlove of The Roots and Nikka Costa and Street Drum Corps as well as special guests Byron McMackin of Pennywise, Brooks Wackerman of Bad Religion, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Shannon Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars and John Sawicki of Stomp.

Shannon Leto

Adrian Young

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LOS ANGELES

SKINNIE SCENE

Rock Of Love 2 Premiere Party

words by: Brett “Felix” Ulery photos by Alan Rivera and Tiffany Harned

Bret Michael’s Rock of Love Season 2 kicked-off with a night of drinking, dancing and devilishly delicious divas. Good Girl Bad Girl Clothing sponsored the event, held at faux-posh Vice (formerly Star Shoes) on Hollywood boulevard, dangerously close to Vine. Those in attendance were some of Bret’s girls, Fuel’s newest lead singer Toryn Green, and the world’s fastest Etch-A-Sketch artist, Christoph Brown who happily produced countless mini Etch-ASketches from his backpack and proceeded to entertain anyone with the two minutes it takes to have a portrait done. The monster mash-ups and merrymaking came to a screeching halt when the episode began to air on the giant flat screen TVs that were set up along with the stanchions and red carpet, specifically for the event but picked right back up again once the credits began to roll. Thankfully, Mr. Michaels, the man of the hour was nowhere to be found, and neither was The Hedgehog, Ron Jeremy (who was reportedly confirmed for the guest list). Hopefully this year, Michaels will find true love and next year’s Rock of Love will show someone truly interesting, like reality man-whore Dave Navarro or even better, Guns N’ Roses bad boy, Axl Rose. (Insert your own funny rose / thorn / Poison joke here.Two points for making it about Axl’s thorn.)

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02.01 Artie Lange @ Mandalay Bay Theatre

Carmen Electra @ Studio 54

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Chuck Liddell @ Studio 54 after his UCFC victory

02.01-03 Drew Carey and the Improv AllStars @ MGM Grand Hollywood Theatre

02.02 Voodoo Glow Skulls @ Jillian’s, Las Vegas 02.02 UFC 81: Breaking Point @ Mandalay Bay 02.03 Velvet Revolver @ The Joint , Hard Rock

DJ Scotty Boy & Jes Rickleff @ Rok Box at Tabu

DJ Homicide @ Tabu

02.09 Tiger Army with Revolution Mother and Love Equals Death @ HOB, Mandalay Bay 02.06 Molotov with Dr. Hizteria @ HOB, Mandalay Bay 02.14 Editors with Hot Hot Heat and Louis XIV @ HOB, Mandalay Bay 02.15 Aiden, Madina Lake @ Jillian’s, Las Vegas

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WEEKLY CLUB LISTING 02.17 Styx @ Mandalay Bay HOB 02.17 Cobra Starship,The Cab @ Jillian’s, Las Vegas

MONDAY: Mondays Industry Night @ Jet (The Mirage) 21+ Locals in Free / Hip Hop,Top 40 and Dance DJ’s (702) 792-7900 Rockstar Karaoke @ House of Blues (Mandalay Bay) 21+ / Karaoke with Live Band (702) 632-7777 TUESDAY: Tuesdays Industry Night @ Pure (Caesars Palace) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 731-7873

02.22 311 @ The Joint, Hard Rock 02.23 All That Remains @ Jillian’s, Las Vegas 02.29 Dave Attell @ HOB, Mandalay Bay

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Tuesdays Industry Night @ Moon (The Palms) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 942-6832 WEDNESDAY: Vinyl @ Tao (The Venetian) 21+ Locals Free / Indie and Cutting Edge Urban DJ’s (702) 388-8588

Wednesdays Industry Night @ LAX (Luxor) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 262-4529

Jet Nightclub (The Mirage) 21+ / Hip Hop,Top 40 and Dance DJ’s (702) 792-7900

Godskitchen @ Body English (Hard Rock Casino) 21+ / World’s Best Dance and Electronic DJ’s (702) 693-4000

Late Night Empire (Empire Ball Room) 21+ / (Open @ 3am) Local and World Class Electronic Dance DJ’s (702) 737-7376

