For the Love of Meghan
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so much so true
When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb
When you think you’re too old, too young, too smart or too dumb
When yer laggin’ behind an’ losin’ yer pace
In a slow-motion crawl of life’s busy race
No matter what yer doing if you start givin’ up
If the wine don’t come to the top of yer cup
If the wind’s got you sideways with with one hand holdin’ on
And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone
And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it
And the wood’s easy findin’ but yer lazy to fetch it
And yer sidewalk starts curlin’ and the street gets too long
And you start walkin’ backwards though you know its wrong
And lonesome comes up as down goes the day
And tomorrow’s mornin’ seems so far away
And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin’
And yer rope is a-slidin’ ‘cause yer hands are a-drippin’
And yer sun-decked desert and evergreen valleys
Turn to broken down slums and trash-can alleys
And yer sky cries water and yer drain pipe’s a-pourin’
And the lightnin’s a-flashing and the thunder’s a-crashin’
And the windows are rattlin’ and breakin’ and the roof tops a-shakin’
And yer whole world’s a-slammin’ and bangin’
And yer minutes of sun turn to hours of storm
And to yourself you sometimes say
“I never knew it was gonna be this way
Why didn’t they tell me the day I was born”
And you start gettin’ chills and yer jumping from sweat
And you’re lookin’ for somethin’ you ain’t quite found yet
And yer knee-deep in the dark water with yer hands in the air
And the whole world’s a-watchin’ with a window peek stare
And yer good gal leaves and she’s long gone a-flying
And yer heart feels sick like fish when they’re fryin’
And yer jackhammer falls from yer hand to yer feet
And you need it badly but it lays on the street
And yer bell’s bangin’ loudly but you can’t hear its beat
And you think yer ears might a been hurt
Or yer eyes’ve turned filthy from the sight-blindin’ dirt
And you figured you failed in yesterdays rush
When you were faked out an’ fooled white facing a four flush
And all the time you were holdin’ three queens
And it’s makin you mad, it’s makin’ you mean
Like in the middle of Life magazine
Bouncin’ around a pinball machine
And there’s something on yer mind you wanna be saying
That somebody someplace oughta be hearin’
But it’s trapped on yer tongue and sealed in yer head
And it bothers you badly when your layin’ in bed
And no matter how you try you just can’t say it
And yer scared to yer soul you just might forget it
And yer eyes get swimmy from the tears in yer head
And yer pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead
And the lion’s mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth
And his jaws start closin with you underneath
And yer flat on your belly with yer hands tied behind
And you wish you’d never taken that last detour sign
And you say to yourself just what am I doin’
On this road I’m walkin’, on this trail I’m turnin’
On this curve I’m hanging
On this pathway I’m strolling, in the space I’m talking
In this air I’m inhaling
Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard
Why am I walking, where am I running
What am I saying, what am I knowing
On this guitar I’m playing, on this banjo I’m frailin’
On this mandolin I’m strummin’, in the song I’m singin’
In the tune I’m hummin’, in the words I’m writin’
In the words that I’m thinkin’
In this ocean of hours I’m all the time drinkin’
Who am I helping, what am I breaking
What am I giving, what am I taking
But you try with your whole soul best
Never to think these thoughts and never to let
Them kind of thoughts gain ground
Or make yer heart pound
But then again you know why they’re around
Just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down
“Cause sometimes you hear’em when the night times comes creeping
And you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping
And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin’
And you can’t remember for the best of yer thinking
If that was you in the dream that was screaming
And you know that it’s something special you’re needin’
And you know that there’s no drug that’ll do for the healin’
And no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding
And you need something special
Yeah, you need something special all right
You need a fast flyin’ train on a tornado track
To shoot you someplace and shoot you back
You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler
That’s been banging and booming and blowing forever
That knows yer troubles a hundred times over
You need a Greyhound bus that don’t bar no race
That won’t laugh at yer looks
Your voice or your face
And by any number of bets in the book
Will be rollin’ long after the bubblegum craze
You need something to open up a new door
To show you something you seen before
But overlooked a hundred times or more
You need something to open your eyes
You need something to make it known
That it’s you and no one else that owns
That spot that yer standing, that space that you’re sitting
That the world ain’t got you beat
That it ain’t got you licked
It can’t get you crazy no matter how many
Times you might get kicked
You need something special all right
You need something special to give you hope
But hope’s just a word
That maybe you said or maybe you heard
On some windy corner ‘round a wide-angled curve
