Skateboarding has gotten bigger and bigger over the last decade or so.  More and more kids are going out, getting exercise and doing crazy fresh new shit.  Someone that I have always had tons of respect for, both for his amazing talent and his innovative style, is Rodney Mullen.  This month we just want to give mad props to the king of the flatland flip tricks.  Here’s to you Rodney Mullen.  Thanks for doing Christian Slater‘s tricks in Gleaming the Cube for him.  You are such an amazing fool that you get 2 videos.

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It’s 10yrs to the day (Aug. 29th 1997) that Skynet software was scheduled to go apeshit, launching trans-global missiles, resulting in a full-on nuclear holocaust, and 23 yrs since the original Terminator film was released and was supposed to have taken place (1984).  It has also been 4 years since the cinematic catastrophe known as T-3: Rise of the Machines and 16 yrs since T-2 was released blowing young minds like an 8-ball of fish scale and redirecting our focus, with revolutionary CGI special effects, to the point where the viewer entirely disregarded the complete lack of time-line feasibility.  Out of the ashes, like an anemic Phoenix with fetal alchohol syndrome, hobbles a new addition to the Terminator legacy.   On the small screen of the FOX network‘s fall line-up comes Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (more…)

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Lets face it. We live in an on-demand culture where instant gratification is not accepted, it is demanded by the consumer. Our (the average American) pastime, watching the tv, fills this need, but at an insanely high price, for poor broadcast quality and not very much content. When my cable bill started getting past the $100 a month mark (for internet, cable, and HBO), I started to freak out and began to look for alternative solutions to my viewing needs.

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Organist/song-writer Marco Benevento first began recieving critical acclaim for his work with drummer Joe Russo as the other half of the Benevento/Russo Duo (commonly known as “The Duo” ). Since then, they have went on to release some of the greatest and most innovated instrumental Jazz music in recent years, in part by fusing it with rock and indie influences. Last summer they were invited to do a tour as the other half of a four piece with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon from Phish and did so successfully with only four days of practice prior to their first performance.

Benevento’s most recent project, “Live At The Tonic“, is a live album recorded over a month long period at the infamous, and now defunct, Tonic in New York, and features the likes of Dave “Mean Ween” Dreiwitz, Mike Gordon, Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob), and 7 more.

On Aug. 7th, I was fortunate enough to meet up with Marco and interview him at The Triple Door, arguably the nicest upscale jazz club in Seattle, while he was on tour with his latest trio, consisting of bassist, Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) and drummer Matt Chamberlain, (Critters Buggin). After drinking gin and tonics in the bar, I was escorted through an elevator and up to a hotel suite above the club that I had never realized existed. When I entered the room, Marco was drinking a beer in an orange T-shirt with a tiger and stars on it and Reed Mathis was sitting down, intently focusing on his lap-top. Marco offered me a beer, I showed him that I already had a drink, and then we went to sit down at a large round table. I set up a mini-DV cam to tape the audio and I pressed record:

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