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Harmony Studios - BugEye

BugEye occupies the far corner of the second floor. They have a huge studio with an expansive window overlooking scenic West Oakland. BugEye hit it big in 2001 with a top-50 tune entitled, "Back that sh*t up." They lived lavishly off the proceeds of that song for a few years but are now re-entrenching and attempting to get the flow rolling again. Two brothers from Berkeley form the core of the funk/hip-hop group.

Eugene and Larry grew up in an upper-middle class black neighborhood on the border of Berkeley and Oakland. Their father Raymond ran a successful soul food restaurant called Raymond's. Raymond also played jazz clarinet and would have his friends over for impromptu jams on sundays after church. Eugene and Larry would dance and sing while their father and his friends played Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk tunes for hours. Soon Eugene and Larry had their own little band, with Eugene on drums and Larry on bass guitar. They would create grooves and then rap along to them. Soon they were at Berkeley high school playing in the jazz band with such notables as Joshua Redman, Charlie Hunter and Will Bernard.

After high school Larry and Eugene started playing out, and soon developed a reputation for hilarious, good-time stage antics and legendary, uber-rockstar offstage shenanigans. As good-looking, smooth-talking musicians on the rise, they soon gathered a veritable harem of stylish, nubile felines around them. After a year or two of paying dues and partying large, BugEye hit it huge with "Back that sh*t up," a funk/rap groove about shaking booty on the dancefloor. They created a hilarious, over-the-top video where all these cartoon ladies with exaggerated posteriors did the butt-pop dance at ridiculously high velocities. The video has all the ladies perform this syncopated dance where their butts jiggle and wiggle in direct tempo with the song. Then cartoon charactertures of Eugene and Larry are seen with huge eyeballs that jiggle and wiggle to the sight of the jiggling butts. The climax of the video has all the butts and eyeballs jiggling out of control and the whole building crashes down due to all the excessive wiggling. The video won an MTV music video award but was also banned in many areas.

Eugene and Larry lived luxuriously for about a year with their newfound wealth. They each rented a penthouse suite in Russian Hill and also one down in Santa Monica. They threw unbelievable parties featuring scantily-clad, well-endowed females, hot-tubs, celebrities, high-grade hydroponics, grills, and all the rest. They rolled fantastic, 8-paper blunts. Booze, limos, chartered jets, krunk-goblets, armani suits, etc. They toured and roared through the country, living the dream. But, after a while the buzz wore off and the album stopped selling and Eugene and Larry landed back on earth.

Now they're in Harmony Studios, trying to put it together again.

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Thank you Huey for the stellar waves yesterday!

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Posted by: Stinkeye at January 17, 2006 09:48 AM

Posted by: sic at January 17, 2006 09:53 AM

sweet pictures this AM. just like nocal the alst couple weeks

I hope that guy has a nose guard on his board or speedbumb is about to be violated without protection

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 10:02 AM

Agree on the quality pics this morning!! Have had that last yellow one as my wallpaper for awhile now.

In case anyone missed this in yesterday's sludge....Rippin' at Jaws!!

http://surfermag.com/av/tow-in/vid-peahidec2605

Local beachie still closed down here due to the massive sewage spill.

Posted by: Hb at January 17, 2006 10:05 AM

ditto on this morning's pics. how was your show e?

I'd also like to say thanks to MLK. My day off was thoroughly enjoyed. head high glassy waves, beautiful weather, and me+friend +1other = stoked.

Posted by: rza at January 17, 2006 10:11 AM

Posted by: Smalls at January 17, 2006 10:19 AM

As a longtime windsurfer I have been trying to figure out how the tides affect the quality of waves.
For windsurfing, outgoing tides (ebb) make good chop/swell whereas incoming tides (flood) smooth out the surface.
My experience with surfing is that outgoing tides are good, but low tide tends to be thumping and closeout.
Is there any general rule of thumb, or does it differ at different places and with different swell?
Thanks for any helpful advice!

Posted by: Sander at January 17, 2006 10:30 AM

Ahhh. Finally back in the water after nearly three weeks. I sucked so badly I've decided to sell all my gear and take up tennis. No, I suck at that too. I'll find something to do. UFC!!! That's the ticket.

Posted by: Dennis at January 17, 2006 10:33 AM

airbrushing Raquel Welch on the bottom of a board (trivia answer?) I can understand. Even a cartoon character. but a rapper hood? thats grasping pretty far for an identity. no wonder the line-up is so utterly full of clueless wankers. suburban psuedo products of the ghetto? If you choose to surf. Be surf. Honor the traditions.

Posted by: PNW at January 17, 2006 10:33 AM

FIRST SURF of 2006!

suh-weeeet! good fun.

rocky mountain observations.....

the hiss of falling snow
steep and long (sorry sierras.)
choices and more choices—like having
a dozen ripping breaks to pick from
light airy snow
aspens AND conifers are quite solid...
always powder to be had....you just gotta look...
ridiculous bourgeois activity but still a GAS!

