The winter has finally arrived in Vermont. Better late than never, I guess. The coming of winter stimulates a myriad of emotions for a young, single snowboarder living in B-Town. On the one hand the falling snow means that we can stop watching snowboarding videos and playing Amped 2. The ability to satisfy our second strongest need, the desire to shred, is paralleled by the increased difficulty in satisfying primal urge number one, droppin’ in on a nicely shaped, freshly groomed college girl.
For those of you who are not aware, Burlington (A.K.A. Girlington) is a secret oasis of young, nubile college girls in the desert that is Northern New England. With three colleges, about eighty bars, a thriving music and dining scene, and the best snowboarding on the East coast all within 45 minutes of downtown Burlington, there is no shortage of females of every sort. College girls, waitresses, Spanish chicks, hippie chicks, snowboarder chicks (and plenty of pro-ho’s), nurses, punk-rock girls, salty sorority sluts, farmer’s daughters. Girlington has them all. The problem comes when the mercury dips. All of a sudden things come to a screeching halt. No more skirts and tank tops, no more booty-shorts going jogging, no more bikinis playing volleyball by the lake. Overcoats. More fucking overcoats and ug-boots than you ever thought possible. This creates a difficult situation for hollering at broads. It’s hard to roll up to some sweet little nugget on the sidewalk and start rappin to her, when your best 45 second game ends in frostbite, literally.
It’s a cold world out there in the Burlington winter. Some young gentlemen chose to hibernate. They simply purchase a sizeable amount of VT’s finest cash crop, buy the first season of Boondocks on DVD, and spend their days on the mountain and their nights on the couch. Granted, the occasional pre-existing jump-off may stop by, but this strategy usually leads to minimal encounters with the finer sex. Fuck that. We aint havin’ it. It’s time to warm up these frigid females with some smoov talkin’. Enough cloggin the blog. You can catch us at the bar, warmin’ up the ladies with a coffee and Bailey’s.
Catch Smoov B and Idioma on “The Movement”, Burlington’s illest hip hop radio show: www.wruv.org
By: Smoov B and Idioma

Hells Yeah! Leave it to my homies at snowboard-mag to get they party on.
Check these shots from S I A this past week.
Man where can i get one of those gold 2 one 5 tees?

from the mouth of a tru vet.
todd is an absolute legend within the game of shreddin, and now you can check out things from his perspective at EXPN.com
young bulls make sure you take a second and recognize a true champs perspective before just shouting for the redhead broski.



Someone had alittle too much downtime in the office and decided to make
a wall mural of Elivs out of multi-colored post-its.

After rampant rumors about who would be headlining, Coachella finally released their schedule for what usually turns out to be one of the better US music festivals. Coachella is usually a reunion fest, and this year they make no exception. Mid-nineties “rap rockers” Rage Against the Machine made the right move, ditched the guy from Soundgarden, and figured they’re a better band with Zach De La Rocha. I may be more pumped for this reunion if i were still in middle school, but i’m not. On the other hand, i popped a boner when i heard that the Jesus and Mary Chain were reuniting to play this gig. Granted they only “broke up” in 98, it’s still exciting to know that one of the most influential (and one of my all time favs) are putting their sibling rivalry aside to hurt people’s ears with buzzsaw guitars, screeching feedback, and enough attitude to make you shit your pants. Instead of shitting my pants over this, I’ll just break out my black jeans and black t-shirts, poof up and tease my hair, and head out to the desert of California.
But these two newsworthy items aren’t the only reasons to go to Coachella. It’ll be interesting to see Jarvis Cocker solo without his Pulp buddies behind him. Bjork should be at her weirdest. Damon Alburn takes the stage with his new band, The Good, the Bad, and the Queen. Ghostface, the Roots, Pharoah Monch, and Spank Rock will be holding it down on the hip hop front. Lily Allen will bring her cheeky british self. The hypemachine will keep churning for Girl Talk. The Happy Mondays will bring over a piece of Madchester. And Air will tickle your fancy with their electro-pop goodness.
If you’ve got the money to spend, I suggest you get your tickets when they go on sale this Saturday.

so I awoke this morning ( .01.17.07 ) to a blustery 19 degrees as I boarded my septa train to 30th st station. As I arrived in the station I noticed my train was 30 min late. Oh shit I said. Of course it was more like 45 min late and loss more time on the way to to ewr. As I got to ewr I raced to get on the tram to the terminal when the door suddenly closed on my foot which of course scuffed my brand new foot patrol air stab’s. Shit shit shit. Well at least there was no line @ security as I approached that. Running to the gate I remembered I had forgotten my hand sanitizer so I stopped to pick some up and went down to my gate. The gate looked quite empty so I was stoked ! Except that they were calling final boarding so I dipped in to this tiny little mini plane and saw not only was the plane totally packed, but my dear curly had got me the last seat in the very last row. Plane ride was pretty chill, besides being squished nxt to some redneck farmboy that looked like an echo unlimited posterboy. After landing in btv i rocked a ride with the shuttle over to the hotel where i had a sweet lake view. ( see image above ) Got some tummy time at the cafe and made my way over to the B and listened to plans for a great 08 season . All was good on the businees tip , but of course as i raced to the airport i rushed to the counter to get my ticket and found out my flight was concelled cause they had one runway open in EWR. oh it gets worse dude, i had to eat the expense of my car service in ewr and spend the night at smoovs place on the couch with no phone charger cause i left that jawn at the B. I awoke the morning at 5am sharp and made my way to the airport and waited in security for about an hr. After getting through the 1 st stage of security the y decided to pull me aside and search my bags, and what did they find? UH OH i had brought my lotion and cologne onto the plane so they decided to confiscate that and make me even later to catch my plane. Long story short i missed the train from ewr to phl and had to incur even more costs to get on the next one and somehow lost my engagment ring too.
Traveling is really great in this day and age.

