Your skatepunk friend from high school, the one who had the D.R.I. poster on his wall...

i'm posting on ilx

He's my boyfriend. Except we didn't know each other in high school.

He's my roommate.

taking mookish photos on facebook

poster ddb works for a prominent pbs program now.

He's dead (OD'd).

He's a corporate lawyer who lives in NJ and got married last weekend. I have no idea how this happened.

has a kid, plays in a punk band

lives on roof across from where I work

Nonexistent.

She's married, breeds Dalmatians.

sorry to hear that ned :(

Reaganomics killed him

local festival name: PUNX NOT DEAD, REAGAN IS

Lives in the mountains, owns the biggest handgun I've ever seen, getting a degree in animation.

sorry to hear that ned :(

I perhaps should have said 'never existed.'

Yeah right, like I'm in touch with those dudes. :(

oh wait, i didn't know ddb in high school, cutty did. but yeah, i have no idea what those dudes are doing.

one of my ex-hc pals from kentucky lives a block away from me now, tho.

I don't think there were any skater dudes at my high school. I would've remembered as I always crushed on the handful of skaters at my jr. high.

What's he doing now?

My answer: working as a bartender on a cruise line out of hawaii

Yours?

-- kingfish, Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:12 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Weird. My skate buddy lives in Hawaii and works as a pharmacist, I think? Maybe he got fired and is working the boats now.

One of them became Wesley Willis' manager briefly following a stint with crack cocaine; currently MIA since the early 00s.

Note that I lost touch with my friend for about 6 years until a few months ago.

And for much of the 90's, too, i guess.

sorry to hear that, ned :(

currently MIA since the early 00s.

Sex change, reasonably successful pop career?

(Sorry.)

some of them work in video stores, some of them joined the military, one of them killed himself, one of them went to law school, I don't think any of them actually had DRI posters but I could be wrong about that. The guy who listened to jimmy buffett and skynyrd and r. kelly became an accountant for the army corps of engineers and lives in alaska or some such.

O.D.'d

i don't think there were DRI posters on the wall, or skatepunk per se, but one played in screamo bands and became an MD.

Slocki: there ya go.

He is the head of an 'underground church' in Manhattan, I think he recently got married.

One moved west, had a kid, sold vacuums for a while, ended up homeless, died of OD.

One was a marine, got out, married a girl I knew, may have sold Amway at one point?

One dropped out of college, went to jail for a while, went back to college, became a lawyer.

One worked on a railroad for a while, went back to school, now is high school teacher.

Oh one of them grew her hair out and took out all her piercings and is actually kinda hippie-looking these days and works for some kind of animal rescue operation (they recently discovered like 60 cats living in an abandoned house).

She still skates a lot.

Haha the skatepunks would never have been friends with me, I was far too "good" and well behaved and church-attending and boring.

I had crushes on all of them, though.

I want to make a song like the boys of summer and "It's the End of the World as We Know It" about skater friends

put it on yr vision quest to do list

xxpost, Yeah G. and I joke that he wouldn't have talked to me when we were in high school 'cause I was far too nerdy (and weird).

Of some of his other skating buddies: One's a HVAC dude and in 2 bands; One is a web developer at the same place I am and another works at D3LL (as does G). He grew up next to an army base and says they skated with a lot of GIs. Who knows about those poor guys.

He and his buddies still go skating every now and then but mostly he just rides around in our driveway so the dogs can chase the wheels.

::sigh:: skater-boys. . .

Works in a nursing home.

Really, really should not work in a nursing home.

No "People Who Died" Jon?

one dropped out of college, last time i heard was supporting himself by participating in drug trials. don't know about the others.

How is he funding his drug trials?

they're the medical kind where they pay you to take unapproved drugs and report back on your horrendous side effects.

D.R.I. wasn't really around when I was in high school, so substitute with Circle Jerks/J.F.A./The Vandals/Youth Brigade ephemera

One moved to Oakland and lived in an abandoned car dealership with some other gutterpunks. He's now a lawyer and pretty much followed the trajectory of the Matt LIllard character in SLC Punk

Another is a mechanic for an off-road motorcycle racing team.