Posted by: korewin at January 17, 2006 10:45 AM

i hear you dennis. i surfed yesterday and this morning and was kooking out bad. 3 weeks of drinking lots of beer and no excercise have taking it's toll. i'm outta shape!

Posted by: lerm at January 17, 2006 10:52 AM

my arms feel like they are going to fall off it was nice to be back at --.

there were some nice looking bombs waaaaaay out there yesterday - big, great shape, but maybe like 500+ yards away. i saw a couple guys paddle way out but didnt see them get anything.
anyone take those on?

Posted by: vons at January 17, 2006 10:58 AM

Not to let it go on a negative note - regardless of my performance, it was good to get back in the water.

Rocky Mountain skiing is different. I skied at Taos some years back. I arrived at the slopes early in the morning. It had snowed all night and the ski patrol was at the lift trudging sideways with skis on to pack down the snow for the soon to be arriving skiers. They asked me if I would assist. I did. After about twenty minutes of stomping, they offered me first run from the top, solo, in waist deep light fluffy powder with no tracks but my own. One of my most memorable ski stories.

Posted by: Dennis at January 17, 2006 11:00 AM

PNW - traditions deserve much respect... don't see where that means dismissing new things. Biggie sounds like a "hood"... he has insightful things to say about the world he's from... & does so with A LOT of flow!! I'm sure in-part why he's a successful artist. As a surfer, I 'traditionally' appreciate 'good flow'.

Posted by: gb at January 17, 2006 11:02 AM

btw, caught mark dannon on the weather this morning and said high surf warning will be in effect for tomorrow morning. i've heard advisory but warning?

Posted by: lerm at January 17, 2006 11:04 AM

Drove down the coast on highway 1 yesterday, still onw of the most beatiful coastal roads in the world, some spots working and some not. The reason for the trip was to repalce my stolen wetsuits, some moron grabbed them from my porch in the crime riddled suburb of berkeley called Kensington. Not only did they take my new oneil psycho but also my old tattered Billabong zipperless!! My fault for being so naive as to leave them out front ....So I went and got a new Hotline, fit like a glove and confortable and drove down the coast so really it worked out. I am lucky now that I can afford such luxuries 15 years ago and I would have been out of luck and suitless until my next paycheck. I am fortunate, I suppose! Still, whover took them I hope at least they use them.
peace

Posted by: antman at January 17, 2006 11:05 AM

Go Team Sierra! (Sunday)

Posted by: artifact at January 17, 2006 11:14 AM

BE Flow. not flow by billboard association.

Posted by: PNW at January 17, 2006 11:16 AM

I was reading this excerpt from a MLK parade they had the other day:

"It's so far away you don't even think about it," Anna said, "but I'm very impressed. Some states still don't recognize it. ... In Michigan the schools take the day off, but they call it a teachers conference day. ... You can't even call it Martin Luther King Day."

Then it goes on about how MLK fought for racial equality, against social injustice, and to break down racial stereotypes. Then they interviewed this one lady and she said the MLK Parade is great, and that she goes every year and afterwards goes to the park for some fried chicken and watermelon. I just had to laugh at that.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 11:29 AM

First Post!!

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 11:29 AM

antman i hope you peed in those wetsuits many times, that should give you some consolation that you may be indirectly peeing right on the thief at any given moment.

Posted by: vons at January 17, 2006 11:29 AM

Vons thanks thats a great Karmic thought, wished I'd crapped in it- almost did come to think of it when caught inside a few weeks ago!!

Posted by: antman at January 17, 2006 11:35 AM

caught some fun ones yesterday. surfing rules!

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 11:38 AM

Mars Volta story by my friend Kayceman

Posted by: e at January 17, 2006 11:41 AM

Posted by: how big would you guys call this? at January 17, 2006 11:45 AM

Waves looked purty yesterday.

non-surf complaint: many yuppies in my neighborhood let their dogs shit all over the place and never clean it up. Then it rains. Multiply X brain-dead yuppies by Y amount of overfed yuppie dogs = Z (mobs of canine feces running off sidewalks, into the gutter and into the SF Bay). I really don't see any difference between a pet dog taking a dump on the street or the dog's owner peeling down his own drawers and doing it himself. They are one in the same act. This stuff pollutes. This is a city, people, not ma's 100-acre farm out in the country somewhere.

and now...peace.

