| AlvaCollector: We pack up our stuff
and headed to Bob Evan's for breakfast. I place a call to Green Monkey
to find out his location and he's still an hour away. We kill sometime
eating, head to the gas station for ice and beer and head for the
park. EM Dash and The Green Monkey were there when we arrived. I was
finally able to relax knowing I wouldn't have to drive that God damn
Jeep for at least 10 hours......let the drinking begin! There were
a couple dudes there that were making a trek across country. I conversed
with them for quite awhile and also watched them tear the place apart
while I tore a case of beer apart. I'm not sure if I knew Gusto was
going to be there or if I just found out that day(the trip gets a
little blurry from this point on). Sometime that afternoon Lush pulls
up with Gus. This is where I pour my beer down the back of Lush's
shirt while giving him "the man hug". To this day I feel
like total shit about it... |
| LUSH: AC, in his own tall lanky way,
is sexy like a runway model - yet not quite as poised, hence the beer
spilled down my back while on the recieving end a man hug from the
boy... |
| Amorone: AlvaCollector (AC) was nice
enough to drive an old JEEP to Seth C. that Seth had purchased over
the internet.
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Jeff(AC) and the eBay Jeep
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| ShackleMeNot: Now,
before I go any further on this, for those of you who do not
know about the JEEP, I will explain to the best of my knowledge.
Seth (LetsGoSkatePool), and a friend had bought this late 1970's
Jeep Cherokee on ebay or something prior to the fest. It was
located in Illinois, about 3 hours south of Batavia. Somehow,
it ended up that Jeff(AC) offered or was asked to pick up the
Jeep and drive it to Nashville. It came down to the wire on
getting the plates and money for the car, but he made it there
and picked it up, very unhappy about the drive. |
| AlvaCollector: : I was aware the
Jeep didn't have insurance but I didn't know the plates Seth
sent me were from another car until late night on the day after
AoS-fest II.. |
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| The Green Monkey: After nearly rolling the
Blazer at about 50 on an extremely tight and narrow 15 MPH off ramp,
I rolled into the parking lot around 12:30 and I immediately noticed
the Jepp (that's what I prefer to call the Jeep of Ill Fortune, due
to Jeff's intimate involvement with it. And you thought that Hammerhead
was the only one who fucked SUVs…) in the lot, so I knew that
I wasn't the first to arrive. I hopped out and cracked a beer. There's
nothing quite like an ice cold beer immediately after a long, fast
drive (420 miles in just over 5 hours). Beer in Dixie cup, I meandered
over to talk to AC, SMN, and EM Dash. I had a couple more while stretching
out from the drive, and they were delicious. OldSchoolRules stopped
by for a spell, and so did a friendly dude named Gerald from the BDS
forum. After getting my land legs back, I was ready for the park. |
| ShackleMeNot: : The park had the most
beautiful concrete I've ridden yet. The street section featured a
variety of wedges, rails, ledges, a pyramid with a step up gap, a
few little humps and a giant clamshell. I used the clamshell in an
unorthodox manner, getting the idea from a local, and we both aired
out of it to the ground on the other side. The flow bowl section was
my favorite, Part smooth, part tight, and a giant oververt wall which
scared me quite frankly. I mostly used the flow bowl as a halfpipe,
but occasionally would try my hand at carving and hitting the oververt
section. Steve skated around it a bit, carving around the humps and
corners and i shot a few pictures, which I posted on SkullAndBones
We met up with oldschoolrulz early in the day and talked to him for
awhile, he was an awesome guy, invited us all out to his indoor skatepark
for free in case of rain. He rode around on his many boards for awhile,
and headed back over to the skateshop for some working. |
AlvaCollector, EM Dash and Green Monkey
chillin' at the skatepark |
One of many Quivers to
be shown and ridden |
The Green Monkey works the
flow bowl before the mayhem begins |
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| The Green Monkey: It was fairly full of kids,
and the park wasn't as spacious as I had imagined it to be for some reason,
so it was a little crowded there for a while. It turns out that most of
the local schools were out for the day, so my impression that Nashville
had an incredible truancy problem was unfounded.I kicked around a little
in the more appealing areas on the street side of the park, but spent most
of my time losing my breath and losing my momentum over in the flowbowl
area. That capsule is a fucking blast. Every family should have one.As more
people showed up--Lush, immediately identifiable simply from the shit-eating
grin, the cantankerous Gusto he had sitting shotgun, a few random dudes
on a road trip, two 16 year-old TA clones, a prepubescent idiot savant,
and probably more I'm overlooking-I eventually decided to hang it up for
the day after eating shit on The "Clownboard" about halfway down
the twinkie roll-in. Besides, there was plenty of beer to be drunk. The
roadtrippers passed out packets of Spacecraft stickers (I have no idea what
sort of business Spacecraft is in, if any) that their buddy from Singapore
makes up for fun. One of my stickers had a pube stuck to the side of it. |
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