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My Journal: Saturday, November 25, 2006
I have three Bataleon snowboards for sale. I am moving to bend and need money for move-in costs! I have a 145 Goliath, and 2 160 Enemies. They are all brand new, from a couple of seasons ago. Two are still in plastic.. I'm asking $250 or best offer for the Goliath and $350 or best offer for the Enemies. The Goliath retailed for $449 while the Enemy retailed for $549. Let me know if you're interested, I need to sell them fast!! Thanks!! Brandon
My Journal: Friday, November 10, 2006
I just want to let all of you Portlanders and Hood Rats know that I feel really bad for you. I'm bummed about Highway 35 getting destroyed and the beginning of your season at Meadows getting ruined. I know many of you work there, love riding there, bought passes there. etc. And I think it sucks that Mother nature decided to unleash her wrath against Dave Riley and Meadows North in such a way! I guess those Fusion Passes are looking pretty damn hot right about now!! I'm happy for T-Line and Ski Bowl, and everyone who will benefit from the increase in skier traffic to these areas, but I'm bummed for those of you who liked riding there because it's not as busy as Meadows! Let's hope it dumps and dumps and stays cold enough to rebuild the highway quickly and keep the snow falling below 5,000 feet!! I'll be in Bend, where it always stays cold, and hopefully some of that moistuire will actually make it's way over to us!! If any of you want to come visit, let us know!! We'd be happy to ride with you, show you around, and hang out!! Pray for snow and some quick road building!!
My Journal: Wednesday, November 01, 2006
I couldn't be more excited!! I'm going to drive a snowcat for Mt. Bachelor!! WORD>
My Journal: Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Hi! Brandon isn't here right now, please try back later! Or write to him at brandon@sweetprotection.com In the meantime, go visit SweetProtection.com, or visit the sb.com profile linked in Brandon's friends list. If you need a photographer for something specific, try Dave Lehl or Christy Chaloux or Nate Abbott. If you really want to get in touch with Brandon, just call him!! (He'll be replacing his lost phone after paddling this weekend...)
My Journal: Tuesday, April 05, 2005
YAY!! I was home for more than a week and I got to snowboard at home 3 times!!! That's awesome for me this winter!! We are finally getting stormed on up here in the NW and it's making us all very cold and happy!! And I'm leaving again... Back to Colorado and then Sunny Southern California, Blah! I love my job!! =o) I am going to be on the road for a month, and I am going to miss all of my friends again, very much! But I will also be seeing some of you out there in Colorado or California, and I'm wicked excited about that!! Plus, Summer is coming!! Hooray for summer camp!! I'm going to post some of the pictures I've been taking on here, as a way to share the documentation of my education in life and in the capture and collection of memory, experience, and living. I hope you all like at least one or two of them!! Please have a look at some of my writing while you are here, too!! My dream is that something I have expressed might inspire some of you to express yourselves as well, and it might come around full circle and inspire me again!! If you are going to be in the mountain areas of Colorado, California or Oregon in the next couple of months, please feel free to contact me and let's go share our passion for living with each other!!! That would be sweet!!! Take care and keep breathing!!!
