A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

MY NAME IS TONY ALVA, AND I'M A 47-YR OLD PROFESSIONAL SKATEBOARDER: If you don't have Dogtown & Z-Boys in your Netflix queue, you should, just to hear Tony speak those words in the promo material for the upcoming Lords Of Dogtown feature film fictionalization of the characters (and they were characters) in that memorable skateboard retrospective. Especially if you experienced the skateboard sub-culture primarily as a derivative merchandizing phenomenon during your own mid-80s adolescence, you will find Z-Boys a heartening tale of young outlaw maniacs lovingly living their manifold manic American Dreams in a land where the thrasher esthetic was just life on a Tuesday afternoon. Yes, before it was ready-made vanilla cream rebellion for the bored-in-the-suburbs set, skateboarding had a soul.