Category: Music

I’ve been M.I.Laysia….

By Jarod DeAnda, December 22, 2009

So I’ve been MIA or should I say M-I-laysia, I was in Malaysia for the 1st ever FORMULA DRIFT Malaysia…
Great event, great driving, great crowd and overall GREAT experience…

Some music I listened to while on my Malaysian trip…
Julian Casablancas, love this dude!

Sunset in AZ…

Flying to LAX to rendezvous with travel partners Ryan Sage and Jim Liaw Founders of Formula Drift…

Jim and his gorgeous daughter…
Rawwrrrr!

Never NOT working are we fellas!

Peace Kobe and LA….

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Wonderful Christmas Time jams, Casa Fuma and Vivid Racing Fraglance…

By Jarod DeAnda, December 9, 2009

Here’s some festive jams! ENJOY
This is one of my favorite Christmas songs, captures my favorite sound, the synth aka THE 80’s and can you believe it’s Paul McCartney, yeah The Beatle himself!
I’ve NEVER seen the video but it’s hilarious!

Classic= Band Aid… Check the young Simon Lebon, Sting, Bono and more…

I’ve never seen this either Band Aid 20 w/ Chris Martin, Dido, Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, an older Bono and even a lil session by Dizzee Rascal

Took a smoking break the other day with my homie Gordon at Casa Fuma Cigars ..
Nice place, good people and some Monday Night Football was money!

Rolled by VIVID RACING yesterday to say hi to the crew and meet my buddy from Alpinestars…
The 1,000 HP 997 Turbo (that’s a wrap)

Mermel gave me a Wedsport figure that if you look close says FLAGRANCE, nice!
Mermel’s excited about it!

Then some gloves that don’t fit, haha

Get a drink and relive my past weekend @ Formula Drift Irwindale, Chargers game, U2 and oh yeah it was my Birthday on the 19th! SEND IT!

By Jarod DeAnda, October 21, 2009

So yeah, This is a big post, whatever enjoy it, it’s all killer NO FILLER!
My family and I headed West for primarily but not limited to the Formula Drift Irwindale Finals!!!
Push Play… “California” by Phantom Planet


Heading to the track on Friday I saw this dairy truck, even cows drift!

My man spic & span, Jon Chase aka DSTROYR honcho!

DSTROYR on Karnage’s S14, what’s up with the garlic? Drift Vampires?

The Shaun Carlson graphic, RIP Shaun!

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It all comes down to this… Formula Drift Finals Irwindale Round 7 + so much more than drifting…

By Jarod DeAnda, October 15, 2009

Formula Drift finals round 7 AKA The Finals!!!!!!!
It’s all happening at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale Oct 16th & 17th, come one come all!!!
Music to get you pumped… I love the feel good vibe of this song… (lyrics below by the way)
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Or you can go with a classic that gets the party going
IN A BIG COUNTRY (not able to be embedded) Lyrics below as well…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcW87hUkuOE

Look at all the stuff happening at the event…
Tires.com Triple Crown is decided…

The overall Championship is decided…Who will rain supreme OVERALL in 2009????

Famous Stars and Straps stunt bike demo…

Far East Movement is performing…

Last but NOT LEAST…
The Need for Speed Shift Time Attack Challenge, one Formula Drift driver will take $5,000 and be awarded the check and trophy on the Formula Drift podium post event by Royal Purple Oil

Oh yeah I’ll be there MC’ING THE EVENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s SEND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!


