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I remember a few months ago someone made a long post about this person that came to their skateshop that they really hated and they couldnt quite explain why but they posted a few links like this: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=40755504&blogID=339443162 to try and help people understand why this guy was such a dick and eventually people understood. I just realised that ET253 is who that old topic was about - what a coincidence! I cant remember who made the old topic but whoever it was must be happy that everyone has had a chance to really understand why this guy is annoying
That sucks you're too dimwitted to understand the point of that. The only reason Eric Logan started that thread is because I'm seen as a threat to his whole clique. They are the cool crowd and we are the underdogs so naturally when the cool crowds productions aren't as good as the underdog's people get rubbed the wrong way. Good God, this is the damage being caused by all you petty little people in skateboarding, the fact that I actually have to spell it out for you that this type of bullshit high school mentality people like you generate turns skateboarding into such a dusgusting cliche. why don't we just remake bad news bears again but this time make it about skateboarding???
Well, considering I'm friends with Seth, Jeremy, Craig, spent a little less than a month at Steve's house in SD, and that I'm stoked on everyone in your video projects, I'd say I'm on pretty square terms with everyone you consider "underdogs". Don't call me out in this, dude. Last i checked, I even told Rakthy and Kyle Nolen that anything they film of me, you could have.
So you've obviously overlooked the reasons I was heated, which was by no influence of what this imaginary illuminati thought of you. It's by my own observations of how you've treated people you know little about, except possibly a certain person who you went to school with.
How you're any threat to our "clique" is a mystery to me. We don't generate any fanbase, revenue, ect., so unless you can break up our friendship, you're of no threat to our "clique".
If your only real goal in life is to associate yourself with sicker skaters than I and my friends, and edit better than Jake, have a blast; shouldn't be too hard.
So yeah, man. Feel free to not use the footy Rakthy and Kyle have. I already know you hate me, my "clique", and my sub-par skating.
Later, dude.
Damn, sorry dude, that was totally interpereted the wrong way. I meant socially, not financially or in any business sense, because the whole system of personal interaction going on in skatebaording is just like high school. You know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm the dude that always tries to be friendly to people and I just get glared at and ignored, or talked down to as though I'm at some sort of disadvantage for opening myself up and making the effort so what I meant was that, naturally, once I started getting noticed around here for my work with video, kids who are coming up in skateboarding by primarily playing the social angle (which is pretty much the exact opposite tip that I'm on), especially those with whom I haven't really had much interaction, tend to widen the social gap that they already perceive as being between them and me because, first of all, most of those types of people never really knew me to begin with and it's that much easier just to continue on with the pre-existing cold silence, and secondly, the tendency for most people who have achieved anything from skateboarding short of "celebrity" status is to covet it and to hold onto it for dear life, a perfect example being Sean with the whole Lib Tech situation and living in a small town as we discussed not too long ago, so I'd understand if someone like your friend Jake perceived me as a threat to some extent seeing as how even Dave has lavished me with compliments about my editing at times when we were still actually cool with one another. I'm not trying to say that your friend Jake does feel that way toward me, I'm just using that situation as an example seeing as how he's one of the people that's never been too eager to befriend me despite my easygoing, social butterfly nature, and especially now that I'm in this one perceived place in skatebaording, and he's in the equivilant, and I could understand how my work might seem intimidating in comparison to that of other video editors (and, no, I'm not saying he's a bad editor. I'm just saying it's the same as an average girl standing in line at school next to the hot, popular girl. It fosters that sort of mentality). Thanks to the nature of the social situations that develop from skateboarding I really can't see that gap getting any smaller, and it's not like I wouldn't be friendly if he and I happened to be in the same place at the same time, but I seriously doubt he'd reciprocate. And again, it's not like I'm trying to pick on your friend Jake here, that example just happens to be textbook of the way many people in our tier of skateboarding behave, and I could probably hedge my bets on getting that reaction from a great many other people, as well. And it's not that I have anything against your whole crew in skateboarding, it's just that I've never really had the opportunity to genuinely become friends with any of them, or even get to know them at all, and it's hard to sing the praises of people who don't really seem to want to have anything to do with me, so I understand if I come off as sounding a little cold when speaking matter of factly about (from my perspective) where everyone appears to stand in the overall scene of Washington skateboarding. I'd like to believe that I've never been undeservingly harsh towards anyone of your friends because I've never made an effort to be malicious towards anyone in any way (except toward Sean and a little bit definitely rubbed off on a few of the people that got involved with that whole airing of greivences but that's all said and done with and I apologized to everyone who might have had their feelings hurt although I'm sure that apology wasn't taken all too seriously. Oh well, it's not like there's much else I could do. I'm man enough to admit the things I was wrong about) but I accept that other people might percieve my point of veiw somewhat differently and so if any of what I've said in the process of voicing my genuine opinions over the years has come off the wrong way I truly am sorry and I hope you can see past that misunderstanding enough not to hold it against me. But what I'm trying to say is that it's like the Seatlle ego phenomenon. Not everyone in Seattle truly has that big of an ego, but you know as well as I do that it's hard not to get that impression, especially if you're from the tacoma/puyallup area. You just have to get to know people, and if I didn't know Seattle any better I'd be very prone to simply saying that they've all got gigantic egos, were someone to ask me. But seriously sorry if it seemed like I was calling you out. That wasn't wht I was attempting at all, I was just trying to clarify what that dude said cause he was trying to insinuate that there was an angle to everything you'd put forth with that original thread that wasn't really there, so I just wanted to set that dude straight on that whole idea. however, I am curious, when you say "someone you went to school with," who are you referring to? Is it Josh???