Yes, I know, I never update this thing anymore. It's difficult as I'm lazy, and I've been working this new job as news director. Yeah I'm in charge of the news for a whole radio station. Well 2 radio stations to be precise, so don't judge me. Asshole. It's been a busy crazy time, and I can't complain really. Band has a show this Friday night that I'm excited about, we've been having fun writing songs and I can't wait until we finally have a CD to put out. The down side of all that is I haven't been skating now in 2 weeks. We've had awesome weather, but getting up at 4am and playing music all weekend long has put a damper on that. But that's ok, soon I'll be back to hurting myself on a semi-weekly basis. Until then here are some shitty photos. Now I have to go work on news, and ordering panther urine...or something.

DRUMMERS ALWAYS PASS THE FUCK OUT.

ALEX GIVES YOU BLUE STEEL, JOSH GIVES YOU THE LOOK OF SATAN

LIFE IN THE FASTLANE

             It's been such a kickass winter, and spring, I'm totally thankful for everything that's been going down lately. I'm in a good place with my job, my life, and I've got to get out and skate way more than any other winter I can ever remember. 
             I am well aware that sounds corny as fuck, but in all seriousness, it's been fucking awesome. I think it's funny as fuck that people don't realize that yes, I'm 35, and yes I still skateboard. Am I hucking myself down 15 stair hand rails? Fuck no, it's not like I'm responsible enough to have health insurance. But I have a house, a car, and pay my bills thank you very fucking much.
            But that doesn't mean I won't grind the fuck out of a ledge for an hour straight, or work on kickflipping a stick for an hour. It's all skating. My friend Josh got broke off one day on this flat bar, just slipped out, thought he might of broken his arm. We were at the hospital, and the nurse asked him why he was skating at his age? If he didn't get paid for it and wasn't a professional. That's what people never understand, it's the pure fun and love of it.  I told him he should of asked her why she was just a nurse and not a Doctor? 
             Skateboarding is no different than some 50 year old playing tennis, well except for the whole bodily harm and danger and adrenaline thing, but that's the point isn't it? Maybe I'm sick, but it feels good to wake up a little sore from eating shit, it feels even better to pull a trick that you've been working on. Yeah it takes a few more days to heal up, and yeah, those 15 stairs turned into 5 stairs, but it's still the most fun thing in the world. I had a friend say skateboarding is the best invention ever, next to the guitar. I agree whole heartily, and most of the time I'm not sure the guitar wins out. 

This is me, back the last time I remember being this happy, and with as good an outlook on life. Really I just wish I still had all the flyers on that wall from the shows I'd been to.

And here's a tidbit of us pushing buttons in the studio, my other love in life. Plus I just like how excited Ryan is about dropping the guitars out....

Mixing from Jason T on Vimeo.

LONG TIME, OLD FRIEND

I still have not yet managed to fix my computer. It blows dick and balls as the only time I get to check out all the dumb skateboarding shit I read online is while I'm at work. And since now I'm some kind of news guy/afternoon guy at the radio station, I actually have work to do. Therefore, work+no computer=never get to update blog. I am however now at work, and Saturday mornings here aren't so busy, so I'm having my breakfast, and typing away.

A fully balanced and healthy breakfast!!

The good side of all this is that when I'm not at work, I've been able to get my lazy ass outside and enjoy this, uhhh, Winter? we've been having. 

As much as I make fun of country folk, well, I'm one of em. Yeah, I chopped and split wood, so what? Country Boys can survive....or some such shit.

