E's Surf Report

i'm first with nothing to say today!

e - Any chance you can fix that???? As a favor to many of us...

thanks!

Anyone up on the Shappelle Corby case in Bali.
This poor girl is accussed of smuggling 4kg of
weed into Bali. She states that the weed was not
her's, but planted there by people in the airport
And for this, she may be put to death. My friend
who lives in Bali, went to the trial yesterday
He says it was a media scene that would have
made O.J. jealous. Of course, we don't even hear
about this at all over here in the U.S.

Chappelle Corby

"The marijuana, which was within the boogie board bag is legally and convincingly found to belong to the defendant."

yup. u summed it up well. thankfully we have a surf trip coming up.

sounds like an interesting jam concept. i was rocking out on my acoustic last night. lately, i've been playing old punk tunes on it and have really noticed the relationship these songs have with old protest songs of the sixties. just sped up and distorted.

I'm not convinced that it wasn't planted there.
Who in their right mind would put a bunch of
weed in the outside pocket of his/her board bag,
unlocked, and expect to get out of the airport
unscathed? No one I know. Of course maybe she
is not in her "right mind". She does kind of
have those crazy eyes....

why would an aussie smuggle weed into Bali where it is readily available, way cheaper and much harsher penalties? its like smuggling coke into columbia. sounds like a set-up. good luck to that girl.

My sister in into photography, and accidentally left her bag with a few thousand dollars worth of cameras at the airport in Bangkok. She remembered, went back to get it. They had it behind the counter at customs. They went through it before giving it back to her and found a big ol' bag of heroine that wasn't there before. The police showed up, didn't make much fuss, and confiscated the drugs, and let my sister leave with her camera.

Corruption is a shitty thing. I get pissed off when City Tow steals stuff from my car. But we don't have it nearly as bad as most of the world.

They do not fuk around in Bali with the drug laws. I heard a radio report while there about someone being hung for smuggling in 1,000 hits of Ecstacy.

I would so never ever buy drugs off the street in Bali.

weed is NOT easy to get in Indo...trust me.

Something happened to my cable connection at home. I only get one station now. http://pot.tv/

muslim countries generally dislike mind-altering substances.

Stupid pot tricks.
#1. Went to party in 1972 with a 1/2 lb of pot in the trunk of my car. Busted when the house was raided. Spent the night in jail.

#2. I flew to Switzerland in the mid eighties for a 9 day ski trip. Had a bag of pot in my shorts. Made it through ok but STUPID!

#3. Bought a bag of weed in the Bahamas from a guy in the street. He slipped it under a table to me and told me to wait a minute after he left before leaving cuz the cops may have seen us together (i was drunk at the time). Opened it up and I had one bag of garden variety weeds in the bag. Don't want to end up in a jail in the Bahamas. They hold you for ransom.

Don't even think about it when you're traveling.

For those looking for an internet radio station, check out www.boombasticradio.com: reggae, funk, jazzy beats, african rock, etc.

We all like em...

We all like em...

One mo time

I flew into Geneva for a ski trip in the mid 90s, after clearing customs my friend unzipped a pocket in my back pack (it was one of those fake rock climbing da kine type packs with pockets and carabiner loops and random straps all over it) and pulled out his bag. I was pissed. It turned out we didn't need it because some friends who met us from Paris by train brought a bunch of really good hash.

a: weed hard to get in indo??? well that's new. when i was there 6 years ago it was hard NOT to get weed, shrooms were everywhere too. times change i guess. poor girl.

I was once really high on chocalate canabacookies,while driving the baja, and ended up giving a few to some federales just south of ensenada"Mmmmm ,chochalate',mucho sabor".I was cackling to myself all the way to Cabo .Smart?????

Hey, after 2.5 years of surfing San Francisco, I finally made Bruce's page. As the jackass without the board bodysurfin' in the middle of the line-up.

In my denfense, I was waving people through and diving under them as they got near me.

