my favorite photos from 12/13,14

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my new deck - GHOSTRIBE fish - ride or die 







my van at Phoenix Hotel. Notes about new stickers.







my van at Pacifica beach







Peps is a punk with a mischievous gleam in his eye.







Dan and Curtis







Dan Root







Brian takes break from trumpet to shout







Dustin stylin on the keys







Kinkaid Smith in the middle of Monkey







cool looking couple but they didn't dance







multitudes of monkey friends







Duncan (or is it Nathan) from Trouble in Paradise







hot girl humoring old sweaty dude







my favorite from the Dan-n-Sarah series







Aggrolites lead singer looking over his shoulder towards me







Aggrolite guitar







not Peggy







good looking and stylish







nice tattoo







this couple danced up a storm







happy girl and serious FTS dude

Sunday frontside ollie by chris

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12/16/2007 late afternoon

12/16/2007 CSP half pipe rippage by Chris

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End of the day. Good stuff

Sunday 12/16/2007 at Campbell Skate Park

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Chris ripping it up

lost balls is a laughing matter

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1977+30

There is a docu-movie about Joe Strummer out. The sound track is on iTunes. 25 songs (some are just snippets of talking). 1.25 hours of sound for only $9.99

There are a number of crap songs, but lots of great songs from The Clash, Rachid Taha, Elvis, Tim Harden, MC5, U-Roy.

Rock the Casbah performed by Rachid Taha is fantastic. I've listened to it repeatedly. It is unbelievably good. It makes me want to pogo and belly dance at the same time, and wave my hand over the head as if I'm a red dot Indian!

Miles

devin sugarcane at csp

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His knee is better. He has great style. Saturday late afternoon. 12/8/2007

Matt testing for his brown belt

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Saturday 12/8/2007 Aikido of Silicon Valley Matt did really well. He has gotten so much better in the last year. He is on a whole new level. There is a brief clip of a 3rd degree black belt test/demo at the very end.

Toots takes the stage

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The Independent in San Francisco on October 2, 2007.

360 view of santa cruz coast

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Taken from a nice rock on a wonderful fall day around 10:30 AM on October 21, 2007.

new podcast episode (December 3, 2007

Skate and enjoy! ROCKSTEADY

my iTunes library spews forth!

Side 4 of Snap! (The Jam's Greatest Hits) with art






I saw The Jam once, in 1982, at Perkin's Palace in Pasadena. It was great. The 3rd song here, "Town called Malice" is wonderful. I played the 2nd side of their last album, THE GIFT, over and over again to hear it. Most of the text on SNAP! is pretentious, but the photos are interesting. Enjoy!

Miles
12/3/2007



The Jam
SNAP!
Side 4

1. Absolute Beginners 2:49
2. Tales from the Riverbank 3:34
3. Town Called Malice 2:53
4. Precious 3:33
5. The Bitterest Pill (I ever had to swallow) 3:24
6. Beat Surrender 3:28

All Songs written by Paul Weller
1-2 1981
3-6 1982
Compilation 1983
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straight from the vinyl

20071128 Aquabats upclose

It was good, not great. The opening bands were not to my liking, to put it nicely. I went down and sat by the coat check room during the Hunter Revenge set.

The visuals were outstanding. Better than last year. The Aquabats just didn't play enough songs. When they stopped, it seemed like both they and the crowd had lots of energy that hadn't been spent.

I saw several people I know from San Jose Skate shows. That made me happy. I overheard that the ripped and tattooed woman bartender is a world class air rifle marksman and does some kind of show with her dad involving gun.

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The end of a song I didn't like, then a nice story. MC Bat Commander has a good sense of humor. Overall, the show wasn't as good as last year. They didn't play as long or hard. Good but not great.

20071128 Aquabats kid toss

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This is a tradition at their shows and this was a good one. Good distance and a happy 3 year old who is brave.

20071128 Aquabats entrance

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This was a uber-cool entrance, leading into fashion zombies.