- Brandon Sequoia
My Journal: Wednesday, March 23, 2005
The latest trip was a blast! Vermont and Massachussettes and New Hampshire were exactly what they should always be... I love going out to the East side and experiencing snowboardingin a whole new community, it's like a different country over there almost. We get glimpses of it over here via magazines and summer time interactions, but it's a completely different energy and attitude over there. The people are incredible!! I have met so many amazing people while traveling in New England, and I look forward to going back every year to see them and meet more. Roger, Regis, Dave and Jen, Mary and Craig, Fran, Scott, Ross, Molly, Jane, Greg, Scott M, Louie, Danny D, Link, Rosy, Whitsell, Walker, Meggs, Mutty, everybody I'm forgetting, you are all an important part of why the US Not Allowed is and always will be an event that I can't bare to miss. And you are welcome here in Portland whenever you feel like coming for a visit!! And now I'm at home, watching it rain, knowing that it's finally snowing on Mt. Hood, and we are going to have a real summer!! I really hope that Preston isn't scared by my intimidating cover letter, and that James Jackson doesn't have any reason to speak, think, or feel badly about me, because I really want this job at HCSC!! It's the only place I really belong in the summer, except maybe in South America or New Zealand, but I want to affect the kids closest to home!! We'll see what happens, and when it does, we'll see you all there!! Bataleon is taking my life by the horns and it's a whirlwind of a storm that I can only attempt to steer a little. Watch out for the wave, because once you get on, you'll never want to get off! Bataleon Snowboards are the most incredible thing to happen to snowboarding since sidecut! If you want to know the truth, get a hold of me, I'll set you up with a board to try!! www.bataleon.com
My Journal: Thursday, February 10, 2005
I'm BAAAAAAAACK!!!! It's sooooo nice to be home again!! Vegas and LA and Mammoth and Morro Bay and Tahoe were fun, but home is where the heart is, right?!! I'd like to thank Amy, Melissa, Pinky, Greg, Danny, Lex, James, Jen, Jackie, Jan, Mark, Norah, Jesse, Zack, Andy, Sammy and Dawn for making our trip so much fun!! We will be back on the road soon, heading to Colorado, Utah, and back to Mammoth and Tahoe!! We'll see you soon!!
Brandon
P.S.- We're looking for hot talent!! If you are the best rider you know, or one of the people at your resort wearing the biggest smile at the end of the day, check out www.bataleon.com and drop me a line, you just might end up with a rare opportunity to try the best new technology in snowboarding for free!! I am looking for people to help promote Bataleon Snowboards with their riding ability, personality, and friendly smiles!! You will recieve a board or two to ride for the season, as well as stickers and t-shirts to show off and hand out and paste all over town!! So drop me a line if you're interested and let me know how to find out all about you and your riding so I will know if you fit the bill!! Now go shred and have fun!!
My Journal: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Hey People!
I'm in Mammoth Lakes!! I'll be here through Saturday showing off Bataleon snowboards, taking photos, and trying to remember what it was like when i was a snowboarder and not a salesman!! If you live in Mammoth and are around, keep your eyes peeled for a giant dirty black van with a packline box on top and two freaky dirts inside!! Or if you know me well enough to carry on a conversation, give me a call!! 503-778-0409 Later!! Oh and by the way, I'll be in Tahoe from the 6th through the 9th, so if you're up there, hit us up then!!
My Journal: Friday, December 17, 2004
Hello Everyone-
I am learning. Tons!! And in the process of learning I am changing, changing immeasurably in ways I can't begin to fathom, feel or understand. All these plans and promises I've made have left me feeling so weak, so powerless. I have decided that since my life is in God's hands, and He is my only strength in the world, I am through trying to do anything without Him leading me. If you want to know what I'm up to, when I will be in your part of the world, when you will see me next, just get on your knees and ask God, or call me and I will get on my knees and ask for you. My tour has been postponed due to van repairs, financial snags, and all-around bad timing resulting from my lack of foresight and preparedness. I will be travelling the US in my van bringing smiles and a new snowboard technology to all of you, eventually. But for right now I am praying, and giving it all up to Him to show me how things really get done. If you want to help, pray for me; it you want to see me, pray for me; if you want to check out the boards, pray for me. I will be in this learning process forever, let's just hope I retain some of it!! I miss all of you I have met, and I can't wait to meet all of you whom I've only spoken to. I hope you are all well, and don't stop praying for snow!! God Bless!!
brandon@bataleon.com
My Journal: Friday, October 15, 2004
My Journal: Wednesday, October 06, 2004
My brother is coming home!! My brother is coming home!! YAY!! One week from today he'll be back in PDX from the faraway city of Brooklyn, NY!! I can't wait! WORD!
