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Surfing & Pop Culture: What are your favourites?

Goodfish

Goodfish

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Article: Why can't pop culture get surfing right?

Worth a read, and an interesting comment from a former Surfer Mag editor under the article too...

Anyway, what's your favourite surf-related book, song, and film? Bonus question - favourite surf doc/movie.

I'm not going definitive, but off the top of my head:

Book: Caught Inside by Daniel Duane. He got it.
Song: Badfish by Sublime (Duh...)
Film: Point Break - The original movie is just a classic!
Surf doc: This Time Tomorrow (Step Into Liquid runs it close though!)

Your turn...

 
Ifallalot

Ifallalot

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Book: Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
Song: Surf Rider by the Lively Ones
Flim: North Shore (duh)
 
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rts265

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Book: Barbarian Days (only one I can remember right now)
Movie: Big Wednesday
Song: Paddle out and badfish are good, but some songs on pearl jam 10 make me think of surfing.
Surf Doc: Fish
 
afoaf

afoaf

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I remember reading Caught Inside a long time ago.

the guy struck me as being pretty humble and not so cliche.

still should have never started surfing though. kook.
 
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book: MP
songs: some instrumentals, none of the songs with lyrics, except maybe surfin bird
film/flicks : Big Wednesday and Runman series
 
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Witchipoo

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afoaf said:
I remember reading Caught Inside a long time ago.

the guy struck me as being pretty humble and not so cliche.

still should have never started surfing though. kook.
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I had profoundly mixed feelings about that book. Certain passages reeked of yuppie smugness and classism. Also: KOOOOOOOOOOOK!

The guy is a pretty good writer, though.
 
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Beerbelly

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Book: All for a few perfect waves by David Rensin
song : surf and destroy by B'last.
Film : Runman 69
 
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When North Shore and Point Break came out, most surfers hated those films; they were sorta embarrassing and a misrepresentation.
 
Goodfish

Goodfish

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When North Shore and Point Break came out, most surfers hated those films; they were sorta embarrassing and a misrepresentation.
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I embraced the cheese of Point Break!

Barbarian Days is great, so are Breath, the Dora book, Occy's, etc. I just really liked Daniel Duane's style of writing.
 
SurfFuerteventura

SurfFuerteventura

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when i think perfect fusion of surfing with pop culture, rick griffins flying eyeball getting barrelled inevitably is the first thing that will pop into my head. also, the last.
 
chrisolden

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Book: West of Jesus(Caught Inside is a close second)
Movie: Riding Giants(the first part, skip the Laird section)
Song: Holiday in Cambodia(DKs were a surf band disguised as a punk band)
 
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SteveT

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Book: Barbarian Days
Song: Cool Cool Water (just saw Brian Wilson at the bowl) Just reminds me of trips up north and Big Sur.
Movie:point Break (for the cheese factor) Original 5 Summer Stories (for the stoke factor)

BTW - Great thread (nice to see something surf related) :bowdown:
 
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cdes

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Book: In Search of Captain Zero - can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet.
Movie: Point Break, cheesy but the original made me want to surf as a landlocked 14 yr old - came to fruition 11 years later.
Song: Surf Wax USA.
 
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cdes

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Tijuana Straits is also a good book, but only tangentially about surfing.
 
grapedrink

grapedrink

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When North Shore and Point Break came out, most surfers hated those films
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Yet they can still quote half of the lines :roflmao: Too cool to admit they like it, Point Break especially might just be the biggest guilty pleasure in surf culture.

Plus who can forget the pitbull punt gem :confused2: :roflmao:

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFE4ymvn1o[/video]
 
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