But that’s what you need man, and you need it bad
And yer trouble is you know it too good
“Cause you look an’ you start getting the chills
Cause you can’t find it on a dollar bill
And it ain’t on Macy’s window sill
And it ain’t on no rich kid’s road map
And it ain’t in no fat kid’s fraternity house
And it ain’t made in no Hollywood wheat germ
And it ain’t on that dimlit stage
With that half-wit comedian on it
Ranting and raving and taking yer money
And you thinks it’s funny
No you can’t find it in no night club or no yacht club
And it ain’t in the seats of a supper club
And sure as hell you’re bound to tell
That no matter how hard you rub
You just ain’t a-gonna find it on yer ticket stub
No, and it ain’t in the rumors people’re tellin’ you
And it ain’t in the pimple-lotion people are sellin’ you
And it ain’t in no cardboard-box house
Or down any movie star’s blouse
And you can’t find it on the golf course
And Uncle Remus can’t tell you and neither can Santa Claus
And it ain’t in the cream puff hair-do or cotton candy clothes
And it ain’t in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons
And it ain’t in the marshmallow noises of the chocolate cake voices
That come knockin’ and tappin’ in Christmas wrappin’
Sayin’ ain’t I pretty and ain’t I cute and look at my skin
Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow
Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry
When you can’t even sense if they got any insides
These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows
No you’ll not now or no other day
Find it on the doorsteps made out-a paper mache
And inside it the people made of molasses
That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses
And it ain’t in the fifty-star generals and flipped-out phonies
Who’d turn yuh in for a tenth of a penny
Who breathe and burp and bend and crack
And before you can count from one to ten
Do it all over again but this time behind yer back
My friend
The ones that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl
And play games with each other in their sand-box world
And you can’t find it either in the no-talent fools
That run around gallant
And make all rules for the ones that got talent
And it ain’t in the ones that ain’t got any talent but think they do
And think they’re foolin’ you
The ones who jump on the wagon
Just for a while ‘cause they know it’s in style
To get their kicks, get out of it quick
And make all kinds of rnoney and chicks
And you yell to yourself and you throw down yer hat
Sayin’, “Christ do I gotta be like that
Ain’t there no one here that knows where I’m at
Ain’t there no one here that knows how I feel
Good God Almighty
THAT STUFF AINT REAL”
No but that ain’t yer game, it ain’t even yer race
You can’t hear yer name, you can’t see yer face
You gotta look some other place
And where do you look for this hope that yer seekin’
Where do you look for this lamp that’s a-burnin’
Where do you look for this oil well gushin’
Where do you look for this candle that’s glowin’
Where do you look for this hope that you know is there
And out there somewhere
And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads
Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows
Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways
You can touch and twist
And turn two kinds of doorknobs
You can either go to the church of your choice
Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital
And though it’s only my opinion
I may be right or wrong
You’ll find them both
In the Grand Canyon
At sundown
Vegas and that damn dam.
These pics are not out of order… we stopped at the Hoover Dam, then made it into Vegas… then for 6 days there are very few pics… just ones off the phone… which will be its own post after after. So Joe and I spend 6 nights in a row at the pinball hall of fame, then Krista flew in and we drove back to the Hoover Dam…
Not my thing at all, when we walked over the dam thing I walked on the road, not the sidewalk….fuck that.
I don’t know what to type about this bridge... nothing like it, or the roads being built leading there… only the best workers in the world, from engineers to truck drivers are apart of this… they have to be the best. Working isn’t always for chumps I guess.
Thats why Joe is there, he is the best at what he does.
Beers on the top level of the parking garage.
Not the best.
Beers, flip tricks, manual pad, crazy view, good times.
ah haaaaa… this we spotted on the way into Vegas, and went back to have Krista drop of us a few miles up hill and then meet us at the bottom.
20 minutes, no pushing, just carve to slow down… scary at times, very rough at times… hella fun.
End of the line… no choice but to ride up and onto the grass.
My groin still hurts from running so fast.
look at that
Danny Way
metal everywhere
lets go crazy
Etnies did a PERFECT job ... perfect… if you know you know… just perfect.
I don’t know how lakai can beat it, but if anyone can its those duders.
Dustin Dollin… this raw footage is also perfect… exactly what a skateboarder and skateboarding should be.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
This is unreal
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2 identical rooms. glass, not a mirror, twin girls. MIND FUCK.
I wish the world would shit the bed....
and look like this…
I’ve seen this before, I think even in skate parts… in the back ground.
I guess we will have to wait.
My shoe.
Damn IT IS HOT
Get in the van.
