Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Just wanted to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to everyone out there from all over the place. I had something really important to write about but I forgot what it was so… yeah have a nice one. I’ll be off trying not to break bones snowboarding for a few days over new year so incase I don’t write, here’s to you! (imagine me toasting with a drink and a nod of the head…you know what I mean)
updates coming soon….
Posted by Jamie at 12:09 AM
Monday, December 8, 2008
Travel back in time 20 years to a period where legends of skate were etched into the minds and hearts of old fools like myself. I had the unexpected privilege of seeing with my own eyes the mastery of 80’s vert skating by the people who invented and dominated the sport, riding original boards and dressed in neon. Mike called me and asked if I was gonna dress up for it, I replied “dude, I don’t need to, my dress sense is permanently stuck in the 80’s thrasher skate RAD era”. I guess I just can’t let go of a time where skating was all I lived for, and skate rags and vision street wear t’s were all I owned. Even if I skate like a complete doosch nowadays I still have a nostalgic place in my heart for the bright colours and RAD mag inspired “I don’t give a f*ck” rowdy mentality of 80’s skateboarding. Even though, hammering down the side of a Welsh valleys village vertical street, in a bright pink Hot tuna hoodie on a hand-me-down de-laminated, Santa Cruz Corey O’Brien board with a viciously worn away tail, sliding all over the road on borrowed and flatted OJ2’s……in the RAIN, was a million miles away from the Californian blue sky’s and vert ramps that I saw in photographs in RAD. I am fairly sure that 90% of all my bodily scars are from eating curbs,steps and banks in my brief time trying to be a good skater 20 years ago.
I never thought I would ever get the chance to see Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero skate a vert ramp in California on original boards doing strictly 80’s style tricks when I sat in my bedroom in 1987 each night fantasising about owning and skating the new Santa Cruz board which was always way out of my 2 quid a week pocket money budget (which in later years proved to be quite adequate for a flagon of Stonehouse in which to fall, pissed out of my face, out of trees on).
I remember with fond memories the spots where I left bits of my skin, blood,sweat and my fear… such as the banks and steps up th’ uni, curbs down by the Albion, Coedylan brick ramp walls, the quarter pipe we built down the factories which got burned, B&Q and Halfords, clarkeys suicide attempt at Leckwith, Mikeys chin plant at Port Talbot Halfpipe and the legendry marble and benches down the Precinct 
(RIP).
My respect goes out to my boys from back then who I slammed and bled with and who I shared my dreams: Skids, Peg, Mike Lewis, Clarkey, Jennings, Swalesy, and other legends like Griff, Rosey and that one time with Pritchard on the banks in Cardiff.
Good times boys, Good times!
apologies to all those who haven’t a frikin clue what the hell I’m on about. Let me have this one, it’s all about memories today.
Posted by Jamie at 2:40 PM
Friday, December 5, 2008
Me and mike won the the champions league last night. nice.
Apologies go out to whomever may have been offended by my previous blog, it was unintentional.
who’d have thought you’d be looking around in this part of the cyber woods, ha.
…..just like to reiterate that this blog is solely my opinion and doesn’t represent the opinions of anyone else in lostprophets in anyway, never has and never will.
Posted by Jamie at 3:11 PM
Friday, December 05, 2008
Current mood: 
rockin
So…This Sunday, December 7th, I have been asked to host 94.9’s aptly titled show Coup D’Etat. For those of you not from San Diego, I get to choose the music being played for the hour and I assure you it will be amazing. The show will go live at 6pm PST til about 7pm. If you’re not in San Diego you can listen live by going here:
http://fm949sd.com/listen/index.cfm
Give it a listen.
ilan
3:34 AM
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Hi there.
Blog schmog.
sorry to all you’s that I said I’d play xbox with and haven’t. Basically I haven’t been on it cos I’ve been busy finally finishing the record up. Yup, that’s right, we are actually working again. I can’t wait till it is all done dusted and out because then finally I can talk all about the process and how it all unfolded. Believe you me, No one is more disconcerted with how long it has taken than I, but you have to trust me when I say we are in a really good place both musically and as a unit.
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