How to Kill yourself

this show rules

Built to Shred - highlight reel - season 2 from 2HeadedHorse on Vimeo.

National Beard and Moustache championships

Seeing 'Stars'

Newspaper interview On the Web

Telegraph

Man Mish

Al Collins All Ireland Skate Mission from Philip Evans on Vimeo.

This July 10th Al Collins is embarking on a skate mission in aid of muscular dystrophy Ireland, leaving from Ireland's most southerly tip Mizen head and hopefully arriving 10 days later in Ireland's most northerly tip, Malin head.
Follow the progress and lend your support here:
skatinmizenmalin.blogspot.com/

Slash's Oh Face.

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Neil Blender, Grant Brittain & Dave Swift: Saturday, June 5, 2010

The art of Neil Blender and photos of Dave Swift and Grant Brittain will be displayed and pieces will be available for purchase

Saturday, June 5, 2010

6:00pm - 11:30pm

Hensley's Flying Elephant Pub

850 Tamarack Ave

Carlsbad, CA

NB party

New Balance Unveils Sonic. Built With Sound. from 2HeadedHorse on Vimeo.

prop sale

Sunday Afternoon~The 2HeadedHorse is having a Prop sale, and We've invited some of our friends to bring down their own treasures to sell! So come enjoy some Amazing Vegan food, Cool props, Antique, Vintage and newer clothing, Vintage furniture, Bizarre household items ~ weird shit, and fun!!!!! This is a Multi friend yard sale and event! There will also be Non crappy Live Music, and delicious sunday afternoon type Beverages (mmm mimosas!!!) Hosted by Sara Radovanovitch and Victoria Fasano.

cut and paste

Video at Cemetery

Photo event

Dennis McGrath (formerly of Big Brother Magazine) has a launch @ HUF LA tommorow night. hope you dont mind naked chicks.

Cropper

Fresh crops over at TheSkateboardMag.com Go check it .

Juice partaay

Juice Magazine will be hosting a launch party for the new issue at 319 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, CA 90291 on Sunday, May 23, 2010, from 5pm-10pm. There will be food, drinks and special guest DJs, as well as a skate session on the Quarter Pipe of Doom. (Deathbox included.) This is an invitation only event so you'll need to RSVP to jess@juicemagazine.com. A number of the shredders featured in the new issue will be on hand to sign autographs, as well as a few surprise guests.

This Thursday

I will be DJing at Fred Segal in Santa Monica. A New Balance event.

Artsy Fartsy

Mayweather's got nothing on Iron Mike

The next in the series 'This Moustache Kills Fascists'
Iron Mike.

Watercolor by P Melcher

Oh, And watch out for Wolfstein

Skate Movie

This Friday!

FYF

SATURDAY, MAY 1st
CIRCLE JERKS
7-SECONDS
MUNICIPAL WASTE
CEREMONY

I mean , come on..

Ar redheads really that bad?

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

This is , Pretty Much, what I remember my childhood being like.

Moustache in the mirror

Read about MJ getting his own Cirque du Solei show.
In honor of the king of pop: #4 in the series "This Moustache Kills Fascists"

No, not Warwick Davis from "Willow"

You wish

I'm DJing a store opening this Wed.

Echo Park

In the intrest of Brazillian concrete disciples

This Thursday

Enabeled modern fabelism in an unshorn future

BUILD A BEARD
Check out BUILD A BEARD, The man's man's Beard-blog.

Your one stop beard and moustache internet info site.
Profiling Patrick Melcher: an article on

Patrick Melcher: Beardo, Stache Champ (Skater)

behind the chin ramp

Melcher interview in GQ Magazine

Click HERE for full version

GQ: What's the link between skateboarding and other arts, namely design, music, and fashion?
Melcher: It's probably nature/nurture, among other things. Because once you've chosen this world, you're around creative people, and you're influenced by things you never would be if you were doing an activity involving a ball or someone blowing a whistle at you. You're using this mode of transportation to create some fluid form of dance. It's like ballet, or figure skating, though that only works in one specified area, with a guy telling you what to do and when to do it. Even though it's beautiful, it's really structured. Skating is out the window. There is no structure. The only thing you're stuck with is a board. Skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX—they're all the same. You have different mediums, but it's the same message.

Melcher has Gentlemanly Qualities from 2HeadedHorse on Vimeo.

Art show tonight

@ DIY gallery

Tax incentives for the Mustachioed

The STACHE Act offers incentives for people of Mustached American heritage in the form of the a $250 deduction for expenditures for mustache grooming supplies in the determination of Adjusted Gross Income.

"In 1965 at a time of great ugliness in America, the U.S. Government asked the American Mustache Institute to help increase good looks by 22 percent," said Dr. Aaron Perlut, chairman of the American Mustache Institute. "We kept our part of the bargain, increasing American good looks by 38 percent, one freshly minted Mustached American at a time. But those good looks come at a price - in the form of purchasing mustache trimmers, wax, Just For Men coloring products, and bacon. Now it’s the government’s turn to support our economic needs."

