Powder Lines

Appart from being one of my favourite bands, Suicidal Tendencies named their album with the mood I’m feeling nowadays. Since I have a shitty job that makes me feel miserable I have to hold myself on things that makes me feel better. First there’s the upcoming season of Snowboarding, the coming of X-Mas, movies, and music. This morning I finished Isis ’ Wavering Radiant and I was shuffling into my music and I found this album that I consider a masterpiece amongst the Crossover bands of the 1980’s. Crossover, is the definition of those bands that were influenced by old Punk bands whilst including metal elements to their song structures. Suicidal Tendencies were a band that influenced deeply American Thrash metalers. While maintaining their Punk attitude and including funk jams into the whole it created one of the most unique sounding band of this era. ST was the band you had to see live to fully understand the reach of their music. Their shows were considered as the most violent and b...

The Art of FLIGHT (Curt Morgan, 2011) The most anticipated movie of the year, The Art of FLIGHT meets the high expectations that its producers created with the tremendous teasers spread since this winter. Made with the colossal budgets of RedBull , the new BrainFarm release is a great follow up to the amazing precedent of That’s It That’s All released in 2008. While the earlier offering put the table for the latest, the formula is now exploited at its full potential. First they introduce the star of the film, Travis Rice and his walk-in of Lib-Tech pro-models. Then the film takes us on a trip across the world at the craziest place on earth to snowboard: Alaska, Chili, Aspen, Patagonia, British Columbia, etc. Without forgetting to go where Rice calls home: Jackson Hole a superb mountain full of fresh powder and huge kickers. As many have probably noticed, there is more freeriding and big mountains riding in The Art of FLIGHT than in That’s It That’s All . However, it is far from be...