DAYLIGHT

we cut the legs off of our pants
threw our shoes into the ocean
sit back and wave through the daylight
sit back and wave through the daylight

slip and slide on subway grates
these shoes are poor mans ice skates
fall through like change in the daylight
fall through like change in the daylight

i miss yellow lines in my roads
some color on monochrome
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself

these sidewalks liquid then stone
building walls and an old pay phone
it rings like all through the daylight
it rings like all through the daylight

chorus
and in the daylight we can hitchhike to maine
i hope that someday i’ll see without these frames
and in the daylight i don’t pick up my phone
cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home

I have five clocks in my life
and only one has the time right
i’ll just unplug it for today
ill just unplug it for today

open hydrant rolled down windows
this car might make a good old boat
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight

and with just half of a sunburn
new yellow lines that i earned
step back and here comes the night time
step back and here comes the night time

chorus
and in the daylight we can hitchhike to maine
i hope that someday i’ll see without these frames
and in the daylight i don’t pick up my phone
cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home

“In A Big Country”
Come up screaming
Come up screaming

I’ve never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody’s face
And that’s a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can’t stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
Stay alive

So take that look out of here it doesn’t fit you
Because it’s happened doesn’t mean you’ve been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor—come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can’t stay here with every single hope you had shattered

I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive (repeat 3)

Respect the classics ….

By Jarod DeAnda, September 22, 2009

and make it your own…
Here’s a few blogs that you NEED to look at and watch…
First click play, listen and enjoy!
An old friend of mine plays guitar in this band from SD…

2 of these guys I know personally and have much respect for them…
The other 2 guys, equally respect and like their stance on culture, imagery and heritage but don’t know them…
Lastly, REBEL8 always doing things their way…

Alyasha aka Stack-Aly——Click it to check his inspiration and web finds of the classic

Len Higa, old 808 friend and has a serious hands on approach to all he does, CLICK IT & check him out
02 MOTORWORKS

Stussy… enough said SHAWN STUSSY, the man, the myth, the surfer

Max Schaff, Bay Area/Oakland go-getter on 4 urethane wheels or 2 motorcycle wheels, CHECK OUT 4Q…

Lastly, REBEL8 Mike Giant and presidente Joshy D doing their thing, the way they know how…THEIR WAY…

Weekend or is it a week-beginning, depends on how you look at it….Anyways Fri, Sat and Sunday happenings

By Jarod DeAnda, September 21, 2009

My homie Will Roegge was in town working with Nation Of Go.com check it out…
PJ and I took Will to our favorite Mexican food spot in the IGA market El Rancho, bangin!

A churro light saber battle broke out post tacos…

Next stop 7-11 for Slurpee’s yum!!
But not just regular Slurpee’s/beverages guitar 50+ oz of fluids in the guitar vessels, jam and drink!!!!

Here’s the NationOfGo.com van and 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback, pretty good set up!!!

Rendezvous at the Firebird Raceway for Friday night drag races…
Parkers ready…

AZ Sunsets rule…

1320

been bombing AZ with REBEL8 hits even the dragstrip…

bike guys are NUTS!


Saturday____________

3 year old birthday party for Riley and Maddie, BOUNCE JUNGLE!


Parents took over the joust and basketball court!

Parker and I doing some team work to slam!

PJ…

Cake and Ice Cream + Hawaiian Punch, oh man!

Birthday girl #1 Riley, far left…

Her twin birthday girl #2 Maddie far right…

Queens for a day…

Monkey vs Monkey…

Let’s ride into the sunset Riley!
Parker says “I can’t drift theres no steering wheel!”

AZ Sunset again on Saturday night!

Headed down to Tempe for AZ Fall Frenzy primarily to see BLINK 182…
Here ya go,

Told ya bombing REBEL8

The crew for the night, Mermel, Crazy Matt, Wifey and Diesel…

Big crowd…
Didn’t get to catch up with Travi$, he was in & out as it was the anniversary of THE plane crash, BLINK played “Miss you” for Lil Chris and Che and of course the 2 pilots, it was very touching…RIP Lil Chris
They also announced they’re donating $100,000 to the Augusta burn center… Here’s a link TO THE ANNOUNCMENT

This isn’t my video but I have one as well, but this has the announcement they made and memorium to Chris and Che…

Dude, this not so lil guy anymore approached me, we knew each other back in the day, we played little league together, nuts!
He went to the same high school as I home of Blink 182 Mark and Tom Poway High School!
Not so little Tommy, good seeing ya bud!

