Stuff White People Like

I generally try to avoid skate videos in general and people who skateboard in particular. Mostly beacuse I feel that people who skateboard and senior citizens are pretty much cut from the same cloth, i.e. they both usually have a slight odour of urine surrounding their persona, have a stagnated perception of the world around them, are scared of change, self absorbed, feel the world owns them something and generally make for very poor conversation partners.

I will however make an exception for the Fully Flared Video from Lakai. Directed by Spike Jonze, Cory Weincheque and Ty Evans. Mostly because the Video makes use of some of the best music available from the late 80s and early nineties, Charlatans, Echo & The Bunnymen and Q Lazzarus are just some of the gems from the musical score. Pearls for swines i say, giving such good stuff to the general skateboarding public is like serving a starving ethiopian a fine dinner consisting of, oh, lets say boeuf de Bourgogne, he will proably think it's good because he's pretty hungry, not having eaten anything but spongy bread and rice his entire life, but will never be able to fully appreciate the sublime nuances of the dry 2005 Oliver Leflaive Cuvee Margotwine used to soak the beef overnight, or that small hint of dark chocolate crowning the dish.

The other reason is the intro sequence for the video, using the amazing musical score of "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun" by french shoegazing duo "M83", it features tons of shit being blown up with napalm (alledgedly) in slow motion. No trick filming was used, and the footage makes for a pretty epic experience. If I wasn't such a cultivated and refined renaissance man I probably would've made a little peepee in my pants, heading straight down to the local skate park.