J How’s it going?
D I just woke up after sleeping I can’t even sit up. My back and legs are just fucked up.
I haven’t been able to do anything serious. It’s just sore, you know?
J From the gap yesterday?
D Yeah, dropping down a 10-foot drop all day long isn’t good.
J So you’re getting too old?
D haha, Yeah that’s what it is.
J A good day of skating and you need a good day of sleeping right after?
D ha. I’m not no 14 year old young gun anymore.
J So how old are you now?
D 20
J You’ve got another year before you’re too old for skating.
D haha. I tell myself that every year.
Hold on one second
J What are you doing?
D Dumpin’. Haha.
I’ll take the phone in the bathroom with me, I guess.
J do what you gotta do

J Where are you?
D At my house.
J What are you doing?
D Shitting.
J Alright. Let’s do this interview.
Are you in the bathroom right now?
D haha. I’m taking a shit as we speak.

J Haha. Ok. Where do you live and work?
D I live in Sterling, Massachusetts, and I work at MSC Skate Park in Shrewsbury.
J How’s the pro shop there?
D The pro shop is good enough, I guess. We don’t carry shoes or anything.
But we’ve got a wall of decks, haha. Wheels, trucks…

J What do you think of the age old comparison: east coast to west?
D haha, I don’t really know. I’ve only been to the west coast once and all I saw was a small portion.
J What was it for?
D It was for a Globe contest. They had a contest in Springfield, MA, and the top 3 people got flown to California for this other contest. It was pretty good,
J How did you do at that competition?
D Oh, fuckin’ terrible. I think they qualified the top 7 and I got 8th. haha
Me and Jimmy Day were there. The judges were givin us a hard time about our Eastern Boarder shirts. Haha.
J How’d Woodward contest you got flown to go?
D Good. The contest was cool, I got second, but that place is weird! If you don’t have a car out there, that place feels like you’re trapped. You’re out in the middle of nothing. Just fields and mountains.
J You couldn’t mak it on the Amish girls?
D They’re cute. I like their bonnets. haha.
Hey, Make sure you get this****Flushing noise***
Oh that stinks
D It’s just a weird vibe there.
J Like what?
D You know the term “Skate Coach Dad”?
J Yeah.
D Total Skate Coach Dad feeling up there, like “Son if you don’t do that, you don’t get supper!” It bums me out. It’s like , “Do a rock and roll or you’re grounded.” The kids that are getting yelled at by their dad and shit and they are the ones that are going to quit cause they’ll always remember skating as something that got pushed on them. Too much pressure to get sponsored, y’know? It’s getting crazy. Skateboarding is getting so corporate right now that it’s sickening.
It’s all about image, not what people skate, or how hard they skate. Like Omar Hassan. He’s one of the best skaters right now because he can skate street, vert, this dude can skate anything. But he doesn’t get as many props as he should because he’s not corporately marketable. He’s just a skateboarder, he’s not a 14 year old bling bling kid that will back over crook any handrail you put in front of him, you know what I mean? Just look at Nike. The second Nike saw skating was cool again, they pick up one of the best skaters. It sucks watching names like Nike taking over.
J Don’t worry. The skating industry will crash again.
D It’s only a matter of time before they all get knocked down again. You gotta kill it while you can

J So, I heard you have a pimp car.
D Oh shit. Haha. I used to.
J People say you had a traveling night club.
D Haha. It was like a ’92 Carrola. No joke, the system was worth more than the car. I bought that car for like $1400 and 900 dollars of it was the system. I bought it from this kid I use to work with. Haha. That car was fuckin hilarious.
J So you got rid of it?
D Well, it caught on fire.
J What caught on fire?
D All under my backseat caught on fire. The foam part of the seats.
Haha. There was a whole crew in it bumpin’ down the street when I smelled burning plastic. I looked in my rearview mirror and there was smoke everywhere, like barreling out the back windows. I pulled into the next Honey Farms and I was like “everyone get the fuck out of the car”. I just ripped out the back seat. Flipped it out onto the parking lot and it was just on fire. It was sketchy because one of the wires that burned was over a WD40 can and there was a ton of trash paper in the back seat so that shit could have gone up real good. But the car is still running today with 247,000 miles on it. I sold it and my buddy still has it. That baby’s still rollin. Ha

J I heard you sleep a lot
D I hate the day.
J Can’t stand the sunlight?
D I dunno. It makes you feel like **puking noise**
J Do you ever go to sleep at work?
D Oh man, haha. On a couple of occasions.
J A couple?
D There was one night I definitely fell asleep at the counter. One time we stayed up all night trying to finish this quarter pipe for the park, until like 8:30 in the morning and I had to work at 9:00. In that half hour I was waiting at the desk I must have passed out. I just woke up to people starring at me. Haha. Yeah, I was passed the fuck out. I barely remember people trying to talk tp me and I was just starring at them. Total creeper style. haha

J So what’s the story with the girl in the bowl of the park?
D haha. That is…let’s just say that was legit.
J Some after hours grinding that night?
D haha. You know this….front side. …and backside. Haha. That was definitely a fun fuckin’ night.
J haha. I can’t imagine the bottom of a bowl being too comfy
D Oh. More than you know. It was a good couple of times
J This is more than one night?
D Uh, that’s something for me to know and something I dunno if I should drop in an Automatic article. Haha. It was a good time
J I hear you can get any girl you want. After we left the Quizno’s gap and returned there was a note taped to my car from some girl who worked there and wanted your number!
D hahaha no way! That’s cool.

J I heard you bought a guitar for 300, even though you didn’t know how to play, ‘cause you wanted to start a band called Gnar Boots, and the next day you broke it.
D haha. Yeah, I’m a clumsy person.
J So you did break the guitar?
D I didn’t smash it or anything. It just broke. I’m cursed or something.
The other week I got a pack of buds and a drink and it came to $6.66, and that happened like three times over a few weeks. I kept buying a bunch of weird shit like an Arizona and a pack and it came to 666. I bought a pack of gum, a soda and something to eat and it came to 666… And this piece of of paper I crumpled it up, I burned it, blew it out, and unraveled it and it said SIN on it in black!
J I saw that! Haha. That was ridiculous.
D Yeah, it’s weird how that shit works out sometimes.
J Someone was telling me about a CT party after you graduated saying you were doing front flips onto your face off the mini ramp decks and that was debut of Dirty Dan, or was it Dan the Dirtbag?
J That was the turning point from third in your graduating class to Dirty Dan?
D I don’t really remember that party too well. Haha. We went to Groton, some dude was having a party so me and my friend picked up these two chicks from the skate park, we got wasted and skated the mini ramp all night long. Haha, It was a good night.
J Any other good stories?
D I don’t know, dude. I don’t do anything but skate. …skatin and fuckin. … and rockin.
J And sleeping?
D And sleeping, sleeping’s cool. Haha.
J So, alright. Who gets credit for hookin’ you up?
D EasternBoarder and Fallen.