october 6, 2005
watched "Lords of Dogtown" on dvd. it was a hella kool flix. i used to be a decent skateboarder til someone stole my skateboard last year. man... it makes me wanna go out and buy another skateboard. it was a pretty good movie overall but the ending was kinda sad. it kinda sucked that everyone went their separate ways and left heith ledger when they made it big. it really sucked when their geeky friend died of a brain hemmorhage. (spell checking needed big time). i swear i`m sufferin from alzheimer cause i can't remember lots of things sometimes.

here's the review of the movie:

Lords of Dogtown captures the sheer kinetic joy of skateboarding like no other movie (except, perhaps, Dogtown and Z Boys, a documentary about the very skateboarders this movie depicts). Set in the mid-1970s in Venice, CA--a.k.a. Dogtown--the movie starts with three young aspiring surfers turned skateboarders: Stacy (John Robinson, Elephant), Jay (Emile Hirsch, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys), and Tony (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas). When alpha-stoner Skip (Heath Ledger, A Knight's Tale) recognizes the potential of skateboarding as a new sport, his surf shop becomes the center of the boys' universe. They swiftly rise as skateboarding stars and find their brotherhood threatened by sex, money, fame, and ego--it's a common enough story, but director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) has a gift for capturing the raw messiness of life. Lords of Dogtown seems to unfold haphazardly, yet every scene moves the increasingly dizzy rise (or fall) of each skater forward with headlong momentum. The excellent cast includes Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business), Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: The Movie), and Nikki Reed (Thirteen). Lords of Dogtown, written by skater Stacy Peralta (and based on his own life), both celebrates the excitement of testosterone-fueled recklessness and quietly reflects on the cost of getting what you want. --Bret Fetzer

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the rest of this blog got erased. all of my earlier blogs got deleted also cause i didnt know that the website i was using only accepted certain amounts of lines. bleh~. i suck for a computer nerd.

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