The rumor mill has been turning over the past couple days, saying that everyone’s favorite Wu-Tang cover band steezy skiers, Phil Casabon and Henrik Harlaut, have decided not to film with Level 1 this year in favor of producing a show with Eric Iberg’s Insipired Media Concepts.
The packaging for Level 1’s “Eye Trip” cleverly makes a few promises: there’s the take on Timothy Leary’s famous countercultural rallying cry, “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out” and the disc that looks like a wheel from a Viewmaster. It seemed too good to be true, but was this going to be Level 1’s retro “Trip” through the music and culture of the 70’s? Don’t you hipsters just wish.
I’m sure none of you are reading this blog before poring over the NS forums with your cup of coffee or OJ or whatever it is you kids drink these days. So you are well aware that skiing’s version of the McCurry vs. McDonald’s legal battle is about to go DOWN! If you somehow missed that thread, it states that Warren Miller Entertainment (a soulless entity run by Miller’s kid) is suing Level 1 Productions for using their intellectual property (i.e. Warren Miller’s voice). Now I never did make it to law school, but that seems like a rather ridiculous claim. Judging from the public opinion poll that is NS, most 15-year-old boys also agree that this be some buuuullshit. There are boycotts and hellstorms promised by every kid from Cali, to Minnesota, to the icy East. As a supporter of peaceful social action in any context, my instinct is to throw some wood on that fire and yell BURN BABY BURN, or more accurately- boycott baby boycott!
BUT after careful consideration of the evidence before me- Do NOT boycott. In fact, go buy that Warren Miller movie that you have ignored every time you pass it in the Walmart DVD section. You see, boycotts don’t work in the skiing world. We are all too materialistic. When we’re told we shouldn’t buy something, we actually end up buying more than we would have before.
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