Skateboarding @ MindSay

I'm off today. Not that this should incite any sort of grandoise excitement though because I'm using this day of rest to complete my project for my Sequential Narrative class. In short, this has been the funnest class I've had in quite a long while and I'm actually going to miss it, especially since I have two classes next quarter that both call for the use of Maya, my mortal enemy. If you thought I hated 3D CGI crap-imation before....let me tell you....GRRRRRRRR....I REALLY hate it now. I acknowledge the fact the it takes some serious patience and skill to use something like Maya or 3D Studio Max but all it did for me was make me appreciate the classic hand-drawn animation that much more.

In other news, we got a new intern at work yesterday and for me, I am entranced by this girl already. I think I might ask her to marry me before this week is over. OK, not really but the investigative work has begun. As soon as I am privy to her status, I will begin the process of trying to weasel my way into her life which, for me, means that I will waste an inordinate amount of time trying to find excuses to talk to her without seeming awkward but will cause me to look more awkward than I hope and ultimately, she will leave without so much as my ever having a real conversation with her. And another summer will have been wasted!!!

Finally, I watched a pretty interesting documentary last night called Stoked: THe Rise And Fall Of Gator. Obviously, it followed his career in skating from his bursting onto the scene in the early 80's to his murder conviction and sentencing in 1992. A lot of the stuff was pretty common knowledge but there was still a good amount of information about him that I was unaware of like the fact that he made a disgusting amount of money and that he couldn't street skate for anything and local kids ripped on him incessantly towards the end of his career, causing him to snap. There were a ton of interviews with old school skaters like Kevin Staab, Jason Jessee and Lance Mountain who revealed that quite a few of them actually hated him and thought he was a phony. Pretty good stuff.

Here is a clip of me actually skateboarding. Yep, I still sort of consider myself a skater, though I've been a loser about it in recent years. It's awful sad that I watch this to inspire me. I should get electro-shocked.

My friend Brian made this. It's a short video of him, myself, his brother and a few other friends of ours skating.
The order is

1. Jeff ("this is fuckin fucked up" intro. He isn't skating in it. He just says that line.)
2. Me (nabeshin/iamdead)
   
3. Scott (orson)
   
4. Matt (leftatairport)
   
5. Brian J. (ungulate)
   
6. Brian R. (purerockfury and creator of this short skate film.)

And as with every skate video we've ever done, my part sucks. I'm fucking aweful!

Weird thing: this is where I began my blogging career but, in a strange twist of fate, this is currently where I go to do my secret blogging now. Regrettably, I spend too much time on myspace.com for anyone's own good which I why I am glad to have this more intimate space in which to blog when need be. MySpace is intrusive and riddled with fools among it's lesser qualities (of which myspace does have many).

Right now, I don't have anything major to say. Things have been weird lately, but mostly better than average. I'm looking forward to some dinner, perhaps some movie viewing before bed and a weekend in which I will try to get in some more skateboarding before the weather kicks us all in the teeth again. I'm trying to get back to basics with serious plans of rounding up the hordes to make one more video of skating fun. I'm not saying it will be my last but with the aging process in full range of motion and everyone I know easing more into adult life these days, it's hard to pinpoint exactly how much time we all have left to do these sorts of things. Basically, I want to get this proposed one under way and take it from there. If it shall be my last, I want it to be as amazing as I am capable of. Something no one involved will ever forget. In the realms of friends and peers, I want to make history. Capture the moment forever.

Until then, back to my regularly scheduled mediocrity....

Tonight's Music
Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Greatest Hits
Goblin - the one song from "Roller" that XkachoojiX gave me awhile ago
Clutch - anything

 

hey we updated the trailer AGAIN so watch