Standard Films, 2112

This past the month I've had the opportunity to attend a couple of the premieres of Standard Film's 2112.

The first time I saw the movie was at the North American premiere in Reno. It was at this place down town called ComRow. I went with Diva, who was taking photos for Standard, and a couple other kids from school. The movie was really good, especially considering what last year's snow situation was. After the movie I had the chance to meet Kimmy Fasani and go out with her and our crews of friends to this little karaoke bar. That was rad. Kimmy is an amazing snowboarder and an inspiration to women riders everywhere. The amazing thing, is that she's incredibly humble about it all. She was just so down-to-earth. Proof that nice girls can finish first. Also, three of the girls and I did Spice Girls karaoke and we totally killed it.

The next time I saw the movie was at this action sport film festival in San Francisco the next week. That premiere was inside a yoga studio at a rock climbing gym which was a different experience. The movie was projected on a wall and I'm pretty sure at least 70% of the audience weren't snowboarders. I was stoked to see the movie again because I really did like it.

Here's the riders (in order of part) and their highlights:
I took like 3 word notes for each rider so I'll attempt to remember what I meant by them.

 1. Frederik Kalbermatten- "Mtn" I think this means his part was all big mountain stuff. And because I remember liking the video from the very beginning I'm gonna venture out and say his part was pretty solid.
2. Ethan Morgan- "street siiick method" So Ethan's part was almost all street and he slayed it. One shot in his part was this mega mega slow mo of a method on this sweet jump in... BC? Idk where really, but it was a beautiful method. Really.
3. Gulli Gudmundsson- "lots of hard falls" Gulli ate shit. A lot. I mean like, a four course shit eating dinner. I don't know how he took so many ridiculous falls and didn't get hurt. I guess it was worth it though because he got some amazing shots in his part as well.
4. Mathieu Crepel- "sick pow" I'd guess this meant he had a sick pow part?
5. Kimmy Fasani- "huge cornice. Double" At one point Kimmy drops this pretty big cornice. And then she does a double on a park jump. No big.
6. Tim Humphreys- "humpppppy" Huh. Well. I think this note means Tim was Tim. You can tell in his riding how much he loves what he's doing and that's awesome. Tim's a good kid.
7. Chas Guldemond- "bangers on secret nstar" Last season Northstar build some secret jumps on the backside. Chas was there to throw down on them.
8. Anne-Flore Marxer- "pretty inspiring" If I remember correctly, Anne's part was all big mountain lines that were pretty out there. I had never really taken notice of her riding before, but I guess her part was pretty inspiring.
9. Nils Ardivsin- "toes fs9 Triple!!" Well, Nils dropped the triple. Clean. He also did a notable off the toes front nine. Or that was part of the triple note. I'm not sure.
10. Victor de la Rue- "go pro of big Mtn :O " Victor got some helmet cam shots of dropping into this big line and it made me go "whoaaah." It looked absolutely terrifying from the first person perspective. The French are crazy.
11. Xavier de la Rue- "chute in dark. Ice walls. Endless field of dreams. Powder over stars." There's a shot of Xavier going into a dark chute and I was like "bro, you can't see anything. you cray." And then there were shots of him ice riding because apparently Xavier doesn't need snow to snowboard anymore and I was like "bro, that's a wall of ice. you cray." And then he got to ride these mountains that just stretched out forever like a dreamland. And then there was this cool shot of powder being sprayed that was overlayed with a beautiful shot of the stars. And then the movie ended.

I really strongly highly recommend buying this movie. There's a little bit of everything in it. The music is great. The cinematography is beautiful. Just do it. Buy it now.

Further World Premiere, Squaw Valley

Premiere season has officially begun.

The world premiere of Jeremy Jones' Further was at Squaw last night outside KT-22. I headed out there with Rebecca, Diva, Madison and Bryan. We had two hours to kill before the movie started so we did some drinking and mingling. It was good to see everyone who came out to the movie. Lots of familiar faces wandering the village.