Project Thursdays @ Blush (The Wynn) 21+ / Top 40 and House DJ’s (702) 770-3633

Tryst Nightclub (The Wynn) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 770-3375

THURSDAY: Worship Thursdays @ Tao (The Venetian) 21+ / Hip Hop, Top 40 and Dance DJ’s (702) 388-8588

FRIDAY: Tao Nightclub (The Venetian) 21+ / Hip Hop,Top 40 and Dance DJ’s (702) 388-8588 Cathouse Loungerie (Luxor) 21+ / House and Top 40 DJ's (702) 262-4591

SATURDAY: Prive Nightclub (Planet Hollywood) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 Miami Style DJ's (702) 523-6002

SUNDAY: Sunday School @ Body English (Hard Rock Casino) 21+ / Hip Hop and House with Girls in Uniform (702) 693-4000 Industry Night @ The Bank (Bellagio) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ's (702) 693-8300 Sunday After-Dark @ Playboy Club (The Palms) 21+ / Top 40 Dance and Hosted by Playboy Playmates (702) 942-6832

Pure Nightclub (Caesars Palace) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 731-7873 Moon/Playboy Club (The Palms) 21+ / Hip Hop and Top 40 DJ’s (702) 942-6832

To update Skinnie Scene club listings or submit your events e-mail, Update@SkinnieMagazine.com

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MAGIC Trade Show

While Sin City is undoubtedly home to plenty of card tricks, rabbits in hats and money and time that seem to simply vanish into thin air, twice a year there is a different kind of MAGIC in town. Every February and August, Las Vegas becomes the Mecca of the fashion world for four of the most influential days in the industry. February 12 through 15, global audience of buyers, sellers and even enthusiasts (if they know someone) descend upon the Clark County desert floor where

words by: Donald C. Stefanovich photos courtesy of: MAGIC Trade Show

the Las Vegas Convention Center and Las Vegas Hilton are host to over 3,600 manufacturers showcasing over 5,000 brands and private label resources attempt to make their mark on the industry. It is, hands down, the world’s largest and most widely recognized fashion event and actually consists of four concurrently running events: MAGIC (mens’s), WWDMAGIC (women’s), MAGIC kids (take a guess) and Sourcing at MAGIC; a great tool for businesses. Of course celebri-

ties are no strangers to the event and the fashion industry knows how to party. Past performers include Maroon 5, Mary J. Blige, Kanye West and The Black Eyed Peas.This year’s performances are still being kept a secret.The event started 70 years ago in 1939 with a small group of California manufacturers and has been at its Las Vegas home since 1989.

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ORANGE COUNTY O.C. Calendar

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02.05 Hooker & Blow featuring members of Guns and Roses, Quiet Riot @ Slidebar, Fullerton

Furly’s Supercross Aferparty @ The Catch in Anaheim Furly with Mike Metezger

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The Scene @ Shark Club in Costa Mesa

02.06/07 Wyclef Jean @ HOB

02.10 Editors with Louis XIV and Hot Hot Heat @ HOB 02.06 Goodman Down featuring members of Lit, Sugar Cult @ Slidebar, Fullerton New Years Ball @ The Atrium Hotel in Irvine Dave Aragon from Pimp My Ride

Chronic Wednesday @ Chronic Cantina in Costa Mesa

02.13 Common @ HOB 02.09 Chinese New Year Party @ the Atrium 02.12 Detour Live @ HOB 02.13 Longway W/ Sederra @ Slidebar, Fullerton 02.14 Find A Valentine Singles Party @ Hilton Anaheim TO SEE MORE PICTURES FROM ORANGE COUNTY, CHECK OUT: SKINNIEMAGAZINE.COM/GALLERY

WEEKLY CLUB LISTING

02.24 Used, Revolution Mother, Invisible Humans @ OC Fair Expo 02.22 Metal Skool, Fireball, Ministry,Vains of Jenna @ OC Fair Expo 02.23 Tiger Army,Throw Rag, Guana Batz @ OC Fair Expo 02.28 Every Time I Die, From First to Last HOB

