and these are two of my favorite things...
April 29, 2008
Depeche Mode and enjoi together?! I'm hyped. Yeah yeah, go ahead and call me a fag...
Ronnie Creager Interview '08
April 27, 2008
Here's a little interview I did with Ronnie earlier this year for the new etnies skateboarding blog.
So, you and I were skating the ledge at GvR last October and you were trying frontside flip tailslides, when all of a sudden I saw you crawling off the course... what happened?
Ha ha, just a minor miscalculation I suppose. I'm not really sure. I'd been trying frontside flip tailslide to 360 out for a while. The lame thing about it is that I was in a zone and felt really confident that I had it that try. When I think back to all the times I've gotten hurt, there's been a sense of overconfidence I think. I can usually spot or sense it and take a couple steps back, slow down and start over. Weird!
Ghostface Girl got new tits!
April 24, 2008
Today, someone randomly sent me this link of the legendary Ghostface Killah girl with her new knockers. Seems she put away her "dance floor lips" and opted for "bikini girl smile 'n pose" this time. I'd take her to the boneyard for sure... but she probably hates me by now.
Amber Heard: Pretty Girl Makes Good
April 22, 2008
Amber Heard: Pretty Girl Makes Good
By Rob Brink
Missbehave March 2008
Actress Amber Heard is hot. She's also agnostic, fascinated by the death penalty, equally into bowling and libraries, and is going to be a star.
"I need to look at your wardrobe on Xanax," twitters 21-year-old actress Amber Heard as she approaches the stylist and his racks of clothes, before effusively hugging him. She eagerly fingers a bubblegum pink pair of patent leather shoes. "I love a man with a great pair of heels," she remarks and moves on to ogle other fineries. Heard has bed head, and from the looks of her, you'd swear it was about 8 AM on New Year's Day. But we're all smiling—about eight of us, as she grabs a coffee and perches on a stool. "I love my gays!" Heard squeals while gesturing to the room. She bobs her head in time to the tugs of one of the aforementioned homosexuals. He's pulling insistently on the matted knots while another commandeers her feet for a pedicure. Yet another grooms her brows and with every third pluck, her eyes spring tears but so goes the strife of a budding starlet.
Seriously?
April 22, 2008
"Oh my bad, I was trying to skate at the skatepark."
-Mike York: The Hot Chocolate Tour
Ya, this really happened at the Hoboken, NJ skatepark about a week ago. And people wonder why skateboarders are so fucking pissed off half the time.
NJ douchebaggery!
April 22, 2008
Wow, people have been sending me hate mail that I haven't updated in a while. Talk about flattering! I've been on the road. Barcelona, NJ, and Arizona. etnies tours, family tragedies, etc. etc...
Anyway, whilst in NJ I had the chance to chill at a total guido Gotti bar. I recommend everyone try it one night if you ever visit the Garden State.
So I filmed some evidence that the 2007 RobBrink.com douchebag awards are still relevant here in April '08. Along with some dudes...
Post-Barcy...
April 3, 2008
Aren't you dying to see lots of what went down in Barcy with some of the etnies crew? I was lucky enough to spend two weeks there with Sean Malto, Mikey Taylor, Eric Fletcher, Tyler Bledsoe, Kyle Leeper and a few others and I'm posting all my updates on the new etnies skateboarding site.
What's the Story? Evan Hernandez
April 2, 2008
What's the Story? Evan Hernandez
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag May 2008
"One time," says Terry Kennedy, "I sold that dude a fake Jacob watch for like a G. I told him my cousin jacked it from somebody at a rap concert. He was running around showing everybody, but that shit was fake."
"Did you feel guilty?" I asked.
"Nah! I was bad then. I was from Long Beach. I was looking at Evan like, 'You're makin' money! I don't got none, so fuck it, I'll sell you this watch if you'll believe it.'"
"What did he say when he found out it was fake?" I asked.
"He was like 'That's fucked up man!' He wasn't even mad or anything," Terry exclaimed, laughing the whole way through.
Festivus: Lord of the Lines '08
April 2, 2008
Festivus: Lord of the Lines '08
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag May 2008
Does anyone want to read contest articles anymore? I mean, really… it's kinda like having your friends tell you about this awesome time they had at a spot or some party or whatever, but you weren't there. You really don't care to be reminded about the great time and great skateboarding you were unfortunate enough to miss and you pretend to listen, but really your head is off elsewhere, wishing your homey would shut the fuck up.
Or … contrary to that, perhaps people like reading about contests sometimes because they couldn't, in a million years, ever be there. Maybe they live across the country—or world, for that matter. Maybe they like to be filled in on all the happenings and yearn to live vicariously through the perspective of the mag. Maybe their friend or teammate or favorite pro skated in it. Maybe they work for the company who hosted it or sponsored it. Maybe, just maybe, they are skate nerds and will read anything and everything they can about skateboarding. And that's probably the main reason this article exists right now.
Public typos!
April 2, 2008
I love finding typos in public. This one happens to be on the delivery van of a Lake Forest, California lunchtime hot spot.