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Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 7:30 pm
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after an eventful few days in vegas we headed further across the desert to phoenix arizona. the journey there was long but good because it was the first time we’d seen the desert in daylight. we stopped off at lake mead and hoover dam as well as loads of sketchy middle of nowhere gas stations. we even met a lady with full mustache in a middle of nowhere jerky shop which led to about four hours of people singing “take me to the jerky shop, let me lick your moo hoo stach”. on the ten hour journey we figured out the only chocolate that you can successfully eat in the desert are m&m’s and that beers go from ice cold to cup of tea hot in about 8 minutes so you have to drink fast. when we eventually got there we realized we had no way of contacting x rated who we were staying with because umberto’s phone had run out of battery and that’s where we’d saved his number. i don’t really know how it happened but we ended up giving some guy four beers to go in his apartment and charge umberto’s phone for a bit, it was pretty awkward standing there while it charged and then his girlfriend came out the toilet and wondered what the fuck was going on because she could hear loads of french and english people in her lounge. anyway we got hold of x rated and dumped our stuff at his apartment, we then headed to walmart to stock up on fresh socks but lee went balls out and bought the full home comfort set; fresh towels, pillows, another air bed, sock, pant the lot. a guy offered to steal it all for us for $20 and then said “welcome to america” but we opted for the checkouts instead because we’d already had enough of the strong arm of the law. on the way back to the apartment we stopped at a garage which then got robbed while we were in there which was pretty scary, i guess janking stuff is big in arizona right now. that night we hung out at johns place and got a sneak preview of his new dvd ‘wake up‘ which looks like it’s going to be amazing. most our time in arizona was spent filming with john but we did manage to visit revolution skate shop which was cool because it’s been all of our favorite place to buy blade stuff for a long time. james and gretchen are both really nice and we hung out and chatted to them for ages and then james joined us on the session that day and documented it for their blog which was cool. if you haven’t checked their shop out yet i highly recommend it, they have one of the best online services worldwide too. you’ll even be able to buy dirt box there soon. the heat was crazy, i asked for a cup of water and got given a cup of ice which i was annoyed about at first but then when i stepped outside it was ice cold water within a matter of minutes. jesus’s plan for the shin tats didn’t work out because he didn’t put them high enough so my liners still went over them which made skating pretty painful and messy, taping sanitary towels to my shins definitely isn’t one of the classiest things i’ve done. lee twatted his shin really bad at the last spot we were filming at and missed out on skating the massive outdoor concrete park we kicked it at that night which he wasn’t happy about. we went to a house party which turned into a really funny night, umberto brought this lighter gun which electrocutes you really bad when you pull the trigger. we’d been getting people with it on the whole trip but it really came through hard at this house party, there was a couple of girls that got annoyed because we didn’t give them enough attention so x rated deployed the shocker and shocked the shit out of them. we were on a balcony and all we heard was a massive scream and then john saying “gotcha’ bitch” which had me in stitches for hours. then he noticed the other “waste of time girl” had passed out on a trampoline so him and umberto started leaping around on it and sent her about seven feet in the air straight to her head, some ufc looking meat head wasn’t happy about this and they narrowly avoided starting a trampoline brawl which would of ended the night perfectly. the next day we slept, filmed a few last minute clips and then hit some thrift stores , shops and a bar before heading back to la. i can’t thank you enough john, james and gretchen for an amazing time in arizona. we’ll be coming through again for sure.
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