The big weekend approaches... The 'Lifers are gearing up for another installment of the Five & Dime Tradeshow. We will be in full force showcasing all the brands that make us who we are, so for you retailers come find out what's really good for 2010... This season's show is bigger than ever, throwing in some great extra curricular activities to get things started. Kicking off Saturday's festivities we "Get Nautical"... Gilligan and the Skipper don't no nan about the 3 hour tour the people at SBCSkateboard.com and TImebomb have planned for this booze cruise.
The boat docks in Shaolin for some marvelous shit, courtesy of Lex Diamonds himself...
REMG and Five & Dime present Chef Raekwon, Live @ Sound Academy... expect a taste of Cuban Linx old and new. GET IN ON THIS!

News hit the web a few weeks back regarding the ever "punk" streetwear pioneer Rick Klotz dropping the branding and logos on Freshjive, a line he founded 20 sum' years back. It seems people who care about these kind of things (the blogosphere and fashionista dems) seem to be intrigued and excited by the news... all in all I'm sure a lot of people are a little curious what the hell is the mo-tive. That's why that dude bobbyhundreds got up with Rick to see what was behind all this madness and what you can really expect from future Freshjive. Here's the Interview on The Hundreds Blog The final seasons of branded Freshjive goodness are hitting the stores very soon for Fall and Holiday 09 with the brand new unbranded lines on the horizon for Spring 10 and beyond...

Nooooyce. Something I/we/some of you have been highly anticipating since the first time we got a pair of parachutes on our feet. Pics are poppin' up from your friendly neighborhood Alife dealer of their Fall '09 offering of footwear flavour. Seasonally appropriate, durable premium leathers on classic silhouettes, a nice slick toned down fall line... an interesting contrast from a wild spring and summer of exciting neon mids and outrageous canvas lows. A few of the illest pieces (In a humble 'Lifers opinon) are pictured below.

These and more of the Fall Alife tings can be found next to some other must-cop items (that may or may not match perfectly with your brand new Alife's) at Canada's finest retailers... Here in Ontario you need to check Livestock (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary), Norml (Ottawa), Echelon (London), Boredem (Waterdown), Rockit (Kingston), Legit Trix (North Bay), SoHo (Waterloo) and LileoLileo (Toronto)... they've got the goods. Sick pair of patent with embossed leather Everybody Hi's... on some reptilian ish.
Gimme two perr, I need two perr...
Classic Shell Toe, black leather, grey highlight, neon sole... geeet it.
Clean it up some with the butters leather Chuck Shepperd.
Just a few hits from a line full of them, thanks to High Snobiety, I yoinked these pics from them after they apparently yoinked them, so also thanks to whoever took those pics.

The Kodak Zi8 - retal priced at $180 is about to give the flip cam some stiff competition. Available in blue, red, or black, the Zi8 offers Flip-beating 1080p video, with built-in electronic image stabilization, a 2.5-inch LCD, 5 megapixel, 16:9 still pics, an external microphone jack, an SDHC card slot, and a swing-out USB arm for easy uploading to YouTube or Facebook. You could be creating your own reality show in no time.

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Common Live @ Rock The Bells 2009 (Vancouver, BC) from Luis Valdizon on Vimeo.

The folks at Offshoot have had some amazing times listening to Prince. so to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of one of the 'best album sin the last 25 years', i have put together a list of fun Prince facts that my young ass never knew before.

• Scientists recently concluded that throughout the 80s, Prince looked 37.2 times cooler than the average pop star.
• Big C and his sister used to fight over which album to listen to. Sister wanted to boogie to MJ, while the Big C wanted the sexiness of Prince.
• Purple Rain soundtrack scooped Prince an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
• Mansa's rendition of Purple Rain with the famous falsetto by Mar Beezy may actually be one of the best karaoke moments known to man.
• Prince's appearance at the Super Bowl XLI Halftime show ensured it was the fourth most-watched programme in US TV history, coming in right behind the M*A*S*H* finale.
• Killa has been crawling naked out of the bathtub ever since the 'When Doves Cry' video aired on MuchMusic.

• In the 02 Arena in the UK, Prince once shouted at the audience, "You can't handle me! I got too many hits!"
• Rumour has it that many of the members of the New Power Generation [band] quit shortly after this picture was taken, unhappy with Prince's demands that musicians should always stand at a 45-degree angle.

Happy 25th Anniversary Purple Rain, you've brought lots of the super sexy to peoples lives.