Ty Bush

Gave me a little shout out on his blog... thanks Ty!

Here I Am

No updates for a while.  Here's what has happened lately:  

-Finished school, which went really well.  One more semester and then I'll have graduated.  

-Skating has not been going well, mostly due to snow, snow, and snow. 

-I've been working, hanging out, and shoveling spots only to have them snowed on shortly after.  I need to get out of Colorado soon.

In positive news, the DVD of the new Denver Shop video is done.  Premier is in one week!

Feels good!

I also looked at the new thrasher while I was in The Shop.

David coming through with a sick ad, shot by Ty Bush!

Abdias also killing it, with another ad by Ty Bush.  Get paid Ty!

This rail looks so fun. Rails....mmmmmmmmmm.

I'm going to Wisconsin until Tuesday, then I'll be back for the premier December 29th!

Snow!

I met up with Ty at Denver Park.  He came through Denver for the weekend on his way back from Texas.  Always a pleasure to see out of state friends.

Red Bull showed up at the park, and I reluctantly took one of the 16 oz. cans. Too much! I only drank about a third. 

We went to Vitamin Cottage as usual, and when we pulled into the parking lot, Ty very eagerly pointed out that there was snow on the ground.  Arizona must be weird. 

Jesse partied too hard and lost his iPhone.  It must be hard reverting to a lesser form of technology, not to mention his fingers are too big for those buttons.

Lunch time.

Long ledge over a gap.  Kinda fun, but I wasn't super into it.

I called it an early day of skating to go home and work on my Virginia Woolf paper.  This thing has been really daunting, I can't wait to be done with it.  

Ty Bush

Ty was in Denver for about three weeks, and stayed at my house for one of them. We had a some good times on the court outside my house.  

Later Ty.

Children on Leashes

Got to do my two favorite things this day.  Denver Park.

Chipotle.

And then onto Civic.  Always a party here.

The locals hanging out.  Eating lunch near the port-o-pottys is always a good idea.

Debow was ready for action.

But never too busy to make some new friends.

Grant, getting weird.

Kehoe and Debow were finishing each other's Jeezy lyrics.  It was beautiful moment of friendship.

Children on leashes!  Great idea!

Joey made some new friends too.  Jake and Steven were pretty cool kids, until the confessed that their favorite skater was Chaz Ortiz and they didn't know who Dennis Busenitz was.  What is happening to the youth?  We should put anyone under 18 on a leash.

Tall Ty Bush.

After Civic we went back to The Shop.  Ty wanted to "hang with his buds".

Then party time.

Group photo.  Look at how punk rock these dudes are.

Whiteney

Ty and I skated Greenwood Village park, the home turf of Derek Milton and Greg Knight.  After about 15 minutes I was over it.

Then we went to the inferior version of Chipotle to meet up with Cory.  They did have this crazy Coke machine though.

Raspberry, Vanilla, Lime, Orange, and/or Cherry flavored Coke. Amazing.

The future is here.

Ty's face of confusion as he realizes that we aren't at Chipotle.

After that we cruised to The Shop to see Tony.

Ty decided to do some hood rat stuff.

Changed Whitney's name.  Very clever Ty.

Paul Gardner was at The Shop too. Always a pleasure.

This spot.

Buncha dorks.

Kehoe nailed it.

Tony Mellick Still Skates

Ty and I got up at 8:30 to go meet Shad and Tyler at the new Northglenn park.  Coffee was a must before.

Shad is a smiles and psyched to skate.

Shredding commenced.

Then I took my parents to the airport for their vacation.  Later you two, hopefully I don't burn the house down!

After that I cruised to The Shop.

Then a street spot.

Mike did this gap to 50-50 for Lil Wayne.  He's a big fan now.

And then we cruised out to Parker for a night session.  I mostly went because Tony said he would be there skating.  I'm just glad Cory let us skate his home turf.

Here he is!  He requested the ender in the web clip so he got it.

Tranny session!

Lil Wayne Day

I'm taking a class on Homer this fall, and every time I open The Iliad I think of this quote from Virginia Woolf on my potential comprehension of translated Greek literature:

"For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel for ever drawn back to Greek, and be for ever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say?"- The Common Reader

If you got through that quote, good for you.  If not, just take from it that my studying Greek translated into English is already highly questionable, so I wonder why I do it.

While I was studying I ran into Patrick.  Great guy.

Then I went to Twist and Shout to begin Lil Wayne Day buy purchasing Tha Carter IV.  Well worth it.

When I went to put Tha Carter IV in my CD player, I thought it was very ironic that this popped out. I'm not choosing teams.

I met up with Ty and Kehoe for a day of shooting some photos.

Great Mexican vibe for lunch.

Great big Coke.

Classic Denver spot.  But nobody was really feeling it.  Ty tried to teach me impossibles to no avail.

More banks.

Kehoe and Ty getting some gems.

After skating I stopped by The Shop on my way to the Lil Wayne concert.  Tony and Whitney were working on editing the video.  I'm very excited about this, things are looking good.

I went to the concert by myself.  My friends either: weren't interested, or couldn't afford it, or both.  But that's not going to hold me back!

Had to make this purchase.

But, I ended up running into my friend Roscoe at the merchandise booth, so I hung out with him and his friends for the whole show.

Keri Hilson opened up.  Don't know anything about her.

Lovell taunted me with his Lil Wayne experience.  He knew that I wasn't going to get as close as he did.

Rick "The Bawse" Ross.

WEEZY!

He skated on stage all night.

If you look to the far right you can see him throwing down.

Standing on the board while rapping.

Doing a rock fakie (far left) while rapping.

He killed it. Best rapper alive!