Sven's Song
Sven grew up in a picturesque Norwegian mountain town.
Snowboarding ruled the scene and he and his rat-pack of friends tried to follow in Terje's footsteps with each carve and air.
By high-school the scene turned emo.
Sven's musical upbringing positioned him perfectly to be the keyboardist/songwriter/arranger for the hippest band in town.
Soon the band got huge and they toured the world.
Sold out gigs.
Buckets of money.
Living large.
A few years later Sven bought a house in Malibu.
By now he'd melded into the fast-living high-society of hollywood.
His new band had a party/gig at this underground warehouse-space downtown.
The arty/hipster/fashionista/hip-movie-star set would be there in full force.
By 11pm the party was firing.
Everyone dancing and sniffing and hot.
Sven was on the drums.
Sweaty, grooving, rocking.
Hundreds of folks dancing like mad all around him.
A few really cute girls huddled behind him, doe-eyed.
Frozen by his stardom and effortless oozing coolness.
After the set he and the band went to a room backstage.
A cadre of the doe-eyed vixens followed.
The full-blast, post-show high radiating through Sven's essence.
The next band already cooking.
One of the lady-fans offered Sven a grape from her lovely fingers.
She then straddled Sven and sat down on his lap.
Began grinding slowly.
Sven chuckled and simply enjoyed this overt display of affection.
He sipped on water. Ate more grapes. Made small talk with the girls.
Eric Avery from Jane's Addiction was playing in the next band.
He busted into the room and gave Sven a big hug, ignoring the girl on his lap.
"Sven man! You gotta sit-in on keys for us. Jonny can't make it!"
"No problem my friend. Let's do this!"
And the night went on... till about 6 in the morning.
Sven drove back to his pimping pad, nestled in the northern reaches of Malibu, above Pepperdine but before Zuma.
The sun just rising over the hills to the east.
The grape-feeding, lap-sitting girl returned with him.
Olive skin, green eyes, cute little body.
Intelligent, assertive, hippy-styled.
They made-out for a while and cuddled and snuggled on his deck overlooking the ocean.
She rolled up a big spliff and they took a few tokes.
Turns out she's a surfer and, hey look, the waves right out front at the point look really good.
Sven says, yeah, hey I actually have a girl's wetsuit in the garage and a few boards. Why don't we go for a surf.
So they giggle and joke and change into their wetsuits in the garage and then scamper down the little trail to the rock-strewn point.
The girl can seriously surf and she's whacking off the lip and pumping for speed down the line.
Sven hasn't surfed much and he doesn't smoke much weed either so he sits out there tripping out on the cliffs and the pelicans and the waves.
After 30 minutes he still hasn't caught anything and it's starting to get crowded.
The girl basically pushes him into a wave and Sven is gliding down the line on his belly.
Looking down through the clear water as rocks and sea-objects pass by underneath.
He's so stoned he can't really remember to stand up. He's just loving the belly ride.
Then he hears the girl yell from behind him, "SVEN!! STAND UP DUDE!!!"
So he kookily stands up on his longboard, almost wiping out. But he makes it.
He's amazed by the look of the glassy, unbroken wave unfurling before him.
He just stands there and let's the wave whisk him along.
He rides it all the way in until his board scrapes on some rocks.
Then he walks up to the beach and lays down in the sand in the now-warm sunshine.
The girl comes in on the next wave and lays down next to him.
The two fall asleep next to each other on that sun-drenched california morning.
photos from surfermag.com
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Posted by: g at April 3, 2006 09:38 AM"It looks like all the rains we've had for the last 40 days and 40 nights is starting to take its toll,'' said Ziese.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 10:12 AMSwedish surf competition. Freezing air, freezing water, shitty waves but these guys are stoked - the commentator (in Swedish) is fired up. Watch the award giving at the end - prize money handed out in cash - sweet.
Think of these guys next time you're bitching about naming/claiming/crowds/etc.
Swedish Comp
Posted by: dmc at April 3, 2006 10:21 AMdood, that totally took me there, I had to go rub one out after slowly grinding on Sven's lap. The part about bellyriding the wave stoned was really cool too, think I'll start surfing.
Posted by: dot comming to an alphabetized street near you soon at April 3, 2006 10:22 AMGo Sven!
Posted by: another viking surfer at April 3, 2006 10:32 AMDevil's Slide closed indefinitley!
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 10:45 AMjust heard that it's supposed to keep raining strait through till summer! Sweeet!
Posted by: Rain man at April 3, 2006 11:15 AMMost excellent story e.
