CSFU Review

I got over being bummed on Thrasher Magazine. I was a little upset with The Bible a few days ago or so. I had renewed my subscription with the free t-shirt option. I believe this is eleventh time I have done so, so I have alot of Thrasher t-shirts. I wrote them a little note with my renewal asking if it were possible to get a different t-shirt (specifically the "use a skate go to prison" shirt. I let them know that I was going to trial the following Tues.) All the shirts are priced the same and I thought it wouldn't be a big deal for them to hook up a long time subscriber like myself, particularly when I had alluded to my legal predicament. So I was a little crestfallen when in spite of my note I received a standard white "Thrasher Skateboard Magazine" t-shirt in the mail the other day, of which I already have several. Did my letter mean nothing, is Thrasher really that corporate? I wondered. I was also kind of pissed because I didn't expect to get a magazine for 6-12 weeks which meant that I was going to miss out on the May issue which includes the new Creature video,CSFU, unless I bought it on the newsstand.
Well I'm glad that for whatever reason the May issue showed up in my mailbox a few days after that (with the video) and now I'm hyped again. (I'll just cut the sleeves off an older shirt and rock my new crispy one) Anyway here's a review of the video...
The first thing I noticed was the music. The first song is a rap song. What? Is this a Creature video? Don't get me wrong, I love the rap but I thought it was sort of a shocker for the most metal brand in skateboarding to set off their new flick with rap music. But what really matters is the skating and obviously these dudes are all destroying everything in their path.

Willis Kimbel at Burnside

Jon Hanks at Burnside

Obviously this squad is inspired by horror movies and the filming and editing, much of it captured in grainy "Creature Lo-Def" really achieves the feel of say Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But what's even cooler than the editing gimmicks is the spots chosen: bloody pools, rusty coping, Kona crust, ditches, freeways and waterslides. Navarrette somehow even manages to bring the spook to crispy spots like the Vans Park and Bucky's Rockstar Bowl. I also noticed that the spooky aesthetic is maintained through using clips with mostly dark, gloomy and overcast weather. Maybe they just filmed in the Northwest a bunch, but still the final product is crusty gloom, far from the sunny skies of say the new Bones video.
Speaking of the Northwest, it's always cool/depressing to see the pros shred spots I've skated...
See what I mean by depressing? Oh well. Like I said it's also cool to know that I've gotten my meager licks in at some legendary parks.
And yeah Kimbel's part is insane. He eats Portland's Pier park alive, among other spots. Feeble/Smith combos and a NBD fakie nosegrab invert in the deep deep. Gnar tech to the core!
They got a "new" old dude on the squad by the name of Scissors. His style is so smooth yet janky. I love it! And it is super cool to see the Creature dudes at Tony Hawk's Birdhouse ramp. One Love!
What else...Where's Heddings and Horn? Dunno but we did get a part from Truman Hooker, where he boardslides a chain! Stu Graham slams hard and emerges triumphant, Al Partanen front blunts on a waterslide from stories above (not to mention skates on the freeway), Ryan Reyes rallies, Gravette backflips, Hitz destroys Washington St. and Navarrette has tailblock/rollout combos for days. If anything in the previous sentence is intriguing or even makes sense, go check the fucking video. It's free in this month's Thrasher. I back them again now.