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So if you’ve never been to Texas before the only thing you probably know about Austin is it’s the home of Jake Nunn, Michael Sieben, and the Banana farm. All of this is true but with a couple of exceptions. Jake and Sieben are always to busy with real skateboard jobs to drink beers all day like the rest of us. As far as the Banana Farm goes, it’s either under repair or Shannon absolutely will not let you skate it. Shit, that motherfucker turns the lights out on me when I’m skating it and I live there. That’s okay though because there’s a shit ton of spots to ride.
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After I finished up my brief interview with Dave Bachinsky, he kindly asked if I would e-mail him our transcribed correspondence. This is not an unusual or outlandish request from any subject, especially when that subject is fairly down on their luck and vulnerable to the many evils the world might have in store for them.
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IT’S NOT EASY PICKING THE “NEXT AM” TO FEATURE HERE. THE PHOTOS KEEP STACKING UP ON THE LIGHT TABLE AS LIST OF HEADS WHO ARE WAITING FOR INTERVIEWS GETS LONGER AND LONGER. ONLY A WEEK AGO, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAD SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLANNED FOR THIS SPOT. SOMEHOW DAVID GRAVETTE LANDED HERE, I TRULY DON’T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED. MAYBE IT WAS SOME WEIRD KIND OF EVIL MAGIC SPELL THAT HE AND HIS CREEPY BOARD SPONSOR CAST UPON US. MORE THAN LIKELY THOUGH, IT IS BECAUSE THE KID DELIVERED THE GOODS AND BUMPED THE WEAKER CONTENT TO THE CURB.
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I ran into my mother the other day while skating along down by the beach. We got to talking and I mentioned to her that we were doing a thing on hippies in the next issue. She lived through the sixties and, though too young to partake in the nationwide debauchery that took place, got to witness the entire era first hand. I’ll spare you the details of our conversation, but what seemed to amuse her the most about the whole affair was not the events that actually took place, but what eventually became of the hippies.
“They’re mean,” she said. “Not the ones who eventually became normal people, but the ones that really bought into it. I think it’s because everything failed. Things are still pretty much the same now as they were then.
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HIS ISSUE’S SHIT TALKER IS NONE OTHER THAN JOEY PEPPER. IT TOOK JOEY A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL TO GET THIS DONE BECAUSE HE WASN’T FEELING “NEGATIVE” ENOUGH. A TRIP BACK EAST CURED THIS PROBLEM WHERE JOEY SAYS, “THE NEGATIVITY WAS FLOWING LIKE WATER.”. BELOW ARE FIVE RANDOM TOPICS WE GAVE JOEY TO LET RIP A TIRADE OF HATE.
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LAST ISSUE WE DID A FEATURE CALLED, “SO YOU WANT TO BE A TEAM MANAGER?” IT WAS ABOUT THE HORROR STORIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DIFFICULT JOB OF MANAGING SKATEBOARDERS. SINCE IT HAS BEEN OUT WE’VE BEEN INUNDATED WITH OUTRAGEOUS STORIES FROM TEAM MANAGERS. SHORTLY AFTER THE ISSUE HIT THE STREETS I WAS CHATTING WITH ARTIST AND IDEA MAN RUSS POPE AND HE SAID, “YOU OUGHT TO TURN THIS INTO A REGULAR DEPARTMENT AND CALL IT MEMOIRS OF A TEAM MANAGER”. THANKS RUSS! EVERY ISSUE WE’LL BE GIVING THIS PAGE TO A TM WHO WANTS TO SHARE A STORY. THIS ISSUE WE’VE GOT A CLASSIC JASON JESSE STORY AS TOLD BY BOB DENIKE. BOB WAS TM OVER AT SANTA CRUZ DURING THE WILD DAYS OF 1988-1989.
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PHOTOS BY JOSHUA WORD
WORDS BY MIGDOL
So how long have you worked at Avalanche?
About 2 years.
What is the most fucked up thing to ever happen there?
One time some huge fat lady slipped on some posters that were on the ground. When she was going down she ripped some more posters off the wall. She laid on the ground for about 20 minutes complaining about her back. Then she tried to get the owner to give up all the information so she could sue us.
What did the owner do?
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