My Journal: Saturday, September 18, 2004
I got a new tattoo!! You can find pics of it in my last mugshot and in my photo jounal! It's pretty painful still, but I love it! Sumer Johnson at Dark Star Tattoo and Body Piercing in Vancouver, Washington busted it out in 30 minutes! She rocks!!
360-735-7745
My Journal: Saturday, August 07, 2004
Two things to say:
www.bataleon.com go check it out now!
Three weeks of summer left, than it's rock climbing time, and surf's up all Fall!! Yay!!!! Hope you all had a great summer!!
My Journal: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Sunburn, sunscreen, sunstroke, suncups, sundogs, sunstreaks, sunflares and more sunburn... Anybody noticed how much more fun snow is to ride on when it's not covered by #3 sandpaper? Why does the wind always get so strong on Mt. Hood at the end of July? It makes my park look poopy! The rails are in the park, all but one of them! We have our C box, our Wu box, our rookie box, 20 foot street rail, single kink, double kink box (which is destroying people daily, thanks to the soft steel) shotgun rail, beginner rails, Trapezoid rail, and the 30 foot street rail coming soon!! All of this plus 5 jumps; 8', 18', 26', 36', and 55'; and two 18' tall, 45' long hips! Rock rockin' it!! 6 weeks left and I get a vacation!! YAY!! I haven't even been swimming yet, except for the two tubing trips down the Deschutes, which were soooo much fun! Class v's in an innertube! What, what!! I hope all of you are having a great Summer/Winter and are healthy and taking care of yourselves! See you in September!
My Journal: Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Hi!!
I haven't been avoiding any of you, I promise! I have been sanding, painting, driving, ordering, shopping, painting, sanding, drawing, making phone calls, working! The rails are all pink!! The skirting is coming tomorrow! We are way over-budget and behind schedule, but soon it won't matter because we will be snowboarding every day, and the kids will be here!! I can't wait!! Hope you are all having a great summer/winter! Take care of yous!!
My Journal: Sunday, May 23, 2004
Several inches of fresh, nearly powder, snow on Mt.Hood this morning! I only got to ride a little of it, it was pretty slow and sticky down on the Mile,and Palmer was closed due to fog and snow... But I hear from the local Patrol that it was quite nice up there, when they could see! Brandy's (whyoualwaysgottashowmeup) Birthday is today!! Happy 22 Brandy!! Everybody go say Hi and Happy Birthday to my best friend!! Maybe you can convince her to get some more pictures and stuff up on her profile too! Ask her about her short jib video, it's pretty cool!! Well, I'm off to play my guitar and pretend to be working... See you all on the hill!
My Journal: Saturday, May 22, 2004
It's raining.... yup, lots of rain. Perfect NW day on the hill! I wanted to shoot some photos or video today! Oh well, I guess it's a great day to improve my guitar playing!! Anybody have good acoustic guitar song suggestions? Tab links? Well anyway, you all enjoy your day and try to make it to the Meow Meow Sunday night to see Day Of Lions and Lindsey Diaries!! $5 All Ages!!
My Journal: Monday, May 17, 2004
There have been nearly 2,000 visits to my profile since I posted my text scrapbook entries, and I have less than 10 views on each entry. I must say that there are a lot of other ways to learn about people other than looking at pictures of them. Try reading some of their thoughts and feelings, or having a conversation...
READ MY TEXT SCRAPBOOK!!!
My Journal: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Brandy has been out of the hospital for a week, and her finger surgery went well. She is getting better, the pain in her head is subsiding and the weird metal contraption on her hand is driving her crazy! Thank you to all of you who prayed for her, thought about her, and sent messages to her, She appreciates the support!