The current limitation on the deductibility of mustache grooming supplies and accessories, as well as the taxation of the additional earnings of the Mustached American, provides a disincentive for the clean-shaven to enjoy the Mustached American lifestyle.

READ HERE And sign the petition.

The Moustache will not be televised

As an homage to Gil Scott Heron's performance in this weekend's upcoming Coachella event. #3 in the series "This Moustache Kills Fascists"
Art by Patrick Melcher

Campfire Songs : Thurs Night

Thats right kids,

The infamous "Camp Fire Songs" is FINALLY going on tour and they are playing BACKYARDS ONLY the entire tour.

I fuck with you not, this show is not to be missed. If you enjoy talent, comedy, rock, and campfire songs, you will piss your pants with laughter.

So, grab a blanket, a friend, a date, and get ready for a rare night of awesome, you wont be sorry...

7pm to ???

This Moustache...

In honor of the recent demise of Malcom McLaren:

#2 in the series "this moustache kills fascists"
By Patrick Melcher

Patrick Melcher short

Sometimes you just want to have a little fun.

And do 50 foot long board-slides too. Check It

A new Blueprint Video.

If you've seen the previous offerings from the Film team over at Blueprint, then you know that there is something special coming our way in the form of skateboard pleasant-ness.

MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE COLOUR BLUE trailer. from Blueprint Skateboards on Vimeo.

Their new video "make friends with the colour Blue" will premier Sunday the 25th in Los Angeles.
Get on it. Check the Flyer HERE

This moustache kills Fascists

The first in a series of artistic watercolors by Patrick Melcher

Pops Full Circle

In Walked Bud by Thelonious Monk

New York City

Gonz Full Circle

Music from Hiroshi Fujiwara.

In Paris.

don't you just love "skateboard dancing"?

F board in 'es

Nice

Behind the éS ad with John Rattray

Tamalez (doing it for the homies)

Click HERE and be psyched.

Free Lunch

Patrick talks the similarities of mustache and skate tours, fat girls, Ragdoll, and more on this weeks Free Lunch.

Krampus

Krampus

this Friday: G. Stehr Art show

gleam the cube: Monday 7:00

I'm DJing the Cube!!!

Come join FUTURE, Max Perlich [of Yabbo fame], and other surprise guests for a 7pm screening of Gleaming the Cube! After party to follow. Come get your grind on with this classic film, cold beers, and the fine folks who know and love FUTURE. As Brian Kelley would say, "If my dog had a face like yours I'd shave his ass and tell him to walk backwards. And then I'd go to that party at FUTURE."


Monday, March 29, 2010 at 7:00pm

1814 Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA

Sesh (complete with dog poo)

Dogs be ripping;

SkateboardMag.com ....................................... CLICK HERE
Anyone want to remind Lizard he's hurt and can't skate? No ? Well call all the homies and mob to the spot. That's what The Sesh is all about, and that's pretty much what Lizard just did at the Garvanza Skatepark. Even the dogs ripped sh*t up.

Skateboarding just got so gnarly.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!

The world’s best street skateboarders sign to the first million dollar professional tour with three stops in 2010

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 24, 2010) – Street League Skateboarding™ announced today that for the first time in history, street skateboarding competition has been organized into its very own professional league, with the best skateboarders in the world competing head-to-head in a series of individual tour stops in the summer of 2010. Founded by twenty-year professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, Rob Dyrdek, Street League™ is truly the future of competitive street skateboarding.

Signed to multi-year contracts, a total of twenty-four of the world’s biggest skateboarding stars will compete in Street League™ exclusively. The first pros that have signed are arguably the top skateboarders in the world and include Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Greg Lutzka, Torey Pudwill, PJ Ladd, Sean Malto, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mikey Taylor, Billy Marks, Tommy Sandoval, and Paul Rodriguez. The Street League™ pros will be battling it out for more than $1MM in prize money on a 3-stop arena tour this summer.

Dyrdek, in discussing the origins of the league says, “It has been a dream of mine to create a professional tour that bridges the gap between true street skateboarding and contest skating, which to date has been fragmented and misguided. Street League™ is more than just a new contest series; it will redefine the way skateboarding competitions are done.”

Chris Cole, 2009’s Dew Tour Champion, Maloof Money Cup Winner, two-times X Games gold medalist and Thrasher’s Skater of the Year, in regards to his exclusive commitment to Street League™ adds, “It’s what we have always wanted – it’s a contest circuit that is actually created, owned, and operated by skaters.”


To maximize the talents of these street skateboarding stars, Street League™ has designed authentic concrete skate plazas to be built on the floors of world-class sports arenas. In addition, Street League™ brings with it the exclusive use of the instant scoring technology, ISX (Instant Scoring Experience™), to the world of skateboarding. Using real time scoring and an exciting proprietary format, Street League™ will tell a compelling story about each skateboarder’s performance and will have fans on the edge of their seats from the first trick to the very last.