Posted by: Dem at January 17, 2006 11:48 AM

That is rated NT...not tourmo

Posted by: sd rider at January 17, 2006 11:54 AM

6' to 8' Hwn. DOH+ to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Dennis at January 17, 2006 12:02 PM

You mainland kooks writing shit about me you suck. Wha's this who's this Bagel character ass? My computer sits here just fine and dandy. Which is more than I can say for what you will be when I get my hands around your skinny little neck. FYI my tax issues with Uncle Sam are all taken care of thanks to some connections to the right people in local government over here.
For all you little people in the surfing world I want you to know that your kind is not welcome here in the islands. You know nothing and you will never know nothing about the mana aina ohana.
The way in which you verbally slammed the islands is a shame to our poeple. 300 years ago I would have bitten off your ear, eaten it and then spit it back in your face after I buried you up to your chin in the sand - I would shit and piss on your head like Blackfoot Creek Mary did to the white men she captured.
motherfucker. TT boy where are you? I've got a warclub for upside your head.
E. I have alot of friends on the mainland - good haole people. I've been hearing some negative and reading a lot of negative things about Hawaii on here.
Consider yourselves boiled.

Posted by: Sunny Garcia at January 17, 2006 12:15 PM

don't know about billboard association. do know, Biggie can flow...

Posted by: gb at January 17, 2006 12:21 PM

Slappy Garcia for president!

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:27 PM

bagel is trained as a Navy SEAL. for real.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:28 PM

15ft or yes DOH +

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:36 PM

the real question about that last pic is how big is the board that fool is riding? massive doh+ barrels on a 5'8" potato chip? jesus h christ...

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:42 PM

What does boiled mean. I boiled an egg yesterday and it was real good. But to be boiled in oil would be most unpleasant. What do you mean Sunny side up?

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:47 PM

tall and lanky guy on tiny board. big wave.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:53 PM

Sunny,
send some pics of your lady. and then, shut up. no, shut up first, then send the pics.

Thanks.

Posted by: tt at January 17, 2006 12:53 PM

Sunny side up - you people make me so angry! How's roasted sound there Pete Wilson you...
North Shore slug fest coming your way

DA WOLFPACK

Posted by: So Sunny Not Funny at January 17, 2006 12:56 PM

Sunny's lady? Brah, you have balls.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 12:59 PM

Nice shot Artifact. I think I know that rock K-wood?

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 17, 2006 01:03 PM

I know i'm naive, but what are the odds that is really Sunny Garcia? C'mon folks. This blog isn't the surfing universe.

Posted by: MSG at January 17, 2006 01:06 PM

46006: 5:50 am 20.7ft 13sec
Think I'm gonna be sick Thursday.

Posted by: kdalle at January 17, 2006 01:11 PM

and Sunny Garcica can't spell his own name, much less write a complete sentence

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 01:13 PM

YO! surf yesterday was funcakes!

thanks for asking about the show rza. It was a mellow affair for the most part. About 50 peeps showed up, thought probably single-digits came to hear our band? We were a bit nervous beforehand but smeared into the set and by the third song had achieved relative liftoff. It's always instructive and energized to play live in front of real people. It was cool to take some of the improvisational parts into dark/psycho land.

All was good until BVB and his whole KCLB crew came in and started raising a ruckus. I was really nervous that they were gonna start beating heads. But we continued to rock and they started swilling beers and yelling good-natured insults. Then during the last song the Brigade came in the door and a huge mosh-pit throwdown erupted between the Brigade and the KCLB. It was insane. about 10 or 20 deeply tanned, 20-something surf hoodlums raged and slammed while we ripped through our heavier material.

sickness!

Posted by: e at January 17, 2006 01:14 PM

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 01:29 PM

sunny's bitch

Posted by: brah wit balls at January 17, 2006 01:36 PM

Sunny G! i thought we squashed that beef years ago. again, sorry I decided to get a jaguar tatooed on my shoulder the same weekend as you, ive since gotten it covered up with a tribal orca design, so no worries right bro brah?

Posted by: post meeting pre lunch not surfed since 2005 bagel at January 17, 2006 01:38 PM

Hey guys,

I heard through the grapevine that there was some commotion lately in the Northern California surf community. Sorry, but open your minds. Peace. Love.

Posted by: Kelly Slater at January 17, 2006 01:50 PM

Posted by: bagels at January 17, 2006 01:51 PM

My man left a tec and a nine at my crib
Turned himself in, he had to do a bid
A one-to-three, he be home the end of ’93
I’m ready to get this paper, g, you with me?

Motherfucking right, my pocket’s looking kind of tight
And I’m stressed, yo biggie let me get the vest

No need for that, just grab the fucking gat
The first pocket that’s fat the tec is to his back
Word is bond, I’m a smoke him yo don’t fake no moves (what? )
Treat it like boxing: stick and move, stick and move

Nigga, you ain’t got to explain shit
I’ve been robbin motherfuckers since the slave ships
With the same clip and the same four-five
Two point-blank, a motherfucker’s sure to die
That’s my word, nigga even try to bogart
Have his mother singing it’s so hard...