I know I know you all have seen so many dang hoodies you have started to go crazy. Well you can count on the [ 2 one 5 ] brand massive to hold it down and not deliver some ol UGLY ass crazy patterened hoodie that may go great with your new day glo dunks. Oh BTW we here at twonfizzy don’t mess wit dunks straight up air max dudes ya dun know seeeen.
Anyways This jawn is so damn exclusive that most of the massive aint even get in one. But if your lamping out down near south st the wrd is that agent aloha has the last 10 in stock. Oh yeah check out the quick feature on the hood jawn at aroundphilly.com

Man i love originality and i guess so do the dudes over at rome snowboards.
This graphic released just to pop off there NEU fre$h boot line for next year.
more to come

NOT REALLY!
As some of you may know this week is the almighty SIA tradeshow in las vegas and it’s the first time in 8 yrs that twonefive has not been there repping to the fullest. Oh how i’m gonna miss chatting with old friends who really have nothing to say about anything. Well don’t let me get off babbling, just check out how the boys at snow board mag are repping to the fullest out theeeerrrrree.
Dear Philly,
Now that the AI era is done, some time has passed, and the Sixers are at the bottom of hte league, we can look back at all the good times (2001 Finals, when he crossed-over Jordan in his rookie season), and the great times (this Press Conference)

The boys over at Size? posted up these pics of some upcoming Air Max’s. Each one features unique colors, textures, and patterns that prove once again that Nike’s no slouch when it comes to stepping the game up. These designs also have an element of simplicity that meshes well with the uniqueness of the patterns and colors that makes it easy for just about anyone to rock these.

Check out this super dope park that northstar in tahoe built paying homage to CRAIG KELLY one of the originators and most stylish snowboarders that ever lived. The park was sponsored by your pals at the big B and mr jake was there himself representing.

Little usually means little sound, but not with these doodly dudes.
Still the price remains little though at $79.00
As always Lacie = Good Shit

Coalesce have recorded two brand new tracks that were archived from last summer.
The tracks will appear on a final book/7″/DVD release from the group, likely to be available through Second Nature Recordings later this year. A brief clip can be heard here.

This shot was taking last friday as things were getting a little hectic in the twonefive HQ.
It seems as though Cheddar has lost his mind and started getting wicked with whats left of petty ca$h.
Luckily we talked him out of any crazed thoughts he was having, and well he’s quite a bit better today.
Oh BTW this is also a color study from the twonefive brand massive. Be on the lookout this spring for these colors coming correct.

You can bet the heads from BC are thanking the snowgods for their record year this year.
complete story here

North America and Europe, it’s time to get jealous. Later this year, Japan’s got the exclusive Gold PSP. Forget Willy Wonka, this jawn is the real goldent ticket. Also, the price tag on the PSP looks to be dropping slightly again. During the holidays, they were down to about 200 US$ (not sure on the Japan price), but from what I’ve read, this handheld will cost you around 175 US$ based on the yen conversion I did with some computer software. Man, computers can do everything. I’m glad I stopped thinking they were only for porn and gambling.

The Eagles pulled out a dramatic victory last night, defeating the New York Giants 23-20. It was a made-for-tv movie saga with the return of Koy Detmer as he and kicker David Akers rocked a 38 yard game-winning fieldgoal that sent Eli Manning and the boys packing. Now its time to get down to business and focus on crushing New Orleans. Go get’em boys.

Oh shit. Well, it looks like we just got cursed. Cross your fingers Philly. On top of Billy Penn we’ve got an SI cover before we head into the playoffs. If that ain’t a mu-fucka, then i don’t know what is. The Eagles have been the talk of the town lately and it’s refreshing to see a group of players put it together when their chunky soup superstar went down again. I’ll be honest, I lost hope when he went down and was hoping for a high draft pick, but it looks like I’ll have to settle for a playoff appearance. Superbowl? Time will tell.

Congratulations to JoePa and the Nittany Lions on their big win at the Outback Bowl against Tennessee. Playing their last game as Nittany Lions, seniors Paul Posluszny and Tony Hunt led the team to victory, and of course Tony Davis with the play of the game returning a fumble recovery 88 yards for the game-winning touchdown. This win makes 80-year-old JoePa the all time leader in bowl wins. Penn State currently leads the Big Ten Conference in bowl victories, appearances and winning percentage.