Monday: Club Detour @ House of Blues (Anaheim) 18+ Monthly (714) 778-BLUE

Culture Monday @ Woody’s Wharf (Newport Beach) Entertainment | Fashion | Friends: OC’s Only Monday Night DJs: Top 40s, Hip Hop, 80s Service Industry Drink Specials (21+ No Cover) myspace.com/nytehype_ent Rockstar Karaoke @ The Slidebar, Fullerton Tuesday: Metal Shop @ The Slidebar, Fullerton

Club Mistress @ Hurricanes (Huntington Beach) 21+ Weekly Model Search, Live Surprise Acts (714) 625-8685

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Taco Tuesday @ Rockin’ Taco (Fullerton) 21+ $2 Coronas, 50¢ Tacos (714) 525-8226

80’s White Trash Disco @ Blue Beet (Newport Beach) 21+ (949) 675-2338 Taco Tuesdays @ Sharkeez (Newport Beach) (949) 673-0292

Wednesday: Local Music Showcase Live Bands, NO COVER $3 BASS @ The Slidebar, Fullerton Chronic Wednesdays @ Chronic Cantina (Costa Mesa) DJs: Hip Hop, Top 40, House, $2 Drinks + New Events Every Week (21+ No Cover) 888-NYTE-HYPE Rockin’ Wednesdays @ Rockin’ Taco (Fullerton) (714) 525-8226

Thursday: Touch @ Ten Asian Ultra Lounge (Newport Beach) 21+ Touchnightclub.com for VIP/guest lists (949) 660-1010

Lyx @ Hurricanes (Huntington Beach) 21+ (714) 374-0500 College Night @ Saffire Nightclub (Hermosa Beach) 21+ (310) 372-9705

REFRESH @ Chronic Cantina (Costa Mesa) 21+ (949) 646-0227

Sunday: Rock n’ Roll Karaoke @ Detroit Bar (Costa Mesa) 21+ (949) 642-0600 80's Night @ Back Alley Bar & Grill (Fullerton) Sonik DJ spins the best of the 80's 21+ No Cover (714) 526-3032

Friday: Party @ Detroit Bar (Costa Mesa) 21+ House, Hip Hop (949) 642-0600

Chronic Sundays @ Chronic Cantina (Costa Mesa) 21+ (949) 646-0227

Saturday: THE SCENE @ Shark Club (Costa Mesa), OC's Biggest #1 Club On Saturday Nights, 21+ VIP Guestlist: www.upscaleaccess.com

The ORIGINAL Sunday Funday! 11am-3p, Bloody Mary Bar Brunch Bottomless Mamosas & BBQ 3pm-2am, Ultimate Happy Hour 1/2 Off Wells, Pints & Appetizers @ The Slidebar, Fullerton

Shine @ Sutra Lounge (Costa Mesa) Where Pin-Up & Burlesque Fantasies Come to Life

Service Industry Night @ Sharkeez (Newport Beach) 8pm - Close (949) 673-0292

To update Skinnie Scene club listings or submit your events e-mail, Update@SkinnieMagazine.com

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Musicink Festival

words by: BJ Cummings

Part tattoo convention, part music festival, Musicink takes over the Orange County Fairgrounds for three consecutive days this month, the 22nd through the 24th.The first night?s Ĺ’80s inspired lineup consists of Metal Skool, Fireball Ministry and Veins of Jenna. The

second night turns a little more punk with Tiger Army, Guanabatz and Throw Rag. The final night is rounded out by The Used, Revolution Mother and The Invisible Humans. Hard rocking sets aside, 200 of the world?s finest tattoo artists will be on site, including LA Ink?s

Kat Von D. among others, dispensing ink, hosting seminars, judging ink contests and in all probability having a blast. For more info log on to musink.org.