I am hard at work preparing for session #1 here at MHSSC in beautiful green Oregon! Tons of awesome stuff going on right now! Great concerts, awesome riding, good surf, great hikes, and swimming!! I love swimming! I am looking forward to seeing all of you who are coming out to Hood this summer, and I am going to miss everyone who isn't coming, as I will be a prisoner of my career for the next 16 weeks! I wish you all a terrific last few weeks of Spring and an excellent Summer!! Remember to keep your eyes and hearts open to the amazing beauty God is creating all around you, and always stay focused on the good stuff!! X0) Brandon Sequoia
My Journal: Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Brandy is still in the Trauma Ward at Legacy Emanuel, but she is doing awesome! She has a very black eye and a huge swollen bump on her right temple, as well as a nice cast on her right ring finger! She might get out today, she might get pins put in her knuckle! We'll see! I am bored! The mountain closed Tuesday - Thursday due to lack of ticket sales, so many are out of work, and many others are out of riding time! I guess it's time to start building those rails and getting the gar ready for our park this summer!! I only have 4 weeks to have it all done!! I still have to hire more diggers! What a pain! Anyway, I'm going to find something productive to do now, so I will catch you all on the flip side! X0)
Update!!
Brandy just got out of the hospital!! She has to go back tomorrow for finger surgery, but she gets to go home tonight and do the Cinco De Mayo parties thing!! Yay!! We have both been very lucky to have God watching over us closely lately! I don''t know what we did to deserve to be treated with the care he has shown us... But I am very grateful for it!!
My Journal: Monday, May 03, 2004
Brandy(whyoualwaysgottashowmeup), my best friend/roommate, fractured her skull yesterday snowboarding at Timberline. She aired over a small roller that was concealing a patch of rocks, and proceeded to pinball through a couple of boulders with her head. She is okay, but she shouldn't be. She should be dead. She wasn't wearing her helmet, and the spot she hit was a flat spot on the rock. She tumbled at exactly the right speed and angle to avoid much greater damage. She broke a finger and jammed another, and has a small lump of blood under her skull above her right ear that may need to be removed. Fun stuff, huh?! I am taking my RED helmet that I haven't been wearing because it doesn't fit right and makes my head look huge in to the shop today and trading it in for one that fits. I don't often wear a helmet, for a few reasons, but none of the reasons for which I haven't been wearing one are as good as this reason TO wear one... She should be dead. She is not. Her helmet was at home. Please, people, snowboarding is a dangerous activity, we go really fast, in trees, near rocks, on ice. The odds are already against us. Let's give ourselves at least one more advantage... A camper died on Mt. Hood while I was coaching a couple of years ago after tumbling head-first into the rocks... Another fractured his skull and tore up vertebrae on his back in our park after landing switch off a large jump and tumbling blindly into the rocks. No helmet. It's not worth dying just because you don't like how it looks. There are a ton of options in helmets, you can find one that fits well and feels good, I promise! I know that many of us have been skateboarding for a long time without helmets, and concrete is indeed harder than snow. However, even when schralping full-on in the biggest bowl, we aren't going anywhere near as fast as we almost always do on our snowboards. And there aren't many unmarked and invisible obstacles anywhere we normally skate. Helmets are a good idea!! Thanks for letting me rant, I hope some of you take this seriously and consider getting a bucket to cover and protect your brains and their fragile cases!
My Journal: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
The engineers are fired
the floodgates have snapped
riot has broken out in Union Square
and the storm is threatening to overcome us all...
Where will we go, when the way out becomes murder? Who will we turn to, when those we have trusted with control bare their neatly concealed teeth? When will we act, and take back all we have so readily given away? What will we sing, when they have stolen our joy and all our memories?
go here and read and listen!
