only operating on intuition ... m mm jHKjgl J f O , Donald Glaude spin spins sugar for y’all, and he’s an extremely nice person. He's coming to Santa Barbara tonight, so do your homework by reading the article on p. 4A mm \ m photo by RENEE KUSHNIR 2B Thursday, October 26,2000 Daily Nexus WAVES LOOK BIGGER WH RFING AS SADHANA nappingjed andersen Who would have thought after earning a master’s in bailed; everybody went home,” Hattori says of his aban­ scene because “truth” was what he pursued in the film. English literature in his 10-year career at UCSB, 35- donment in Sri Lanka. “So I’m sitting there; I had no “People told me when I was editing, ‘Don’t put that year-old Marshall Hattori would travel the world with a characters for the film, my cameras were broken; so I pot smoking in,’ and I was like, ‘You know what, all those video camera and a group of surfers? said, ‘You know what, I’m going to India.’ And I ended kids smoked that hashish, they surfed better than they Hattori didn’t, but that didn’t get in the way of him up going exactly where the guy at the [Sri Lanka] medi­ ever surfed before, they reached new levels of perfor­ selling everything he owned to finance a $75,000 inde­ tation retreat told me to go, and I saw these gurus, and mance surfing and they had a great time doing it.’ That pendent film about surfing and spiritual enlightenment, they made me realize that everything was going accord­ was one of the most important things that happened on then coming back to his former college town to show it. ing to plan. I went to Australia and hooked up with the that trip. I’m not going to leave that out,” he says. “If I “Imagine: Surfing as Sadhana,” which translates to don’t tell the truth then what do I have? I have this flim­ “Imagine: Surfing as Higher Consciousness,” will screen sy made-up fiction instead of something that really hap­ this Friday at Isla Vista Theater. pened. And the truth in this film was so important In 1998 the Buddhist-raised Hattori, who has surfed because what actually happens isn’t something you could since age 7 and was on UCSB’s team, sold his car, condo, script, so if I told the truth, I knew the story would come studio, stocks, shut down his business and borrowed out and people would go, ‘I can’t believe that happened.’” money from the owners of Natural Café, Channel Island Now over $60,000 in debt, Hattori concluded that his surfboards and the Beach House to fund an eight-month THAN adventure has given him a newfound perspective on life, surfing odyssey across the globe. W ith him he took 21- and an appreciation for living in the moment. “I just got year-old Stephen Slater (world champion Kelly Slater’s evicted from my house, and so I’m pretty much living on younger brother), 24-year-old pro surfer Christian Enns, the road. But that would have killed me before the film and 17-year-old Roxy fashion model Veronica Kay. — being evicted from my house, not having any home, Hattori’s plan was simple: take three aspiring surfers Australian soul surfers, so it turned out great. I see them being in debt — these things would have just eaten me on an ideal surfing trip to Chile, Brazil, the Canary leaving the trip as a blessing; things turned out better every day, everything would have stressed me. But now Islands, Morocco, Sri Lanka, India and Australia, and than I could have scripted.” I’m like, it’s a good thing. I’ll take the film on the road. document everything that happens along the way. But After the movie came out, Kay’s stepmother threat­ It’s made my life a lot better than it ever was.” things didn’t work out as planned. ened to sue Hattori if he showed the movie, for fear that “What happened was that I turned out to be kind of it portrayed Kay negatively and could damage her mod­ “Imagine: Surfing as Sadhana " w ill screen at 7 and 9 p. m. like the Puck of the group, except instead of getting eling career because of a scene where the three smoke on Friday at Isla Vista Theater as part o f a benefit for the kicked out of the house, everybody just left me. They just hashish in Morocco. However, Hattori said he kept the Surfiider Foundation. 1 7 general. •FEROCIOUSLY INVENTIVE. 4 A SPOOKY AND GLEEFULLY SADISTIC Jfe HALLOWEEN TREAT" ► (Off “...DISTURBING AND WALLOWS UNSETTLING... TO THF c ^ m I LOVED THE FILM...” f -llarrv Know In . aintitcunl com JTA TE STREET® "EERIE, CREEPY BETTER 1 THAN THE ORIGINAL!” I L fwhque wauJ ■Brian Sebastian. 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Hollywood co­ only partially true to the experiences of We’re having a frightfully good optation triumphs once again. the characters in the first “Blair Witch.” “Book of Shadows” picks up where the Though the ostensible larger theme o f . previous “Blair” left off. True to the origi­ “Book of Shadows” questions whether Party! ^ nal in blending myth and hysteria with a violent acts are the result of popular cul­ realistic setting, the sequel follows the ture or some amorphous spirit of-evil, the search of five early “twentysomething” “fiction vs. reality” theme is only half­ fans enchanted with the “true story” heartedly built up. W ith the failure of this behind the real-life movie. 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