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NAMM Show words and photos by: Jeffrey Easton

Are you a diehard musician that lives, breathes and shits music? If you said yes to the above then the NAMM show was for you. The industry only four day event held annually in Anaheim was 813,607 square feet of everything that makes music happen. Some of the highlights was Dean showing off their sick new models under the Dimebag Darrell name as well as a model from Trivium’s own Corey Beaulieu. B.C. Rich unveiled a retrospective signature model for Death’s Chuck Schuldiner along with a disturbing bass line for Dimmu Borgir’s own Vortex. Along with the vast array of music exhibitors you had the rock personalities roaming the halls and signing at booths for their endorsees. This ranged from recent personalities like guys from Killswitch Engage and Fall Out Boy to the guys who should be retiring like Twisted Sister and Dokken. The after show parties were well done as well with the likes of Washburn and Ibanez throwing anniversary parties and the bars in the local Marriott and Hilton overflowing with rock stars and wanna bees. NAMM is not just an event, it’s a lifestyle. Music is indeed everything and this show proves it.

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SAN DIEGO S.D. Calendar

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02.01 Robinson cruse day

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02.03 Dump your significant jerk day

02.04 Wyclef Jean @ HOB 02.05 Super Tuseday

Taco Tuesday @ PB Bar & Grill in Pacific Beach

Dj Fashen @ Stingaree in San Diego Dj Scotty Boy Party @ Belo in gaslamp San Diego

Dj Scotty Boy Party @ Belo in gaslamp San Diego

02.07 Paul Van Dyk @ BELO 02.07 An Evening With Velvet Revolver @ HOB 02.09 SUPERCROSS @ Qualcomm Stadium 02.10 VH1 You Oughta Know Tour Featuring:James Blunt @ Spreckels Theatre 02.13 Editors with Louis XIV & Hot Hot Heat @ HOB 02.13 Blame Someone Else Day TO SEE MORE PICTURES FROM SAN DIEGO, CHECK OUT: SKINNIEMAGAZINE.COM/GALLERY

WEEKLY CLUB LISTING 02.22 All That Remains w/ Chimaira & Five Finger Death Punch @ SOMA 02.14 Cobra Starship @ SOMA 02.24 International Pancake Day 02.25 Marilyn Manson @ HOB 02.26 For Pete’s Sake Day

02.28 Dave Attell @ HOBB

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Monday: Happy Hour till Midnight @ PB Bar & Grill (Pacific Beach) 21+ $2 Bud/Bud Light $4.95 dinner special & more (858) 483-9227

Tuesday: Club Salsa @ Café Sevilla (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ Salsa Dance Lessons + Live Salsa Music (619) 233-5979 Jazz Jam @ Thin/Onyx Room (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ No Cover, live jazz music (619) 231-7529

Wednesday: Club Salsa @ Café Sevilla (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ Salsa Dance Lessons + Live Salsa Music (619) 233-5979

Metal Skool @ Typhoon Saloon (Pacific Beach) 21+ Metal Skool 80’s glam rock cover band (858) 373-3474

DJ WhO? @ SAND BAR, Mission Beach 21+ HiP HoP, MashUps, Rock, $5 = DRINK + SHOT (858) 488.1274 Thursday: 32 Degrees @ Belo (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ DJ Rags-Mash Up (619) 231-9200

Martini Madness @ The Bitter End (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ $6 specialty martini’s till 9pm (619) 338-9300 Club Salsa @ Café Sevilla (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ Salsa Dance Lessons + Live Salsa Music (619) 233-5979

Friday: Giant @ Belo (GaslampSan Diego) www.giantclub.com

Posh Friday’s @ On Broadway (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ Strict dress code, guestlist contact guestlist@sfinxproductions.com

LIT @ Aubergine (GaslampSan Diego) 21+ Hip House and House email:VIP@dtownproductions.com

Rocket @ Belo (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ rock, electronic, disco, mash-ups, hip hop (619) 231-9200 Only $5 Cover @ Martini Ranch (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ Hip Hop, Rock, Rare Grooves (619) 235-6100

Hip Hop and Reggae @ Café Sevilla (GaslampSan Diego) 21+ (619) 233-5979

Saturday: DJ Scooter @ Stingaree (San Diego) 21+ DJ Scooter spinning the best Hip Hop (619) 544-0867 Hip Hop and Reggae @ Café Sevilla (GaslampSan Diego) 21+ (619) 233-5979 Sunday: Magnet Bar @ W Hotel (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+ an enormous array of vodkas, mixers, acid jazz (619) 398.3051

DJ FAMOUS DAVE @ Whiskey Girl (Gaslamp-San Diego) 21+, no cover, (619)236-1616.