www.thoughtriot.com
My Journal: Monday, April 26, 2004
onemythoughtsalonemythoughtsalonemyth
alone with my thoughts
alone in my torture
a solitary embryo incubating in hypocrisy
convictions advertised
morals televised
but all of them are lies
and they leave me so alone
fighting to stay separate
bitter at being outcast
dying to be accepted
because of all I deny
searching for an outlet
longing for more input
pushing everyone away
ai I retreat so deep inside
deep inside the anger
deep within the pain
I revel in dysfunction
as I pretend I'm not insane
diseased in my nature
diseased in my genes
chained by my denial
of the evil I have been
fighting to overcome it
in a battle that's all my own
I'm looking for a companion
but my thoughts are mine alone
I want to form an army
to save me from the world
and to change what's wrong among us
to create all we deserve
but my friends have their own battles
and I help them win their wars
and though they fight right here next to me
our battles are only ours
so I've finally found my army
and I acknowledge what I've always known
I will rally my troops to save me
for they are my thoughts alone
(c)BSR2003
My Journal: Saturday, April 24, 2004
Damn Ladies! You all are amazing and supportive and friendly and nice and sweet! But where are all the guys at? Check out JeremyRandall, he's a cool kid from Eastern Canada, great rider! Thank you all for reading and browsing my profile and for saying hello, I am fighting off Strep Throat so I can get back on the hill before all the new snow melts off! I hope you are all ready for an awesome Summer, because it's going to be the best one in a while! Come to Mt. Hood and visit MHSSC, and say Hi to me and my friends in person!! Take Care of yourselves and keep shredding!! God Bless!
My Journal: Friday, April 23, 2004
Forever Fading Fast
In the blink of an eye, one passing moment, one set of synapses firing and processing that fleeting sensation into the front of your brain, in the time it takes that emotion, that feeling, that memory, that imprint to reach it's home to be stored forever, everything changes.
You sink to the beat, you crumble like dry bread or ancient pages. Your whole world is ripped apart and becomes foreign, unfamiliar, threatening. You recede into the depths of yourself, you retreat inside, looking for shelter in your memories, solace in the sound of your heart, your breathing, the murmur of your thoughts racing back and forth across your brain. But you don't find it. You don't find anything but more pain, more uncertainty, more disorientation. Your memories are jumbled and faded and stained and wrong. Nothing is as you feel it should be, or should have been.
You look outside for friends, family, familiar landmarks, but those, too, have all changed. Everything is getting bright and shiny and new and all the comfortable relics have been torn down and buried.
You panic. Your eyes open wide and your pupils dilate. Your heart is rushing, your head is pounding, but you don't feel any of it. You are numbed by the realization that all you held dear to your heart, all that you had clung to and cherished about you, all the things that you felt made you who you had become, were temporal, fleeting artifacts, subject to the slow decay of time and the surety of change.
You look in the mirror and no longer recognize the empty black holes staring back at you. You try to bore holes in your head and let out all that you have stored there for long, all that you know now to be superficial and unimportant, but it's in there.... The only way you are getting it out now, you realize, is to replace it with new memories, new knowledge, new images.
You decide that life for you must become all about change, all about now and tomorrow, because yesterday is a mirage of fleeting memories and ethereal keepsakes. Life is now, and tomorrow is not promised. You relinquish control and give up the desire for the known, the familiar, the comfortable. You strengthen your will and find courage to face the day innocent, with no predeterminations or expectations. You decide that there is no better time than now, no better place than here. Today is a good day to die. Your brain receives a shot of endorphins, your seratonin levels get a boost, your adrenaline high kicks you in the head and you want to scream, laugh, sing and dance....
For a few minutes. Then you realize that you are still lost, still confused, still frustrated, still scared. You don't know where to go or what to do. You can't tell the opportunities from the scams. You can't even muster the strength and motivation to leave the house. Why? Because your brain has become deprived; dependant and deprived. You need input, stimulus, excitement. But you need comfort, consolation, solace, and rest, as well. You think. In fact, you aren't sure what you need, what you want, what you think, what you feel, what you believe...
All you know is that there is a hole inside of you and you can't find enough pain, enough laughter, enough smiles, enough distraction, enough love to fill it. And you fear it is growing. Growing fast and to the point where it will eventually swallow you with it. Unless you can find a way to break. A way to fill it with enough poison and pain and torture and torment to overwhelm it and destroy it. But as you feed it, it grows, and it keeps feeding on you. You are consuming yourself, and you can't keep your eyes open long enough to look for the answers....
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