My son’s been playing a lot of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 on my GameCube lately. I don’t remember why I brought it up out of the basement but it doesn’t really matter because he’s obsessed with the game and there’s no chance of putting it away any time soon.
The funny thing is that he doesn’t actually play the game. He just builds skateparks in the level builder then asks me to do the test rides. He’s come up with some fairly complex designs. When he asked me what real skateparks look like, I brought up a few videos. The first one was the old S&M Video #4:
The second one was the infamous Little Devil Criminal Mischief video. I made him watch the opening twice. He couldn’t understand why I was laughing. “Daddy, they’re driving cars into stuff. There’s nothing funny about that.” Then he asked to return to the level builder in his game. “There are no dumb cars in that game.”
Well, he has a point. In the meantime, return in time with me and enjoy the opening of Criminal Mischief. Simpler, better times. Ah, who am I kidding? Those times sucked. We didn’t have XHamster or the Lamborghini Huracan or Betabrand cobra socks.
Marvin throws a lot of bikes. And tantrums.
That was his “thing”. I didn’t respect him for it then, now with two decades’ worth of perspective it’s just funny and childish. Looks like he might have settled down now:
http://registry.thebump.com/erin-cherozzi-marvin-loetterle-august-2014/8092954
And we used to STOP riding when security comes by .. I like these guys
“There are no dumb cars in that game.”
uh oh. next thing you know, he’ll be wearing horn-rimmed glasses and riding a fixie in the street while ignoring stop signs and red lights. 😉
What ever happened to the book plans?
“Last but not least, I’ll be releasing a book, tentatively titled Avoidable Contact: A Jack Baruth Reader, in October. Like The Itchy And Scratchy Movie, it will have at least 30% new content.”
October was optimistic, but I have a significant amount of the work done and I’m thinking first quarter 2015.
No where else to post this but here… I just read your Alman post, after seeing the link on your TTAC hits and misses.
Great f*ing post. After reading it (especially the last few paragraphs) I would SERIOUSLY recommend you check out David Bazan. Start with Live at Electric Audio, then go from there. . You’re gonna dig it.
I will second this. Jackie B, stop what ever you are doing right now and put on some Bazan.
I’m on it, gentlemen.
Check out Lord Vadar’s car at 3:30.
So ? .
Kids acting foolishly , the only thing different is now we have video cameras to record things .
-Nate
what would be cool is video of someone railriding a Frank Lloyd Wright structure
think you could sneak a bmx bike into falling water?
In, yes.
Out, probably not.
But we *did* have epic wipeouts on video! Dude’s balls must be made of steel in more ways than one. RAILS OF OUCH.
Reminds me of the CKY/Jackass videos that were the thing in my era. Great stuff.
Balls, I think I saw a CKY shirt in that video…must’ve come out at the same time. How did Criminal Mischief not get passed around to every giggling butthead in my junior high?!
Some of the CKY guys had direct roots in BMX and the idea of the “idiots doing stupid stuff on VHS pass-arounds” at least partially got its start in BMX and skating.