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We all have ideas in life. Ideas about what we want to do, how we want to be, what we want to create.
Sometimes it seems like in these ideas we've found the end all answer to hapiness and life is simple and sweet.
Then a week later you realize that maybe your idea isn't such a good one, or maybe there's a better idea that's easier or cheaper.
You scrap your idea and go back to the rut.
It's all about sticking things out, relationships, work, learning skate tricks. Any kind of advancement in life depends on perseverence.
I once heard 'Anyone can have a great idea but its pointless without the follow through.' I don't think everyone has good ideas but i do beleive the part about follow through.

I was pretty gung ho about the answer to all my future Strange Notes blog content the first day of the K.T.O.T.D.. Now here we are, 2 weeks later and only about 4 or 5 updates. At first I was thinking 'Damn, should I change it to the K.B.W.T.?' (The Krux Bi Weekly Travesty) Does my daily disclaimer become the "Current Blog Disclaimer".
Where's the alliteration in that I ask?

Then I realized that nowhere in "krux travesty of the day" does it state that there will be a travesty every day.
Yes I am enough of a pessimist to believe that there are, in fact, millions of extreme faux pas every day in this world but do I really want to search them out everyday?
And whoever said they had to be about extreme crossing over in the world of skateboarding?
Oh wait, I did. My bad.

Well screw it! I mainly came up the concept of calling out a daily travesty cause I'd been neglecting my precious rectangle on the strange notes page and feeling guilty about it. In that way its been a success, I have been updating more. So I'm not going to pigeon hold myself (follow through) to a cookie cutter format anymore!
Not like I really was anyway... with subjects from cats to creepshow and my dislcaiming everything, the content has been across the board for sure. Still though, renouncing ones own rules feels so liberating!
I also fell like this is my most boring blog yet!
Hoorrah!

So instead of pointing out my disgust with Myspace and Mountain Dew let me talk about what I really want to talk about: my Halloween costume.
Have you ever seen Urban Cowboy?
If not, and you actually are still reading this and you actually do watch Urban Cowboy because of my advice then I will have truly succeeded on this day of days. That's a lot of actuallys.
If you have seen Urban Cowboy you might ask me "Are you John Travolta?" No I am not. Apparently I enjoy explaining myself on Halloween over and over cause I always seem to pick obscure charracters.
This year I am Wes Hightower. Wes is an abusive, alcoholic, rodeo convict. He intentionally breaks Travolta's arm with a mechanical bull and beats on Debra Winger in his trailer outside of Gilley's. He chugs Mescal until he eats the worm and is played by Scott Glenn.
He's a bad dude.
My costume is a little shabby. My black mesh shirt isn't as tight as his, I don't have real cowboy boots and I could add a few inches to the biceps...
cest la vie.
But all in all I'm satisfied. I wanted to be this guy and I got all the stuff for about $25 which is good for any costume that isn't vinyl. I stuck to my guns and followed through.

I debated wearing it to work today. At first I barely remembered it was Halloween and not just another Tuesday. I walked out to my car about to leave but ran back in last minute and changed into my gear.
Since Wes rocks a black mesh t shirt I knew I'd be freezing till noon and had to rock a jacket. I picked my most cowboyish brown leather jacket and felt that even though I wasn't being completely true to my charracter I was indeed properly accesorizing. I felt pretty cool.
Then, as I was strutting up to Jamba Juice I walked by a reflective window.

Sometimes I feel like we get the best idea of how we look to the outside world if we only catch a glimpse of ourselves. With just a split second you can see your outline and all too quickly reality crashes down on you.
"Sh!t! My haircut looks like that?" or "Do I really stand that goofy lookin?!" Your brain doesn't have time to buffer your ego and your eyes see what you really look like to the outside world.
Today, when I walked by the Jamba Juice windows and caught my reflection the first thing that popped into my head was "Brokeback Mountain".
The spring in my step was gone, the wind from my sails, the Whiz from my cheese.
I went from being the most bad ass rodeo bastard in 80's movies to a gay cowboy from contemporary film.
I will say in my defense however that I do look more like Heath Ledger's charracter than Jake Gylen...whatever, at least was fronting a wife.
But I was bummed nonetheless.

Funny that I'd even care about the machismo of my costume when I've been Jereth from Labyrinth for the last 2 years.


Well there it is, one of my longest and I'd guess most boring to the reader blogs yet!
Now how's that for follow through?

Daily Disclaimer: I'm not saying the K.T.O.T.D. was a good idea and being a gay cowboy is nothing to be ashamed of.