Watched "What The Bleep Do We know." this weekend. I highly reccomend this film for anyone pursuing happiness. Or anyone that needs a good metaphysical kick in the ass.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at April 3, 2006 11:19 AMwoke up early sunday morning, jonesing for a little more surf after a fun saturday...but the rains & winds were looming. drove out to the beach to see if there could be any salvageable surf before the storm rolled in. krazy kite-man was all uppity about the looming southwest winds, but they never materialized. a least an hour of smooth baby waves, fun little peeling shorebreak, maybe three guys in the whole lineup...plenty of fun for a day that had been mentally written off.
Posted by: the little things in life at April 3, 2006 11:19 AMtenth post
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 11:31 AMthe ASL and angst are mutually exclusive.
Posted by: S. Kookegaard at April 3, 2006 11:39 AMWell, I can't say my next surf trip will be to Sweden, but it's cool to see those guys so stoked!
Posted by: speedracer at April 3, 2006 11:44 AMthat first pic of Towner above, check that rubbery looking right arm and oversized hand. trippy optical effect.
Posted by: trippy effect pointer outer guy at April 3, 2006 12:01 PM"kookegaard"—classic.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 12:02 PMcan niceness be nice for a whole day? well? can it?
Posted by: inquiring mind at April 3, 2006 12:02 PMthat was a good question. I admire you sense of inquisitive concern. but I detect a bit of an edge on that last 'can it' that could be seen as inciteful.
Posted by: alluponityo at April 3, 2006 12:05 PMNoah's Ark just paddled down 43rd Ave.
Posted by: 43rd Ave. at April 3, 2006 12:07 PMTo ask the question is to answer it in the negative.
Just move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: friend #1 at April 3, 2006 12:07 PMendless rain makes baby jesus cry
Posted by: purple rain at April 3, 2006 12:10 PMat least we can surf after work now..i guess.
Posted by: baj at April 3, 2006 12:18 PMi want to be Sven. Especially with that cute surfer girl in the mix. damn.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 12:19 PMBajelness...
Today at work, my friend showed me a little piece of scrap paper with a familiar cartoon on it. "Where did you get this?!" I said.. "I've met the guy who did this." My friend, Fernando said "YEAH MAN!" all excited as usual.. "He comes in here to get these printed up!" He told me how he screwed up one of your orders. Anyway, small, random world.
Posted by: Ian at April 3, 2006 12:29 PMIan. Did you meet any ladies in your travels?
Posted by: curious at April 3, 2006 12:35 PMI thought the endless rain was the tears of Baby Jesus.
Tears for the sins of Man.
Or are they tears of Joy.
You be the Judge.
Posted by: friend #1 at April 3, 2006 12:42 PMEndless rain = endless pow = late snowpack = awesome rivers this spring
I even managed to catch a couple fun waves this morning
Stoked!
Posted by: artifact at April 3, 2006 12:51 PMya Ian! crazy. homie was super cool. screwed up 1 cut that he didnt charge me for, than let me redo the whole deal for free. super cool head, that guy. i told him id get him a book, i owe you one too. didnt get his name but fernando sounds right. killer.
Posted by: baj at April 3, 2006 01:01 PMSometimes I cry because I'm happy, and sometimes when I'm sad. So I choose both. Good to have a balance.
Posted by: Ian at April 3, 2006 01:02 PM
Posted by: bbr at April 3, 2006 01:04 PMPretty good collaboration which I think is appropriate for today's weather. And it's free.
http://www.anticon.com/13&God-Men_of_Station.mp3
Posted by: 13 & God on anticon at April 3, 2006 01:07 PMartifact, any recommendations on some nearby rivers worth rafting for adventurous newbies?
Posted by: rza at April 3, 2006 01:07 PMmaybe the tunnel will get done faster?
That Towner pic is nuts. At the Billabong XXL they have the "Monster Tube" contest. Most of the entries are tow-in. One is Towner's paddle-in at Shipstern. Guy makes the drop, pulls in, gets inches from making it out, and gets obliterated. He gets insanely deep. Mad props for the paddle effort being compared to Shane Dorian getting deeply tubed, and making it, at Choa-poo. And, Mel's backdoor right through the Mavs pit. But the airdrop is not the same wave as the one shown in the vid.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 01:21 PMgreat, we're stuck here till fall.
Posted by: i hate highway 92 at April 3, 2006 01:31 PM
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 01:31 PM"sun drenched california morning...."
what the fark is THAT?!
Posted by: korewin at April 3, 2006 01:31 PM
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 01:32 PMDOH!
