sorry friends!

i know, i've been slackin hard on the updates as of late.
but seriously, its been too cold for me to skate, so i havent been taking too many photos
and today, i just basically said, its to cold for me to do any activities outside, i'm dying in this frozen town. so, hopefully, something will come up soon, i'll take some photos, and you'll have some fun viewing.
and maybe something miraculous will happen, and i'll blog about it...something like that.

thanksgiving evening

warning! its another long one! totally worth it!

oh wow.
where do i start...
so i go over to nicks house, teejay is there, we're bored, lets go to albertsons...its closed, turkey day, we're hungry/bored, so we go searching for somewhere...anywhere that had food/cola. we go to some gas station, get some energy drinks and beef jerky. whatevs. what to do now? lets drive up to the top of that mountain right there, see how windy it is! so we get up there, its rediculously windy, i've never been in such intense wind in my life, i brought my camera, and when i took off my lens cap, i dropped it, and my lens cap started blowing away in the wind, took us a while to grab it...

it was cold. and windy. almost fell over numerous times, and i couldnt get my camera to focus :[


after this, we're like "dude, lets go drive up that other mountain, by chris's house!" so we think we're on the road to the top, but we actually end up driving behind the mountain, and we drive along this sketchy dirt road, then it turns into US government property, and so we turned around, ventured on.
we ended up driving by Best Buy and Circuit City to check out all the idiots camping out, one lady threatened to spray teejay with pepper spray, because he said we were gonna come back in the morning and cut in line...it was hilarious.






i drive with my eyes closed

then, after an intense wal-mart session, teejay/nick start trying to call their friend brian, he starts making up excuses like i'm sleeping, and i'm gonna go home soon, etc...10 minutes after his goofy phone calls, we see drive by, or at least we thought it was him...i guess it was his same exact car, down to the details, same little body kit shizz, same goofy headlights, came car...so, okay, we follow him.
he's driving out on leslie, way out there, and he turns on some random road, that goes out into the desert, all these crazy huge houses, and we're starting to question whether its him or not, but we carry on, right on their tail, assuming its brian, realizing we're following him, so he's giving us a chase. this guy knows where he's going, he's taking some crazy roads, and we're getting sketched out. majorly. i start flashing my brights, because i'm tired of following him. after this, he speeds off, flies up to 60mph, we practically lose him, they turn into this huge driveway, and so we stop, and roll down the window...this is when the guy stays there for a few minutes, then gets out. teejay yells "brian! brian!" the guy replies "what? i'm not brian!" assuming brian is joking around, teejay yells "yes, you are!" and we really realize, we just totally stalked this dude for 15 minutes, freaking him out, so i yell sorry, and we take off.
then it got kinda weird/fun. we thought it was super fun to chase this dude. and i remember back in the day, we used to drive around with eric, and follow people for fun. so we decide, "yeah, lets follow some more people for fun!" yeah, sounds weird, but its suspensful and very very fun...we find our next victom...car full of kids about our age, the chase is on, i give them a little space, so its not too obvious that i'm following. they start going out to the same exact area, we get sketched out again. they were definatly getting sketched out though, they were turning without signals, running stop signs, i started feeling bad, but we kept on. they pull off to the side of the road, we decide to keep going, and we see that they turn around, so we turn around, just to make it fun again. we come to an intersection, you either go straight into a dead end, or turn right, i figured they turn right, and i miss the turn, so i go into the dead end. as i slow down to pull a U'ey, teejay notices they're on the side of the road, watching us, so teejay yells "OH SHIT! THEY'RE RIGHT THERE!" i'm startled, thinking "oh god, what if they're pissed...we cant just pull off the whole 'hey! joe? joe? oh...its not you? damn" so i fling the car around, thinking theres a nice shoulder, turns out, theres some gnarly soft gravel, and my car bottoms out all crazy and we speed off. we finally get back onto leslie, i start turning my wheel, and i'm looking at the spedometer or something, and i guess my wheel turned back, and we almost flew into some ditch, but teejay managed to take a hold of the wheel, and we barely made the turn without dying...thanks teejay. hahaha
so now, we pull over, make sure my car is alright from bottoming out so much, and just take it all in...then we start thinking about how funny it must've all looked. them getting out of the car, all freaked out, from being followed, then seeing us, "oh shit, there they are!" then they see us slam on the brakes, and hear us yell "OH SHIT! THERE THEY ARE!" and watch us fling around and run over a bush basically and speed off...must've been funny.
we're all calm now, collected, we notice, that i've almost hit 100,000 miles on my car, so we drive around the neighborhood until i hit it. instant stokage! then we all get out and piss on some fence. it was a magical moment.


