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And I owe it all to Nick Lipton. Crazy how these things work. [Link: Quiksilver.com]

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Scott Bass, Ty Ponder, and Troy Page have a new doco coming out. It’s called Between the Lines. Between the Lines explores the choice that most draft age surfers faced during the Vietnam War era: either go to war or evade the draft. It was one or the other. Between the Lines delves into the [...]

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The Berkela Films distributed Bra Boys film finished in the number 55 position at the US box office its first weekend of limited release (April 11-13, 2008) ringing in a total of $45,589 from 23 theatres according to Yahoo! Entertainment. The boys finished right behind Young@Heart, the charming story of a New England Senior Citizen [...]

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This morning at 10:50 AM, my wife and I found ourselves watching the last half of the Oscar nominated animated film Surf’s Up on our newly updated Apple TV 2.0. Why were we watching the film on a Thursday morning has more to do with the current Apple TV set-up than it does with our [...]

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I like to think I understand what “the kids” are into these days. And my guess was that the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards show would be the lowest rated of all time. It is now a day later. And I’m still stunned. I felt deeply sorry for the somnambulant Britney Spears with her Frankenstein [...]

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Being a fan of both Kem Nunn and Deadwood creator David Milch I awaited their new show John From Cincinnati with anticipation. The HBO series centered around a family of formerly famous surfers from Imperial Beach (some claim it was loosely based on San Clemente’s Fletcher family) who encounter a strange, seemly autistic man named [...]

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After a morning surf, it was errands, and a couple movies. It went something like this: I wish I could say there was some kind of theme to the afternoon, however, as I’ve mentioned previously, cable TV appears to have no rhyme or reason. It’s hard to pull many parallels between four rockers trying to [...]

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Got an IM from Ohio Dave today. He said he watched a movie last night that made him think of me. I never know how to take it when people say that stuff. My previous “I thought of you” movies were Taps and The Tao of Steve. The former because a girl thought I looked [...]

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Tonight (Thanksgiving eve) we saw the new Will Ferrell movie Stranger Than Fiction, and let me tell you it’s no Night at The Roxbury. In fact, it’s a nearly perfect meta-fictional, romantic tragic comedy staring Will, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifa, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson. Usually, this many stars means a mess, but director Marc [...]

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Beauty pageants have always been a bit of a horror show for me. To see those eager girls on stage shamelessly mugging for the judges, smiling like their teeth are on fire, and earnestly attempting to answer idiotic questions thrown at them by a leering host is horribly unsettling. But, no pageant has made me [...]

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