Yes, love love you’re fucking attitude
Because the nigga play pussy that’s the nigga that’s getting screwed
And bruised up from the pistol whipping
Webs on the neck from the necklace stripping
Then I’m dipping up the block and I’m robbing bitches too
Up the herring bones and bamboos
I wouldn’t give fuck if you’re pregnant
Give me the baby rings and a #1 mom pendant

I’m slamming niggaz like shaquille, shit is real
When it’s time to eat a meal I rob and steal
’cos mom duke ain’t giving me shit
So for the bread and butter I leave niggaz in the gutter
Huh, word to mother, I’m dangerous
Crazier than a bag of fucking angel dust
When I bust my gat motherfuckers take dirt naps
I’m all that and a dime sack, where the paper at?

Posted by: flow at January 17, 2006 01:51 PM

"what are the odds that is really Sunny Garcia? C'mon folks."

thanks for clearing that up MSG. i've really appreciated your contributions to the blog lately.

Posted by: choda boy at January 17, 2006 01:55 PM

please don't bring that 'flow' into the lineup. rap and surfing don't really mix. surf vids with rap annoy the shit outta me. i'm forced to mute and then add some classical. now that's real flow.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 02:00 PM

you crazy

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 02:09 PM

what the fuq did biggie know about tides, swell, wind, wide spot in relation to rocker, fin camber, and the nuances of fickle reefs? how do hip hop lyrics like those above relate to surfing and a life near the ocean? even he would probably be authentic enough to see the bullshit in that. kook posers, shit like that is not flow. those lyrics may flow, but the life they depict does not. flow opens your heart and plugs you in to a life of wonder. flow gets you the deep spot behind the bowl on the best wave of the set while all the boys are tangled in the kelp. Have fun living in biggies flow. I'll make my own.

Posted by: PNW at January 17, 2006 02:21 PM

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude ............................................................................................................................ just take all of that negative .....................................................................................................................................................energy and re-...........................................................................channel it. He could have made bombs but.......................................................................uh,..............................................where am I dude?

Posted by: rob machado at January 17, 2006 02:30 PM

god PNW get over yourself, probably 99% of musicians don't surf but i can still get pumped off their music. if i had to listen to jack johnson before every session i'd fucking off myself.

Posted by: bbr at January 17, 2006 02:35 PM

oh man!! this blog is on fire today!! first, the big dog, sunny garcia, paid us a visit and now it's soulman machado! i told all my friends about how cool this blog was and no one believed me!! they will now!

Posted by: sweetness at January 17, 2006 02:37 PM

ditto on bbr's jack johnson sentiment.

Posted by: d at January 17, 2006 02:37 PM

Do unicorns flow?

Posted by: Joe O at January 17, 2006 02:38 PM

Read my book. PNW

Posted by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and 325 at January 17, 2006 02:39 PM

you miss the point of my initial trolling post. listen to what you like.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 02:42 PM

Man, ever since I quit smoking weed, I can't get the asshole filter to work on this thing.

BBR- PNW has only been posting on this thing a short time, he'll mellow out soon. Either that or he'll become bitter like Web.

Jack Johnson is the king of Variations on a theme though, gotta admit.

Posted by: friend #1 at January 17, 2006 02:42 PM

spinach bagels!!! who knew?

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 02:44 PM

In one answer, he summarized it as all about having to learn to control our consciousness. This might come from practicing certain disciplines such as arts, sports or religions. Difficulty is often found in trying to apply these disciplines with others, such as with partner or children or workmates!

According to the surveys Csikszentmihalyi has used, 15% of people say they have never experienced the "flow", 15-20% say they experience it every day (or several times a day), with the rest in between.

There is no apparent correlation between intelligence and flow experience - this is reflected more in the different activities that are associated with flow for different people.

Csikszentmihalyi is working with Montessori teachers in North America on applying his model to education for children.

"biggie has got ze flow!"

Posted by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (the second one) at January 17, 2006 02:44 PM

did anyone catch or see anyone catch one of those bombs breaking way, way, way outside at ob yesterday?

Posted by: vons at January 17, 2006 02:45 PM

I think Czikazentmihalyi is in constant flow trying to pronounce his own name.

Posted by: zebra at January 17, 2006 02:50 PM

I'm currently in the "anxiety" category about trying to spell Czikazentmihalyi, Czskazentmihaluyi, Csikszentmihalyi...thank god for cut and paste

Posted by: amused at January 17, 2006 02:53 PM

I hope that wasn't sarcasm, choda boy.

As much as I hate to say this about Jack Johnson, but I concur: i'd off myself too.

Posted by: MSG at January 17, 2006 02:59 PM

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Posted by: at January 17, 2006 03:04 PM

Somehow some people have missed the e mail address. Go to Aggroville and visit your own kine. I am sure you will enjoy the negativity.