"to think, the toyota almost didnt get to see 100,000 miles!"
-nick

now its time to go home, end the night, with a good nights rest.
today...not much, went to lexi's, went to golden, went to the mall, went to best buy, went home. lots and lots of driving.

yeah, it was another long one. hope you liked it!

have you ever watched hardcore dancing???
its embarassing. for everyone.
embarassed number 1

embarassed number 2

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

yeah! turkey! stuffing! spuds! oh yeah, and family!
haha, i'm excited, its gonna be a good day, of laying around, watching television, and getting fat, or at least trying to get fat.
then, if you're really hardcore, you go burn off all the fat shopping at 4 in the morning tomorow!

its been good. since the last post at least. no photos, sorry everyone. but, i've just been hanging around. Suffer the Joy arrived at Golden yesterday, you should probably go buy it. serious.
www.goldenlovesyou.com

also, the long awaited Day In The Life of Ben Carden, the sequel was posted on the interweb today. thanks to Charles Wray. Personally, i dont know if i've ever met this dude, but after watching the first day in the life, i laughed pretty hard. i dont know how many times i asked charlie to make another one. and he finally did! i laughed just as hard as the first one, probably more!

DayInTheLife-BenCarden2


its good stuff!

and thank gawd for Tryptophan! the greatest amino acid. cant wait for that tryptophan buzz! awww yeah...i'm gonna go take a nap now.

hello to mondays, excitement, and fights

well, today happens to be Monday, so, i had a rough start to begin with this morning, but like always it got better.
school was pretty boring, quite mundane.
so, my day was pretty boring, normal, whatevs...
until i went to the skatepark.
[its a long story, but its worth reading, i think, it was entertaining for me, and i hope its entertaining for you, you might even learn something from it...]

its a beautiful day, the rain has cleared, the sun is out, kinda, and the weather is much warmer.
i decide its a good day to pick up my skateboard and put it to use, so i head down to the park.
i can feel the session starting, things are picking up pace, its getting fun. then...
I hear "DONT YOU EVER TELL ME TO SHUT UP AGAIN!" belching out of michael[vowel's] mouth.
wait wait wait...sorry, let me back up. if you didnt already know this, michael [junior, my grade] can be a cool guy i guess, but, lately, he's been known for being kind of an arse, and generally trying to be a bully to everyone, its getting pretty wack, and its killing the vibes...for everyone. sometimes it can be funny, like a joke, some immature teasing never hurt anyone, just as long as they dont have feelings to begin with.
so, with that said,

i hear some drama happening, so i whip my head to see whats the haps
michael picks up his board, and hits blake in the leg with it.
now, blake however, [freshman i do believe] i dont like him, he can be pretty annoying, and he's been known to do some things that didnt exactly follow skatepark educate.
so, blake is getting hit in the leg with a skateboard over an argument not worth wasting your breath. cool.
michael storms off in anger, and blake is pretty hurt, we seem worried, yet we giggle a bit, and keep skating. i know i'm drawing this on...and i like it.
we skate for a bit, then hear some banging and screaming, i look in the parking lot, to see blake running away, and michael is chasing after him. appearantly, blake ran out to michaels truck, and started smashing the hood with his skateboard. just so everything is fair.
blake runs over to where we are, and just kinda awaits michael to come over, so he can run away some more, michaels eyes actually lit on fire at this point in time. finally, michael gets close enough, says some curses, and hops onto blake, he starts wailing on blakes back and the occipital part of blakes head, blakes friends run over and push him off. blake is in pain again, and michael is red in the face. michael suggests that he would "take all y'all pussy's! right here! come on! i'll kick your ass!" and the kids say "no, we dont want to fight you, we just want you to lay off."
another one of blakes friends, [freshman as well] gets in michael's face and they exchange some expected yelling, then michael says "what michael, you wanna fight me too?"
"oh god michael..." the friend says, but is inturupted by michaels palm in his face
the kid takes a swing, its a good punch, michael pulled some kind of matrix move, and dodged
but seriously, if this punch would've landed, i would've mistaken this kid for tyson.
this starts it off, they scuffle, they do the struggle hug [when the fight starts and they're kinda just hugging eachother, trying to take the other one down, but they just cant do it, so they awkwardly, aggressivly, hug.]
they start punching eachother, everywhere, face, back, stomach, kicking, whatevs, it was getting intense.
the kid manages to get michael in a headlock, and starts going at it on michaels face like a windmill, then blake sees the opprotunity for revenge, and runs over, and uses his fists to feed michael.
i notice, that the fire department is visiting the local bank of HAPO, the bank right next to the skatepark, the firemen realize whats going on, and one of them hops over the fence like a ninja and everything kind of breaks up. theres some more yelling, some laughing, some anger.
i'm laughing very hard, its terrible i know, but i cant keep a straight face when i see others fight about stupid things.
however, i'm worried/pissed, cuz i'm afraid that the firemen are going to report this fight, and if you remember what happened the spring of '05, the incident with the lurkers. we dont want the cops to have a regular check up every 2 hours at the park.
luckily, cops never came.
so, we basically tell everyone who was involved, to please, leave the park, because we dont want to see their faces. actually, i was surprised, there was no blood, because i saw some good fist to face action.
thinking back on it now. i know how the argument started, it went like this "blake, that wasnt even a real 50-50, his front truck wasnt even locked in"
blake said "shut up michael"
thats what started it. tomorow, i think i'll ask michael, "what did you solve man? all that for nothing? thats too bad, have fun getting the dents out of your hood!"

