Nate Jones: "I had to take him for his money". (Heads).Nate, where are you from and how did you get here? I came from Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. . Real and Stereo were coming back from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on their summer tour. I just got dumped by one of my girlfriends and decided to jump in the van and get a ride out to SF and see where that took me. This is where it took me. What were you doing before those guys picked you up? Just being a dirtbag dirt·bag n. Slang A filthy or vile person. . Skating? Trying. Who did you skate with? Kevin Jenaden and my friend Frog. Was there lots to skate in Dayton? No, not a whole lot of stuff. It was alright though. I mean, there was always something to skate and someone to skate with. How would you compare it to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ? Well, this is more city life. There, it's more country life. Would you say it's harder to skate there or here?. There, because you have the weather. It's good there because you have the fall and the spring, and summer's hot. But then winters are cold. Is it a bust out "Bust Out" is the twenty-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the tenth of the show's second season. It was written by Frank Renzulli, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by John Patterson and originally aired on Sunday March 19 2000. there? Yeah I definitely went to jail a few times. Why did you go to jail for skating in Dayton? I was just' skating down the street, but I had a warrant. Have you ever been arrested for skating in San Francisco? Yup. Same thing, warrant. Me and Frank were skating down the street. I went to jail but he didn't,, even though he thought he had a warrant. How was 850 Bryant? There were some crazy dudes Dudes may refer to:
At you? No, just at people in general. There's just a lot of freaky freak·y adj. freak·i·er, freak·i·est 1. Strange or unusual; freakish. 2. Slang Frightening. freak people in there. It was not fun. That's fucked to be in there for skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean , considering everything else that goes on in The City. Yeah. The people in there are talking about how they're going to be doing six- to-eight and shit, and how they don't give a flick. So you came to San Francisco, how did you end up living at the Newell house? Gabe lived there. I came out with him and kind of just started crashing on the couch On the Couch is an Australian television program formally broadcast on the Fox Footy Channel and it focuses on the current issues in the AFL. This is now broadcast on Fox Sports after the closure of Fox Footy Channel. The show airs on Monday night and is hosted by Gerard Healy. . Then Dustin Dollin Dustin Dollin (born June 26th, 1980 in Ballina, New South Wales) is a goofy-footed professional skater from Katoomba Australia. He is currently sponsored by Volcom, Independent Trucks, Baker skateboards, Vans, and Spitfire Wheels. moved out so I sub-letted his room, and he never ended up coming back. How long did you live at the Newell? Three years or four years. What's the living situation like there? It's cool. They're dirty. Why did you move out? If I stayed there any longer I'd probably be gay. Here are a couple questions from the roommates at 6 Newell: You've been going to open mic night a lot. How is that going? It's going good. I've been playing every Wednesday. Do you get nervous on stage? I get really drunk before I play so I lose my nerves. What do you play for your audiences? Dylan basically I like Bob Dylan Noun 1. Bob Dylan - United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941) Dylan . What happened to your pool shark career? I still play pool all the time. I hustled some fool the other night and had to take his money. So you still own your own pool stick? Oh yeah! What happened playing pool against Patrick Melcher? Didn't he school you? No, I took his money Max was there, he's got my back. I had to put Melcher in check. He thought he was running game and I had to take him for his money and his pride. How did you get your pro model shoe to match your beard? Match my beard? Does it match my beard? Do you still make candles with real flowers in them? Oh yeah! Where can we get some? On Haight Street Haight Street, in San Francisco, is perhaps best known as the principal street in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, aka the Upper Haight district. It stretches from Market Street to Stanyan Street, at Golden Gate Park. ? That was a rough one. It was for a girl; I was depressed. OK, back to standard questions: Has there been a favorite skate trip you've been on? The first Real skate trip I took with Deluxe. Who was on that trip? Me, Frank, Dennis, Damian, Gabe, Wolfe, and Mic-E. Where were you guys going? Across America for like a month and a half. It was a long one. It was fun though. I had a really good time. So what happened? Cairo jacked his back. On that DC rail? Yeah. Frank went to jail, Dennis did 98 nollie flips in a row on point outside of the jail cell waiting for Frank to get out. First time he ever got drunk was on that trip with Frank. They also got us kicked out of the hotel. Damn that was good! So you and Matt Field are about to start a company. What's the vibe behind that? Just clean and easy going. Just fun, skating. How do you feel about the transition from Real to your new company? It's going to be cool. I always wanted to ride for Real when I was a little kid, looking up to Hufnagel and those guys. It's gonna gon·na Informal Contraction of going to: We're gonna win today. be a weird thing I guess to not ride for it anymore, but I'm psyched that they're giving me and Matt an opportunity to do something on our own. So you'll miss riding for Real? Yeah, but I'll still be apart of it so it's still family. It'll just be different. Does it have a name? Rasa Libre. Who's on the team? Just me and Matt Field right now. Do you guys have any trips planned? No. There's some summer tour coming up but that's for Real. I'm gonna go on that anyway. What do you like most about being on the road? Just going to new spots and meeting new people. Being away from home for awhile a·while adv. For a short time. Usage Note: Awhile, an adverb, is never preceded by a preposition such as for, but the two-word form a while may be preceded by a preposition. . What do you like about skating in San Francisco? Just cruising around The City. We've been skating those metal loading docks lately. Those are pretty fun. What do you think of all the skateparks being built around the Bay Area? It's good to give people a place to skate. They really need to build a plaza, like a LOVE park plaza and just call that the skatepark A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment for skateboarders, bmxers and aggressive skaters to ride and develop their sport and technique. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, handrails, trick boxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, stairs, . If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Spain. Is there anything else you want to say? Thank yous, something to the kids? To all the kids: have fun skating. And I'd like to thank Tommy Guerrero As a teen, Tommy Guerrero (born September 9, 1966 in San Francisco) was one of the prominent members of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta's professional skateboarding team that dominated the 1980s. , Matt Field, everyone at Newell, Joe Castrucci, Gabe Morford, everyone over at Deluxe, and everyone else who has ever supported me. Thank you. |
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