Hurry up and finish it ya lazy sausage 
(I have no idea how these things work!)
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2024 writing round up via Simple Magic
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The Quartersnacks Readers Poll results and write ups are live. Enjoyed writing a few words about Casper in ‘Baker Has A Deathwish 2’ for it.
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@anonymity with his annual bants Top 10 Free releases 
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Jacob Rosenberg’s book on Heiro, Plan B & Bay Area sounds good:
Weird that the interviewer wasn’t aware Souls Of Mischief were at the ‘Back To The City’ 93 contest, thought that was most people’s first hearing of ‘93 Til…’
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Anybody that doesn’t know that that track played on that part has no business being in the same room as Jake Rosenberg, Jesus fucking Christ.
The dude who did that interview is 23 years old and on the whole produces work about skating more interesting than people years his senior. And if he’s qualified to interview Warren Ellis, I think Jacob Rosenberg is fair game.
Unless you knew it was in that 411 specifically it’s not that obvious of thing unless, you know, maybe you lived through it being a contemporary happening in skateboarding and hip-hop which you got to absorb at a formative point in your lives?
Chill out on the sanctimony, old heads.
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I imagine before interviewing Warren Ellis he’d at least have listened to the greatest hits of Dirty Three, so the least he could have done before speaking to Jake would be to research his finest moments too.
“I’d have to say, The Best of The Dirty Three”
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History either matters or it doesn’t @PiledriverWaltz
Imagine if somebody wrote something about your cherished era and missed out a basic bit of info - you’d be on the phone to Dill immediately.
I jest of course but it’s hardly sanctimony to point such a glaring omission out.
As you were.
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I’ve just read his piece and it’s good - shouldn’t have slated it I guess but still, that particular point stands.
Plus I don’t really like that mag tbh.
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One of the best albums of the era. About 18 months after the release of ‘93 till I was sitting in the passenger seat of a Ford Fiesta (after skating no less) heading rather quickly towards a lamp post with the chorus of First Sermon (Extra Prolific) playing. A bizarre moment and a rather tenuous link.
We didn’t hit the lamp post and my friend and I chuckle about that moment every now and again.
Not sure why I felt like telling that story but it’s a forum and my fucks given are lacking.
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I was 9 in 93, so all i cared about was getting my grubby little hands on a mega drive.
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I was at the Back to the City comp in 93 and obviously I remember Hiero/ Souls of Mischief being there. But I also have a fuzzy, possibly false, recollection of Digable Planets also playing whilst I was occupied at the other end of things over by the course. It’s really not that important but does anyone know if that’s right?
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No, they played during the Element industry part the following year. All those early 411s were scored live, of course. Changed days.
Haha. No idea why I thought they were there. It could be related to an entire weekend of getting very, very baked I suppose.
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wow! this is skateboard writing i want to read, baked memories and all
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I’m afraid I can’t remember any real specifics. A lot of standing about watching other people skate. I went on practice day and to the finals.
Seeing Jason Lee stoked me out, I was surprised to see Hosoi was still alive, let alone skating (might have been practice day and not in the actual contest). His outfit was rock star - shorts, sunglasses , bum bag and tee with the sleeves off. I think he arrived with a couple of groupies one on each arm. Wade not getting first was not a popular decision. Pat Duffy was there, so too the newly formed Girl team. Simon Woodstock and his contraptions, maybe a double sided set up he had trucks on both sides of so he could do half or one and a half flips and ride away. Did he do the bowling ball board and ten pins thing? I think he may have done. He was mostly on that skimboard.
The stage was some way from the course and I didn’t actually go and see anything but you could hear the music drift over… so other than my SF mates being stoked on some Bay Area acts and nudging me to go and see them, (hence knowing Hieroglyphics were there), I don’t know what went on over there as I couldn’t tear myself away from my spot I’d secured.
The Rice-A-Roni box cityscape was quite cool.
Lots of screaming from the bungee jumpers.
Phelps getting on the mic or loud hailer or whatever, yelling that everyone should head up to Wallenberg got me frantically trying to bum a ride up there. Got there a little late and missed some of it. Kids on the roof of the school and a fairly large crowd had formed by the time I arrived. I saw Simon Woodstock’s skimboard three stair ollie. Markovich’s kickflip attempts were the most memorable thing and I was down by the landing for those. Narrowly avoided getting in the footage that ended up in 411. Got BGPs in a photo in Transworld though.
I swapped a family pack of M&Ms for a bunch of acid blotters off some hippy and skated on down to the Panhandle with a load of people and had a sesh at DMV curbs and then went to Golden Gate park until the yellow suns started to really kick in and headed for Ocean Beach. Ended up sat on the stoop of our house which was back up kind of close to Wallenberg (Lyon Street), chatting with randos until the sun came up.
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10/10, would read again.
DMV curbs, Ocean Beach, Golden Gate park… Went to SF twice, long after 93, what a place. LOVE IT. Hopefully going back this summer.
Gonna listen to that Extra Prolific album again next time I’m driving, I was super into it but I haven’t listened to the whole thing in a while.
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Only thing that would make it better is if @Scurbrampwoody didnt know SOM performed until today 
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