skateboarding has literally saved my life...it has completely defined who i am and drastically changed my life forever...i don't have dreams of making it pro and getting my name printed across some 13 year old kid's t-shirt, because, after all, skateboarding to me isn't about fame or fortune(though that would be dope to get paid to skate and travel the world)...its not about competition or pride...its all about me and it is undoubtedly the single most challenging thing i have ever done in my entire life...i thank my brother in law for getting me started...scott, if you are reading this, i still remember my first powell blank with my cadillac wheels and my krux trucks...thank you so much for kickin it down to me and most of all, for giving me someone to look up to...for all the peeps that grew up bombing empty parking lots and backyard mini ramps with me, those were the best times of my life and wouldn't take them back for the world...my grandmother thinks that this is just a phase and im going to grow out of it, but the fact still remains...whenever i get lost and forget who i am, i just pick up my skateboard and it all comes back...... "its not about the ends, it's all about the means" fuck every one of you that have turned this sport into a job and a competition against others...skateboarding is art frontside grab shifty's outta the bowl...nice FAT KIDS CAN FLY!! I TOLD YOU...
mark gonzoles.... "theres nothing much you can really do in life except for do art and skate." this guys a genious... MY HOMIE DREW!!! where ever you are bro... skateboarding isn't the same without you and i hope you make it home sooner than later...
the fuel for the fire, music keeps me alive...its hard for me to stick to one genre...i grew up punk, but over the years have acquired a thirst for underground hip hop...i love finding new artists and bands before the money does because people that are trying to be heard make far better music than those that are trying to fulfill the requirements of a label contract......straight out of my mp3, it goes like this........... atmosphere, slightly stoopid, artifacts, gorillaz, sublime, peanut butter wolf, avail, brother ali, bad religion, madvillian, dangerdoom, felt, jedi mind tricks, juggaknots, millencolin, common, zion i, jurrasic 5, ten foot pole, gym class heroes, strung out, no use for a name, cky, mos def, incubus, bob marley, sweatshop union, propaghandi, planet asia, the promise ring, bad religion, nofx, hot water music, immortal technique, lady sovereign, goldfinger, rise against, deepspace 5, 311, gang starr, transplants, 88 fingers louie, authority zero, talib kweli, the get up kids, cake, sand people, pulley, swollen members, mf doom, felt, mood ruff, akrobatic, diesel boy, nas, the x-ecutioners, deftones, a perfect circle, dialated peoples, the living end, unwritten law, the roots, rancid, del the funkee homosapien, sage francis, guttermouth, people under the stairs, thrice, bracket, riddlin kids, the pharcyde, operation ivy, boom bap project, de la soul, descendants, face to face, glass jaw, hieroglyphics, lagwagon, laz green, pennywise, suicidal tendencies, the alkaline trio, the suicide machines
army of darkness, grandmas boy, joe dirt, borat, lords of dogtown, half baked, ace ventura, drop dead fred, anchorman, old skool, house of 1,000 corpses, devils rejects... god there are so fucking many
aqua teen hunger force, the simpsons, weeds, southpark, chapelles show, the sarah silverman program, conan o'brien, animal planet, discovery channel (planet earth... so sick), the history channel, fuel channel...
i don't have enough imagination
at the moment... this guy... watch this shit and tell me skateboarding isn't art...rodney mullen isn't lucky, he's precise