Lost Stangelez Recap!

The trip out to LA for the Vans Downtown Showdown was sick! The trip started off with some dude that got so frustrated with trying to pick someone up from the airport that he just decided to park perpendicular the the flow of traffic. He proceeded to assault the traffic cop which quickly followed by a cuff and stuff! Then it took way too long to get the the Hotel Grafton on sunset.. which is pretty sick. Right next to Skybar. After checking in i walked accross the street and met up with the Tick and Stangladesh and an ultra chic sushi joint called Katana! Where we drank a bunch of this super good japanese White Ale. At $11 a pop they had better been good. Then we headed over to Hollywood and Vine and dropped into the Nike SB CR Stecyk Blazer release party. Met up with an old homie that works for SB DObbs.. Also it was like the who's who of skateboarding in the LA area. Stilz got to talk to Atiba about photog shit. Free Belvedere cocktails and Newcastles son. From there we hit up Mels diner for late night grease bomb shit. Had a couple more drinks and hit the sack, which had Canvases of titties above them. Tight! The next de we had the morning off and cruised Melrose and LeBrrea making fun of people and then hit up Cafe Med for lunch. Some high end Italian joint where a mixed green salad is $13. Saw James Woods there with some scumbag ho. Then off to the Showdown. The obstacles this year were pretty crazy. Girl had a series of hips called the Three Pump Dump, Black Label had the Flat Bar (which had bar stools n shit, Foundation had the Lunar Eclipse stair set and kedge, and the craziest was Creatures 5 Points of Pure Evil.. Mad dudes were chillin it was really hard not to fan out with the likes of Mariano, Cardiel, Carrol, BA, Howard, Mo, Mountain, Braydon, Darrel, Rowlet and pretty much everyone sick in skating was there. Billy Marks is a machine, he ripped everything all day. When everything was over we got a Escalade shuttle to bring us back to the hotel and about a block away from Paramount where the comp was we saw Kenny Hughes blowing chunks on the street, this dude Will that works for Vans yelled " ayo Kenny, stay up son" and he was like iight yo Shit was mad funny. Between all that shit checked out Stanglez crib, heres a pic of his wardrobe/dresser!