To update Skinnie Scene club listings or submit your events e-mail, Update@SkinnieMagazine.com

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SAN DIEGO

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Hard Rock Hotel San Diego San Diego has officially reached rock star status, according to a press release from the newly opened Hard Rock Hotel San Diego. Located at the entrance to the Gaslamp Quarter, from the minute you enter the lobby replete with 40 foot ceilings and a rock'n'roll soundtrack, this hotel's moniker does not deceive. The 12-story, 315,000square-foot property features 420 suites, 40,000 square feet of unique indoor/outdoor meeting space and nightlife destinations all aim to give the rock star treatment from an ever-changing Technicolor light-wall in the lobby to the 17 custom-designed Rock Star Suites that take the chic

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urban loft idea to a new level -- matte leather couches, vibrantly colored plush pillows, dark ebony floors and hand-woven custom rugs. Each suite is unique with one of the top floor suites featuring a fire pit and deck seating for 20, while another boasts 270-degree views of the San Diego Bay and an outdoor hot tub and even another is designed exclusively by The Black Eyed Peas. If you can't splurge for a Rock Star Suite, well, looks like you'll be stuck in a suite with the bare minimum: cantilevered furniture, halo-illuminated beds, 300thread count cotton linens, bathrooms with ceiling-mounted rain showers and integrated video

and sound systems, including a home-theatre entertainment center with 42" LCD high-definition televisions with a "jack pack" that connects a variety of electronic devices, WiFi Internet access and a laptop safe. The hotel will also be home to Folsom, a spectacular 5,000-square-foot entertainment venue for concerts AND Nobu, the hotel's featured restaurant at the hands of pioneer of nouveau Japanese cuisine, Nobu Matsuhisa. The new Hard Rock San Diego is the latest in a line of 121 Hard Rock Hotels in 47 countries. hardrockhotelsd.com

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I.E. Calendar

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02.01 The Black Dahlia Murder AND MORE @ The Glass House 02.02 Dark Haven @ Showcase Theatre, Corona

02.07 Pinback & MC Chris @ The Glass House

Taco Tuesday @ Chronic Cantina in Upland Taco Tuesday @ Chronic Cantina in Upland

Sevillas in Riverside Taco Tuesday @ Chronic Cantina in Upland

02.08 Dead or Judged @ Angels Roadhouse,Yucaipa 02.08 Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Haste the Day and more @ The Glass House 02.09 Havocxx & Planes Crash @ The Nitty Gritty, Rancho Cucamonga 02.14 Indie 103.1’s CHAOS Presents: Darkest Hour, more @ The Glass House

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02.15 Cobra Starship & Metro Station @ The Glass House 02.15 Skinnie Magazine Release Party @ Rock N Saddle, Redlands 02.17 Emery & Mayday Parade and more @ The Glass House 02.22-24 Tommy Chong @ Imrov, Ontario 02.27 Skinnie Magazine and Skull Candy Present 2 for 1 Wednesdays @ MT. HIGH

WEEKLY CLUB LISTING Monday: $3 u-call-its, $5 domestic pitchers @ The Ville, Riverside (951) 328-1050 Tuesday: Current Exposure @ Incahoots (Riverside) 18+ bands & DJ’s $2 long islands/$1 shots (909) 230-1892 Wednesday: 2for1 Wednesdays @ Mountain High, Live bands, DJ’s & more mthigh.com Envy Wednesdays @ Stampede, Temecula 18+ (951) 808-3001 Corona Wednesdays @ Margarita Beach (San Bernardino) $2 Coronas ‘til Midnight. No Cover (909) 890-9993