Haaa, ask Joe about this dump truck.
A mess for days.
I’m gonna win this race.
If life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.—- Oscar Wild
You ahh want me to wash the dead bugs off the windshild.
Its a fixer upper.
partial edge
City Walk
I ordered a club sandwich and I’m not even a member.
Famous stop. Whatever.
Rock a piss.
Double tree.
So close to Vegas now.
I’m going on break.
Again whatever. Another Burger.
From Buffalo to New Mexico on a bunk rim… whooops.
pick one, killler or dental work
A touch back I had a sticker pack contest… the answer was Devin Morrison, I think Joe said it first, or DSL??? both don’t give a flying fark about stickers.
So clearly Devin was down awhile ago… always a blast when he is.
Devin kills it just as hard in the kitchen as he does on a ramp.
Devin’s lady and Molly.
He loves gripping decks.
I have to say, Devin to this day, is still very much a skate rat. With his work, his family, and who knows what else he is up to, he is still a skateboarder down to skateboard… his skate shoes had holes in them, upper and sole… and I noticed he had a indy baseplate on one of his royal trucks, he said it broke a while back and thats just what was around. That is such a little kid skate rat mentality. Cheers bro.
check check check
While DEVO was down, we met up with Andrew and Eric from SBC ... It was a long day and we ended up back at the first spot where Norton captured Devin BS180NG from flat to fakie.
It came out great and I really like the idea of re-visiting a old interview with new answers. Devin is obviously delirious with some of his answers, having said that, I must thank him for the kind mention! Was a nice surprise and made me feel pretty pretty pretty good.
iPhone pics from that day.
Also we all got together at the Hardy ramp for beers, and goodtimes.
Top speed at all times, Dave kills his own ramp, as he should.
Gonz krooked Hensley art
Still have a post from the WOTY awards in the barn, a Devo post, a bunch more route 66 posts and a C Wills post.
Sorry for such delay’s in posts, just trying to heal this ankle, figure out my back pain and spend less time on the internet.
Wanderer code DEVO interview
I am going away for a week, so… for a break on the mini-views I sent Wanderer Code Devo a full length interview which is below!!! the small ones will start back up when I get back from my NYC trip. There are lots left… and they will all get up in time. Sorry, I have no photo credits… and I can’t find the damn Transworld Cover photo for the life of me… after the interview are 2 you tube clips, one he sent for alonelikeastone… its the “marc flip” one… exclusive shit.
Devin, how old are you now? And where are you?
I’m twenty-five which feels really weird, living in Calgary, AB.
We miss you back here, what, if anything do you miss about the Niagara area?
I really miss my friends. Most of them probably don’t even consider me a friend anymore because I’m so shitty at staying in touch. I think about you guys everyday and would not be a damn thing today without any of you. I’ll get back there one day soon and we will have a serious rager!So you have a family out in Calgary, tell us about them.
I have been married for five years now to my wife Tesia and we have a beautiful daughter named June. She will be four this year! Both of them are incredible and directly responsible for all that is good in my life. I don’t know what I would do without them. Being a dad is the best! The hardest thing about parenting is knowing when your not supposed to laugh like when my kid dropped the F bomb at the Grandparents diner table… Classic.
What do you like about Calgary?
I like the fact that there is a lot happening here. It has a really big and strong skate scene. The economy is booming and I have a great job when I’m not skating. The weather here is nuts though. Today it snowed almost 2 feet, no joke! Tomorrow it’s supposed to be plus 20. Random.Do you have a straight job, or do you just skateboard? Aren’t you involved with the shop out there to…umm the Source?
I work at a restaurant called Teatro. It is Calgary’s premiere fine dining restaurant. We just won best overall restaurant of 2007. I’m assistant manager and function co-coordinator. I have worked there for eight years now and love it. They are very flexible with my skating and traveling so I’m very great full. Peep it, I’m also the Team Manager for The Source Skate shop. That’s pretty mellow though I pretty much just decide on who gets on the team and make sure they live up to their end of the bargain. It’s sick though the owners are rad and they help me out when I need it.How do you manage to juggle a family, sk8ing, and a job? That always has impressed me, people that are able to keep up with so much at once.
It is not easy but definitely worth it. I really organize my priorities with lists and just try to keep crossing things off. Sometimes it catches up with me but if I stay on top of everything it’s all-good. Mind you I don’t sleep much anymore.
Favorite skateboard movie these days?
I watch “A Journey Through Sound” a lot. It’s Stereo’s latest promo vid with some banging skating. I like the new Habitat vid a lot too.Favorite of all time?