DJ Diesel @ The Tavern on Mill getting crowd hyped…

Mounted police ready to trot into action!

SUNDAY AKA GAME DAY!!!!

Chargers lose!
We win with cheese fries and beer at Payton’s Place…

Wifey and I celebrate our 7 year wedding anniversary at Ruth’s Chris, happy Anniversary bubba!

Grabbed a photo to show some people I dress up once in a while.
IN4MATION denim, some throwback DC Shoe ArkLeon kicks and a GAP (RED) button up

Sunday night also headed to a solid spot called Geisha-a-go-go for a friends birthday and made new ones…

Happy Birthday to Deejay Nameless…

& New friends Cutswell follow him and his Moustache on Twitter

They shared a cake…Censored for your kids, eye muffs kids!

Here’s Sunny he DJ’s at ClubCherry in Tempe…

Leaving Geisha a go go snapped the pachinko machines, sweet!

The Gaslight Anthem in AZ + 0-60 Mag/Need For Speed Shift “Build your own racing Console”

By Jarod DeAnda, September 16, 2009

Jersey should be proud, home to “The Boss”, Bouncing Souls and Matt Petty

You can add The Gaslight Anthem to that list, being only a band for 2 1/2 years and an album under their belt they have the personality, the sound and the spirit to keep the motor going…
I was lucky enough to catch some tickets from friends so got to see them and they killed it, great small show at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ...
Hit play and check some pics….





The gang that rolled out, Josh “DJ Nameless”, his lovely chica Sam, Justin of Tavern on Mill fame and RJ doing his thang….

Lastly,
Check out the Need For Speed: Shift/0-60 Magazine sub site with interviews and videos but the awesome 60 page instructions on how to build your own Racing Console…
CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT!
You can also enter to win a NFS:SHIFT Prize package which includes TV, Logitech wheel and PS3 Slim, i’ll take it if you don’t!

Tucking some 20″ serious rim on the BMW 540iT wagon, yeah son…..
ROGUE STATUS DTA

Black not Black…….net

By Jarod DeAnda, August 5, 2009

Cryptic text messages…
Cryptic email from “General”…
and then finally leading me to a Cryptic website….

Black Not Black.net

Check it out and stay tuned….
What up Hull….
Here’s the dealio….

The Gold Standard “X-Perience”….Thanks DC Shoes and KB….

By Jarod DeAnda, August 4, 2009

This past weekend at X Games has been cataloged as one of the best in my life for many reasons, my personal experience, the kindness of friends and just all around a good time with my wife and friends…

I most importantly must thank Ken Block and DC Shoes for their hospitality….

Here’s the teaser pic of the VIP pass….

+ Me and my homie Dave Mirra aka THE MOST X GAMES MEDALS IN HISTORY LEADER!!!

Peace out AZ…

Hello Los Angeles with a sweet El Camino towing a same era speedboat in tow…

Hello LA…

The Gold Standard is ON!!!!!!!! Here’s a view from our room overlooking the displayed DC Subaru’s…
Click here for info on what The Gold Standard is by DC Shoes…

Our room was stocked with an assortment of Monster drinks, New Era hat, and HUGE 33 oz Asahi beers EVERY DAY!!!!

The DC Shoes New Era Gold Standard snap back…

The Hospitality suite had a bunch of stuff on display including this Travis Pastrana #199 motor-shoe-cycle…

Kicks and hats…

These are the passes for the banging Friday night party, mind you we arrived on Thursday so plenty of things to do…

The details at The Gold Standard were solid, floormat I mean if theres custom THINGS TO WALK ON then you get the idea…

My brother from another mother Jacob rolled through and he was already laced up, seriously soo many passes…

kicking it out front until we hit The Staples center for Megaramp Skate action…
Wifey and I…

The ladies…
Wifey, Abby and Jamie…

Jake and HIS city LA…

Brian gets all his personal photos from my blog so here ya go Scotto…
He makes me feel short and if you know me, I’m a big dude…
Brian’s Editor and creator of 0-60 Magazine one of the best around…

This is the roll in at the Megaramp… NUTS!

Here’s the gap and the vert…

Here’s the results redemption for Jake Brown after exploding last year…

Dinner with my main man, Victor and Recaro seats, John…
At a solid spot downtown called… Bottega Louie

Spotted my new homie Anthony Napoliton and spoiler alert if you watchd or didn’t want BMX Big Air then you might have seen his or heard about his insane trick….

Guess where Im at??? Downtown LA near Skid Row…
…. SA Studios home of Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol etc….

Estevan Oriol and I…

EO’s bike in the foreground and Victor’s sled in the back…

More whips…

Headed back to The Gold Standard, I liked how the cars look at night that first car was 1 of the 3 DC Shoes Subaru’s that did Gumball 3000 back in the day…

Headed up stairs at The Gold Standard to see consoles of Dirt 2 the video game, pretty cool looking game…

Met this dude,he’s Tal I’ve seen him on his own blog DCMA Collective and we have mutual friends so I thought I’d say “hola”, good dude and can drink 2 beers at once…

Here’s Tal’s and mines mutual friend The Dingo, good, crazy and passionate solid dude, THE DINGO!

The Standard rooftop bar for more partying… Hosted by New Era cap, drinks are on the house…


Wifey and I in the LA skyline…

FRIDAY-
Head to the Home Depot Center for some trial run announcing on the loud speakers…
This is what the course looks likes Wednesday-Saturday night and I’ll show you how they change it for Rally Car Racing on Sunday, it’s nuts what they do!

Seeing my homies run the course…

Block and Mirra finished with Tarmac seeding on Friday…

Running through the X Fest paddock area ran into an old friend Logan Hicks… Such a good dude… Even better artist…

Scotty Cranmer a new homie from Jersey and he’s a CAR DUDE for real!!!
This photo was taken before he receives GOLD in BMX Freestyle Park, atta boy Scotty!

Back to the hotel….
The Standard and their funny stick people images…

We head out to The Staples center for BMX Big Air and MOTO X Best Trick…
Here’s some of the posse for Friday night… It grows as the night goes on just follow us…

We kicked it in the DC Shoes suite with a good view and good drinks enjoying the action of what ensued…
Double front flip on BMX Big Air by Anthony Napoliton but fails to medal=Bummer
Travis Pastrana attempts 720 but slams=bummer
Just kind of a bummer all around even Chad Kagy should’ve got gold but comes up just a bit short and gets silver and Dave Mirra gets bronze which is cool staying true to getting a medal every X Games except one!

In the DC Suite was this dude, Nick Swardson (Grandma’s Boy, Blades of Glory, Reno 911) …

We all did the “Block pose”…
Vaughn, myself and KB himself…

So we head to the BIG BASH @ The one, the only Fantasy Factory for a Monster Energy drink, DC Shoes, New Era bash…
Now the posse has grown…

Saw some homies…
DJ Muggs...

My long time homie Ed but you might know him as The Rock Da Mullet guy…

Here’s A good pic…
Ken Block, Vaughn Gittin Jr., Brian Scotto, Rob Dyrdek and myself… All good friends of mine…

Here’s my wife Steph and Dyrdek…

Wifey and Abby @ The Factory…

Here I am posing with the Gymkhana 2.1 vehicle which you’ll be seeing sooner than later on Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory August 27th to be exact…

Now, get ready for this one… This is Mary Murphy from So you Think you can Dance on Fox…
My wife and I watch this show religiously (I don’t care what you say, haha) so I had to take a pic… she was super nice and was excitable in person as she is on the show…I didn’t get on the “hot tamale” train as she calls it…
Nice meeting you Mary

Here’s Scotto, Renee Renee and I… short re re….