yes, i know i made that story about 500 words too long. but i dont care, i'm bored, i need something to do, and i kinda like writing.
besides, i wanna make sure you all know what really happened, because i know for a fact that michael will have a different story, and so will blake/all his friends.
i however, didnt take sides, so i'm telling you what happened, at least, what i saw. i wish i had photos to show you...i think omar filmed a little bit on clints camera...talk to clint...

what a day, its a short week, tomorow, then wednesday is a half day, then turkey day, then no school friday. i'm excited. and i hope the vibes at the park will be good tomorow!

its a good saturday

first saturday in the past 3 weeks that i didnt have any problems with my epilepsy. so i've been pretty damn optomistic all day!

but first, last night.
last night, me, cory, zach, alex, craig, and matt when skating. we went to the old TRW ledge, or the commodore ledge, whatever you please.
i took photos, it was pretty neat,


zach-crooked grinder


cory-smith


alex-noseslide, he actually did some kinda crazy shove it thing out


then craig died.

anyways
while we were there, this dude comes up to me, and asks "what are you taking photos of?" so i'm like, damn, he's probably gonna ask me to delete any photos of the property or something lame like that. so i'm just kinda like "ehh, you know, skateboarding..." and he says "well, you look like you know what you're doing, {hands me his card} why dont you e-mail me some photos, and maybe we'll put them in the next Reactor Magazine"
so i sent off some photos today...reactor magazine is some lame little local tri cities "arts, news and entertainment" magazine. its free, they have it all over the place. i doubt i'll get any photos published, but that'd be kinda cool right? eh, maybe not... oh well.
www.reactormag.com

today, got up, no seizures, hyped, hung out with lexi, even more hyped. dont eat at the big burrito, that place sucks ween. taco bell is much better :]
now, i'm just, trying to learn these joy division songs. i'm quite bored really. but, i got my EX-BOX out from my closet, and i tried playing one of my Tony Hawk video games, its sooo fun! dudes that hate on tony hawk's video games, or tony hawk in general are wack. they're just jealous of his success. but, they have every right to hate on BAM.
...thats not even his real name...

shucks

thursday
its whatevs you know?
school was mega whatevs, i cant really remember anything we did...strange.

after school, i went and hung out with lexi. it was nice, we went and took photos near a bridge and stuff.





she's pretty cute.

then, got taco bell, and enjoyed south park on my lonesome.
oh yeah, check out this photo of alex from 2 days ago...mid-fart


have fun with it!

not much, but some fun from early summer

I didnt do anything today, dont know why, just stayed inside, stressed on grades, got unstressed on grades, then get slightly stressed on them again...seizures stay away please.

i played my guitar, thought about trying to write a song, started thinking to hard and gave up.

but, mainly, i was on ryan's myspace, and came upon this photo, eric took it in the early summer at skatecamp, eric bought his nice new pentax, and then we went skating around fresno downtown, right behind the baseball stadium.
anyways, its probably 1 in the mourning in this photo, we were skating this neat ledge in this ally. it was pretty dirty, lots of trash and grease on the ground. then we realized that we were skating in front of this $1 Chinese place...i'm not sure what kinda stuff they sold for a buck, but...it had a door, with a cross made out of tape, and the letters were falling off the sign, it was pretty gross.
brought back good memories from that night.

[yeah, i know i look quite rediculous, this was taken in july probably...]
the quality isnt that good, cuz i just grabbed it from ryan's myspace.
i hope you found amusement in my story.

now go listen to some sonic youth and built to spill!

prosser, richland, kennewick, west richland, richland, kennewick, west richland, then richland again.

McDonalds iz my spot! Check The MUTHAFUCKIN drive-True!

