TRASH
GUTTER BALL
ERRY "KICKFLIP" GETZ HAS LEFT TOY MACHINE
to join Tim O'Connor, Fred Gall, Rob Pluhowski, and
Brian Wenning at the Alien offshoot Habitat.
Adrian Lopez has resigned from
Adio to join Chad "The Muska"
Muska at Circa Footwear, also
rumored to be the home of Anthony
Van Engelen's feet after leaving DC.
Kris Markovich is not on DVS,
THE VERT Puma, or Osiris, but Adio. End of
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transmission.
To be more in step with their rock
star lifestyles, Erik "The Mule"
Ellington and Jim "Grecs" Greco
have signed on with ex-Mötley Crüe
member Nikki Sixx's clothing com-
pany Outlaw. Bring on the spandex
and assless leather pants!
New Deal am Greg "On the
Cusp" Harris has signed on
with Thunder.
Despite what you may have heard,
Keith Hufnagel does not, in any
way, shape, or form, ride for any com-
pany other than Real. He has, how-
ever, left DC to join the budding shoe
empire at DVS.
Decisions, decisions: Alex
"Trainwreck" Gall hopped on and
then almost immediately off the
Spitfire wagon, all in the span of
16 hours.
The Vert Vato, Darren
Navarrette, has found a home on
Spitfire, as has Tino Razo.
The final piece of Spitfire news
is Donny Barley's signature
wheel, coming soon.
Which skate photog sold a
photo of a guy jumping out
of a helicopter for five thou-
sand clams?
POP ART
Mark Gonzales' repeated
aesthetic pronouncements
regarding the superiority of a
particular bronze bust of
Julius Caesar in Berlin and its
volumetric beauty and perfec-
tion have become a topic of
concern amongst Gonz's
friends. Many wonder just what
powers the piece possesses
that could cause Mark to
obsess on it to this great
degree. These incessant lec-
tures were sufficient enough to
encourage Jocko Weyland to
leave his job in New York and
venture to Germany in order
to partake in the Caesar's sub-
lime presence. Unfortunately
Gonz never revealed to Jocko
exactly where to locate this won-
drous piece of historic portraiture.
Weyland looked for it for weeks and
never was able to find it. Eventually
the distraught would-be art appreci-
ator began hanging at the new
Wicked Woods indoor park at
Wuppertal near Cologne, where he
sought solace in the massive wooden
bowl. Broke and frustrated, Jocko
returned home to discover a card
from Mark detailing Caesar's loca-
tion as being at the Pargammon
Museum. All of this soul searching
has caused Weyland to decide now to
devote himself exclusively to finish-
ing his historically detailed novel.
Gonz, seeing the necessity for the
dissemination of proper directional
information, has issued a small book
containing drawings, poetry, and
photographs of the bust. The tome is
entitled Pep Talk.
Filmmaker Marshall Hatori's
vision of Imagining Sadahana
depicted Stephen Slater, Christian
Ends, and Veronica Kay involved
with their valiant attempt to skate
and surf their way through the mys-
terious East. At one point when the
murkily mystical Hatori abandons
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Upon learning that the Pokémon craze has
induced fits of mass-spending consumerism
in today's youth, Bob decided it was time
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the trio somewhere near Sri Lanka in order
to go off to India to confer with his guru,
they all three sensibly split. End of discus-
sion? Not quite-apparently the
Enlightened One insists on viewing the
rider's defection as being the result of some
sort of spiritual deficiency on their part. The
film also allegedly features hazy sequences
in which certain underage types indulge in
the consumption of cannabis, nude swim-
ming, and the like. Particularly charming
was when Hatori went out of his way to
comment on the price value of Ms: Kay's
Roxy-supplied attire. Will the lawyers have
fun with this as they teach Hatori the real
meaning of evidentiary discovery?
