A Poet's Life

I attended a poetry show on Saturday evening at Beyond Baroque in the hipster land of Venice Beach. It was a virgin like experience as I walked inside the lions den of live poetry but I was really impressed. This cat, Derrick Brown is the real deal. All the poets who performed were witty, punchy, and real crowd pleasers. I failed to buy the books after the show but plan on ordering Brown's collection off his site. Check out Write Bloody publishing and Brown Poetry for more info.

Brown will be performing at Open Books in Long Beach on Saturday, February 19th. Be there. Ok now it's ROMANCE TIME...

Cavotuesday

Much love to all the heads who came out to support Cavotu Fam, B-Free at the Otis Lounge, SF on Saturday evening. From what I hear, we got this spot locked in for a regular monthly event so stay posted for the next one. Check out the homey in action.

He's Our Man

Jack was an inspiration to us all. Amazing energy and intense charge for life. I always thought he would live to be 110 years old but 96 is the real deal.

I created this banner ad back for the Cavotu website back in March 2006. Classic shot indeed. Time for juice and fingertip push ups. RIP brother. Guttermouth said it best...

Bay Area

Just a heads up for this weekend. The party is going down in San Francisco on Saturday night. Kindly make your way down to the Market District and stumble into the Otis Lounge. Cavotu fam, B-Free will be on the wheels of steel playing all the crowd favs. Its about time for a good time.

Straight Fizzn

The fam bam and I were making our way back from SLO last night when we stopped in Camarillo for a minute to refuel the g-ride. I stumbled upon this gem of candy/soda shop called Rocket Fizz. Apparently this was their first flagship store and now they have 13 locations across the country. Never heard of it but it reminded me of Powell's with a much larger collection of sodas and speciality drinks. I ended up trying out this random rootbeer that was recommended by the shop dude. A rather tasty blend I must say. I'm not sure if 'root' is the new beer but they definitely got something special going on there in Wisconsin.

Cavotuesday

It's early. I'm on a weird sleep schedule. Happy New Year. Follow me on Twitter.

Adios 20 Ten

It's been a roller coaster of a year, sort of...well actually it's more like a roller coaster called my life. When I was a kid I never imagined that I would grow up to be a professional juggler. The problem with juggling is that sometimes you can't help but drop one of the balls. This year was quite a challenge, not sure if I ever stepped up or actually stepped down. Unfortunately I have never been a goal orientated person which explains alot. However I made a valient effort to be more consistent with the blog. I don't believe in making New Years resolutions but I have a few goals set aside that I plan on tackling head on. Besides all that nonsense I really just wanted to write a short note like this: Happy New Year friends, thanks for the support, cheers!

Yeeeeee

I have always been a fan despite the contraversy. The production has been amazing over the years, the College Dropout has come a long way. I finally got around to watching the full version of the Runaway video. With a running time of 34:33 you can easily see why. Thanks for the inspiration Mr. West.

The critics are saying the new album is one of the best of 2010 with the banned album cover to boot. Nice work, get it done.

BM-X rated

The homey, Darren used to ride for Cavotu during his days at San Pedro high school. He was one of the first riders on the Team who I didn't know personally. I took a chance on some young talent, nice guy indeed.

A couple shots from the Cavotu archives of Darren doing it live during a skate session in SLO.

Last time I was in SLO, I chewed some gum and stuck it on the wall. Yeeeah

I recently caught up with Darren on FB to see what's good. Darren graduated from Pedro and moved up north to tackle the college life at Cal State Monterey Bay. He recently started new project dedicated to the BMX game. Check out his blog for the latest 411 on the bike culture.

Say go DJ

Ok time machine, here we go. Back in the day, Cavotu fam, B Free had a regular gig @ Puma in the Bay. Back when 50 was killing it. Back when life was a little bit easier.

Almost Famous Part Deux

Christmas came early here at Casa de Cavotu. Big thanks to Santa Coop for sending over this fresh pair of kicks. This color-way came out pretty sick. We attack in red and black.

My son is only 2.5 years old but he is going to ask Cooper to give him skateboarding lessons so he can tear it up like this grom. Kids these days grow up sooo fast, I can't keep up.

Head over to Sunken City Skates and pick up a pair for your last minute Xmas shopping. Get your holiday on.

Checkered F(l)ags

The time has come for another round of amateur race car driving. The Lemons are back and the brothers Prunckle were once again behind the wheels of their modified vroom vroom putt putt racing vehicles. Ok everyone, on the count of three, wave and say cheese!

Cavotu riders, Joe Prunckle aka Unicorn and John Prunckle aka Pink gave the mellow yellow a major facelift this time around. "My little pony" was quite a hit around the pit crews. Unfortunately her legs were not strong enough to finish the race but she put on a damn good show.

Cavotu rider, Wes Wee aka Dad aka Oldest Prunk got the party started with his crew, hello Team BROverload. Wes (on the right) is rocking the "Pins" shirt, which was one of the fastest selling Cavotu tees.

Sometimes even the bros need a little help handling the enormous jug of ice cold Silver Bullet pleasure. Remember to wait until the mountains turn blue, amateurs.The ride was looking mighty fine indeed. Hey I don't see any Cavotu stickers. WTF bros? Go bro go!

Until the next race my friends...read more about these crazy cats on the 24 hours of Lemons site.

Old Blew Eyes

There is something about this shade of blue...feeling inspired.

Twisted Sister

I received these tee shirts frames as a gift a few years ago. Somehow they got lost in the shuffle when I moved. While searching for Xmas decorations, I came across the tee shirt frame box and decided to put these bad boys to use. Here are a few vintage Cavotu classics from previous collections.

This is where I've been but where am I going?

AI Memorial Kauai

This still gives me chills.