Maria, it was a joek.

Crusties, c or d? Nevermind, that's a no-brainer.

One is John's roommate, another is dead, another is doing God knows what (John, you ever hear about what happened to 4ndy 3llistad?).

No. Is he the dead one?

quite a few are dead, most are m.i.a., and as for me, well you'll see.

wow it was depressing to think about all of them. thanks ile!

No, 3ric is the dead one (although he wasn't really a skatepunk now that I think about it). I figured that since you and P3rry were still in MN, you might know what happened to him. (I'm guessing he's either working in the service industry or someone has killed him.)

xpost: Jess OTM

lol growing up lower-middle/working class and knowing a lot of dudes/chicks who did too many drugs

Oops to thread.

Now that I think of it, two of them are architects.

No idea on 3ll3st3d. I assume you are talking 3r1c sm1t4, Dan?

Yeah.

Wait, who are the architects?????

3ric J0hns0n and his brother D4n.

Hey wow, I'm really sick of googleproofing.

The other 3r1c is a true tragic story of what army life can do to those with a (ahem) militaristic mindset.

all the skatepunks i knew were "Christian" skatepunks. bleh. now they're all holding respectable jobs and get married at 20.

i just remembered: mine didn't OD, he died in a drug-induced car accident while on tour with his band.

manager at large supermarket chain.

Yeah right, like I'm in touch with those dudes. :(

Ditto.

he's dead

oh man i wish i knew what happened to my friend dave. we were friends when i was 16 and i got sent away to school in rhode island for being a fuck up. he was so cool. and he turned me on to a MASSIVE amount of music. he was a great skateboarder too. this was 1984. he turned me on to crass and dri and ssd and loads more. i'm ETERNALLY in his debt. i saw him a couple of years later on thayer st. in providence and he had dreadlocks and i was really stoned and it was kind of awkward cuz he was with his friends and i was with mine and i was too stoned to really have a conversation. i felt bad about that. it was weird to see him. our experience at that school was so weird. he saved my life for real. i do blame him for getting me too stoned before the school prom though. i had to sit at the same table as the headmaster of the school and it sucked for real. we would drop acid and i would play him stuff like bauhaus that he didn't listen to. he dug that.

Dave Kimmel, just in case he is alive and has the internet.

he's an engineer of some kind. I had brief friendster initiated contact with him a few years ago.

also, his being an engineer seemed like the most unlikely thing ever if you knew him in high school.

couch slooooooooooooouuuuuch

This thread made me cry.

two are in a band together, one jumped in front of a train, one got a girl pregnant and is managing a pizza place in atlanta. all were really into heroin for a while; all of them have kicked it (if suicide by train counts as quitting dope)

While my skatepunk friend didn't nec. have the DRI poster on his wall(that was guns & roses), he listened to DRI & S/T all the time, wore the t-shirts, and obsessed about this one little skateboard movie where christian slater has a DRI poster on his wall. Apparently, this movie had some guy named Tony Hawk doing all the stunts, and my friend was so jazzed about going to his skate camp, sometime in the summer of 1991.

Note: this fandom of christian slater affected my friend all thru high school. I wonder what he thought of "Alone in the Dark"

skatepunk friends? in school? hahahah i don't think anyone had heard of skating, let alone punk.

mine is now a boxing teacher and does "Ultimate Fighting"!

The only one I've seen in the past few years works in grocery store produce section.

He's a lawyer in DC, with a kid on the way with wife who we're pretty sure is a mail-order bride from Lithuania.

I don't remember if any of them were skatepunks-<i>qua</i>-skaters, but a few punks I knew immortalized their scene in a documentary a few years ago:

http://www.hitidepictures.com/bellmore/index.html

I first met the one with the lip tattoo in Kindergarten. Nice guy. I think he's a lawyer now.

Scott, I think I went to college with a Dave Kimmel (a year ahead of me, and maybe slightly older than me, ie early twenties). Was he a big guy?

change my nazi dad

Working IT for a newspaper publishing company.

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