A vile, loathsome 12th blog

When I started skating with Pancer and Carny back in a year I can't reveal, ol' Matty and I would watch skate MUSIC videos because we didn't have any skate videos yet. Time For Livin' was the best thing ever we thought, even though the version my brother taped off of Muchmusic didn't have lyrics (for whatever reason). We would watch it on repeat and get jacked up in a way that only a 7th grader could get. It never occurred to me that the footage in that video was from an actual video because I was stupid.

Around that time, I was just straight up infatuated with skateboarding. It was so different from anything I was into, or anything my friends were into. It made me feel like I knew something that everyone else didn't, and I loved that. No one we knew was really skating at that point, except for a group of older dudes in our neighbourhood who didn't really like me or Matt, although they tolerated Shawn (Mike Couch, Rob Levesque, Liam Cormier, Andrew Mason, Ewan Williams, Dave Finch, and Craig Plue, even though he hit Shawn in the kidney with his skate really hard one day. I thought those dudes were the coolest, and I idolized them so much. They wore T-Bags, and always had these awesome t-shirts, and were rocking Etnies and Airwalks when I would be drooling over them in magazines.)

Also, I got into something that my brother was into, but I got into it on my own (he was getting really into Nine Inch Nails, obscure industrial, and Samhain around that time, and stopped wearing skate shoes in favour of combat boots and shorts). Ah crap, I digress - getting too nostalgic and whatnot. What I was saying, was that any music videos I saw with skating in it, I immediately became unhealthily obsessed with, and that set the tone for my continued obsession with skating from Grade 8 on. The Sonic Youth video still makes me feel like that precoscious prepubescent again (I hit puberty pretty late).

Matt, I found a copy with lyrics!







I also remember being very young and watching The Search for Animal Chin - I would always leave the room in that one concert/skate jam scene because the singer of the band said "sex".