So I like to go to sleep early during the workweek and lately I've been embracing the feeling of a goodnight's sleep and feeling refreshed in the morning. Sure I enjoy a good hangover on the weekend too (fuzzy brain but not ralph till 5pm). All things in moderation right?
There's something to be said for getting an early start, I don't feel as rushed and its nice and quiet around the workfront. I can just ease into the day and not have to open my mouth for an hour or so.
So you can imagine my suprise when I'm walking up to the front door and there's Creature's own Lee Charron. Wait, am I ryhming?
I think we were both a little emabrrassed to be the first ones at work when the sun wasn't even out yet. I like to assume its because he was up all night feeding whiskey to zombies, like "Where's my cake, Bedelia?"/ Creepshow style.
You know, the early undead bird catches the rotting pushead worm, right? Right.
What's my point to this?
Absolutley not a thing. Ha! Just a tangent. Nothing really extreme about it except maybe extreme brand managers getting a jump on the bathroom.
That's one of the perks to having a blog I guess. Total editorial control. I don't even have a message board so you guys can complain about what content i'm into today.
Hmmm...I wonder if you guys want me to talk about how I helped give my girl's cat a bath last night and how he looked like a little wet rat and was clearly bummin. Actualy I don't wonder if you care at all! Ha again! Nobody cares. Wait, I take that back, Clare's pretty interested in cats. Now I wish I would have taken a photo of him. Good look on that crailtap catshow invite btw, Clare.
Crailtap/Strangenotes co-op cat toys and collars availible soon at all your finer, core skateshop/pet stores, worldwide...

Knowing my newfound passion for all things extreme, Clare sent me this K.T.O.T.D. candidate yesterday. You might want to check it. It could be the latest devlopement in shredding as we know it.
skateboard turbo trucks!
$120 a pair, fragile and you can't go fakie or switch. Sign me up!
Maybe I'm reading a little too much into this but at one point it reads it might be better for scooters cause more girls ride them. Is that chauvenistic? Is chauvenistic a word? Did I spell it right? Leave me a note on my message board if I spelled it wrong. Ha!

Daily discalimer: I think technology is cool.
So where's my cake Bedelia?

Here's how it went by NHS's very own Mr. Moser:
"On Saturday we had 78 people sign up....it was crazy! We were blocking the way and the cops had to bring one of their bacon mobile's through and sound their horn to get the kids to move. Don't worry they also did this on Sunday as well......damn cops we was trying to have some fun!!
In the end Dylan Blaze won with 114 kickflips, just in front of the bandanna power of Chance Moreno who got 112 kickflips. Jose Cruz followed with 65 kickflips.

"On Sunday we had a smaller turnout of 49 kids, but they were all really into
it.....it was crazy! The cops rolled by again as I said and we heckled 'em
once more.
On this day it was all about Lewis Macer and his 134 ollie flips off the toe side. 2nd went to Segio Asantoro with 94 and 3rd to Dylan Blaze with 81 (also Sat. winner)"

Check out this next photo of the Worlds Largest Skateboard. I want to see a Krux Kickflip Challenge with that! Any takers? Might need to put like 10 people on it to kickflip though.

I got a lot of sleep last night. Maybe that's why this morning I chose to delve right into the heart of extreme. I googled "Dew Cup".
I went in to poke fun but within about 5 seconds I was kind of impressed. Its pretty much the most tricked out site I've ever seen whcich might not be saying all that much. Within about 2 seconds I found myself in "The house of Dew". I decided to check some of the clips out. I must have picked the wrong one cause there was no dramatic announcer, just a kid talking about his "sponsor me". He 360 flipped a huge gap and there's no way I'm hatin on that.
Also, the videos loaded up in about 1 1/2 seconds and you have the option of full screen. I HATE watching skate footage on computers and feel like telling anyone who says You Tube is the way of the future to f#ck off. Watch the Plan B trailer on their site and tell you don't feel like banging your head against the wall on half the tricks cause you can't tell who it is or what trick their doing. My parents warned me not to read in the dark. If I had kids I'd tell them not to strain their eyes on Quicktime. My point to this tangent is that the Dew footy is tolerable.
OK, so before I could pick anthoer skate video to watch it just started into the next one. Of course it wasn't skating. It was a bike sponsor me. Pretty jacked but hey, I'm the one who googled Dew Cup right?
I could go off about how their lumping all our sports together again under the extreme circus tent but instead I left the site kind of feeling like Mountain Dew is spending a lot of money sponsoring and supporting some skateboarding and that its cool that they're giving these up and comer shredders a little spotlight on their big time page.
So it got me to thinking, here I am capping on others when in fact I choose to live a lifestyle that is across the board and in fact a little extreme.

I've deced to give myself the K.T.O.T.D. for the following reasons:
-I once brought a BMX bike on a 2 month Santa Cruz tour. In the mornings we'd ride it around the hotel parking lots and bunny hop.
-I just got my first surfboard about 2 months ago and even though I've only stood up for about 5 seconds at a time, I have a picture of myself paddling on myspace. Total kook.
-This weekend I went to Skateworks and put some Shaun White snowboard boots on hold.
If you're going to start pointing fingers, Ronald, don't forget to start at home
For lunch I'll be having a Mountain Dew, some Right Guard and a Slim Jim.