Absinthe Now/Here Premiere

Every year Absinthe has a movie premiere in Beaver Creek at the Vilar Center. It’s probably one of the most swanky places to host a premiere in the mountains due to the fact you have to go inside a gated community. Thankfully while it is swanky the type of crowd that a movie of this caliber caters to doesn’t give a shit if you show up dressed in a flannel and beanie. Driving up through the gated hillside one can only imagine what it must be like to own a house in this community.

It was your typical movie premiere with people talking before about what it takes to make a movie of this magnitude, gave some praise to S.O.S. which is cool good to see that program getting bigger, then introduced a few of the riders.  You know nothing special blah blah blah pump the crowd it’s cool. Sorry but it was a pretty uneventful night in terms of story telling perhaps you should read what went down at the SLC premiere here.

Now I’ll say this right now I haven’t always been an Absinthe fan but this movie was absolutely killer. It covered the gamut of shred for whatever you wanted. Urban? Check. Pow Kickers? Check. Noboarding? Check. It just delivered on so many levels.

So without ruining the movie for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet I’ll break down the high points. Bode Merrill is the next snowboarding bad ass. His level of riding is double what seems to be the status quo by most people (excluding O.G. status pros) claiming pro status. He throws down hard and his part got one of the loudest reactions from the crowd.

Of course Wolle Nyvolt proves to us that Noboarding is going to be the next wave in snowboarding for pro’s. He shreds harder with no feet strapped to a deck harder than Scott Stevens rips with one foot gripped down. Truly a sight to behold.

Dan Brisse once again shows us that urban gap/bomb drops of death are only going to get bigger, gnarlier, and scarier. We’re talking shit your pants status here people so bring your depends cause it’s going to get messy.

The Yes team destroys pow once again and Gigi makes a guest appearance as well. The pow scenes are priceless and if you’re like me you’ll probably get goosebumps from the pure awesomeness.

Over all I’d put this on the must see category and on the definitive must own in your collection list. Lots of bangers, solid editing, and of course just good fucking smile on your face fun.

At the end they had a limbo contest for a snowboard. Some chick in overly tight pants beat out the dude who was rocking Capri’s. Really dude you wear Capri’s? Whatever floats your boat you hipster. Kids were stoked, parents were cool, and the way the crowd was roaring for various parts you could tell this movie was going to get two thumbs up on the stoke factor.

Funny thing happened on the way home though just outside of the Breckenridge a State Trooper pulled me over. Now being that I was in the intern mobile it could mean any number of things were going on. So as Officer Johnny Law sauntered up to the vehicle I couldn’t help but wonder was I really speeding. As it turns out the car had made some jerking motions or maybe I was just testing the power steering who knows right? So he thought I was driving under the influence of adult beverages or maybe it was mind altering spirits I don’t know. Anyways as we got to talking the typical question came out from him, “Where are you coming from this evening” to which I responded “The Absinthe premiere in the Vilar Center”. This did not bode well for me as evidently he took it I had been inhaling this pseudo nectar of the gods that said movie company was named after like it was going out of style.

While I sat there looking at his stern face I knew the next question that was looming, the one question no sober or intoxicated person wants to encounter at two minutes to midnight. But there it was, “So sir how much have you had to drink tonight?” To which I responded “None officer!” Now I don’t know if the gods themselves were smiling down on me or if this exact officer remembered the last time he pulled me over for suspicion of driving under the influence three years prior but he just looked at me and said, “Yeah I can tell you’re pretty damn sober.” We cracked a few jokes he ran the plate, my license, and checked the insurance. Everything checked out and we were on our separate ways.

Moral of the story when leaving an Absinthe premiere if a police officer asks you where you’re coming from always tell them “From youth fellowship” then mumble something about praise jebus blah blah blah.

On a side note while in Beaver Creek I encountered this piece of awesome signage.

Feel free to leave your own caption about this awesome sign.

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