08 May, 2006

Meeeee-ontage Part 2


all my student cards from grades 9-12. i'd be 17 or 18 in the last one.



both these pics are from the first time i ever went to NYC. i'm about 16-17 and there was a lot of underage drinking and hotel room antics going on. we also got to visit almost every museum and gallery in about 3 days...it was sick and only cost like $400 if I recall



outside of high school in grade 11 or somewhere around there. i wore a lot of blue and blank sweatshirts at the time. that girl's name is becky caulford...we were friends at the time...she was like the only girl in school who wrote graf.


this is a pic taken the night after this dude's cottage party. he's sitting beside me. i think i was probably on mushrooms or just got really really drunk the night before. we are in harvey's(sorry americans you won't get that one) and out of nowhere mad latin girls appeared in the spot. we took a token pic with them because we had a thing for the latin ladies at that time. you can see my enthusiasm in the pic. i was still not legal drinking age but not sure how old i would have been here.


here's a pic of me with one of my early tags. i spent so much money on that north face jacket...i had to special order it since it wasn't available in canada and my aunt paid for it on her credit card. i'm 18 here for sure....


after my last year of high school i went to chile for 2 months to visit with my friend matthew(see last post) who was living there at the time. i grew an afro a few times in my life but at this particular juncture it was at it's peak. i'm probably 20 in this pic.


i can't remember where this pic fits into the timeline at all...but at one point my boy dennis and i went to nyc for like 3 days and met up with this dread named "Trom"...he let us stay at his place for our last night there and we bought half an ounce of weed from franklin ave which at the time was one of the scariest places i had ever been. i imagine the copious amounts of weed that i have smoked in my life has something to do with why i can't remember when this was...

here's another pic from that trip.

The next 5 or so years of my life involved a lot of weed and rap music...both listening to and making/performing. I don't really remember the timeline of any of it but suffice it to say those years of working bullshit jobs and being creative and spending time with my friends is a contributing factor to the man i am today.




I was heavy into camping and being a materialistic hippie at one point there too.

Somewhere in there digital cameras were invented so the quality of my photos improves slightly.



I liked balancing on things after I saw early videos of dudes doing Le Parkour.

I'm totally wearing Brazil dunks in this pic but you can't see it. I swear.

At one point I thought that wearing a t shirt on my head with a trucker hat over it was a good look.

Then kicks took over.

When I was 25, I finally moved out of my mom's crib and the next 2 years are basically what I call the "Crunk" years of my life. We took it to the top in every way possible and it's definitely a contributing factor to my current state of sobriety.


The longest my beard has ever been.











Then I had a string of really bad luck and got my face smashed in by 3 little wannabe thugs and had to get surgery on my eye. Shortly there after I decided to move away from Toronto and live in Montreal running Goodfoot.



I'll make a part 3 later...

a meeee-ontage

so today i'm celebrating(aka not celebrating) my 29th year of life on this fantastic planet

so i decided to throw together a small posse of photos of me in various stages of life up until now


this is my bare ass running towards unknown legs that i think belong to my mother.
i can't be more than 2 years old here. i also have blonde hair which is weird but i guess a lot of babies start out blonde, right?


i'm in the grey cardigan with the sideways look, top row. my longest standing friend and homie Matthew is the kid with the tooth missing grin in the row below on the end. amazing. I'm probably about 4 or 5 years old in this one.


this is probably the first walkman ever made. i was probably bumping some weird shit since my parents listened to a lot of frank zappa and todd rundgren when i was growing up. i'm probably about 5 or 6 here.


what you can't see in this pic is that i have a rat tail haircut. if you don't know what that is you don't deserve to continue reading this so just shut your browser now. I'm probably 8 or 9 here and that's my younger sister Caitlin beside me.


shortly thereafter i got glasses and shaved my head which is pretty much the hairstyle i ran with for a long time and am still rocking. i'm in the forest on some exploration/nature walk thing with the kids from my school. i'm anywhere from 9-11 years oldat this point.



this was near the closing of my "awkward stage" before i got a lot taller and hit puberty. i got super chubby and did lots of dance routines. as you can see from the pic the san antonio spurs were my favourite team. they most definitely are NOT my favourite team at this point. i'm wearing low cut suede or nubuck doc marten's in this pic and it's too bad you can't see them because it was a sick outfit. i'm in grade 8 so that makes me 12 or 13 i honestly don't care to do the exact math.


this pic is from the same week as the one above but i included it because it's pretty much the best. i have the closest thing that wavy caucasian hair can get to dreads going on. i created them from this shit called moulding mud and i'm also rocking a rayon short sleeve dress shirt with overalls that have one strap hanging down. that kid beside me is anton feitelberg...i have no idea what he's doing now but holla if you're reading this.


this is after the awkward phase. i got a lot taller and got contact lenses and started cutting my own hair. i have a bizarre version of a hightop fade minus the fade since i didn't know how to and the same overall steez from the last pic. i'm wearing a charlotte hornets jersey/shirt but i really never liked the team that much , just their colours. i'm in my first year of high school here and definitely still a virgin. probably still 13 or maybe 14 years old.

TO BE CONTINUED...gotta upload some more pics.

01 May, 2006

he grabbed my nuts!

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reggie evans of the denver nuggets has been called a hustle player who does all the little things like rebounding and grabbing loose balls..hahahaha