Congelliere (right) rocks the Casbah
with his band Five Year Plan. More
fodder filler for the three pages we
allotted this kook-Todd (below) gets
caught between dueling strobes on
a backside disaster at Norfolk.
MERCURY
HEAT
40 THRASHER
17th Stre
kissing fools. I'd bet any of you
that your favorite skater definitely
falls into that category. The thing
that ruins it is all the compromis-
es. The whole industry is a big,
bloated jellyfish. I re
I remember a
while back, I was putting one of
my favorite skate photographers
under the hot light about why the
magazine he shoots for is slowly
turning into kitty litter liner, io:
Nintendo ads and covering only
street skating (which, incidentally,
just turned into freestyle), which
was always a crock of shit anyway.
In my book, freestyling never
should've even been related to
skateboarding. And no, I don't
really care what "tricks" were
inspired or created through
freestyling. (Rodney Mullen was
about as impressive to me as
Richard Simmons). So in a totally
naive attempt to try and "save
skateboarding" before it
turned into this big heap of
aerobic instructors on
wheels, I pleaded with
this certain skate
shooter to do what he
could to keep the mag.
spicy, and his response
was, "I've got to eat.
dude. The funny thing is
that I never held it against
him, as I was living with my
parents, didn't have to
pay bills, and I still
received money every
month for doing silly skateboard
tricks. I mean, shit, if I was in his
position, I would probably do the
same. But the positions were dif-
ferent, so my interest in skating
dwindled. I do still skate on occa-
sion, actually, Milk Skateboards is
dumb enough to keep putting my
name on a skateboard. I do spend
a lot of time, running my record
label, Recess Records, and playing
in Five Year Plan, and all I know is
if it gets to a point where it even
slightly resembles all these cheesy
skate clothing companies whom
are about as passionate at what
they do as a piece of chipboard,
then I'll find something new to do,
even if it's not as profitable. Even
though I'm bitter towards the
whole thing, I don't have the
slightest regret in it at all, I mean,
I never came close to even
covering half the ground peo-
ple like Mark Gonzales or
Tony Hawk did on a skate-
board, but at least it eluded
me from being a serial
killer or something.
Feel free to write to
me direct. If you dis-
agree with me, then
you're wrong. If you
want a response or a
Recess catalog, send
a stamp to: Recess
Records, Todd C,
PO Box 1112, Torrance,
CA 90505.
SUMMER'S HERE
HUNTING SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN
25 DAILY 25
INCLUDES ALL APPLICABLE SALES TAX
REFAL
SKATEBOARDS
Always get a badge number.