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About Me

Food, music, and board-riding are in a constant fight for my favorite. I'm cool and pretty low key. I make with the yapping quite a bit too, but I hear ya. Let's go out to eat and try a new place! Southern California is fun to me and that is true.by ron croci

My Interests

The Search, Tasting Food; Creating/Listening to/Cutting/Scratching Music; Wave Riding, Mountain Riding, Dog to the parking, book reading, video editing, film and television making. Records. Observation and opinion formulation.

I'd like to meet:

My fate. Low stress folks. This guy:I mean, who is he kidding with that thing?

Music:

See me here: www.myspace.com/djvirtue or myspace.com/culvercitycroquetclub_______I really like music. Especially the melancholy and rhytmic. Soul, Funk, Jazz, Hip Hop, Jamaican Riddims, Old Rock and Drum & Bass. A List of standouts: James Brown, Buddy Rich, Clyde Stubblefield, Bernard Purdie, Kool Herc and Flash, Cut Chemist and Shadow, Portishead, Miles and Coltrane, Willie Nelson, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Cymande, Velvet Underground, Pantera, Skatalites, Antibalas,Jacob Miller, Congo Natty and MF Doom.I like it best when it sounds like a pre-80s-studio live recording type o thing. Crunchy.

Movies:

Lebowski; Stranger Than Fiction;Huckabees;Caddyshack; Syle Wars; Wild Style; Scratch;Better off Dead;Point Break;Riding Giants;SingleFin: Yellow;Endless Summer; Batman Begins; Billy Madison; Tommy Boy; Hero; Lonesome Dove, Eternal Sunshine, other stuff

Television:

Beer & BBQ Margs & Mex Wine & Tapas Sake & Sushi Milk & Cookie

Books:

Socrates;Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, Providence, Story of B; Kerouac; Green History of the World; Lonesome Dove; James Baldwin; Malcom X; Zero Break; Thomas Guide; Surfing...anything

Heroes:

Kool Herc, Daniel Quinn, Flash, Jeff Clark, Tyler Hatzikian, Momma

My Blog

New footy @ the Jetty

51 seconds in is when the magic happens! ...
Posted by Zoo on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:43:00 PST

R.I.P. Woody Brown

Rest in peace to a cool dude and an inspirational surfer. surfed till he was 90!90!I can only hope.ZFamed big wave surfer Woody Brown dies at 96The Maui NewsKAHULUI, Maui One of the world's most re...
Posted by Zoo on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:18:00 PST

Burning City

Hey Aunt Chris,No I am not charred, but thanks for your concern:)It is a strange dichotomy in the life of Southern California surfers. This is the best time of year to be a surfer here, because the w...
Posted by Zoo on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:49:00 PST

Broken Wrist

"SURFING, TELL SKATEBOARDING I AM NOT SPEAKING TO IT." - ZHaving a cast on my wrist has really made me realize how much joy I derive from doing things with my hands. Surfing, scratching, playing drum...
Posted by Zoo on Thu, 10 May 2007 10:34:00 PST

I love Baja: Surf Trip

I just got back from Las Gaviotas in Baja, Mexico. It is a little gated community just south of Rosarito. We had a great time surfing, eating, drinking, and enjoying the view and time away...
Posted by Zoo on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:12:00 PST

Me in a Surfing Video We Made

Music and Film by my group Culver City Croquet Club...
Posted by Zoo on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:34:00 PST

Retarded Heart

You say it's unhealthy But how does it help me Bored and ignored Too restrained to tell it A flame in a hell Mass of plastic melted Underwater volcanic Straight jacket...
Posted by Zoo on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:06:00 PST

nerdy therdy

sometimes i burnsometimes i am fineice blue and greenno middleend to the arraydusty pumpernew peepersmoldy papersa novel in the worksfrom hurt to flirtlike kicking dirtlike molten chesttoday is no dif...
Posted by Zoo on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:04:00 PST

Biggest Waves Yet

Stoked barely describes how i was feeling this weekend. I surfed Palos Verdes Cove for the first time this weekend and it was sublime. 6-10 foot faces, glassy, sunny and a pal along for th...
Posted by Zoo on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:11:00 PST

Turkey Day Week

MY THANKSGIVING DINNER IN THE MOUNTAINS (mashed potato pile in back) I DIDN'T LICK THE PLATE, THERE WAS BREAD FOR SPATULA...ING HERE ARE MY NEW WHEELS HERE'S A PLACE WE STOPPED I had a goo...
Posted by Zoo on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST