Welcome, You are in Singapore! Collect your choice of gallery quality Giclée, or fine art prints custom trimmed by hand in a variety of sizes with a white border for framing.Alex Knost walks us through the inspiration behind his hand shapes for the RVCA Boardroom. Alex's contribution includes a Joel Tudor inspired long board and two mid length boards inspired by Gerry Lopez and the early 70's single fin mentality. in our latest addition to the RVCA Boardroom.Video footage by Tin Ojeda, out takes from the upcoming film "free jazz vein”. Additional footage courtesy of Thomas Campbell, Rick Jorgenson, and Jamie Budge. now we're cookin', boy!" Travis McCoy yells, pacing the main room at the Deathstar studio in Los Angeles, still sporting his backpack and hoodie. With a new Dodgers cap cocked sideways, the Gym Class Heroes MC shouts, "Drum-and-bass! He's leading his band through a rhythm-heavy new tune, as guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo strums his white Stratocaster through a wah-wah pedal like he's playing with Sly and the Family Stone.

It's still before noon when McCoy begins rhyming: "Tell hip-hop I'm not illiterate/I got greater expectations than Oliver Twist/I went postal before Bukowski did/Tell Jack I'll go out on the road with him. . . ." Hear Katy Perry's Bouncy New Song 'Chained to the Rhythm' As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis Released from Prison Universal to Release Prince's Vault Music, Post-1995 Albums Watch Controversial Trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' Series See Infamous Stringdusters Play Entire Album in Four-Minute Mashup Slouched over an upright piano wearing a porkpie hat is Patrick Stump. On a break from Fall Out Boy, Stump is producing today's session — for the Heroes' follow-up to 2006's As Cruel as School Children, which included the radio hits "Cupid's Chokehold" and "Clothes Off!" "They're totally serious musicians," says Stump, eager to demonstrate the Geneva, New York, band's musical chops. "Travis is a dead-serious MC. He's very smart and very sharp and has said some brilliant things.

And they have a blast doing it. Hopefully people will get a sense of that." McCoy steps out of the booth to pour himself a sweet blend of merlot and Sprite, a new drink he calls the Travalanche. But he's soon back in the room as the band slips into a classic roots-reggae groove and McCoy spits rhymes about a postmodern romance: "We can't, more like we shouldn't. . . . It's hard to be a good man." "It's about what happens when you have a little too much merlot in you and you have access to a phone and a ton of girls' numbers that you wouldn't call otherwise," he says. imking hoodieHe thinks up a song title on the spot: "Drunk Text Romeo."irreplaceable hoodie It's mid-January, and the band has been in the small studio, located behind a Koreatown barbershop, for a week. hoodies singapore blogshop

The big-screen TV is permanently tuned to the Food Network, with the band members hoping for a glimpse of sexy Italian host Giada De Laurentiis between takes. "We've been on a roll, pumping out a song a day," says drummer Matt McGinley. "When things are going good like this, you just need to be in the studio and pour out creativity." McCoy later retreats to his rented SUV with a fistful of cigarettes to play back some tracks recently recorded in Miami with producers Cool and Dre (best known for the Game's "Hate It or Love It" and Ja Rule's "New York"). "It's beautiful how Dre works with melodies and shit," says McCoy with a grin. "We consumed a lot of greenery." One of the Miami tracks is the brooding jam "Peace Sign," which features guest vocals by Busta Rhymes. "The hip-hop enthusiasts didn't really take me serious as an MC," McCoy says, "and I'm making for damn sure they do on this record." He cues up an unfinished track called "I'm Home," on which Hall and Oates' Daryl Hall will be adding vocals.

McCoy is a hardcore fan from way back: "It's like a cream dream to have this dude not only into what we're doing but wanting to be part of this record," he says, eyes widening. "I don't even know where to go after that." Related Stories: • Fall Out Boy and Gym Class Heroes Enjoy the Internet, Using Their Hands • Video: Pete Wentz, Gym Class Heroes at Rolling Stone Party • Gym Class Heroes Cover the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations": Video Tenista/18/ Insta:ezequielbukowski/ snap: chinobuko 68 Photos and videosViewing Tweets won't unblock @chinobuko.I just want to say at the outset, that I’m not always as smart as I like to think I am. This surely comes as a shock to virtually no one, not the least of whom me. Heck, I don’t even know if I constructed that previous sentence smartly. But what I do know is that up until today — the beginning of March, 2015 — I confused Charles Bukowski with The Big Lebowski. Since I’m both a writer and an avid movie fan, my ignorance is even more ridiculous.

You probably all know Charles Bukowski was a German poet and novelist who made Los Angeles his second home. Time magazine called him “a laureate of American lowlife.” was a Coen Brothers film about a guy who also lived in Los Angeles. Jeff Bridges played the title character, a downtrodden man whom Bukowski may have written about, if he weren’t fictional already. Maybe you can forgive my confusion. I have heard references to both Lebowski and Bukowski for many years. I saw the movie in 1998, four years after Bukowski died of leukemia. I just mixed the two up in my brain and apparently wasn’t too curious about by why people were so reverent about the Jeff Bridges character. Obviously they were referring to Bukowski not Lebowski. Both were cult heroes. Both had alternative lifestyles. Both lived in LA. But there’s one more thing. They both kind of/sort of looked alike. Granted, that’s no excuse for me being a moron. But I’ll bet I’m not the only one.

I just found out there’s a Big Bukowski Facebook page. It mashes the two up. Apparently the similarity isn’t lost on others. But whereas I confused them unintentionally, others riff on the likenesses. There’s even a rapper named Larry David Flow who writes, “Big Lebowski and Charles Bukowski are the reasons I’m not angry when you call me Kowalski.” I’m trying to do more research on their similarities, but my browser feels a bit let down by me too. It has seemingly joined their downtrodden masses and refuses to follow my search requests. “Rodney,” it appears to ask, “did you really think all those cultural references over the years were to the Jeff Bridges’ Lebowski role and that there wasn’t someone else they were mentioning?” My browser is right. I shouldn’t be allowed to continue searching this nonsense, hoping that others were as confused as me. So in lieu of proof, I offer up this very tenuous possibility. Other people fall into one of three camps: