The best thing that could happen to Mark (and for his fans) is for him not to get SOTY, otherwise he may totally disappear up his own arse. I love Mark, but I can’t wait for him to move on from his deluded verbose narcissist phase.
(All quotes are from Marky’s Thrasher interview)
“It didn’t seem there were any other forms of excitement other than what I had experienced at the time. I’d seen other people’s careers and I’ve seen them repeat themselves. I wanted more intrigue”.
“People repeat themselves and, to me, that is imperfect. It’s a lesser form of what they’ve already done”.
“To theorize a creative production that is not completely objective, including taking account you as a person and your body as an object, it’s a complex thing. Your body moving in space while carrying out the things your mind tells it to do is much more difficult to understand than writing your idea of art into a long tapestry...”
“I’ve reached another realm and I’m a different type of skater than I’d ever imagined”.
“I want to film a whole part that showcases my full repertoire, even the things no one knows I can do”. [Manuals? Vert? Transition?]
“Back to that question: have I reached a different kind of career than the one I imagined myself to possibly have, one that would be really boring? I think I have”.
“If I was made of chocolate, I’d eat myself”* [*subtext]
“Is a magnum opus only once in your career?”
“Now with the career I’m working with, it’s me versus me versus skating. It’s more complex and I have made it to a different kind of experience in a skate career. It was always there but I never noticed it”.