In the cover story from the current issue, we became more acquainted with chilled-out chart-topper Jack Johnson, the mega-million-selling rocker who starting writing songs to impress his future wife and has little need to watch TV. Johnson is also, of course, well-known in the surfing community as a competitor and a filmmaker. Click here to listen to Johnson’s thoughts on filmmaking set to some choice footage from his 2000 movie Thicker Than Water. RS also has photos of Johnson onstage and off, as well as Eddie Vedder’s musings on the value of his friend’s work.