David got his license today!

This is a photo I shot of David in Utretch while we were on our 2 week trip out in Holland. This trip is actually where the whole concept for Skate Movie came to me...one stormy, drunken, night full of rain and lightning.  We were staying at Rob Maatman's house and Rob and I were just hanging in his backyard listening to music, talking, and enjoying the weather while David and Robbin Oost were watching TV, playing video games, or something inside.  I hate to sound cliche, but I swear one of those lightning bolts was the trigger to the idea.  Like a light bulb turned on right above my head or something...cartoon style!  It didn't come to be until after the trip when I was at home on a boring night in front of my computer with Final Cut Pro open and an empty sequence that I thought that just maybe the idea I had that night at Rob's wasn't so crazy after all...that trip was one of the most fun trips I have ever been on in my life.  I had such a good time, hanging with friends, skating, kicking it hard every night, and just taking in a new culture and it's customs day in and out.  Rob's parents took us out in Deventer (where Rob lives) the night before David and I flew back and they took us to a "Mexican" restaurant...Dutch style!  Their twist on Mexican food was interesting to say the least...but they sure did have margaritas down!  Rob's parents loaded me up with a good amount of those tasty beverages and got me super drunk.  I think I was hitting on our waitress pretty hard.  I would have married that blonde bombshell then and there, haha!


Anyways, back to what I wanted to write up here.  I was working a side job for Cartoon Network today and I had a good amount of downtime at the first location so David and I were texting while he was at the DMV waiting to take his driving test.  Sure enough he passed and got his license!  Never thought I'd see the day.  I don't even know what it's going to be like anymore now that he has it...actually I do know!  After close to 4 years of me driving him all around Southern (and even Northern) California, it is time for him to drive me around for once!  And David, I'm telling you right now, I BETTER HAVE PERMANENT SHOTGUN WHENEVER I'M IN THAT CAR!  Congratulations buddy.


And on that note, I would just like to say that I don't care what any of you faggots out in internet land have to say about David.  Granted, David has done some stupid stuff in the past, but hey who hasn't?  I for sure know that I've done some stuuuupid stuff in my high school and college years...hell I did some really stupid stuff just last friday night on my birthday that I'm not proud of after leaving the karaoke bar!  WE CAN ALL BE LAME AT TIMES!  So don't go acting like you've never done lame things before because you know you have.  And if you claim that you haven't, you're a damn liar.  He knows he's done some dumb things (and I know it too hah!), but he has grown a lot.  I've seen his skating mature over the last few years, and seen him grow as a person as well.  And I'm not referring to his height (although I kind of am becuase we used to wear the same sized clothes/shoes when we first started hanging), I'm talking about him growing up in all aspects of the term.


Keep in mind he is still young, he still has some more maturing ahead of him, but I've spent enough time with him and his family to know that he has been raised right.  He still drives me crazy at times, but I will always consider him one of my bestfriends no matter what.  The two of us have had tons of great times together, endless laughs, and an inside joke list that we'd have to send off to NASA to calculate the numerical count of. A lot of the people that I know and skate with on a regular basis I met through him, so I am stoked for that as well.


So all you anonymous, faceless, shit talking, internet morons out there...keep your faggot ass in your chair talking your shit while David is out skating harder than you, handling business, and having fun on his board.  DLoy's got a really sick part in Skate Movie and the tricks should talk for themselves.  If reading this changes your views of me so be it. Fuck you, I don't need your acceptance.  Let my close friends and I sit and watch you and your friends make fools of yourselves and act stupid with each other (all close friends do it), and I'm sure we would have a grand, old time pointing out all your flaws and making fun of the dumb shit you do/say.  I'm old enough now to not care about what people think about me, my horrible taste in music or who I hang out with.  Being considered "cool," isn't anything worth stressing at this point in life.  I have David's back, and all my other close friend's backs, until the end.  Fuck being cool, I'm over it.  Apparently, it's a lot easier to be "cool" than it is to be "real," these days...