What a day.
first, i got to prosser, its me, teejay, cory, and vince in my car, alex/matt/craig in another car, ian/chris/taylor in the other car.
and if you've been to the Prosser skatepark, 5 people is too many people.
after prosser, we went and skated the benton city skatepark.

"benton skate krew = boner suck krew"

then we went to the school to skate the rail, i took photos, cuz i dont skate anymore.




yeah, i couldnt decide on my favorite angle, they're all kinda the same, but, yeah, you decide.
cory is sick. back smith...must've been hard.


crooked grinder


wide angle

then on the way home, we stopped and took photos









yeah, it was awesome.

then we drove around for a while, went to value village, ross, GI joes, skated, drove, whatevs
then teejay and i picked up lexi, aimee, and allison, and we went to 321 to see Tim's band Songs For Sleepers play.

*Craig-when you read this, just know, that i feel terrible, i totally spaced out, and forgot that i was supposed to pick you up, and i feel really really bad. next show you wanna go to. just tell me, we're going. and i'm paying!

...yeah, sorry.

someone got a hold of my camera...i dont know where this photo came from, but i'm in it, so i obviously didnt take it...





it was a lot of fun! lexi kept getting mad at me whenever i'd try taking photos of her, it was cute. and then she was totally embarassed when i was doing my little bopp dance, i had a lot of fun though...
it was fun. a really really really long day.
it should happen more often.

I took photos today!

I WAS SO HYPED TODAY!
I woke up, no school-bueno.
i head down to alex's, matt and alex and russ are rakin leaves, so i help, craig rolls by, we rake us some damn leaves.
go down to the skatepark for a bit, hella people all around, some definate kooks! whatevs, we go down to granny's [buffet] to get gnarly on some power snacks. then we head down to some ditch in downtown kennewick. alex, chris, taylor, cory, zach, and craig skated and got gnarly.


Alex did a nollie flip fakes


zach did a nice kickflip fakie, i really like the way he caught his board in this one


i liked the way this photo of Chris's nollie turned out. its all nice and crisp and in focus and shizz. taylor did a nollie too, but i didnt get the photo...


Then, craig did a kickflip, blew my mind away...i dont wanna talk about it

he was obviously hyped.

then after this we went out to the colombia park skatepark, that they havent finished yet, even though i think it was supposed to be done today... oh well, its gonna be pretty sweet i'm sure...when its done.

went back to golden for a quick lurk sesh
went to lexi's for a bit, before she had to go do something more important, hahaha.just kidding, what could be more important than seeing me?

came home, tim came over, he just left.
zach-i'm gonna have to session GH 2 ASAP

and everyone thats coming to Prosser-
be at the skatepark at 10:30 tomorow!!!

thursday

its thursday
school seemed like it took forever. no bueno
tomorow, we dont have school, i guess i'm looking forward to that!

today was dry enough to skate, so of course i attempted. although the skatepark was filled with puddles, including a god damn lake. my board just had to shoot into it. cant wait until i have to buy some new bearings...anyways. skating wasnt too good. i just felt really out of shape, so, i sessioned golden. that was fun.
then we all went and skated again, i fell a few times, got annoyed with some kids, decided i was just gonna go roam hastings.
so i went to hastings, that was nice, i wanna buy ben folds's new cd, and i saw some sweet magazines, but they didnt have juxtapoz...

i came up on this south park evolution shizz. its funny

first blog post in about a week.

its sad i know, sorry guys.
the issue was, i didnt have anything to do, the weather was all rainy and no fun, and i wasnt taking photos, and i just didnt feel like i had a reason to blog...
but anyways, yesterday, chris showed me this sweet website called Found Magazine, and its a daily update thing where people pick up peices of paper or photos off the ground, and they say something funny or something on them, and they send them in, and they get posted daily. i suggest you check it out!!!
www.foundmagazine.com

but yeah, i wanna start picking up randumb stuff and posting it hopefully. we'll see.

but yeah, my week has been quite dull. well, i guess i cant say that, but, i havent been taking photos at least...
friday i went and hung out with tim 'n' aimee, we went to the football game and then saw science of sleep. that movie is damn weird...


then saturday/sunday i hung out with lexi :]
we hung around and went and saw a movie, that was pretty fun.

then yesterday [monday] i had a fever, so crazy bad headache, and all sweaty, so i stayed home from school...let me tell you, it was sooo boring!

and then today i went and saw lexi again, and we took some goofy photos and just hung out at her house. :]





if you've ever watched the bonus section in the Enjoi video, the section where caswell is getting his head shaved, this photo is dedicated to him, when he yells "geeaaaaaaaahhhh! I'M BUFF!"

a good photo of me i'd say. lol

yeahs, its been sucky because of the weather, but, hopefully i'll be able to skate someday soon!