           It's been really windy the last few days, and tornado's hit the state a little earlier this week. I feel bad about the people that lost their homes, and even worse for the people that lost their lives. That said, apparently Branson got hit pretty good. If you've never been to Branson, you should really go. It's like every religious, right wing, good christian tea party, country music listening, fucktards wet dream. It's like heaven on earth for those kinda folks. When I was a kid my parents took us there at least a half dozen times. It was fun as a kid, it used to be a little different. There's Silver dollar city, and the water park, AKA, White Water. We had shit tons of fun there. My parents used to stay at Freddy Fender's hotel while we were there, but his son died in a scooter accident there, and old Freddy packed up his shit and left town. There were tons of shitty little t-shirt shops, I remember one had all these rad DRI t's that I wanted so bad, but my parents wouldn't let me buy one. I think I freaked them out earlier that same summer when I bought the Dead Kennedys "In God We Trust, Inc."  
At any rate, I have fond memories of the place as a 12 year old little prick. Now that I'm a full grown 35 year old prick, it looks dumb as fuck. I haven't been there in at least 20 years, but when I was a kid they had Freddy Fender there, a really sketchy wax museum and other assorted things to do if you weren't into country music, guns, and God. Yeah, they had some hillbilly shows and what not, but nothing compared to what they have now.
Now they feature such famous shows as, 24 Karat Country, 3 Redneck tenors, Alabama Revival, Bill Anderson, and then they have these guys. http://www.baldknobbers.com/
They've been there forever, and honestly if you can deal with the funny looks, Christ loving right wing idiots, and don't mind having to deal with retarded traffic it's probably still a good time. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that the Hollywood Wax museum and the Ripley's Believe it or not museum didn't get fucked up.

Nothing much

Haven't really had much to say lately. No computer for some time now. Did manage to get a shitty old desktop, which at least for now allows me to look at all the shit I've been missing out on for the last month. On a side note, does anyone, and I mean anyone really understand women? At all? I turned 35 this year, and I was really starting to think I was getting the hang of everything. Apparently not the case. It's like some ancient riddle or rubicks cube or something along those lines. The midwest still sucks, in case you were wondering, which I'm sure you are not. Winter has been mild, but it's finally turned good and cold, which I secretly hope stays that way, at least for a bit. If only so when I go out in the woods this spring I'm not covered in ticks, bugs, and other assorted infestations of itchy, scratchy, biting insects. 

Been thinking about using this as the album cover for my bands EP. I think I took this back around 1998 or so, really nice slice of life where I live...

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I was really hoping these planes were going to make a pentagram, instead I'm sure they were spraying us with chemicals of some sort that do something evil that all those conspiracy theorists out there would know more about than I do.

What has life, and fifty years in this town done for you, Except to earn your name and place on a barstool?

Another boring post about skateboarding, Missouri, and deadmaus....

Haven't been able to post on here in a while. I had a death in the computer family which has left me with no way to save photos, video, or do much of anything. Luckily I do have an iphone, which is awesome and all, but it makes it a pain in the ass to post anything on here, so I haven't. We've been fairly lucky thus far with the weather. Normally January is the absolute worst. It's normally cold as hell, icy, snowy, and the windchill tends to dip north of 0 degrees. Well, it's been in the 50's for the first bit of the new year, and we've only had one day of snow, really cold weather. That was until 2 days ago. The Temperature went from 52, to 20, in about 10 hours, snowed, and it's been shit ever since. Apparently it's supposed to get back up in the 40's tomorrow, but everyone knows once you get a decent snowfall, the streets are shit, everything's melting, causing the sidewalks, streets, and parking lots to be covered by salt, dirt, water....which all equals no skating. 
        Not that I'm complaining, normally by this time we've had at least one ice storm, and I've been stuck inside for nearly a month awaiting warmer weather, and eating everything in sight, getting fatter. Josh and I did manage to get in a little skating the day before the snow hit. We happened upon this poor little guy, we named him deadmaus, but he didn't play anything that either made us want to take exctasy, or dance. 

Needless to say, he wasn't having a good day. We were, I recently purchased the Beez video I-III. It's only $7.99 you fuck heads, so if you don't own it, I highly recommend that you go here http://www.beez.wiskate.com/ right now, and buy it. Then do what we did, and go out and work on your step off shuvit everythings.... Josh tried his best to pull this off, but lack of style/speed makes it retarded. Which is quite funny really.

I particularly like the rock stop at the end. At any rate, we got to push around all day, then the next day, it fucking looked like this outside.

Oh well, can't wait to get this out of here, and do some more of this.

