After I "made" my new fish eye lens, my interest in skateboarding was renewed. I was filming any and everything I found slightly interesting. In hindsight is was silly, as I currently have around 125 MiniDV tapes that are filled with a lot of boring shit. It wasn't all bad, however, and there are a lot of good memories on those tapes.
I filmed my walk to school, my lunch period. I would interview friends and ask them dumb questions. We would walk down aisles, and pretend to trip and drop our lunches all over the place. I would use my lunch money, what would now be considered a "budget", to buy chocolate milk and "accidentally" spill it all over myself.
While most of the time I was behind the camera, I ended up doing most of the really dangerous and silly stuff myself. I adapted Bam Margera's mantra of "Ya gotta better the film" and I took that to heart. You have to remember I was in high school, and extremely impressionable. I got a job working at a Subway to help fund our adventures. Most would see this as something that would interfere with our adventures, but you would be quite wrong.
Thanks to a bipolar and down right crazy manager, as well as a coke head assistant manager, I was quickly made "night manager" of our store. They let me hire my friends, and would go off and party for sometimes days at a time, leaving me to my own devices. Sometimes we would close to store down for hours and have "battles to the death" which involved throwing large chunks of bread at each other. We once covered the entire store in that stuff that comes out of a fire extinguisher. We emptied that thing out. I suppose it is a good thing we never had a small fire, as we would have had nothing to put it out. I wouldn't be surprised if that thing is still sitting their, empty. Sure hope there is never a fire.
We'd shut the cameras off and build quarter pipes in the back to skate, and stall on the racks. One time we conned a friend who just so happened to walk by to drink the liquid that comes in a douche. I'm pretty sure it was just vinegar and water, but he was really reluctant to do it. It took us about three hours to talk him into it. You would think that after about ten minutes we would have given up hope, but we were bored, and the douches were buy one get one. Couldn't pass up on that deal.
While remembering EVERYTHING that happened in high school can be hard and probably downright impossible for most people, it isn't for me. I have almost everything important and/or funny that ever happened to me documented. Throughout high school I had planned to make an "amazing" full length video, like my hero (at the time) Bam Margera, and his CKY series. The goal was to make one for every year of high school, and at the end of the year have a big blow out party/premier. This was slightly before Youtube, and while there were websites I could upload the videos to, they only allowed 2-3 minutes of video, and that wasn't enough to do it justice. The plan was to get DVD's, cases, the whole nine yards, and sell them. I started coming up with plans on how to burn the DVDs and print cases, giving everything a feeling that they were released by an actual company. I dreamed big, and I really felt like it was something I could do.
(Those videos never happened, and to this day I kick myself in the ass for not editing at least 15-30 minutes worth of the footage. I did however, just recently purchase a MiniDV player with firewire/USB capabilities, and I'm really going to do it. I might be 12 years past my dead line for the end of my high school year, but it will be amazing. I can't wait)
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