Posted by: old school at January 17, 2006 03:12 PM

I maintain that brushing East Coast and Biggie on your board is incongruent with an authentic surfing life. what is the relevance? read my posts. answer my questions. that is all.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 03:37 PM

Don't forget Kelly Slater dropped in on E's today as well! Dude's blog is blowing up......

Negative vibe killer - Kaiser-style

I got dibs on 1 thru 3!!!! Step off!

Posted by: Kaiser at January 17, 2006 03:44 PM

just so we're all clear, can someone define 'authentic surfing lifestyle'? i feel like a total kook from kansas just typing that phrase.

Posted by: jayhawk at January 17, 2006 03:44 PM

Man, half a month in and already blown that resolution about negative posts.

Sorry Web.

And PNW, I heard that some people on the East Coast do from time to time surf. If they grew up during the time of the whole NY/LA thug Rap Battle, they may have a feel for Biggie versus Tupac. Maybe they also have a chip on their shoulder since the West Coast gets all the hype re surfing.

So's they decide to airbrush Biggie on their board to piss off and or confuse some West Coasters.

Looks like it worked.

Posted by: friend #1 at January 17, 2006 03:45 PM

yeah that pic with the surfer dropping in on all the boogie boarders is tight. one of those chicks has shit on her ass...

Posted by: Brian at January 17, 2006 03:47 PM

Ahhhhhh yeah!
Niggaz, thugs, dope dealers and pimps
Basketball players, rap stars, and simps
That's what little black boys... are made of
Sluts, hoes, and press the naps around your beck
Broads pop that coochie, bitches stay in check
That's what little black girls... are made of
But if we're made of that who made us
and what can we do to change us
The oppressor tries to tame us
here's a FOOT for his anus!
Well since the days when I was shittin in diapers
It was evident the President didn't like us
Assassination attempts I'd root for the snipers
My teacher told me that I didn't know what right was
Well she was wrong cause I knew what a right was
And a left and an uppercut, too
I had a hunch a sucker punch is what my people got
That's why I was constantly red, black, and blue

Posted by: mlk at January 17, 2006 03:51 PM

I met this tall Mexican girl from Craigslist about 8 months ago. Tall, like, 5'9" and stacked on both ends. From the back, she looked like Kaiser's women in the last post. For some reason, I just wasn't into her at the time, and after the first date, never emailed or called her back. She sent me an email saying how I said I would have called her and never did. I've been so burnt out on dating the past 2 years, that I just didn't care anymore. Anyways, I called her back and apologized. She probably thought I was a flake after that, and we never really connected again. I dropped the ball big time. I should have worked it a little more, and held off for a rainy day like today.

Kaiser, every time you post those dealante.com pics, I kick myself in the ass. I just wanted to let you know that.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 03:52 PM

yo Brian
you don't know shit
that's a bruise from gettin banged
by a drunken kelly's boy

Posted by: greg at January 17, 2006 03:54 PM

Sander,
beach breaks usually like mid to high tides.
reef breaks like usually like mid to low tides.
But, as with women, it depends on the spot.

Posted by: steve at January 17, 2006 03:55 PM

Maybe we should institute an authentic sufing lifestyle application process whereby the applicant's board, clothes and general demeanor are evaluated for surfing lifestyle authenticness.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 04:01 PM

haha. nope. just bored. pushing buttons for fun. my flow is always smiling. hell, I once had a 6'8" stinger swallow, black with a lone Blue Oyster Cult symbol. Mad Style, but my wax always melted. Be what you want, but you still gotta know about tides, swell, wind, wide spot in relation to rocker, fin camber, and the nuances of fickle reefs, surfing style and flow. Learned only from an Authentic Surfing Lifestyle, taught mainly by hours with the Ocean, not by magazines, blogs, popular music, clothing companies.

Posted by: PNW at January 17, 2006 04:01 PM

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 04:05 PM

should put bvb and sunny together for so=me beat down. fucking is going to be`goog

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 04:11 PM

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 17 January, 2006 : - - A 29-year-old woman died while surfing at a popular Santa Barbara county beach on Sunday. Surfers flocked to the ocean over the past couple of weeks for what will likely be the best swells of the year. In the ocean near UCSB Sunday night, a twenty-nine year old Goleta woman somehow got her surfboard leash tangled in the rocks that line the ocean floor, pulling her underwater.
Two other surfers saw her go under, and quickly dragged her to the beach to perform C-P-R, paramedics arrived soon after and rushed her to the hospital, but it was too late. The surfer's name has not been released by the Santa Barbara Coroner's office. There are a large number of rocks in the shallow water at Campus Point, but it's unclear if the surfer hit her head, or how her leash got tangled. The woman was said to be surfing alone.
This is the first surfing death in Santa Barbara County in three years.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 04:14 PM

Oh man I sympathize with you over dropping the ball on that hot latina!! Been there...as a matter of fact if I think about how picky I was all through my 20's I'll start to cry over all those hot chicks I let go or overlooked.