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Rollin Wednesday @ Godfathers Happy Hour Drink specials all night, Dj Jp & Dj Fx in the mix, Cover Charge, Dress code enforced, 909 6278080 www.909party.com

Thursday: Club Salsa @ Sevilla Nightclub (Riverside) 18+ 107.1 Super Estrella Radio Salsa, Cumbia, Reggaeton (951) 778-0611 Infamous 50 cent draft Thurday’s @ Margarita Beach (San Bernardino) 21+ .50 drafts 8-10p, $2 u-call it shots, (909) 890-9993 Wiseguy Thursday @ Godfathers Happy Hour drink & food specials till 12mid, 8 Ball Tourney, Beer Pong, Playstation Madden 08 challenge. No Cover Charge,Dress code enforced, 909 627-8080 www.909party.com Friday:

Club Mix @ Sevilla Night Club (Riverside)

18+ 99.1 KGGI Jesse Duran Top 40/Latin House (951) 778-0611

X103.9 hosted by Bobby Sato @ Loco Cantina $1.00 drinks, no cover, 909-980-5800 “Club Lush” @ Godfathers Hosted by Gruven Media, Happy Hour drink specials till 11pm Dj Heaven & Dj Hi Note in the mix. Cover Charge, Dress code enforced, 909 6278080 www.909party.com 99.1 Broadcasting Live @ Carlos O' Brien's, Riverside 21 & Over club info 951-710-1453 The Social @ Rock N Saddle (Redlands) 21+ (909) 215-3468 Saturday: Dolls And Dudes at The Hudson (San Bernardino) Teen Night, 2 for 1 before 8:30pm (951) 867-8547 Club Essence @ Sevilla Nightclub (Riverside) 18+ Super Estrella Rock en Espanol/Top 40/Reggaeton (951) 778-0611

“Girl Night Out” @ Godfathers Skirts in Free $3 Wells & Domestics all night! Dj Fx & Dj Er in the mix, Girly giveaways every week! Cover Charge, Dress code enforced, 909 6278080 www.909party.com Sunday: SKINNIE MAGAZINE PRESENTS: CHRONIC SUNDAYS @ CHRONIC CANTINA (Upland) Drink Specials!! 810pm $2 Wells & Domestic Drafts, $3 Import Drafts NO COVER BEFORE 10 Broke Sundays @ Margarita Beach (San Bernardino) 21+ $2 U-Call -It ‘til Midnight.

No Cover (909)-890-9993 Party @ Sevilla Nightclub (Riverside) 18+ 2 Levels of Hip Hop & Top 40 (951) 778-0611

To update Skinnie Scene club listings or submit your events e-mail, Update@SkinnieMagazine.com

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Chronic Cantina Grand Opening

words by: BJ Cummings photos by: Jeffrey Easton

There is a venue in Upland that has changed hands so many times one has to wonder if there is something wrong with the location, or if it is just cursed; it used to be The Cellar, then before that it was Jericho's Mile, and before that Sneakers and so on. Enter Chronic Cantina, a one of a kind sports bar & grille that enjoys great popularity in Orange County. With grand plans of expansion, Chronic Cantina has taken over this building in Upland and, if their track record in OC is any indication, are set to break the curse with several HD flat screen plasma TVs, stellar menu, killer drink specials, aesthetically pleasing staff and killer parties. The grand opening saw the venue at capacity, a lively crowd welcoming yet another (and quite possibly final) change of ownership; this one, however, expected to have great staying power, if this grand opening was indication. The place to be in the Inland Empire.

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Kottonmouth Kings At The Hudson When a Suburban Noize Records artist puts on a show, one can expect to see close to the whole label roster there in support. Before the Kottonmouth Kings could take the stage at their sold out all-ages show, up and coming suburban hip hop artist Ditch took to the stage, hosting a show that would be

words by: BJ Cummings photos by: Kris Tate

opened up by Dirtball. Following that was a performance by the incomparable Big B. Sealing the deal was the immortal (hed)p.e., playing hits from their six album catalog. Naturally, the headliner of the night, Kottonmouth Kings, took to the stage and closed out the show with an extended set guaranteed to give any

true SRH fan a truly memorable and intimate concert experience.Visit the Suburban Noize website for more tour dates and information on the Kottonmouth Kings and other artists.