Just getting to push around, and dodging dead mice is all I really want most days. That and getting to play some tunes, with my friends. In the middle of mixing the EMDC EP now. Hopefully have some mixes to post up soon. Everything is finally recorded, and we've started the twisting of knobs and whatnots. 
         Hope everyone's having a decent 2012, and don't worry about those fucking Mayans, what do they know? They've been dead for a long, long fucking time. 

Merry Freaking Christmas

This is kind of how Christmas Feels to me anymore. Like a shitty hold up. Haven't posted on here in a while, been busy to say the least. Too many things going on at once, and While I tend to do pretty well in the midst of chaos, well, it's been crazy lately. Between work, recording, getting ready for the holidays. Fuck. I haven't been on my skateboard in a solid 14 days. That's the longest I've been away from it all year. Now that winters here I know there be some weeks here and there without it, but it's been other things keeping me off it lately, the weather, though a bit cold here and there, and raining, really hasn't been too terrible yet.

           I remember being about 12, when I got my first real, brand new skateboard. Like any kid in the late 80's, I loved Powell Peralta, and my first board was a skull and sword, with ventures and two black, two pink bones wheels. Still one of my  favorite Christmas presents of all time. I have some pretty cheesy photos somewhere of me posing with it. I remember it had snowed that Christmas, and I only got to skate it out in front of the house on the 10 foot long sidewalk where my pop had cleared the snow. My friend Mike had also got a new board, he got a Powell ripper the same year. We both pined so hard to actually go skating, it sucked. I remember, about a week after Christmas it warmed up a little, like above freezing anyway, and the snow had melted away, well most of it anyway. We bundled up and hit the streets. I remember it being dark, and us being bundled up like retards. Big huge coats, gloves, sock caps, and pushing down the empty streets. They were covered in chat, and it was a little hard to push, but we went for it anyway. I had a hand me down from these guys that skated before I got that board, but I had shitty trucks and wheels, this was my first real complete. It was like a whole new world had opened up. I was cold, I could feel the wind chapping my face, and I didn't care. We dodged snow banks, pushed through the sand, and ollied icy patches that had refroze. That was probably my best Christmas ever.  I had other really great Christmas gifts through the years, my first real guitar comes to mind as a close second. But no other Christmas comes close to the joy of that one. Of being young, and having that freedom. Here's to all the kids who will push for the first time this Christmas, to all the kids who will learn to ollie, and bomb a hill for the first time in the coming weeks. The ones that get it, that fall in love with something that is both unexplainable, and represents freedom. All the kids who get to experience that feeling, with the cold wind burning their cheeks, taking that first hard spill, numb, cold, and happier than shit about it. I was always proud of my bumps, scrapes, bruises, gashes and various bloody spots that arouse from the endless hours I spent on my board. In over 20 years it's never failed to give me enjoyment. Even when I was older, and too cool for a Powell board, and pissed cause I couldn't land some stupid trick, there are few things that can really make you feel like you're 12 again. Skateboarding is still the best Christmas present ever, and it's still one of the coolest things on the face of this whole stupid planet. Merry Christmas everyone, and a special Merry Christmas to all those kids who in a few short hours will be stepping on a board for the first time.

Fucking Winter

Winter's pretty much here. It's even rained icy shit down from the heavens one day. Fucking sucks. But we had a bit of a break in the weather, around the same time I had a bit of a break with my truck brakes. When I say break, I mean they just suddenly stopped working. Like went to the floor, had to slam on my E-brake to keep from flying around a 90 degree corner at 50MPH... Good times. So instead of skating when it warmed up to 45 and was sunny, (That's good weather as far as the winters here goes) I had to spend the day getting my friend Josh to drive me around to get my paycheck, brake fluid, and to help me work on my brakes. Pretty Awesome day though. We rocked out to George Jones cause that's the only tape Josh had in his car, which only has a tape player. We aren't trying to be all cool and retro, it's called being poor and living in the country. It looked like this...



Untitled from Jason T on Vimeo.

Yeah, we're doing it 80's style out here in the Midwest yo.