Another Defender Of Awesome: Updated!

Ole Frank is like my 3rd son. Him and Milo have been bro's since they came out of the womb. Last weekend while his other two brothers and I were at Hood Defending all that is Awesome, he was playing with the School Of Rock. Vocals on a Mastodon song.
Pretty FUCKING Awesome Frank.
Even better is his Dads cackling at the end of the vid.

6/24 Update:  I had sent this link as a motivational ending to a sales email to all the C3 reps.  Got this response from Mr. Klocker:  "I just sent this YouTube link to Mark G at Volcom Entertainment.  He got all stoked and he forwarded it on to the Mastodon guys.  He said they will love it!  Let Frank know Mastodon saw him kill it. "

FUCK YEA BRO!

6/30/11 Update: Mastodon gets the link from Volcom dude who got it from Klocker. They put it up on their Facebook page. Views on this thing jump from 90 when the Tackledbox first put it up on June 23, to over 3,300 views. Every freaking comment on their site and on YouTube gives ole Frank props. Talk about Defending Awesome. Nice work Diego!

7/1/11 Update:  4,213 VIEWS.  Newsflash: Not All Kids Suck At Metal! 

"Not only did they have the balls to cover Mastodon, one of the greatest modern metal bands, but they also had the skill to fucking pull it off. Right from the moment they had the foresight to bring in two extra drums to pound the toms for the opening to Blood Mountain classic “Crystal Skull“, they were on to something.

Now of course, it’s not perfect. The main drummer is pretty awesome, but they do slip out of time with each other from time to time. It’s to be expected though; most of them are teenagers, and so they’ve probably got that gangly, don’t-know-what-the-fuck-my-limbs-are-doing thing going on. Believe it or not, I was there once. But when your vocalist, four-foot nothing and probably still in junior high, has a go at aping Troy Sanders and Brent fucking Hinds and doesn’t completely suck, you’ve gotta give them massive credit."

R.T.

I miss Ryan Thompson.  The Boar does not.

First of many Defenses

"Actually, people do whatever they want.  I'm doing what I want to do, you do what you want to do.  There's a big difference between winging it and seeing what happens.  And we saw what happend."  Scott Stevens

Wurds of wis-dumb

Poached from Mr. Schieds.  Funny as shit.

Defender Of Head

I'd actually wear my helmet if it looked like this.

Authorized Defenders Of Awesomeness

How sick is this edit from HCSC session one?  This required a double watching this morning and the second one was on the crapper.  Thank God for laptops.  Miles of smiles out of this place.  Makes me consider sneaking down for the 4th... 
Peep Hobush's new ride.  Trife Snowboards.  "Yo man, you a Trife ass mother fucker.  Now lets go boarding!" 

Still Awesome

Nice work Crystal.  Place is still ripping.  Parking lot and a half full yesterday. 

Daddy Day Care - Defender Of Kids

The Ole Lady had to go in and get a little thyroid tune up last Thursday. We thought it was gonna be a mellow oil change jobber, but turned out to be a new head gasket. Needless to say, Mom's was pretty messed up afterwords and the Vicodens were going down like Mike and Ike's.
Weekend Fun Dad had to switch over to every day Dad and pull up the slack so Vicoden Mom could recover in peace. Thus 4 days in the Kids Armed Forces for me.

"Huh?  What's my name?  Who are you kid?  Where's the remote control?"

We "dropped" Moms off for the surgury, and off we went to our first activity, our first swim meat of the season.  Always great to see other moms show up in HEELS, trolling for attention. 

"Hey, hey you, we're coming after you cause the Big Blue is gonna swim right over you!"  Nice chant and all, but NOPE, no win here.  Blue Ridge Swim Team has lost every swim meat for the last ten years except for one. 

Peep Sam.  Part of the Bad Dads Club.  You'd never know it from this photo, but there's evil lurking in this stockbrokers interior.  Oh, and look at his big watch.  That's his rat Jack behind him.  Who is hysterical.

"Hey YO, check it out, I got hairs under my arms."  Cool, that's awesome Jack.  "And you know what else?"  What?  "I got me a couple long hairs growing on my balls too!"  Killer.  Thanks for sharing.

Friday started a new day and Moms wasn't the only one broken off.  We saw this mutt with the CTI at Parkour class in the AM.  Yea.

That's right, PARKOUR class.  Combo of gymnastics, rock climbing, karate and Todd Richards.  They even have parkour sneakers. 

And to finish off a Friday night in JUNE, why wouldn't you go ice skating?  We drove by the rink on Thursday on our way home from the swim meat, and the Wiener was like "let's go."  So we did.  Mac was a natural, Milo straight up sucked.

Then off to Greenlake on Saturday.  Stock move.

Which lead us to Sunday at Crystal Mountain.  "Hey Dad, take a photo of us in front of Mt. Raindeer."

Of course we were way down south, and were driving by Skate Barn on the way home.  Which I had bought a couple of Groupons from, so why not....skate TWO sessions at.

And here I am at work today.  Finally.  Back to normalcy. 

Defender Of Kimura

Two-Fer with the ladies.  Elaborate lifestyles of Shred and Famous.  Defending AWESOME for sure.

Defender Of Hadar

Mrs. Robinson's got a pretty AWESOME vid here from the swoosh.

Happy DEFENDER Of Awesome Day TJ

Yea Bud. Enjoy the day.

This Defender Of Death is shipping off to Boston!

If you liked the Departed, which I thought was one of Marky Marks best all time performances, then you should read Black Mass. Good summer reading about the man on the run that just got popped.

Defender of Niko's Awesomeness!

A little "welcome" vid to LTD. Kyle for moving "up" outta the warehouse and into the office.

Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin',
Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues,
Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby,
There ain't nothin wrong with that.

Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

Congrats bud.  Welcome to Awesome.

Defender Of Brisse

Graduation

Lil fucker graduated 5th grade today.  Kinda rad little ceremony too that went with it.  One of the moms put together a 6 year retrospective of the wieners from kindergarten thru 5th grade.  Had all the moms in the crowd in tears.  Anyway, congrats Milo for making it thru 5th grade.  Now enjoy that summer school.  HA!

Franks out too, and always representing.  Team TERROR SQUAD!

Don't cry Mom, he's going to summer school.

Get riding

THIS could be the best year ever for shredding.  Resorts are still open or are re-opening due to there being so much snow and so much interest.  Fuck golfing, that shits for old men, get sideways and get savage.  Mammoth, Squaw, Sugarbowl, Bachelor, Hood, Crystal, Snowbird, Snowbasin, Copper and A-Basin are all still running lifts. On top of that up in Northern Mexico, Whistler is still firing.  Summer shred is pretty much as good as it gets, so get it.

Team Desk

Congrats McCarthy.  Excited to see your gut get bigger.

CAMPiTA weekend

A 1990 VW Westy with a 2.5 Subaru Impreza non turbo engine conversion.  Hippies get boners over this thing.  Boris couldn't give two fucks though.  Boards and boots on top, coolers of food, two 5 gallon portable showers, grill, clothing, and sunscreen.  Out of town at 1PM Thursday. 

The drive in Uncle Tonto's Westy was entertaining to say the least.  Mac had a full blown dance party in the thing.  70mph the whole way down.  Yeeeee haaa, a fast hippie wagon that was packed to the gills.  See them clothes, yea they stayed on for 3 days straight.  Snowboard, skate, chocolate milk race, camping, you name it, they stayed on.

 

We missed the movie announcement and team signing at HCSC but Payton sent us the directions to where the campground was.  East Cuddy Bumfuck, that's where.

  Tyler Lepore and TJ drove this even hippier wagon down loaded with a Triumph Chopper, Sportster and some Yamaha 500 thing.  They were on their way to SFO to ride.

Campfire antics.  Payton, Hadar, and ring leader Joel.

Young Jonas (red hat) apparently got to hear about clits and shit at the campfire the night before.  Good conversation to get a kid thinking.  Cale just contemplated another cig.

Tyler and French Vanilla, Phil Jacques.  The dude with the best hair in snowboarding.

Defender Of Awesome maker Mark Dangler.

Morning drive to work.  Hello Mt. Hood. 

After session Session.

Jonas and Wiener.

Defending awesome for the kids at Windells.  Hadar, Brisse, Burns, Stevens, Cale, Jacques, Cocard & Kimura.

Wiener needed 10 more CAPiTA posters signed for his wall.

Brisse

Payton, rider services / live chat

We hit Burnside on the way home.  Sketchy fun.  Milo got a little local scolding right out of the gates when he tried riding a wet bowl, then won them all over with some sketchy ass fs airs over the hip. 

Defenders Of Awesome

Coming this fall. 

Moms

Cool profile of the person who makes things roll smoothly around this joint. 

Electric boogaloo

Lil dudes pooled their birthday gift cards and wrangled Moms into letting them purchase this electric scooter.  I give it less than a week.  That would be $20 a day, or $10 each. 

Landed

The first truckload of COAL showed up today.  Jesus, summer hasn't even started.

Go Mother Fucker Go!

It's that type of Monday.

Union - Force Canada bindings!!! -

You've seen em before, ONLY cause I poached a pair a YEAR early before the Canucks started to sell em. 
150 pairs available up there, ZERO here.  Maybe they'll ship a couple pairs down here when the Bruins kick the shit out of them. 
Get em here.

49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch

Iron Fist was the FIRST album I ever owned. My Dads cousin Tommy used to give me fucked up shit for Christmas and my birthdays. Broken bb guns, tape players that didn't work, shit like that. I guess he thought it was funny. Then he gave me this album. I remember being stoked on it when I got it, until I listened to it. Then I was like, "mother fucker got me again, what is this SHIT?!"
Still got the album though, and ole Lemmy's been on high rotation for a while. I guess it took a while for the album to mature with me. Thanks Tommy. I hope he asks me for a snowboard one day for his kids, cause I'll send him one with no edges.

This was on VH1 last night.  As Lonis would say...INCREDI.

Get a grip

Funny that Ky-Borg gave me this painting for the Stabbin Cabin.  Get-A-Grip was a grab traction company that Dani Kiwi Meyer did in the 90's.  Shit was like Rip Grip but for snowboards.  Couldn't ride with out that stuff on my Rad Air.  Hmmmm.  Anyway, Ky-Borgs got some good expressions of his inner self up here.  Peep it.

Dual Birthday Party

We had a "combo" birthday party for the rats this year. Macs bday is in March, Milo's in July, schools out in two weeks so this weekend was a perfect weekend to bite the bullet and combo that action up. 30 kids, all at Arena Sports. It's a indoor soccer field, gym and bouncy house set up that serves beer. PERFECT.

No dropping the kids off when there's brew at a party.  

Cole's parents were busy, so his nanny came.

Which threw all the Dads for a loop.  Really?  Macrame see thru dress and cowboy boots?  Let me guess, you just threw that outfit together?  Lisa, SAM took the photo.  He's the PERV.

Quattro represent!

Cake room / Kaos room

Blow

Mi and Sky, co-owners of HUGE skateboard.  You saw it here first.

Air Henry

Leo

Benny Blanco from Ballard

Deans a black belt, and will kick your ass.

Happy Birthday boys.  Thank GOD it's over.