Posted by: antman at January 17, 2006 04:16 PM

choda boy is killing it
rob machado too.
brian too.

Posted by: tt at January 17, 2006 04:25 PM

greg, you too, killing me

Posted by: tt at January 17, 2006 04:26 PM

Haven't you heard? Authentic surf lifestyle is pharmaceutical industry types networking in the water in San Diego. According to media reports surfing is the new golf.

Posted by: lifestyle is a myth - just surf or dont at January 17, 2006 04:42 PM

Of the same order as the impossibility of rediscovering an absolute level of the real, is the impossibility of staging an illusion.

Posted by: Jean Baudrillard at January 17, 2006 05:03 PM

Hi. And hi but no vibes as I am Sunny's wife Tony and the things you're writing about him make no sense whatsoever. He's a good man - one you'll never know... My Dad is not happy about this defamation of character and will be contacting the niceness blogmasterbator very soon...
Sunny said he's pissed off and just the sound of the name Choda Boy makes him rage in anger. Who is Bad Vibe? Can you put me in touch with him?
Your objectifaction of the female buttocks is
sophmoric and retarded.
The racist photo of the black woman is SHAMEFULl.

Posted by: TT Girl at January 17, 2006 05:18 PM

the posts on this blog are retarded. but funny as hell.

how about retard posts on Tu/Thur and real stuff on Mon/Wed. Kind of like adult swim/free swim at the rec pool back in the day.

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 05:26 PM

Its amazing how far I have come!

Posted by: Retarded Sophomore at January 17, 2006 05:27 PM

Don't forget to grab your helmut on the way out....

Posted by: Short Bus at January 17, 2006 05:28 PM

Um.....what? Where is my.....um.....drum? Yeah, what like yeah what Machado said....i understand doooood. Flow.

Posted by: Dave Rastovich at January 17, 2006 05:32 PM

i like rthis blog
thankyou vserry much for shsarerum this wiuyj me E!
surf er report dude!
maveruicks bros!

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 05:40 PM

Thanks Steve for the 411!
I agree a lot of the knowledge is just thru experience and listening to those with experience.

Posted by: Sander at January 17, 2006 05:54 PM

I'll drink to that!

Posted by: Benji Weatherly at January 17, 2006 05:56 PM

I've got a nice rig, want to see it mate?

Posted by: Mick Fanning at January 17, 2006 06:17 PM

I want you, MSG

Posted by: Sunny at January 17, 2006 06:43 PM

Which one of you bitches wanted to see me??

Posted by: Sunny's fuckbunny at January 17, 2006 06:48 PM

Nice research Sunny's fuckbunny. Do you have a face? Friends with Choda?

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 07:03 PM

she's hot, and rich. i love silicon ho's

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 07:03 PM

Pretty cool dog. Tom Powers celebrates his birthday. 51 and going strong.

Posted by: Bruce at January 17, 2006 07:35 PM

the single fin under the deck had a funny nose like an elfs shoe
it's rounded dome deck and tail made it seem soft and forgiving.
my firends thought i was crazy to clean the thing up and surf it.

once moving the board was alive, almost active. you could generate speed at will. it never dug a rail. i surfed this board a hadful of tmes in some very good waves. we shared some intimate times that made a lasting impression on me. i don't even recall who shaped it.

the board belonged to a house that my freinds where renting for a week. while they stayed there I surfed the board. i fixed a few dings on it and placed the board back under the deck when they left. i wonder if it's still there, now covered with spider webs, waiting for it's next rider.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 17, 2006 07:44 PM

We have all seen drawings depicting ape-men. Usually the highly imaginative artist depicts the whole family. They have bulging jaws, receding foreheads, hairy bodies and they return from hunting with sticks in their hands. Their back is curved as one might expect from a half-ape half-man creature. 

This is being taught in school, without mentioning those less known parts of the story that might refute the evolutionary theory, the university-professor-from-bacteria-in-billions-of-years theory. What are these drawings based on? Let's look more closely at some famous "ape-men". 

Nebraska Man (Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii) 
 
Nebraska man. Sketch by Amedee Forestier, Illustrated London News, 1922. Nebraska man's tooth. Drawing published in Illustrated London News on June 24, 1922.

In 1922 Harold Cook found an unusual molar tooth in Nebraska. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, who had been working at that time for the Natural History Museum in New York, firmly declared that it must have belonged to a half ape-half man creature. Many scientists and specialists agreed. And America became the proud owner of a totally American ape-man. 

Henry Osborn and his colleagues could not decide whether to call it an ape-like man or rather a man-like ape. In spite of this, they went on reconstructing a jaw, then a skull, and finally a complete skeleton. Afterwards they added facial features, muscles and presented this man-like fabrication in the Illustrated London News.

