When I met
Brian, I was in pretty bad shape. We’d just moved across the country, I had no
friends, and I had a crush on Christian Slater from Gleaming the Cube.
So I wrote
about Brian Listo.
He was a
skater and he had a half pipe in a cave on a cliff over the Pacific Ocean,
hidden like the canopy bed in Lost Boys. He had a team, The Crew, and they competed at
Ratwall, which was a half-pipe in the sewer system of an undeveloped part of
town.
I read
Thrasher magazine and wrote about how to skate those half-pipe ramps. I even
described hand plants and front-side-ollies.