Me in the middle of a Rebecca sandwich before the movie

The movie started around 9 I think and we got a little spot on the grass with a bunch of friends to watch it. As expected, there were plenty of shots in crazy locations that made you shit your pants thinking about riding them. Following suit with Deeper, Further turned out to be more of a documentary than a traditional snowboard movie. At this point I had enough alcohol in my system that following a storyline and listening to a lot of talking was challenging. Honestly, I just wanted to see some sick lines but there was only one riding shot every minute or two. The shots they used were awesome though. After what seemed like a really long time, the movie ended. I should probably try watching it again sometime because everyone was stoked on it. So if you're sober and want a good story I'd recommend Further.

After the movie we headed over to the after party at Rocker. It was a closed event and they weren't selling tickets so resourcefulness had to be used. Luckily my good friend Ramone was DJing the event so he came out to get me, Rebecca, Madison, and Diva. We had an awesome time inside; the alcohol was flowing, the music was bumping, and old friends were all around. I don't remember what went on towards the end of the night, but from the pictures that were taken it looked like I had a great time.
Here's what Hondo at Transworld had to say about the night.

Solid night.
Cheers to premiere season!

Back home/ Down Town Throw Down SF

When I left San Francisco last year it was so I could be in the snow and be surrounded by the snowboard community. This past weekend however, I traveled back home to go to the first ever San Francisco stop of Down Town Throw Down. Here's the recap:


On Thursday I finished school at 5:15 and started my journey down to the city. I was supposed to play in a soccer game in Incline at 8, but Lucas had called me earlier in the day to see if I was going to be at the Absinthe premier. I had planned on only going to the after party but I wanted to see the movie and see Lucas again so I bailed on the game and went straight to SF. (Sorry Team)

The Victoria Theater

I made it to San Francisco a little after 9pm and found a parking spot around the corner of the Victoria Theater. There was a "no parking from 6am-8am" sign posted so I made the mental note to get up and move my car in the morning. I already knew that there would be no way I would be able to drive my car that night. I walked to the Victoria and there was a pretty big line outside to get tickets. While I was in line, Lucas walked by and told me I was on the guest list. Stoked. Finally made it to the ticket window, got my free ticket and went inside.

Inside Lucas showed me where everyone was sitting and introduced me to David, JP, and Romain. We hung out and drank beer until the Absinthe movie started. Of course we yelled ridiculously loud for Lucas, and every other person who was there. At some point Romain, who was sitting behind me, pulled my hair back and put a beer in my mouth. He didn't stop when it started overflowing so naturally when he let go of me I turned around and spit all the beer back at him. That was probably the highlight of my night. Then came the product toss. One of the guys chucked a dvd at me. It hurt a little but hey, I got a movie. Then the YES movie played. Again, more screaming obscenities, drinking, and other activities went down. Both movies were super awesome. I'm not normally into the big mountain stuff, but the shots in these movies were legit and made me want to ride so badly. After YES there was a push up contest to win a board. I was the only girl in it. I made it to 50 push ups before my arms stopped working. Some guy made it to 69, pretty much cheating the whole time so I still consider myself the winner. Everyone left the theater except us and I picked up a box of stuff they never tossed. I only wanted a couple of the items but I figured I could give out all the rest on this website in another giveaway.

Lucas and I, classy as always

I went back to my car with Lucas and considered driving it to the after party at Delirium. We ended up just sitting in my car talking for a while before deciding to walk over to the party. I think by the time we got to Delirium I was fairly drunk. I don't remember too much besides a lot of sitting around and talking to people. At one point David and I went down the street and got some pizza. I'm not exactly sure when we left Delirium and went back to the hotel that the guys were staying at.

David, me, and Romain. Three drunk fucks in an elevator.