Nebraska man lasted 5 years. After subsequent discoveries in 1927, it became obvious that the unusual tooth from which a whole man had been built, was not from an ape-man but from an extinct wild pig. 

In 1927, Science magazine published a one and a half page article by Gregory W.K., where he withdrew his statement that the Nebraska man was a hominid, and acknowledged that he was based on a pig's tooth.[1]
 

Neanderthal Man (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis)

In 1856, some human remains were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley of Germany near Düsseldorf. A skeleton found in the same place in 1908 was displayed in museum exhibitions and textbook illustrations during the following decades as the predecessor of modern man who lived some 40-50 thousand years ago. These illustrations portrayed the Neanderthal Man with a bestial face, thick neck, humped back and bent knees. 

In 1957 these remains were closely examined with more sophisticated instruments, and scientists concluded that the skeleton most probably belonged to an elderly person suffering from acute bone disease, hence his humped back and skeletal malformation. It is possible that less vitamin D entered their body due to cave dwelling and further weakened their bone structure. We can infer from the rest of the human remains found in the Neander Valley, that arthritis was common in that specific tribe. Otherwise they walked upright, were intelligent, had developed artistic sense and ceremonial burial. 

Examining their skull volume, it appeared they had a brain capacity of 1600 cm3. Apes have brain capacities in the 450-650 cm3 range, while modern men in the 1000-1500 cm3 range. Neanderthal men were true Homo Sapiens. 
 

Ramapithecus
 
Ramapithecus remains: some teeth and jaw fragments.
This is how Ramapithecus was reconstructed  using extraordinary imagination.

In 1932 Louis Leakey and his collaborators found some teeth and a few other jaw fragments in South-West Kenya, which they assembled  in such a way as to resemble a human jaw. Apes' jaws are U-shaped and men's are parabolic. They assembled the pieces along a parabolic arch and claimed that this jaw belonged to one of man's earliest ape-like ancestors. This is how Ramapithecus was born, said to be a transitional creature between the higher apes and man. 

A full jaw was discovered in 1977 which belonged to a similar individual as the pieces found in 1932. The jaw was U-shaped, so it belonged to an ape. We cannot make assumptions about brain capacity or an upright walking position on jaw fragments alone [2][3]. Ramapithecus also turned out to have no relation whatsoever with man.[4] Roger Lewin, in his book Bones of Contention, on page 86 wrote: 

The dethroning of Ramapithecus—from putative [supposed] first human in 1961 to extinct relative of the orangutan in 1982—is one of the most fascinating, and bitter, sagas in the search for human origins. 


The Australopithecines
 
Australopithecus skull. 
The crest on the top of the skull is a feature of higher apes which is not present in the case of humans. The skull's volume is barely larger than that of a chimpanzee.
Reconstruction of Australopithecus boisei .

The general term Australopithecines refers to a wide variety of ape bones excavated in Africa. Anthropologists assert these are the remains of prehistoric men who lived between 1 and 5 million years ago. 

The most famous among these findings is Lucy, and scientists consider it to be the oldest ape-man specimen. This 40% complete skeleton was discovered by Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. It was also labeled as one of the "missing links". Since then, Lucy has been presented in numerous scientific publications and schools, as a prominent representative of prehistoric men. 

Lucy was a mature female about 25 years old. Her hind leg bones and her pelvis show that she was able to stand on two legs for a slightly longer time than today's apes, but it is certain she did not walk upright. She was about one meter high and she weighed around 28 kg. Her very long front arms and short legs show she probably walked on her knuckles, or to put it another way, she was an ape. 

Other australopithecine bones have similar characteristics to those of the mostly tree-dwellling apes. 


The junction of the spinal cord and the skull is farther forward on humans then on apes. This is what points to the upright stance. The skull base of Australopithecines has similar characteristics to the skull base of apes.

Australopithecines belonged to an extinct ape species, one similar to the bonobo chimpanzees and orangutans, and had very few humanoid characteristics. 

By comparing Australopithecines, chimpanzee and human skulls we can see that Australopithecines were apes, not humans.

See below in the References section [5] Sir Solly Zuckerman’s opinion about the Australopithecines written in 1954. His scientific work and his renown exceeded his colleagues'. He was the Chief Scientific Advisor to Her Majesty's Government, and in 1971 he was elevated to the Peerage as Lord Zuckerman. 

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We now know the truth about most of these ape-men. They were either apes or men. They were a mixture of the two only when somebody assembled together ape and human bones. 

In his "APES" article in Scientific American, Vol.226, p.101, Robert B. Eckhardt from Penn. State University wrote:

...there would appear to be little evidence to suggest that several different hominoid species are represented among the Old World dryopithecine fossils... (Ramapithecus, Oreopithecus, Limnopithecus, Kenyapithecus). They themselves nevertheless seem to have been apes morphologically, ecologically, and behaviorally.
What is the explanation that schools still teach these (already known to be false) ape-men proofs, as basics of evolution and proven truths? 