Video? Damn… got to be “Underachievers” Dan wolf runs shit.
Favorite meal?
Beef Tenderloin, some dope ass potatoes, spring veggies. Michelinas are good to though.Favorite number?
16What’s your favorite wine and why???
That is even tougher than the skate vid question. Depends on what I feel like but I would probably say 1988 Cannubi Reserve Barolo. That is probably one of the nicer bottles. That and a 1995 Chateau Angelus. Any classic Bordeaux is cool with me. Old world all the way.
How did you get into skateboarding???
My cousin Corey. Him and Scott Tasjian. Scotty got an Acme slick when we were a Glynn A. Green and skating quickly took over our lives. We used to share his then I got a beat Santa Cruz from Mark Difabio for $50. Best $50 I ever spent.Who do you go skateboarding with???
Whoever’s down. The scene is pretty big here so I usually roll with all the homies or hit up the ramp with my good friends Ian, Robbie T, B Tone or whoever else wants to shred.What’s the funniest thing your daughter has said???
Fuck
How excited where you about the TWS cover?
Total shocker.
Of all the coverage in mags, what are you most proud of?
Probably the “Marc Flip” sequence in SBC. When they called me and asked what to call the trick, I just said the “marc Flip” cause Transworld had a little video grab of MJ doing it on some wooden park hip. Tran world wrote that it was some new shit and dubbed it the Marc flip. I know I did it at that Denver ditch spot before MJ and then it shows up as one of his Enders in Fully Flared. I was bummed. I would’ve never told them to call it that if I knew he did it at the same spot. Everyone probably thinks I was biting his shit. Not the case people!!
What about video parts, what is the best one so far you have put out in your mind?
It doesn’t exist
What’s in the works skate wise for you?
Just working on my SBC interview. Trying to get that finished. Also filming for the new Stereo video. I’m really stoked on the opportunity they’ve given me. Just trying not to blow it.Favorite skaters these days?
There is way to many to open this door.
Favorite of all time?
Ah shit man…. I’m going to say Joe ClearyAny good Joe Cleary Stories?
The time he tried to give me shit for being so young and slanging weed. Then he ended up buying all of it! Fucking Joe! I miss hanging with you and Cyril man, you two put my skating in check and I would probably be jaded and over it if you guys didn’t show me what it is really about. Smiling with your bro’s.
Best sk8 city?
Probably Barcelona but I really enjoyed Denver. How about anywhere where there isn’t 2 feat of snow like Calgary right now! Fuck.Cyril is gone; do you think it is important where skaters spend their money?
Damn right it is! Who do you want to support? Some dick that has more money than sense? Or someone who shares the same passion for skating you do? Thats a no brainer kids.I think your sponsors suit you, and you suit them, what more can you ask for then that!!! I respect you and others like you for that… not just taking whatever gets thrown out there, but being patient instead…. so everyone knows, who is backing you?
I’m very lucky to have the support of some great companies. I ride for STEREO, DVS, Matix, Royal, Hi Fi wheels and The Source.
I always loved STEREO, the A Visual Sound video is my all time favorite. So when they came back I was so excited, those 7 7/8 and 8 inch decks they make are so perfect, nice and flat, and the graphics are fantastic, that’s all I have really rode since the return of Stereo. You ride for them now, how did that come about?
I got on through the Canadian Distributors and my footy made it to Chris Pastras. He said that him and Clint were stoked on it and put me on the international team. Chris is rad! I’m mostly syked because the first new board I bought was a Carl Shipman form SuD. It’s funny how some things come together.How is your body holding up? Are you sore?
I feel like a million bucks bra!Have you ever been inspired to skate by something totally un-skate related?
Everyday when I wake up to my family. Music does it pretty easy too.
What do you like to do off your board?
Watch movies with my girl, maybe draw a bit or take my kid to the park. I play a lot of poker too.What is your current guilty pleasure?
The same thing it’s always been…
Anything at all you want to mention?
I really do miss all my old friends. Sorry I don’t stay in touch more. I really want to come home soon and catch up with all of you. Hopefully one day that will happen. Everyday I think of skating the mini at SUD with Cyril, Joe, Stephenson, Doyle, Terryberry, Dustin, Philter, Dawson, Reid, Dixon, Scotty, Burger and Lee. A couple brews and the some homies. Fuck that sounds good. Mark my word that session will happen buds. Take care.Devin Morrison
Wanderer
That video above has the marc flip in it… below is a nice commercial for the source.