I think we stayed up at the hotel partying for a little bit longer. Don't know too much about that though. I do know I slept on the floor between JP and a wall. Living life in luxury. My alarm woke me up at 7am and I was like "shit! Taxi to the car time!" I convinced Romain, who was still drunk and 80% asleep to come with me. I was so worried about my car the entire time. When I set my alarm clock for 7 the night before I figured they wouldn't go around towing or giving tickets for the first hour. I was wrong. We got to the car and it had a $55 ticket in the window. Damn. Drove back to the hotel, paid to put my car in a garage and then went back to sleep. By the time we left the hotel and I picked my car up for the second time I had a $14 garage fee. The city is so fucking expensive.

Climbing stuff and causing trouble. Pretty Average.

I got out of the city and went to Mercy High School in Burlingame. By this point I had absolutely no voice, but I spent two hours or so visiting teachers and friends. The first thing almost every teacher (and some students) commented on was that my face looked normal again. The last time I had visited the school I had raccoon eyes from hell. Also, I apparently didn't have a voice last time I visited either so now everyone thinks I just loose my voice all the time. Which is so not true. After Mercy I went to San Carlos to Action so I could send my shop time. I always have to spend time in Action when I'm home. For one, I love Alex, my friend who works there, and I only see him when I go to Action. Secondly, the let me climb on things and wreck havoc throughout the shop. I like places that embrace my inner tsunami so Action is a good place for me. The next couple of hours were full of me skating around the shop, climbing stuff, rearranging merchandise, and pretending I worked there when customers were around. I left Action around dinner time and went home- 20 hours in the bay and I finally got to my house. That night I went to Mercy-Notre Dame- Serra's production of To Kill a Mockingbird.  And then it was bed time.

The champion of the day, Dylan Juggalito

The next morning I drove back to San Francisco for the Down Town Throw Down. I parked in front of a meter but all the change I had on me only got me an hour of parking. I ended up moving my car to a random little alley and gave the homeless sitting next to my car some food. DTTD was pretty cool. I ended up taking over 300 pictures of the action (which were a total bitch to go through). Dylan Alito shocked everyone with his juggalo costume, and wielded a battle axe the entire contest, earning him the nick-name Juggalito. Eventually he incorporated the axe into his tricks, like passing it from hand to hand around his body as he frontboarded the kink of the DFD box. My favorite trick I saw all day though was Ryan Paul's Frontboard to back rodeo off the pole jam. What?? That kid is nuts. Anyways, Dylan Alito won and the crowd dispersed. I spent the next couple hours wandering around the city with some Tahoe friends.

Rooftop of the Haight Party

Night rolled around and it was time for the after partying. I was at the party at the Jim Collins (or something) Club with everyone for a little while. I ended up in the green room and found some face paint. Sometime later Del the Funky Homosapian came in and I offered to paint his face. He wouldn't let me and I got bummed so I went back into the club. I ran into Sean a bit later and he swooped me off to a house party in lower Haight. The party was super weird. People had to buy tickets on livenation to get in, and there was a huge line outside the house that went down the block. There was security at the door that carded everyone too. Inside was probably at least 400 hipster kids. It was really weird. I wandered around for a while telling people how much I hated everyone there and then finally collected a couple bucks, a Swedish guy, and took a cab back to the DTTD party. I found my Tahoe friends, we ditched the Swed and did some more city wandering. A couple fights with strangers broke out to keep things interesting. I finally called it at some point and went back to my car to sleep.

The rest of the weekend is boring. I drove back home in the morning, went to Redwood City Ice Rink to watch my mom's production team in a competition, went back home, watched a TLC series about Gypsy weddings, and then went to dinner at the Cheese Cake Factory with my parents. Then I headed up to Truckee for some more partying. I left Truckee at 11:30, tried to drive to Incline but was way too tired. I slept in my car in the CBC parking lot until 1am, and finished the journey. Annnd that's pretty much it. Good full weekend. I love going back to the city, but I've gotten my fill for a while. It's snow season and I'm perfectly happy in my Incline abode for now.