If I was Chappelle, I'd be a bit concerned about what the four men next to her are whispering about. Six men, one woman, one toilet... Also strange they let her keep her jewelry on in the cell.

e-your description of the whole tone scale reminded me of a music project I was involved in. In the early 80's a bandmate purchased the original Mac. He was also a software programmer so he wrote a program that would automatically generate harmonies based on whatever scale he chose, modal, whole, whatever. So we would create a melody and plug it into the program and out would spit out these bizarre harmonies especially in whole tone scales. By taking several harmonies for each note (3rd, 5th, etc.) we would create chords. Some of them were impossible to finger on the frets but often they would be uncharted territory. Lastly we would program a bass line to his sampler because often the combinations of polyrhythms and strange scales made it extremely difficult for even excellent bassists. The final twiest was that the lead line was often played on a twelve sting with on set of the strings slightly sharp of normal tuning. This created a sort of organic vibrato/chorus sound. For lyrics we chose randon phrases or headlines from the newspaper about the subjects of the day.

It was a weird band and we only played a few gigs live because it was so complex when we added horns and backup singers. Most clubs didn't know what to make of it. Neither did we.

Can we please have some clean surf now?

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

I'm pretty sure that is me hitting the lip on my new sf board. I saw that before and I'm like naaaw.

Diana surfs better than you

SLO update. Morning before the trades: clean waist high waves rolling out of blue-green water. Saw a pod of porpoises cruising the swell lines before it broke. Perfect day for a big board. Rocked a 7'6" hybrid. Nice to get clean surf away from the bay. Out by myself, except for the 2 guys about 50 yards away. They were on shortboards struggling. It was fun to get on a big board on small waves. Definately felt like I was way more relaxed. Change is good.

I didn't mean you Flap just you in general... she's Definately better than me

that's sounds super cool Kdalle! nice. Some of that stuff must have sounded psycho. Building harmonies and layers like that on the computer is great for personal musical expansion.

nice on the central coast session Ian.

nice lip-click flap

diana has good style too.

Now Andrew, you're testing my almost-50-year-old neurons, but I think there was a board attached to you at some point. I can check the digital vaults to see if I got you busting any huge airs if you like. You too flapper. Send me an email to the site. And Mexi's pal Di rips. That was one shot in a sequence of 10 or 12. Now she owes me a surf lesson.

I only hope that everyone experiences the sheer joy I did surfing north of SC this weekend! Epic, epic, epic!

Green water with glassy head high funneling conditions and a new board to hit the backside walls with a vengance! Hoohaahhh!

is it time for Kaiser to post wicked weasel pics yet?

due to work crap and out of town visitors i have one measly window of surf this week: arvo on wednesday. what are the chances of it being surfable at ob? I am thinking slim/none but would love to hear from an optimist.

The weekend was pretty fun down south before the rains kicked in. Bad home movie for personal use only with no commercial value, etc.:

http://www.surfhumor.com/videos/Lane%205-7-05.wmv

Vons - Wed afternoon will be 5' with light offshores. Blue skies. Water temps in low 60's. Air temps upper 70's. Expect nice clean barrels with no crowds. Bruce and Mexi will have cameras in hand waiting for you.

SPOOKY WAVE

Lunchbreak shoutout to all the lovers in niceness land...

Spring is flying by... it's already the middle of May. Sept. will be here before you know it.

Question for Weatherman Blakestah: Does the late end to the rainy season imply a late start to the fall?

Feel the divine in your dreams! Sun is shining!

Actually that's me hitting the lip in Bruce's pic. Those steroids and extra gym time have paid off.

Early this morning a baby seal apparantly got lost/abandoned, and followed a fisherman [ he had a HUGE fish ] up the middle of the beach, up the stairs, to the promenade. Poor thing kept looking at the fisherman, then poking his nose around at the other people, looking for his mama. Folks made calls and I assume he was picked up [ had my dog w/me so had to split ] Awww. They're awfully cute when they're not posing as killer sharks and scaring the bejeezus out of surfers.

yawn

I haven't been catching any waves the last few days but the fisherman sure are catching stripers. I gotta think the fish meat is pretty yucky from the beach catches. Anybody have any info about that?

striper tastes yummy for my tummy.