Tall re re…

Clipse on the stage…

So left the Fantasy Factory to just party more at The Gold Standard…
Saw Nick Dompierre and Adam Dyet Adam ended up with Bronze in skate street…

Mirra and I…

Wifey and Mr. Double front flip on BMX Anthony Napolitan

Right after this pic Allan Cooke throws Napolitan in the pool…

Looks more like Gotham than the city of Angels….

To close out Friday some Late night grub with my new friends…

SATURDAY—-
I catch up with JR, Abby, Jacob and my homie Sal Barbier rolls with us to XGames…

I see Chaz Ortiz new to DC Shoes…

+ My homie Chad Kagy, he’s a car nut and Moto GP Superbike rider now!

This is inside Tanner Foust’s Ford Fiesta….NUTS-O…

This car looks nuts…

Deegan and I…

Sal Masekela and I, we go way back!

Watched Skate Street, here’s “Today was a good day” Paul “P-rod” Rodriguez... He killed it and ended up getting gold

Medal ceremony…

Here’s Koston and myself…

I have found him, this is THE Animal Chin...

Did you see the Skate park, cement was sick…

Old homie CHUX!!!!!1
Toy Machine Racing M’zine days…

Jacob stunting…

The Gold Standard sick bag of goodies…

Dinner time on Saturday night…

PARTY Saturday night….

N*E*R*D killed it and so did TROUBLE ANDREW….
Have you seen the Brooklyn Machine Works X Element Project that Pharrell is involved with??? SICK!


Jacob, Sal and I partied….

JR was bummer downer tired guy haha

EARLY SUNDAY————–
Breakfast with Dave Mirra, Ken Block and Vaughn Gittin Jr…
Headed to the track Dave pushed the rental car, he didn’t need any practice in his rally car he was good in the Jeep Patriot…

Here she is…
THE JUMP…

KB and JR walk the course…

That’s me in the gap…

Ken Block visualizing in the bottom left hand corner…

That slope coming into the stadium is steeper than you think…

Says it all…

JR, Pastrana, KB and Alex (Ken’s navigator) …

Kenny Brack who eventually received GOLD in rally car…

Team Ford…

Chad IS rad, he’s Jimmy Johnson (NASCAR Driver) crew chief, they sponsored the car and put pictures of other people on it, hilarious!

So from this on Saturday night to……

This on Sunday AM for rally car racing….

Caught up with Yo of Rogue Status, JR and Chris Forsberg at the NOS Energy Drink hospitality before I had to work…

The pits…

Me doing my thing in the announcing booth…
So surreal as I was part of the X Games history, so stoked thank you everybody!

Can you spot Jasper (Rogue Status), Fred (Scion), Stephan Papadakis and gang?

Here’s some of the jumps I captured, mind you while I was announcing I snapped these hahaha…




Here’s the final race Kenny Brack winning over Pastrana…

Ken Block is solid as a BLOCK!
Thanks KB for everything…

Tanner and his gang sign medal… Bronzed out….See you in Seattle…

THAT’S A WRAP for X Games 15, see ya next year I hope they’ll have me back!

Parker was given a couple rad shirts from Lucy Block, Ken’s wife.
How radical are these kids Subaru Rally shirts???



I caught some tee’s too…
The Gold Standard 2009 tee…

Ken Block’s new team tee…

Peace out California hello Arizona…
This are the infamous 29 palms windmills…

Gumball 3000 City Series #1 & TRV$ gets down while going every which way…

By Jarod DeAnda, July 23, 2009

GUMBALL 3000 already teasing the 2010 rally and hits us with a preview tee of STOP #1 London!!!
Get some!

Here’s Travis Barker of Blink 182 at the Friends & Family show (here’s TRV$BRKR Twitter) doing his thing while spinning around side to side up and down!
Master Blaster!
The tour kicks off Thursday July 23rd in Vegas see if it hits your town…

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