I overheard two guys talking in the water the other day. And it wasn’t like I could ignore them. One guy was riding a yellow and black spray painted Wave Storm and he was practically yelling. “It’s fuckin’ weird, man. You couldn’t pay me to sit through that shit,” one belted to the other. At first I thought he was talking about the brief moment of psychosis he experienced right before he decided to deface his board, but I soon discovered (against my will) that he was talking about the trailer of Toby Cregan’s newest flick, Nix Nic Nooley.
I clearly remembered the title because bumblebee tuna’s mate had struggled to comprehend what exactly his friend was saying. “Nix-Nic-Nooley… Nix-Nic-Nooley,” he repeated several times, dissecting each syllable and spelling it out. I almost interjected to help clarify. Instead, I sat quietly, thinking about what I was going to have for lunch. Anyway, I saw the trailer, and if you ask me, it is weird. But not as much weird as it is different. But should that matter? Should that deter someone from opting out of the insane surfing that endows Nate Tyler, Creed McTaggart, Dion Agius, Jay Davies, and Noa Deane? I don’t think it should. Not at all.
My point is that I’m sure the there were hundreds of people who said the same thing when they saw guys like Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Benji Weatherly, Ross Williams, and literally everyone who has ever starred in a Taylor Steele movie, act out a cheesy sketch that was conceived over several beverages the night before. A lot of people are caught up in the “weird shit” in between that they aren’t seeing the common denominator: surfing. I, for one, cannot wait to see it. Will you watch it?