Don't know how late rainy season translates to fall's appearance. I do know fog and onshores relate to water temp, and it is again unseasonably warm - 57F.

Bruce's neurons are only half broken. I did have a board later, however the only thing being busted were the fins against my skull when I fell off the waves.

Does Diana also have a red longboard? There was some woman killing it in between the windmills this last Saturday morning. I always see interesting people when I go on those roadtrips up north.

Here is a pic of Uluwatu Peak I took with a disposable camera

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never mind....doesn't work

that aussie girls was convicted basically because her older brother has 2 drug convictions in OZ. Yes, that info is admissible and taken in to consideration in Indonesia. she collapsed at two hearings and they had to be adjourned

11 young aussie surfers got caught as "mules" for some Indian drug dealer while I was there. Mid 20's surfers. The prosecutor is recomending death by firing squad since it was heroin.

Day before I left the indian dude was killed in a shootout with police when they tried to apprehend him.

I was reading about a 17 year cycle of warming/cooling in the Northern Pacific. Currently we are moving into the warming cycle. Last year was the beginning of it as I recall. This is different from El Nino/la Nina. The weather patterns will be changing. Maybe drier winters and wetter in Spring. A combo of El Nino and warmer N. Pacific ocean temps would be interesting. We may have a repeat of 2004. Good for us, bad for Southern Cal.

yo! dennis, don't write such things unless you mean them. :) i wouldn't mind a warming trend, as long as it's not courtesy of CFCs. did what you read say how long they've been looking at this 17y pattern? just curious...

LOL Dennis thanks for the forecast!

The weather has reminded me lately of the spring/summer of 82, which was an el nino year. little fog, warm water. very consistent supply of southern hemi swell.

damn, i wish i was 19 again.

i want to win the lotto.

Friendly, I think the data goes back quite some time-at least a few cycles. I'll get more info on that. BTW, I'm gonna be in Japan the last week of June. I expect to be hitting the surf at Shonan Beach near Hammamatsu. That's a bit of a cruise from Kyoto but if your up for grabbing some waves let me know.

Here's a little more on the ocean temperature cycles. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-04l.html

According to this article, the temps have increased since 1995. Could be so. Early 90's water temps got down to 47/48 degrees at times. It's not been that cold in a long time.

meet up in japan. dennis, that would be ridiculous. i could go from running into you at OB to running into you somewhere along the shizuoka (sp?) coastline. ...god, every now and then, the world feels ridiculously small.

i won't slaughter anymore Japanese spellings, but i arrive mid-june and will be looking to surf whenever possible. can't wait to be the amazon. thanks for the link, too.

Dennis, I have tried to surf the smallest waves ever by an OB local at Shonan beach, and I challenge you to beat me!!!! They were 12-18 inch mackers, tackled on an 8 foot BIC rented at the T&C surfshop across the street. Good luck, and don't miss the big Buddha.

And definitely bring sunscreen.

I seem to recall a 48F winter maybe 99-00 - there was frost for a week straight and kdalle and I were hitting the DP each day for an hour of chilling surf.

3 to 5 - 19 with the young body and excess of girlfriends, but not that brain

ss.sharkbait-that may in fact be you now that i took a look at my wettie- X-cell- has grey arms so you may be correct, sir! You look just like me! Holy crap! I was kinda bummed when I saw that shot and I thought it was me, I thought that I hit the lip more square than that..!?!

i've also heard the wave size is inversely proportional to the crowd size over there. like a sunny SC weekend on steroids. woohoo!? but i am a sucker for foreign lands and waters. i can't help but be excited...that's just how it is...

...'sides, there'll be tropical olas later in the summer. szing!

Spring sucks

book recommendation: 4000 days - a true account of an aussie smuggler's 4000 days in a bangkok prison.

it makes execution seem like a gift.

Santana's version of Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" is rightious!!

Bill Laswell remixed/remastered a bunch of Santana stuff on an album called "Divine Light." It's pretty tight.

I guess it's both Santana and John McGloughlin (i can never spell that name) trading licks. Fucking bad-ass guitar slaying. But obviously Coltrane is the grand-daddy master! Spent about a week listening to his "Meditations" a few weeks ago. Coltrane is the man.

music rules for me when spring comes. Find your other muse when the onshores come to town or you'll go bananas.

Your own music and productions often provide a FEAST for the psychedelic traveler, so to speak. Have you ever been influenced directly by psychedelics or how has it reached into your own music?

I think it's important because it opens up your mind a lot more. You have more possibilities, you SEE more, you've experienced more. And by doing that, you become more open. I can't imagine having NOT experienced that and doing certain things that I do now musically.

One good GROUP MIND audience experience was with TABLA BEAT SCIENCE in Stern Grove Park, San Francisco in August 2001. I attended that; it was quite a phenomenal day in the park! Tell us about the conception of TABLA BEAT SCIENCE and how that project came to be?

I started listening to Indian music really early on and ironic to what we were just speaking about, the first time I ever heard Indian music was at a college in Ann Harbor Michigan, a concert at the University, which was Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakka, who is Zakir Hussain's father. On the way to the concert, I think I was 14 years old, someone spiked everyone's drink with LSD. I had never done that before and around 14 years old, I went to the concert and of course it started to take effect and that became the most psychedelic music that I had ever heard with the tabla, the drone, and the sitar. That was my first experience not only with LSD, but Indian music and it happened at the same time!

So, I've always seen this kind of psychedelic quality in Indian music, especially the tempos that the tabla plays, and the fact that there's a consistent drone, there's not a lot of dramatic chord modulations, which keeps you in a trance, kind of fixed state, and then there's virtuoso playing on top of that which in the case of most of the real masters can be really mesmerizing music. So, TABLA BEAT SCIENCE is probably a direct influence of that experience and just how the rhythms of tabla relate to the rhythms of today, drum and bass, techno and electronic music. So it was a given, obvious thing to put together.

i almost threw up looking at the wavewatch cam. was like watching 'the blair surf project' or something, camera all shaky. gotta love them winds.

dear diary,

had the best day of my life today! a string of onshores like this hasn't been seen since...well, last week. new kite rig had me hittin' 360 staletomatobasilfish on my new kite rig first try. can't wait to try a roastbeefwithmelon grab later tonight at the arvo sesh. I LOVE THE WIND!!!

Well, I think if everybody played music I don't think you'd have any troubles. It's definitely an incredible way to communicate and I think people get a lot of not only satisfaction but also inspiration from music. I think it's a way to open people up not only to sounds but to who makes them and different cultures and it's a tool, a weapon in a way, against narrow mindedness, bigotry, racism, whatever, it's got to be an important weapon that fights that every day because musicians all over the world, the real musicians, are able to communicate, regardless of language, culture or religion, they're always able to communicate. That's the KEY I think.

Blakestah, I'm only slightly competitive--softened up in my old age, but I would be happy "not" to beat your record! Any smaller and I'd need a 10' softop:) I'm hoping for a typhoon. End of June is in the window. My wife's cousin surfs I've heard. He lives very close to Shonan. Hope to pick up some local knowledge.

Yeah Friendly, let's keep in touch. I'll be shooting up to Chiba one day also.

AQUA+SURF+SHOP=KOOKUASURFSHOP.

AleX, One of the owners of owner of Aqua surfshop Surf better than you, ASShole!

the other trippy thing there was the utter mixing of wave riders - no blackball at a crowded beach - swimmers and sponges and surfers all on top of each other...kind of a weird reflection of Tokyo's lack of zoning - residential areas with warehouses and factories mixes in - in the water it is everything all on top of each other on a small day at Shonan. But you get a full dose of the Shonan beach scene, which is pretty good tourist value (at least for me).

Yo, E! Been busy with the new gig. Sounds like you are rockin!

Just put the glass on my freshly shaped 5'7, against the advice of Korwin...and oh yeah have a super time in CR, mucho olas.

And as for that haapy article, i love me my reggae tunes and even more getting tree barrels.

C'mon surffffff

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