While I was playing around the video editing in the last entry, I remembered I had some old X-Games footage which I hadn't really thought worthy of a video, nor a blog entry of it's own.
Well, for whatever reason, it is now.
To add some filler (I feel odd posting a blog entry less than 200 words), the X-Games are, if you're oblivious to pop culture as a whole, are short for the "Extreme-Games" - the local snowboarding/skiing/whatever competition in which the world's greatest in their field congregate here in Aspen to do spinny flips and all sorts of stuff. I did assume you already knew this, but once again, I've yet to reach the 200 word mark.
Anyways, I don't have an awful lot of footage aside from what you'll see below for reason that I could never truly get a good view of much anything - 80% of the time spent there was waiting in crowds that violently turned into lines, pushing, shoving, screaming to get up on the Super-Pipe, grabbing hair, stealing babies... OK, no babies... but otherwise being pretty civil about the whole thing.
Apparently, the group I was with appeared on TV, but not having TiVo sort of prevents me from seeing this footage... but somewhere in the deep confines of everything that's both recorded and televised, I'm there, all .623 seconds of me.
Something about where we were on the super-pipe and the physics of it all (it being on a huge slant, where I was even unable to stand without gripping the blockade-fence) made it so that multiple times the snowboarders would launch out directly in front of us, the mist from their snowboards spraying into our faces, some people actually opening their mouths to catch it... at least snow-flakes are clean, you weirdos.
As usual, the X-Games were composed of long-haired rad-brahs, little kids in XXL clothing, people who did not follow snowboarding at all, parents, mostly teenagers, and attractive girls no longer really attractive because of the ridiculous amounts of clothing you have to don in order to stay warm, thus limiting your sex appeal in favor of (Seriously, what the hell)... common sense. Which is why I prefer surfing, spectator-sport wise. Volleyball works too.
I can't really tell you who we saw or who won what (and considering the X-Games happened something like... a month ago), I doubt you care, nor did I at the time. Other than that whatever I was witnessing was the Women's SuperPipe finals.
Also, you ever watch those YouTube videos of just generic footage - like somebody rock-climbing or whatever - and the uploader has insisted on overdubbing it with their favorite song in the assumption that you also share their taste in music, and will appreciate the song? And all you wanna do is watch the video in it's pureness, full of the sounds of the moment and not a song you don't want to hear? Or that they assume they hold superior music taste to you, and you hearing the song in the video will thus make you a fan? Aren't those guys great?
In hopes of annoying you, this is precisely what I've done in the video below.
Also another song by MBV, whom I hope to influence you into buying their record/CD/mp3 so that they receive enough funding to go on tour again. I wasn't a fan during the reunion tour, and now that I am, I am pulling all strings to subliminally influence them to do it again. Or at least record a third album, which has been in promise for over a decade now... once again, carried away. CMC in no way supports this band, but I obviously do.
Enjoy the video, all singular minute of it.
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