to find, which in no way is a bad thing. This surfing movie follows a tribe of surfers and theyre journey and experiences while they surf insanely good waves on all sorts of boards, and the stoke they get when they pass it down on to the next generation. Surfers featured on this film are Kelly Slater, Tom Curren, Gerry Lopez, Rob Machado, The Malloys, CJ Hobgood, Jack Johnson and others.  (less)

set behind a rugged mountain range, spreading its hazy rose across the horizon, Jack's music makes perfect sense. The Bluegrass Tribute to Jack Johnson is a trip from the backyards of Hawaii to the front porches of Appalachia. Heaven-sent harmonies take songs like "Breakdown" and "Cocoon" to new realms of delight. Rambling banjo, tender mandolin, and feathery fiddle find charming warmth in this homage to Jack's best songs. Drink this bluegrass water and find your life changed.  (less)

in L.A. and Atlanta, produced once again by Brendan O'Brien (who was behind the boards for 2001's Conspiracy Of One), with The Vandals' Josh Freese sitting in after the departure of drummer Ron Welty, who'd been with the band since 1986. Completing the old-school punk reunion are Pennywise's Jim Lindberg and former California gubernatorial candidate Jack Grisham of TSOL (who are signed to Dexter's Nitro Records) doing backing vocals on The Noose and Da Hui. Splinter, a name the band chose only after rejecting first choice Chinese Democracy, the ill-fated title Guns N Roses' Axl Rose wanted for his yet-to-be-completed new album, stresses the different directions individual members of the band has set out to achieve. Still, the disc boasts some of the group's signature high energy rock on the apocalyptic, doomsday-laden The Noose, the rush of Long Way Home, the introspective dirge of Race Against Myself and the pure punk thrash of Da Hui, the group's tribute to the original native Hawaiian surf brotherhood on the North Shore of Oahu. Dexter and Noodles, surfers themselves, went to the Island to shoot a video riding the waves with Da Hui, which will be included on Splinter's enhanced-CD.  (less)

writes: "Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it.". from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. .  (less)