This months edition

Ladies and Gentlemen, here we have it, I care about everyone seeing this so much that I'm officially posting on my birthday.

Heres the montage loves. happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.......

Boom Boom Boom a-let me hear you say Bristol... BRISTOL

As my girlfriend is now in Bath being a hot shot designer, I have no option but to journey down south on a regular basis. My first excursion to the south-west happened to be on a glorious day which I was lucky enough to be able to share with everyones favourite (no longer local) local OG David Hopper, and as they say 'when your girlfriend's at work and Bath has nothing to offer, go to Bristol because lots of good stuff is there!' At least that's what I've heard they say.

Anyway, after texts full of rail and bus instruction from David and alot of moody public transport workers, I finally found David Hopper looking super fly in alorralorra diamond atire (to quote Cilla Black)

First we went to Lloyds which is big and round and sick! Then we went to a lovely mellow bank, but first Hopper showed me his favourite outdoor seat in the whole of Bristol. I wasn't allowed a go.

Then after alot of complaining about my sore legs we were on a bus. Usually I can't think of anything worse than a bus ride, but as I had my 'First day ticket' it was all cushdy. As an added bonus we were traveling through the roughest part of Bristol where some building were so urban that even Hoppers XXL tee-shirt were upstaged.

We had a right session at Filton skatepark with Hoppers good friend and even better skateboarder Jason Lewer who put down some ha-ha-ha-hammers for Matty's Monthly Montage. He said he wants to come and do King of the Howman this year, and if he does we're all in trouble! After seeing a Banksy piece it was time to go. An all-round lovely trip...

...especially when you've gotta come back to Mr Krishna Muthurangu's unorthodox rock'n'roll filming stylings!

PEACE!

My Monthly Montage

Rightee ho, the time has come. A month late and not the most I've been out I'll be the first to admit, but anyway, here is March and Aprils efforts. I promise I'll do better next month.

MATTY's MONTHLY MONTAGE 6 from mattysmith on Vimeo.

Fester-Le-Shite

Aside from it being the place I lived until the age of four (and a glorious first four years they were) I have recently come to the conclusion that I hate Chester-le-street. While the town square looks like a spot that only Barcelona's finest could dream of finding, it turns out it's festering with slack jawed yokels doing wheelies on moutain bikes and their younger siblings asking me if I'm sponsored because they saw me do a tre flip. which, don't get me wrong, is flattering, but my joy and modest sense of pride was torn down after I attempted the wall ride I'd done 9 times already, and instead of riding up the wall like the agile salamander that I am, I managed this...

You may be thinking, that's not so bad, but after seeing the gap it left in my nose, your mind should be changed. Three plies down, three or four to go. (can't be arsed to count)
After a day of ollying gaps I didn't think this would be how I'd destroy my day old board.

P.S. Palace boards are actually very nice. Don't be put of by my sheer stupidity and/or their sheer hippidy hoppidy hipsternesss.

FIRST OF THE DAY

This morning, I decided to watch 'PACIFIC' to try and find Australia's own Rad Ned Valent. He told me that he was the only extra to get a full close up and this definitely wasn't an over statement! Around 30 minutes into the first episode Joanne screamed 'NED' (this of course being the only time I'll ever be comfortable hearing my girlfriend scream his name) and lo and behold there he was, packing stuff into some other stuff like a pro! -right hand side ladies and gents.

As if this wasn't enough, moments later as the boats descend upon the island and what do we have?! Our own nose-sliding Ozzy in full close-up mode. CHECK IT...

Holy Moly, if that isn't the best half an hour of a mini series ever then i don't know what is.

So to celebrate here's Team Babysnakes in King of the How Man! 2008... come back Ned.

Howman from bish muthu on Vimeo.

FLIPPY WHIP!

Well im not usually one for tricks on racing bicycles but this is ridiculous. At first i thought it was reversed but the car in the background goes the right way. Does look a bit off when he pulls up but judge it for yourselves.

First Real Post

Ok, so i'm going to try and get into the swing of posting regularly and eventually it'll feel like some sort of good outlet that also entertains people rather than feeling like i've signed up and now have to post.

Last week I found myself in Sheffield and Bath all week, not both places simultaneously as that's impossible, but more precisely: Sheffield at the start and end of the week with a tasty little Bath based filling.

After the berlingo landed in good old Sheffield I'd already found myself right at home as the first ever Fresh Prince was on, a phenomenon I had never witnessed and will probably never again unless I was to purchase the DVD series from this sandwich shop that i saw later in the day as my girlfriend dragged me down Eklesall road to find a pub she thought had perhaps been there (or maybe Leeds) 5 or 6 years prior.

After this we gave up on a pub lunch and opted for the time old traditional Sheffield dish of Cornish Pasties. We aren't lucky enough to have a true Cornish Pasty shop in Newcastle and believe me, if we did i'd be dead by now because the pasties from the Proper Pasty Company are spot on!

I'll leave you with a small nugget of cultural general knowledge before I start telling you my top scores in scrabble and other unimportant rabble from last week.

If you are visiting Sheffield in the near future and are above 5'7" you may want to be careful when leaving and entering rooms as it seems that the population of Yorkshire do not exceed this hight as demonstrated by their door frames.

P.S. BRAWNY=54 and QUAKERS=60