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 01:34 PMThe Pimp's hood just got a little less crowded.
Posted by: friend #1 at April 3, 2006 01:43 PMPretty nice pic of the East Bay this weekend:
Posted by: MSG at April 3, 2006 01:44 PMGreat site put together by some inflatable yakers
http://cacreeks.com/index.htm
Another good site for hard core creekin
www.boof.com
Hey rza here are the Cal standards, All suitable more or less for a fit, adventurous newbie (no secrets here)
S. Fork American III always fun, party trip
N. Fork American IV sweet run spring free flow (no dam) awesome river
M. Fork American IV fun river long mellow strech in the middle
Favs
Tuolomne IV(this spring it'll be super gnar huge though)
Cal Salmon IV-V= amazing river close to Shasta
Posted by: artifact at April 3, 2006 01:58 PMAcupucture? I know I've read a recommendation or two about good acupunture people in SF on here. Any recommendations still out there?
I have a cronic problem with IT bands in my legs and the doc thinks I should give it a shot. Do they do evenings and weekends?
Great story this AM E.
Posted by: tucker at April 3, 2006 02:12 PM3to5setsof7 - Is that the same "What the Bleep do We Know?" that came out a couple of years ago? If so, I saw it on a hot Sunday afternoon in Healdsburg, while waiting for weekend freeway traffic to thin. I thought it hokum and was bugged by the film's basic premise that there is no objective reality; that nothing exists unless we think it does. So I looked for some reviews back then and found some interesting stuff.
Posted by: Jimmie at April 3, 2006 02:18 PMAccording to the physicist from Columbia featured prominently in the film, David Albert, it is a twisted missinterpretation of quatum mechanics. He says:
"I was edited in such a way as to completely suppress my actual views about the matters the movie discusses. I am, indeed, profoundly unsympathetic to attempts at linking quantum mechanics with consciousness. Moreover, I explained all that, at great length, on camera, to the producers of the film ... Had I known that I would have been so radically misrepresented in the movie, I would certainly not have agreed to be filmed." - from an interview with salon.com
The film's claim that a group of Transcendental Meditators reduced crime by 25%? John Hegelin's (Maharishi University) 1994 report actually says 18%, but never mind that. The real problem is that there were no double-blind controls in effect in his research and all of the members of the so-called "independent scientific review board" involved in the report and touted in the film were TMers. BTW, Hegelin got the Ig Noble Prize in 1994 for his original report.
That blonde woman with the accent? "Ramtha?" She's actually from Washington State and claims to channel this guy Ramtha from Atlantis. That's supposedly who you hear in the film. The film makers are all members of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. The movie is a long info-mercial for these guys.
No offense, but I ain't goin' for their particular brand of okey-doke.
I like what Philip K. Dick said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Speaking of Laurie Towner, he's scheduled to be in the next heat of the Vodafone Surfest, http://www.billabongpro.com/surfest06/index.html
Posted by: Metalhead at April 3, 2006 02:32 PMYEEHAW, the pits we dug out under the road above shamrock ranch WORKED!
;-)
Posted by: empty lineups at April 3, 2006 02:39 PMJimmie - The same one. Yeah there are some claims to be refuted for sure. I still enjoy and agree with many of the ideas out thier. Espically the physiology of addiction. The Ramatha channeling stuff was kinda of funny. Some of the other concepts discussed where also like the creative energy flow that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi books discuss.
I thought the water crystals are fascinating. And wonder what water crystals look like on a peeling 6' wave on a glassy afternoon.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at April 3, 2006 03:09 PMGo UCLA!
Posted by: sactomex at April 3, 2006 03:12 PMBlurry, rainy, sunset sesh last night! Sleepy, shoulder high, insiders with fun workable walls. Me a bro, and two other dudes...niceness...hope I don't come down with hepatitis
Posted by: sactomex at April 3, 2006 03:14 PMGreat story today e!
http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp
That link has some good backstory about the "Message of Water." Masaru Emoto has some interesting research on the subject. The Japanese seem to latch on to some fascinating insights that most of us westerners don't understand or are simply not interested in.
Posted by: Ancient Jetties at April 3, 2006 03:20 PMthanks artifact! great info. hopefully I can do one of those american river runs within the next month or so...
those kayak folk are frekkin nuts!!
Posted by: rza at April 3, 2006 03:27 PMhey sactomex,
yup, go bruins.
got any swedish and norwegian onions in keeping with today's themes. that video was classic. i wonder how much the prize money was.
