February Birthdays 
Just for fun one day, I rented a DVD "Surfer, Dude" which is a surfing movie with Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Scott Glen & Alexie Gilmore. It's a movie that romanticizes the plight of a cool local longboard surfer who returns to Malibu from an overseas surfing stint and faces the reality of his sponsor getting sold out to a former surfer turned scumbag businessman at a time when the surf goes flat for months on end. Well, the plot is OK, the chicks are great lookin' and the good guys come out on top in the end.
The music is beautiful and rather reggae oriented, but not remotely surf though. However, the DVD has Special Features like Surfer, Dude: The Real Story which talks about the story-behind-the-scenes that went into making the movie. There is familiar instrumental surf music in the background there and in one of the other features, webisode #9, although you won't find a mention of this in the movie itself because the movie has its own score.
The background instrumental surf music is from two Longboard Ranch albums, Longboard Ranch Rides Again and Surfin' Out West. Webisode #9 features Ghosts at the Ranch and the 'Real Story' special feature has excerpts of Swami's Reef, Code Red, Treasure Cove, Expedition to Saturn, Nuevo Durango, Scuba and signs off with Wave Walkin'. Very nice.
A glimpse of the movie Surfer, Dude can be found here. If you click on the Webisode button and then click "just keep surfin", that'll bring up the #9 webisode with Ghosts at the Ranch. At least, they credited Music by Longboard Ranch in the webisode. Yeah!
And, ya know, it looks so cool to see people actually surfing and hearing surf music, the sound of the sport, to set the mood.
Long Live Surf Music!