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PISCES Guess what, you’re Spider-Man! Yup, spider senses, heightened reflexes, webs and all. You can even climb walls. No, seriously, it’s not the drugs.

Try to use your powers for good and if you fall thirty stories and splat like a bug on the street don’t even think of suing me… last time I checked my bank account had a grand total of twenty-five cents.

ARIES You ate Taco Bell. This was a horrible mistake. They don’t pay Skinnie any money to advertise, so I can get away with saying that. You have just eaten pseudo-Mexican nuclear slop. Do you even know what that weird nacho cheese is made of? It isn’t pretty and it certainly didn’t come from a cow. Next time, stay away from the border when you get the midnight munchies.

TAURUS Your cat used your cell phone to call a Siamese in Russia.

How did he do that? I don’t know. He’s a clever bastard. You now owe $3,481.56. The only realistic thing to do is flee to Germany. You’ll have to get a passport, but at least you’ll have affordable medical insurance.

GEMINI Stay away from that sex toy store you normally hit up.

You’re ex is going to be in there, perusing the porn.

Sorry, but your ex never got over you enough to end up with someone else. Of course, seeing as how you’re still hitting up that place, neither did you.

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CANCER Your plan is to hit up the strip club this Friday. Have fu, but watch out for that blonde stripper. My psychic powers tell me that she’s going to hook her leg up around your neck to pull your face into her ass, screw up, and, well, it’s not going to be pretty. Let’s just say your medulla obligata is going to get perforated by a clear high heel. Stay home and rent a harmless porn film instead.

LEO The NSA is monitoring all of your conversations. You said that Prince was “da bomb” and they thought you were a terrorist. Now they know all about your insipid, purposeless existence, which involves lite beer, cheap dates and animal porn. The NSA is very bored so they might still arrest you for utilizing outdated slang from the 1990s.

VIRGO You own 600 DVDs yet you are still bored of all of them.

Maybe you watch movies too much. Go outside. Take up a sport. Watch the sun rise and all of that stupid postcard bullcrap, and maybe “Tortilla Soup” will have the magic it once possessed for you.

LIBRA Your IKEA furniture is cheap and easily damaged. Let’s face it, an ornery Basset Hound can destroy your entire living room of Swedish items with names you really can’t properly pronounce. Get a second job, save up some cash and hit up a Sears so you can buy a couch that a cat couldn’t annihilate in sixty seconds, you cheap-assed bastard.

SCORPIO You bought your girlfriend Godiva Chocolates. I don’t blame you too much… it was Xmas, there was a sale at the mall and you did in fact sleep with her sister. The joke’s on you because she’s going to eat the entire thing and end up looking like Santa Claus, without a beard. What did you expect her to do, take up jogging?

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CAPRICORN You went to the café last night. And the night before that.

And before that. You are going to go tonight and you will probably go there tomorrow. You are bored, broke and can’t possibly think of doing anything else. What is your problem?

For the money you’ve spent on coffee you could have made at home you could have just saved up for a good time at nightclub, you broke-assed java hobo.

AQUARIUS Yup, gas prices are going up to $4.00 this February. I know it’s true, CNN said so. How much do you drive? How long is your commute? How big is your vehicle? How many rhetorical questions can I hit you with? Will I ever stop? Do you think I’ll stop? Maybe I should think of something else? Waitaminute, that last sentence wasn’t supposed to have a question mark. I must be drunk. Uh… you are going to spend a lot of cash so you can drive a lot. So there.

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DAVE DILLEWAARD

\ \ / FULL CONTACT / Austrailian for BMX

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It was only supposed to be a holiday; a quick stop to California. Four years ago with no roof over his head and a few dollars in his back pocket, Dave Dillewaard realized he didn’t own his dreams.