Hope everyone else had a fun weekend. :]

Rome The Shred Remains premiere

Friday night was the The Shred Remains premier at the Freight House in Reno and let me tell you- it was probably the most epic night of partying I ever had. Here's the story. (Please excuse my constant shifting from past to present tense. My brain is only half working today)

I'm hanging out around campus on Friday trying to find a ride to Reno. Two weekends ago I drove to SF, and last weekend I drove to Bear. I was not down with driving more. Just completely over it. 6pm rolls around and it's looking like everyone has a full car. My issue was that I wanted to drink and have fun, but Mt. Rose highway is so gnarly that I wouldn't drive it after having anything to drink. If I only have to drive a mile through Bear, or Incline, or Govy after drinking I feel ok about it. But Mt. Rose is another story. I finally decide "Fuck it. I'm driving myself and just staying there for the night." I throw my sleeping bag in my car, get ready and head out.

I make it to Reno around 7:30 and run into people I know in like 3 seconds upon arrival. First it was little Lewis from my team at Northstar, and then I run into Ryan who I met riding Mt. Rose Summit last year and have been friends with since. I paid $3 for a PBR (ridiculous), and then wandered about chatting with my various friends there. My friend Jay has a free-drink wristband so of course I'm like "Nice wristband." which he responds with "Play your cards right and I might get you a drink later." So I immediately start laying the lines out real thick: "You look really nice tonight." "That jacket gives you a real nice shape. All rectanguler and manly." "Your eyes are sparkling". ch-ching. More beer for me.

It must have been 8 at this point, but the movie was like an hour late. Which I didn't mind because I was enjoying the company. I had ran into Marie briefly earlier and was super stoked to see her. She's an amazingly nice girl and always fun to be around. I want to find her again to spend more time catching up but I don't see her so I go to LNP who is unsurprisingly easy to find and ask him if he's seen her. One of my friends (I forget who) was standing near him and introduces me to LNP and a couple other Rome guys standing around. I had met Laurent last spring skating Truckee and then riding Boreal the next day with Marie and Victor and I guess he remembered because he goes "Ohhh yeah! I remember you!" and the game of catch-up begins with him. I end up talking to him until the movie starts, primarily about the nasty stuff that goes on inside the Rome van on the road. Laurent is such a nice guy and super easy to talk to. A+ quality human.

The movie finally starts, maybe at 9 or later, I wasn't really checking my phone for the time. It's a great movie and got me super stoked to ride. I liked the music all the way through. It was pretty balanced between jibbing, and powder which surprised me. I'm not into the big mountain stuff (pretty much because I can't do it) but they definitely had some cool shots. Here's the teaser if you haven't seen it yet.

Keeping it real. (Photo: Alana Vaccaro)

After the movie there was the product toss (Marie passed me a t-shirt, and I rock-paper-scissored for a banner) and then a party right there at the Freight House. If you haven't been there, it's a really cool venue. There's the indoor bar/restaurant, the outdoor bar, and then a dance club with bar. There was a random rock band playing outside on the stage where the movie was, so I danced with my friends, the group of us pretty much owning the dance floor. We eventually moved over to the club area and go crazy. I was throwing out dance moves like it was going out of style. I dipped out to the bar for a bit to take a break and end up exchanging some words with Lucas. We got to talking and totally clicked with each other. You know someone's ill when you can drop a Harry Potter reference and they get it right away. He treated me to a whiskey-coke and we spent a good amount of time at the bar just talking about everything. Together we went back to the club to dance.

Some Shout action at the Lincoln Lounge (Photo: Alana Vaccaro)

At this point I decide to really send it and have fun. And how do I go about doing that? Spitting my drink in the air of course. I did this a couple time but some girls started getting mad so I dipped off the floor and made my move to a chick with a cake in the lounge area. It's her birthday and she offers me a slice. I take a slice, duh, and wish her happy birthday. I start eating some and when I'm over it I start tossing pieces of cake onto the dance floor. I was in destructo mode, what can I say? Then I start climbing the furniture and dancing on that.  Lucas and I eventually dip out with a couple other people to this place down the street called the Lincoln Lounge. We dance there for a while and eat some awesome tacos from a food truck parked on the road. The vibe at LL was sick because they played a ton of classics.

