David Gravette.

Are you ready?

No.

First off, where are you from?

Issaquah, Issaquampton, Washington.

Where is that?

About 30 minutes east of Seattle.

Where do you usually skate there?

When I'm in Issaquah, nowhere, 'cause I don't have any friends there and it's no fun skating without your friends. If I had friends in Issaquah, I would skate the skatepark or shred my face off around the city.

What are the spots like in Seattle?

They're good, and they give you big cuts fight above your butt crack.

What are some legendary Seattle skate spots?

Legendary would be Garfield High, the Wall of Death, or Red Square.

Who is the best skater to come out of Seattle?

Shit, depends what you mean by "best."

Who is famous?

Famous would be Aaron Artis, but Deville is soon to be.

You ever been to skate the bowls in west Seattle?

No, somehow not. Being that I love skating bowls, am on Creature, and I know some of the dudes that ride there, I am fucking blowing it.

What's your favorite park in the Northwest?

Damn. Whatever park has all the homies there. I always go to the Skate Barn; it's always raining and Skate Barn is covered.

How has the past year been?

Good. I've been to Australia, Europe, and been on a couple United States trips. It's living the dream; I actually was thinking the other day that I know all my favorite skaters on a personal level now.

You turned 18. Tell me about your 18th birthday.

We were all totally wasted after going to the keg party, and everyone's like,

"We got to go to a strip club, we got to go to a strip club," and I'm thinking this is probably destiny. Ryan, one of my roommates, is kind of arrogant and the outgoing type, and he claims he's going to order an escort. He pulls out the Stranger newspaper and sees an ad that says "hot two-on-one sexy action." The picture is of two hot girls making out. He calls it and asks how much for the hot two-on-one action. They say it's $250 an hour, and he offers them $25. The girl on the other line says alright and asks what's the address. He panics and gives them the address. No one believes the girls are showing up for $25 bucks. We go to the strip club and Ryan stays home to see if these girls are going to show up. We get a phone call from Ryan when we're at the strip club, saying the escorts have arrived and he doesn't know what to do. We tell him to let them in, and he yells back, "You don't understand, the escorts are two fatass chicks and they're throwing rocks at the window." On that note we stayed at the strip club, and left him to deal with the fatass girls who eventually left.

Let's talk about the El Toro experience.

I went to Damn Am and realized I could do salad grinds without falling on them. I mentioned to Andrew Mapstone and Remy Stratton that I wanted to salad El Toro if we went there. Remy must have called Deville, 'cause Deville called me and said, "Let's do this tomorrow." We went there and there was construction on the good rail, so Deville suggested we come back the next day. I didn't want to come back so I 50-50'd the bad rail. Deville was setting up, and first try salad I went all the way down, rolled 10 feet, and fell. Some guy was trying to pull a fence in front of the rail to stop me. Figgy dragged the fence out of the way, kids were running everywhere; it was pretty hectic. Now I can't do salads at all, probably never have another salad grind ever.

What goes on in your head before skating a big rail?

"Damn, Iron Maiden sounds fucking sick!"

Any doubt?

Sometimes now.

Do you even think about it?

I used to never even think about it 'cause I had a really good run with big rails and not falling. I'm trying to get that back again.

What are your injuries looking like right now?

About as good as your beer belly.

What happened to your hips?

I think both of them are possessed by the devil. The right one had four scar tissue bursa sacs removed and it got infected six weeks later, so I got the same surgery twice. Now it's worse.

Why do you always scorpion?

I can't go into any rolls so I fall on my stomach. If I fall on my hips, it hurts way too much and it freaks people out.

Tell me a stow involving Sam Hitz.

Before going to Australia I had heard from other people that Sam could be a bit much on road trips. I was kind of nervous, and I had seen in a recent "Firing Line" with him that he hates Quarterpipe Larry. I had already been dubbed Quarterpipe Larry by the rest of the Creature team. So we're getting on the plane to Australia, and my seat was with everyone but Sam's was off by himself. Sam comes over to me, and says, "I think you're in my seat." I said no, and he responded, "I think you should give that seat to me." I didn't want to deal and I gave it to him. I had to sit next to this big fat lady, and the first thing she says to me is, "I'm sorry if I start to stink in a few hours." Who the fuck says something like that? Sure enough in a few hours she smells horrible. She was producing this terrible odor.

What do you do when you're not skating?

Play "Guitar Hero," chill with babes, think about how much sicker life would be if I was actually skateboarding.

What's gay chicken?

When you go up to one of your homies and lean in like you're going to kiss him. Whoever backs away first loses. Luckily it has never come to a kiss yet.

You should play that game with one of the Wet Boys.

Not yet, and frankly, I'm not the most interested.

Who are your sponsors?

Creature skateboards, Bones wheels and bearings, Duffs shoes, Volcom clothing, and Spirit skateshop.

What's next? Who's coming up?

Sponsors?

No, who is coming up?

Oh, it's all about my boy Bingaman right now. Bingaman is bringing some steam, and the usual Deville, D Love.

If you were to have a sponsor outside of skateboarding, what would you want?

A fucking house sponsor.