Posted by: SILICON LOVER at January 17, 2006 08:10 PM

Australopithecines?

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 08:21 PM

Anyone know a good resort-type destination in CR where a nonsurfing wife and an 11yo would be happy and where perchance one might find fun surf nearby in April? Email me if you like (anon-kloolesskook at craigslist.org).

Posted by: kloo at January 17, 2006 08:27 PM

Posted by: people who preach "intelligent design" are GAY at January 17, 2006 08:27 PM

yee i killed it :/

Posted by: Brian at January 17, 2006 09:02 PM

so someone who believes that evolution is a farce and that god created all creatures is also a lover of large fake tits??

is it any wonder that these intelligent design folks can't find a larger audience for their nonsense?

Posted by: at January 17, 2006 09:34 PM

ID is gay

Posted by: Brian at January 17, 2006 09:36 PM

^^^ 8th grade kid talking shit on the internet kinda bullshit.

Posted by: Brian at January 17, 2006 09:37 PM

Posted by: I'm no Einstein at January 17, 2006 09:42 PM

I myself believe somewhere in between downhome biblical creationism and the stork and the cabbage patch theory.

Posted by: how did we get here and why am I wearing these pants? at January 17, 2006 09:47 PM

Sunny's chick is about as smart as a pile of sawdust, and he's not far behind. Nothing more frustrating that a hot chick with a "For Rent" sign between her ears. Actually, yes there is: a hot chick with a "For Rent" sign between her ears that has a false sense of security/fulfillment because she's got some ape of a husband walking around acting like he's going to kick anyone's ass who looks at her, while she obviously WANTS everyone to look at her. Yes, that's indeed frustrating. 5 years: he'll be fat as a house in jail on domestic abuse and she'll just be another strung out island girl.

Posted by: France Really Does Suck at January 17, 2006 09:51 PM

That's my daughter. She turned his life around and he's got more heart and more smarts than you'll ever have. He just happens to be intolerant of cowardly, ignorant, racist fucks like you.

Posted by: Cabell at January 17, 2006 10:16 PM

Then your daughter is a vapid Hawaiian Barbie Doll who's going to get slapped around when Sunny's surfing career is over (which it very nearly is). She's got more "smarts" than me? Then she should run, before he flips back to the dark side and realizes he has absolutely nothing going for him except anger.

Sunny is intolerant of anyone who doesn't kiss his ass and lick his balls. I don't give a FUCK about Sunny one-on-one. One-on-one Sunny is a fat (and getting fatter), balding, typical stink-butt style Hawaiian who I could fold like a sack of bloody laundry. It's his stupid entourage that you have to be afraid of.

Take care, Joey.

Posted by: Yeah, ok at January 17, 2006 10:30 PM

How much you wanna bet this is one person talking to themself?

Or more to the point three people talking to themselves?

Posted by: friend #1 at January 18, 2006 12:47 AM

this thing is changing, growing, not necessarily in a good way. yet we all keep coming back. the drama and the highschool-style threats and gangs and territorialism incidents make it even more entertaining and push it out wider via fwds and copy and paste.

prolly just a lurker troll playing sunny, but no matter what the truth is about his character, do you really want to be calling him out on here? talking shit about his wife? there are clearly native hawaiians reading this. you think it's a big stretch that someone might pass along your comments? the funny thing is if you are right about his character/intelligence, then you are even more likely to have to answer for those comments.

oh, and also, does anyone notice how the laetecia/french/brazilian girls posted on here just blow that jenn stergere bolt-on chick right off the page?

Posted by: mk1201 at January 18, 2006 07:38 AM

i still love heather

Posted by: obro at January 18, 2006 08:14 AM

i love balls

Posted by: Brian at January 18, 2006 08:31 AM

man, i just read all that crap.
what the fuck are you guys thinking?
niceness.org not aggroville.
talking shit about women and calling amazing athletes, dumb?
Sunny Garcia does his job a whole lot better than I do mine! I'm not top ten in the world at anything I do and I imagine most of the idiots on this blog aren't either. Maybe Blakestah.
Yikes. Way to give SF surfing a great name.
Go back to socal you spiteful, jealous idiots.

Posted by: at January 18, 2006 08:36 AM

that was me.

Posted by: obro at January 18, 2006 08:37 AM

I love carpet.

Posted by: brick at January 18, 2006 09:21 AM

Wow ! No sooner does one shitstorm die down and you guys start another one. Your rants against SF locals and now Hawaiians are textbook colonialism at it's finest. Is that "niceness" thing supposed to be tongue in cheek ?

Posted by: Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono at January 18, 2006 09:59 AM
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