After a while our whole mob moves down the street to Würk. As soon as we go in some drunk guy projectile vomits and I'm in the cross fire. That was shitty. I went to the bathroom to wash up and met RenoGirl. RenoGirl and I go back out to the club together, and she gives me the boost I need to walk around the club in just a bra and jeans. I had to ditch my shirt behind a couch because it was wet and gross. The plus side is that immediately upon getting to the bar some guy bought RenoGirl and I drinks. Jay sees me, takes pity on me and I end up wearing his jacket for the rest of the night. Besides the puke incident Wurk is fun, and a ton of people I know are there. I stay with Lucas almost the entire time, with RenoGirl by my side like a faithful companion.

I had my spy-cam out the whole time of course.

As we're leaving we get cornered by this crazy Mexican kid. It's me, Thomas, Jay, and Lucas standing against a wall around the corner of the club with this kid venting "I'm about to fucking lose it! I'm going to fucking lose it! My mind is going fucking crazy. I need someone to talk to before I go away. I will seriously beat the shit out of anybody right now." At one point I whisper something to Lucas that makes me giggle, and CrazyMexican, who had bat powers or something heard and started flipping out thinking I was laughing at him. I shifted to the side slightly and he freaked out about me trying to leave, saying something about smashing my face into the floor. This kid had just been in juvie for nine years and now he was totally losing it. Finally Jay bolted back to the club, and CrazyMexican chased after him. Jay manages to make it out without CrazyMexican and we dash across the street to the casinos. Crazy Mexican is on our trail though and we're dipping between rows of slot machines with the gangster kid that looks like he wants to kill us close behind. After some cat-and-mouse we manage to lose him and continue on with our partying (which included me losing money playing blackjack- very disappointing.)

When the sun comes back up I finally call it a night and go back to the Freight House parking lot to sleep in my car. I dozed for two hours but my car turned into an oven so I hit the road. I had planned on "sight-seeing" in Reno before going back to Incline but I was totally beat. And I had no money because I lost my last $5 on the black jack table. I made it to the bottom of Mt. Rose and pulled off into a neighborhood to nap for another hour before trekking over the mountain. I made it back to my place around 11am and have been laying in bed ever since. I don't see myself getting out of bed until tomorrow morning when I have to go paintballing for snowboard team bonding day. I'm exhausted, I can barely move, and I'm completely 100% stoked on how the night turned out. Hopefully I'll be sending it as hard for Capita's premier next week.

PeepShow/Transworld Premier

Last friday was the Peep Show "Let's make better mistakes tomorrow" and the Transworld "In Color" premieres.  Take a trip back to July to see the Peep Show teaser. They gave away a lot of awesome product, which I unfortunately did not collect. Well, besides a hat and tee shirt. But my friend Sophia won a new pair of boots which is totally awesome! I had fun at the premiere, seeing friends and such. The movies were okay, but I need to stop watching snowboard videos because the wait for snow is really starting to kill me.
After the premiere I went to some parties in Reno with some of these kids, egged some frat boys, and went back to Truckee. I got stuck in Truckee until saturday night when an Incline friend of mine picked me up. From there we went to a party in Kings Beach but I was just wayy too tired to party. I found a ride back to Incline, assuming I was being brought back to campus. Instead we went to someone else's house so I decided to sleep on their couch until my group was ready to go. Well they didn't wake me up and I woke up the next morning like "Shit. I just want to be home." I found a ride back to campus around 11am and was so relieved. I need a car. Being stuck all over the place sucks. The weekend was too exhausting. I don't know how many more of these adventures I can force myself on. Whatever. Just live right?