Posted by: ucla alum at April 3, 2006 03:27 PMThanks Ancient Jetties! Emoto's work amazed me, I had not heard of it until I saw the film.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at April 3, 2006 03:31 PMbtw; Did the Mayans build the ancient jetties?
340 + 40 = 420
Posted by: stoner math at April 3, 2006 03:41 PMthe girls at the end of that swedish surf video are super cute! damn.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 03:42 PMgravity not only bends light, it can bend time. so how much gravity to bend 3:30 into 4:20?
Posted by: pot physics at April 3, 2006 03:44 PM4:20 with grilled onions please!
Posted by: wild weasel stoner chicks at April 3, 2006 03:47 PMbud freitas now at the surfest.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 03:47 PMgravity hits can bend time
Posted by: 1 2lt bottle, 1 pc. tinfoil, water bucket at April 3, 2006 03:47 PMsomeone watched that whole swedish video?
Posted by: damn at April 3, 2006 03:57 PM4:20 !
Posted by: started early at April 3, 2006 03:59 PMWhat the @#$*&%! is wrong with a little crackpot philosophy?
Posted by: L. Ron Hubba at April 3, 2006 04:01 PMnada, but there's plenty wrong with showing a really smart philosopher (albert), who has dedicated his life to getting conceptually clear about the foundations of physics, in a way that makes it look like he holds views that are (a) dumb and (b) nothing like his actual views. gee-whiz pseudo-thought can be fun, though.
Posted by: kloo at April 3, 2006 04:07 PMhow could that guy possibly argue with the nifty special effects though? I man come on!
however, seriously, setting positive intention works in my life and always has. the movie presented many valid concepts even if it did play fast and loose for the sake of entertainment.
Posted by: pop-culture neo-physicist at April 3, 2006 04:13 PMBut it's easier to make buckets of money when slathering vaseline on the lense. Blurry is vogue. Samosas are vogue too.
Posted by: Home Depot Chopra at April 3, 2006 04:14 PMI mean come on!
Posted by: pop-culture errant-typer neo-physicist at April 3, 2006 04:16 PM
Posted by: scientology ruined my career at April 3, 2006 04:20 PMpuff
Posted by: the magic dragon at April 3, 2006 04:23 PMMan, at the end of that video there's a super hottie. Why didn't they cut like 4 minutes of the slop waves and show more of her.
And who else was surprised that they still speak Legolas's language these days? I thought it went extinct when the elves got on that ship with Frodo and Gandalf at the end of Middle Earth!
Posted by: Surfseeker7 at April 3, 2006 04:34 PMYeah, I mean, COME ON!
Posted by: Metalfest at April 3, 2006 04:37 PM"I want to MAKE LOVE to your ASSHOLES children!"
Posted by: Chef at April 3, 2006 04:38 PMThere is a "Ryan Ragan" in Heat 4 coming up in the Vodafone Surfest, which would be in about an hour. Is that the same Ryan Ragan who lived in Marin?
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 04:42 PM
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 04:43 PM
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 04:45 PMBonds doubled and scored on his first at bat of the season.
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 04:55 PMTHWACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ancient Jetties at April 3, 2006 04:57 PMThe 21st Amendment should make a flavored wheat beer called "Berries Juice"© (this spelling allows for completely plausible deniability; "Barry's Juiced" might raise some legal probs).
Makes you strong like bull.®
Posted by: new meaning for term bail bonds at April 3, 2006 05:03 PMbabe ruth would have done steroids
Posted by: random baseball coment at April 3, 2006 05:12 PMi'm like so holding my breath..end of aft and no evildoer posts
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 05:14 PMdont jinx it shithead! kidding!
Posted by: love and hapiness at April 3, 2006 05:21 PMits hard out here, for a pimp
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 05:29 PMVF's is firing...
Posted by: Straight-off-Adolph at April 3, 2006 05:31 PMits clean right now
Posted by: at April 3, 2006 05:38 PMok back to surfing and negativity... this has to have been one of the worst winters in 35 years except for the huge swell and a couple here and there's... how did that blake dude know when to move out?
Posted by: msurfer at April 3, 2006 05:51 PMBlake? William Blake never lived in the Bay Area.
Posted by: Blake at April 3, 2006 06:43 PMhe knew when to move because he payed close attention to the corn reports
Posted by: knower of stuff at April 3, 2006 08:42 PMsorry, I overslept
Posted by: evildoer poster at April 3, 2006 09:38 PMMike Furir Mike 866
Posted by: Mike Furir 934 at April 8, 2006 10:12 AM