The inaugural year of Street League™ features a 3-stop arena tour beginning at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona on August 28th, Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on September 11th, and the final stop in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center on September 25th. The skaters will be competing at each event for the largest prize pool in skateboarding history.

Street League™ is the culmination of more than five years of development, which began with a professional contest Dyrdek held at the opening of the world’s first skate plaza he built in Kettering, Ohio in 2005. Building on the knowledge gained from this event, Dyrdek and his team began planning for the launch of the league, consulting for and developing several major skateboarding events to serve as additional case studies.


IMG Action Sports, the go-to event production company in the industry, is producing and executing Street League™ in 2010. The worldwide leader in skate park design and construction, California Skateparks™, will provide skate plaza construction. Instant Scoring Experience™ is a partnership between MXi, Dialsmith, and Street League™.

For more information go to www.streetleague.com .


About Street League Skateboarding ™

Street League Skateboarding™ is the first sports entertainment property that gives professional street skateboarding its very own league for individual competition. Street League™ features the exclusive participation of the world’s best professionals, over $1MM in prize money, and real skate plaza course design inside world-class arenas. Driven by the need to enhance the experience of live professional street skateboarding, Street League™ utilizes real-time scoring and a proprietary format that makes every trick count. Street League™ is the brainchild of twenty-year professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, Rob Dyrdek. More information is available at www.streetleague.com.

Groupies, hookers, and rockers

This saturday I'm DJing an art show Downtown.
It's a photo show that showcases Groupies and prostotites of famous 60's and 70's brock bands.
Check it if you're Downtown.

PSA. How to pick a lock

First: understand how your lock works.
The pin-and-tumbler lock consists of a cylinder that can rotate within its housing (see illustrations below). When locked, the cylinder is kept in place by several pairs of pins. The top pin of each pair protrudes into both the cylinder and the housing, thus preventing the cylinder from turning. When the correct key is inserted, it pushes the pairs of pins up so that the top pins no longer enter the cylinder. When this happens, the cylinder can be turned and the lock will open.

Note the five pairs of pins. The blue pins enter both the cylinder and the (green housing around it, thus preventing the cylinder from turning. The springs provide resistance to keep the pins in place.

When the key is inserted, the grooves and ridges on the key push the pins up to the correct heights so that all the blue pins are completely out of the cylinder, thus allowing the cylinder to turn and the lock to open.

Get a pick and tension wrench. Each pick is specialized for a different problem. A tension wrench, or torque wrench, is the device which you apply pressure with to turn the lock cylinder. Professional-grade picks and tension wrenches can be purchased in sets (see picture), but many lock picking hobbyists make good quality sets of their own. See the Things You'll Need section below for information on how to make your own picks and tension wrenches
Place the tension wrench into the lower portion of the keyhole.
Determine which way the cylinder must be turned to unlock the lock. If you commonly use the lock, you probably already know which way you turn the key to open the lock. If you don’t know, use the tension wrench to apply torque to the cylinder, first clockwise and then counterclockwise. The cylinder will only turn a fraction of an inch before it stops. Try to feel the firmness of the stop. If you turn the cylinder the wrong way, the stop should feel very firm and stiff. If you turn it the right way, there should be a bit more give. Some locks, especially among padlocks, will open regardless of which way the cylinder is turned.

Apply light torque to the tension wrench in the correct direction, and hold. The required torque will vary from lock to lock and from pin to pin, so this may require some trial and error. Start gently, though
Insert the pick into the upper part of the keyhole and feel the pins. With the pick in the keyhole, you should be able to press up and feel the individual pins with the tip of the pick. You should be able to push them up and feel them spring back down when you release the pressure. Try to push each one all the way up. Identify which one is the hardest to push up. If they are all very easy to push up, turn your tension wrench more to increase the torque. If one won’t go up at all, ease the torque until you can push it up. Alternately, you may wish to “rake” the pins before this step

Push the stubborn pin up until it “sets.” Press the stubborn pin with just enough pressure to overcome the downward pressure of the spring. Remember, the pin is actually a pair of pins. Your pick is pushing against the lower pin, which in turn pushes against the upper pin. Your goal is to push the upper pin completely out of the cylinder. Then, when you stop pushing, the lower pin will fall back down into the cylinder, but the torque on the cylinder will result in a misalignment of the hole in the cylinder with the hole in the housing, and the upper pin should then rest on the cylinder without falling back down. You should hear a faint click as the upper pin falls back down on top of the cylinder. You should also be able to push the lower pin up a little with no resistance from the spring—when this occurs you most likely have the upper pin “set.”

Continue applying torque and repeat the last two steps for each of the remaining pins. It is imperative that you maintain torque on the cylinder to prevent the set pins from dropping back down. You may need to make slight increases or decreases in torque for each pin.

Use the tension wrench to turn the cylinder and unlock the lock. Once all the pins are set, you should be able to turn the cylinder. Hopefully you have already ascertained the correct direction to turn it. If you have chosen the wrong direction, you will need to start over and reset all the pins.