My Thanksgiving 2007

I am sure many are wondering...
"How was Miles' Thanksgiving this year?"
"What exactly did he do, and are there any pictures or videos?"

Relax!

See below and follow this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/milesgehm/sets/72157603281223882/

I had the bestest turkey day ever!

new podcast episode (November 25, 2007

Skate and enjoy! ROCKSTEADY

my iTunes library spews forth!

Side 3 of Snap! (The Jam's Greatest Hits)


1. Eton Rifles
2. Going Underground
3. Dreams of Children
4. That's Entertainment
5. Start!
6. Man in the Corner Shop
7. Funeral Pyre*

All song written by Paul Weller except
* written by The Jam
1983 compilation

Enjoy! -- Miles Gehm

20071122 056 matt is silly

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! Goofing around at the end of the session.

20071122 044 turkey trot

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! Running over this bridge was painful.

20071122 055 dad decent slide to 180

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! About my best effort.

20071122 054 dad climbs the hill

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! Watch so you can listen to Matt's commentary about his dad.

20071122 053 dad funny slide

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! See me slide into the curb.

20071122 049 slow run pov

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! Shot with one foot on the board and the other dragging to keep the speed way down. POV is Point Of View.

20071122 048 dad cones 2

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal!

20071122 047 matt cones 2

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal!

20071122 046 dad cones 1

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! I'm trying. Seriously.

20071122 045 matt cones 1

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! This was fun.

20071122 043 turkey trot

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal! I finished the 5K and am still sore 3 days later.

20071122 052 matt better slide

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal!

20071122 051 matt funny slide

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal!

20071122 050 matt good slide

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Fun on Thanksgiving in NorCal!

Monday night 11/19/2007 at Bottom of the Hill

after it was over... Matt, Julian, Miles, Brian

Big D and the Kids Table

Big D and the Kids Table

Big D and the Kids Table

Whole Wheat Bread

Whole Wheat Bread

Whole Wheat Bread


The AKAs

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I had high expectations and they were met, nay exceeded!

The AKAs were a great opening band. Good basic rock with charisma. They are everywhere.

Whole Wheat Bread rocked me and made me think. That doesn't happen often. I was expecting 3 black dudes, so when I saw a white guy who looked like Shaun White on bass, I was taken a back. 15 minutes later, his playing and vocals were all that mattered. I have a pretty deep aversion to hip-hop, but when WWB mix it in with punk and ska I can take it. A good good set. Old Man Samson was my favorite song. Figure that.

Big D and the Kid's Table were great. What really impressed me was the sound on their dub songs. I'm not sure how much was them and their equipment and how much was the BOTH sound engineer, but the result was fine. Their fast songs set the crowd to skanking madly. The lead singer had a 3 minute sermon which even my son agreed was pretty damn cool. They played fast, long and hard. Lots of songs from their new CD which I really like. They closed with a cover of the Specials song "Little Bitch". Good times.

I went with 3 sixteen year old boys. Between them, they had one fall to the ground in the mellow pit. I hit the ground 3 times! My elbow turned into a swell-bow! I need to work on my agility, I guess. I did dance harder than 95% of the folks there. There were girls in the pit. That is good. They smell so much better than the average punk dude!

I saw one of the guys from The Uptones there. If I wasn't a dork, I'd remember his name. He mentioned that he noticed my van when he was parking. Sweet! My van got tagged while we were there. A girl wrote; "nipples rock!" with lipstick on the side window and drew a heart. I took a photo, as it in only a matter of time until my wife makes me scrape it off. A couple of guys at work noticed it today. They agree that nipples do rock!

There was a good crowd but it wasn't sold out. I thought I would see some of the BAS crowd. I did not.

I got a black WWB dirty south punk rock t-shirt and a WWB drum stick. My son got a fine Big D ska hat and polo shirt (his high school has banned t-shirts). I am jealous of his hat.

Fun fun times. I cannot wait for the Aquabats at Slims next week.


respect,

Miles