They owned him. He wondered how his family in Australia would react to his decision to remain in the U.S. in an attempt to jumpstart his BMX career. “They were pretty stoked,” Dillwaard states, recalling his parents initial response. “I had been working three years straight to save enough money to go on holiday to the states. Then when I found out that I could make a living out of it, they loved it.” Since coming to the U.S. in 2003 the playful yet aggressive 6’4“ wonder from down under” has had an impact on the pro tour that has been nothing short of inspiring.Whether it’s his forceful tail tricks, gigantic air maneuvers or his accelerated handle bar grabs, his riding style reveals, as in the case of his own life, a willingness to take big risks for even bigger rewards.

Describe the difference between riding in Australia and riding out here in the U.S., particularly in Southern California.

In Australia there are not too many dirt trails, that’s the main thing, we mainly go to skate parks.You come back here and there are big skate parks here but there is a good bunch of trails out here too.

For you what was the toughest part making the transition from amateur to the professional ranks?

Consistency mainly, when I first came to the states I mainly did not know what to do in a contest. But after you do so many you realize what you got to do… the big tricks but it’s mainly consistency and putting a good solid run together. Some people pull tricks once before they go to a contest then try it. I don’t know.You just have to be consistent and be able to pull those tricks when they count.

With the season already to an end and with the new season about to start what do you do in the off-season?

Pretty much hang out. Get up at noon, Ride everyday, just chillin’ nicely.

Do you have a set training routine?

No not really. Wake up. Ride a trail until it gets dark then from there go to a skate park and ride there for a few hours then head home.That’s usually about it.

What do you do to prepare yourself before each contest?

Not much really I just ride or jump the trails around here. I don’t train too much. I try to stay healthy and keep consistent on my bike so I can, I don’t know, do it in a contest.

Looking from the outside in, BMX continues to prosper from inside. Describe the current state of BMX. The Dew Tour has been amazing right now… it’s really brought BMX out a lot more. It’s good for the sports, it’s brought a lot of coverage with good pay outs too.

From a technical side where do you see the tricks in BMX progressing?

There are a lot of crazy tricks and maneuvers, some of the stuff going on now people didn’t think it was possible. I think it can only keep going that way if people keep progressing, learning and creating new tricks… tail tricks get people going off.

I am amazed at the unspoken camaraderie action sports athletes share. On one hand the athletes are locked in the heat of the battle and then with one trick they are cheering for one another. Are you close with most of the athletes you compete against?

each other, everyone is mates. We all have fun. It’s because they all know how hard it is, what you are doing. They appreciate it. If they see something they have never seen before they aren’t going to hate you.

They are going to be stoked for you.

You are a tall guy about 6’4”. I would imagine that your height would be a hindrance, especially with tricks where you have to rapidly maneuver the wheels of your bike around before you land.

I don’t think so. It’s not really a problem. Back in the day I used to have a real small bike and it used to give my back problems. So I realized that I could make my bike a little longer so I did that. I would think that it is better to be tall ‘cause you can stretch your tricks earlier and stuff like that.

Are there days when you wake up and you don’t feel like riding?

(Laugh) I don’t know. I haven’t woken up and feel like I don’t want to ride that doesn’t happen at all. Hopefully I don’t wake up like that actually.

How different is your life now in 2008 than it was before you came out here to Southern California?

Three years ago I wasn’t really settled in America. I had a bunch of friends all over the place. I really didn’t have any place to live. I ended up living out in Corona with some friends.We have a good thing going on here.

Do you ever see yourself staying in the U.S. permanently?

I am not sure if I will live the rest of my life out here, but I still have a few more years to come.

Yeah, there is like, different groups for sure like, who people hang out with… it’s not like everyone hates

AT A GLANCE... + Grew up in Redcliffe, Australia.

+ Before moving to the United States worked three years polishing heavy truck protectors called “Bull Bars”. + Moved to the U.S. in 2003

+ Among the tallest in BMX history at 6’4”. + Nick name is DILLSY.

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