With Spike Jonze now administering
sexual advice on the nationally aired talk
show Love Line, no one is particularly
astonished to see Hollywood industrial
types falling all over themselves to "dis-
cover" skater-movie makers. Not since Mr. T
I was discovered at a Hester Series contest
working as a security guard has there been an
epidemic like this. Recall that T instantly went
from checking access wristbands to stardom
in Rocky films and on TV's A Team. Part and
parcel to this transformation was the making
and accumulation of millions of dollars,
which is why all of the Tinsel Town toutsters
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Some people, namely Bert Lamar, will
do anything for a dollar.
are seeking skater related material. Some of
those lucky (or is that unlucky?) enough to be
targeted include:
Vans czar Jay Wilson, who is hooking up a
slew of filmic projects which remind all that he
was once a professor of cinema at the
University of Southern California.
Wing Ko, who is said to be considering
directing spots for Pacific Sunwear.
Tom Hanks' production company dis-
patched several producers to the NorCal big
wave spot Maverick's to do research. Hanks
appears determined to play Jeff Clark in a bio
pic based on the downhill skater turned big
wave pioneer turned baggage handler turned
board builder.
RICH KIDS
Mark Fleissman, the wunderkind behind
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Whatever it took to get Jay Adams and Tony
Alva in the same photo is a frickin' miracle.
L to R: Kent Senatore, Alva, Adams.
such glam high society night clubs as Studio 54
and Tattoo, was seen in his latest "boarding
themed" Beverly Hills eatery Tsunami talking
movie deals. Also present were riders Jim
O'Mahoney, James Brisick, and Wingnut;
actors Tab Hunter, Mister Blackwell, and
Ed McMahon; and directors Bruce Brown
and Dana Brown. Also obvious was a circa
'60s skate video involving many of the above
that was provided by the notorious gnome
Dale "Sausage Man" Smith.
An Agi Orsi-produced docu trailor featuring
the Zero house, Erik Ellington, Aaron
Harrison, Daisy Shayne, Mitch Abshire,
and Joe Tourtelout is making the rounds on
European television. This multilingual joint is
said to be the bait du jour.
paintings and a nude doll-like sculpture
that was labeled with the phrases
"Fuck Fashion" and "I hate Boy
George." Absent but accounted for
was Christian, who passed on the
gala in order to compete in a street
luge contest.
Not all media exposure is necessar-
ily warranted or wanted. A number
of skaters are being sought by author-
ities in connection with their purported
presence at a series of political demon-
strations held recently in opposition to
the meeting of the World Trade
Organization in Seattle. A Seattle Times
photo of a person holding a skate that
was "reaching through the broken front
window of Nike Town" is a case in point.
Agents of the law are said to be using
sophisticated computer enhancement
techniques in order to discover the iden-
tities of many people including the afore-
mentioned individual. Such "identification
marks may include tattoos, brand labels, and
personal graphic embellishments."
Unidentified men in suits were seen near
Burnside clutching video prints of alleged
skaters. Protesters were heard to comment
that they were opposed to insatiable con-
sumerism, environmental exploitation, and
corporate controlled culture that violates the
rights of the individual. And the WTO organ-
izers said that "the information age is the dawn
of a new era in human potential."
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"And he thought of himself as some kind of
a revoluchionest (sic) I think the only thing
that changed was his taste in womenfolk."
-Mark Gonzales
"Museums have nothing to do with art. Art is
only art when people care about it. And the
only place that happens is on the streets."
-Nathan Fletcher
POSER OF THE MONTH
At the forefront of this mad dash to bring
skate culture to the big screen is the interna-
tionally renowned artist Bruce Weber.
Recently at the prestigious Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Weber premiered
Nixon's Neighbors, his ten year in process doc-
umentary of the Fletcher fam-
ily. Bruce publicly stated
his admiration for all of
the Fletchers and endorsed
them as the "first family of
the future." Among hun-
dreds of guests were Herbie
I and Dibi Fletcher, who
appeared to navigate effort-
lessly amongst all the chic
and the cliques. Aerialist
Nathan Fletcher arrived
before the festivities and
skated about in a gas
mask and Haz-Mat suit
emblazoned with 666
while offering up his
own one-man show in
the Rancho La Brea Tar
Pits. Offered to the tar
gods were several
Criminal: Bobby Thalgott
Crime: Operation Dumbo Drop
Punishment: Face will stay that way
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