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Neil flips out.
Why do people always say: "Hi, how are
you?"
Neil: Why? Some form of communication.
Why do they always say the same
thing?
Neil: Because nobody has the intelligence
to think of something else.
Why don't they? Because they don't
care?
Neil: Because they've become immune to
the fact that everybody says: "Hi, what's
going on?" and everybody else says: "Not
much," and it becomes inbedded in their
long-term memory.
Does anyone really care about you?
Neil: Me? I think my mom does.
What does she think about you?
Neil: (Smiling) She thinks I'm a punk on the
streets without a job.
How do you feel about your mom?
Neil: My mom? She's alright. She over-
reacts, that's all she does. She over-reacts.
Do you think anyone else cares about
you?
Neil: I don't care.
What has skateboarding done for you?
Neil: It's made me get money for free for
doing something that I want to do. It's fun.
What have you done for it?
Neil: Invented the gay twist with Lance
Mountain.
Do you ever skate alone?
Neil: Sometimes. Sometimes I do.
Do you care about skateboard
magazines?
Neil: It would be better if we didn't have
them at all.
Do you care about getting coverage in
magazines?
Neil: Sometimes I like coverage. Some-
times I really don't even want it at all.
What's more important? Vertical riding
or curb riding.
Nell: Well, they're both about the same.
Curb riding is a form of release of tension.
Vertical riding is more of a perfected thing.
Curb riding's better because you can be
more spontaneous at it.
Would you please pass the salt?
Neil: Would you shine tooth?
What do you think of the police?
Neil: The group the Police sucks.
No, the police!
Neil: The cops? Most cops are bad. They
try to act so rugged with their mirrored
glasses and billy clubs.
What do you think of people in general?
Neil: Most people suck.
Why is phoniness so widespread?
Neil: (Laughs) Aw man! It's because
everybody tries to be more putty than the
next person! That's all it is. It's just a big
chain of putty. A vicious circle of putty men.
Do you love anyone?
Neil: (Quickly) I love food!
(Laughs) What about your mom?
Neil: I don't know.
Have you ever gleemed inside a cube?
Neil: I haven't masked anything off lately!
What kind of new trick are you working
on?
Neil: Ho-Ho plants.
What's it like?
Neil: It's almost impossible. It's so hard to
do. You have to distribute your weight so
right! and it's going to be so hard to make!
Do you think Tony Hawk will get them?
Neil: No. He can't afford to get them.
Where has skateboarding taken you?
Neil: To Europe, Sweden, England, Florida.
Where else?
Neil: It's taken me whereever it takes me!
It's taken me good places. I get a lot of
things from it that you don't realize.
Like what?
Neil: Shoes. Money.
Who do you like to session with?
Neil: People that are good. I like to session
with Eric Grisham. Lance is good when
he's not being a dwid and hating himself all
the time. Tony Hawk I don't like skating
with that much because he tries to out-do
you, it seems like. Lester's pretty fun to
skate with. Billy Ruff is kind of...I don't
know. I'd just like to fist fight Billy Ruff.
(Laughs) Why?
Neil: Why? I think he needs fruit. What is
this for?
It says right there.
Neil: Steep slopes? Thrasher? They won't
print it.
Who do you like?
Neil: I like people that aren't phony
assholes.
Like who?
Neil: Who isn't phony? I think the person
who's closest to that is probably John
Conkey.
Who do you hate?
Neil: I hate homos. I hate preppies. I hate
people that wear things to putty up for girls,
people that try to do everything that
revolves around girls. Their whole life,
everything they do, is somehow going to
relate to being with a girl or going to a girl's
house.
Do you ever skate without copers?
Neil: Yeah.
What's it like?
Neil: It's like hot dog stands. No big deal.
Do you have any future plans?
Neil: I hate the future. Okay?
Where would you like to go to skate?
Neil: I'd like to go to some good ramps that
aren't real vertical. Something that you
could really do a lot of lapover grinds on.
Do you like backyard pools?
Neil: No, because they're usually danger-
ous. The surface is too sticky and your
knee pads fall off and you get shin burns
and stuff.
Who would you like to beat up?
Neil: A whole bunch of cops or something.
Give some advice.
Neil: Don't train. Ride the sift. Sift out the
bad from the good.
What do you think of people that don't
skate that make money off of it?
Neil: I think that people that don't skate that
make money off of it are just so incoherent
to even know what skating's about. They
don't even skate. They don't know what it's
like.
What do you think of TV?
Neil: What do YOU think of TV?
I think it's not fun to watch. It's the same
thing every day.
Neil: TV is so fake, it's just stupid.
Do you think you're ever going to grow
old?
Neil: Survive, my man! Now Garry, what do
you think of the putting green?
I've never touched one.
Neil: No, the putting green.
What is it?
Neil: Think about it. The putting green.
Relate it to life.
I don't know. I don't know what you're
talking about.
Neil: The most mild part of your life. The
putting green.
Sleeping?
Neil: I don't know if it's sleeping. The
putting green is bad, 'cause you can be
changed and altered in so many ways.
When you're a kid?
Neil: Yeah.
How do you get away from coming out
wrong?
Neil: Get away from the numbers.
What numbers?
Neil: The numbers.
666? (Laughs) Do you believe in the
devil?
Neil: No man! The numbers! You know, the
common breed!
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