NO SELL OUT!

The following is an interview conducted by this crazy English bugger named Warren Tellam who keeps harassing and stalking us via e-mail. This piece supposedly ran in some shitty magazine, which we've never seen. Recently, while digging through files of bogus material, we found it and decided we could probably run it on the site disguised as original content. Any names or events should not be confused with actual people or places, but considered simply as fictional entertainment.

Warren: Do you feel that the current crop of skate companies dedicate far too much time to ousting each other in the popularity stakes, while not providing a decent level of quality to the people (morons) who provide them with their living? (Please go on and on and…) Was it better in the days when Powell, Alva, D.Town, etc. controlled the monopoly, but had a good grasp of the idea of individualism? Was the crash in 89-90 just evolution, greed, or a product of the burgeoning growth of fundamental Christians within the scene making a buck for Rev. Mountain and the bible slappers? (Sic em' mate!)
P.D.- Go ahead, just ask and answer your own questions … The current crop of skate companies is simply mimicking what it sees all over our Capitalist society. The corporate culture model of business seems to have everyone by the short and curlies. Why earn your living when you can fuck someone out of theirs? Yes, I would say that its pretty obvious that packaging and promotion take priority over function and quality for most people in the so-called skateboard industry, but that's always been that way … doesn't anyone remember the tens of thousands of Powell Boneite decks that delaminated? Over production definitely helped fuel the crash of the late eighties as it had in the sixties and the seventies … that combined with the law enforcement harassment and the media sensationalism.
Warren: How do you feel about 'skate fashion' (Durrr-stupid) gaining such a worldwide toe hold in mainstream society at large? (Rant at the fuckers who think clothes = skateboarding).
P.D.- Kind of a double edge sword, isn't it? The co-opting of skateboarding has kept it (the skateboard industry) from the cyclical jaws of death while, at the same time, threatening to suck out it's soul leaving only an animated form devoid of it's own culture. If you look beyond the industry and beyond the cargo pants and fingerboards and see skateboarding outside of this particular time frame it's hard not to recognize that what makes the actual act of skateboarding so appealing is that it will go where it wants to go. That is to say, you cannot control skateboarding from an evolutionary standpoint as it continues to develop and expand into new areas. Skateboarding's saving grace is it's difficulty, which ensures limited participation. The non-skateboarders may be able to wear the clothing, but just as a chicken has wings, the frustrated fuckers can't fly.
Warren: Is Fausto mafi… Is skateboarding at the moment corrupt? (Nail Rocco, I'll blank his name out to avoid lawyers, e.g. George Orwell/1884/head of totalitarian state). Discuss your shoddy treatment.
P.D.- When you start with the basic premise that capitalism wears the mask of democracy it's a given that all within a misrepresented system is corrupt. Probably 90% of the skateboarding industry is located in the U.S.A., which is the most corrupt place on this planet…. I don't think it's hard to figure out that people selling skateboards, that don't even ride them, are fucking corrupt bastards.
Warren: What are you doing to change things?
P.D.- Generally we are doing the same as we have always been doing, which is to show that a company can be viable without growth. More specifically, I would urge people to begin to unlearn what they have been taught. Thinking and receiving information are not the same things. Once you unlearn, you can think and receive information knowing they are different.
Warren: Out of the following '70's sitcoms, which are your favorites?
1. George and Mildred.
2. Mutiny On the Buses.
3. Porridge.
Name your favorite character, and why.
P.D.- On the Buses was one of my favorite back when I watched t.v. My favorite character was Jack … Big fucking nose, hideous rotten teeth, the ugliest motherfucker, and yet totally famous. That kind of shit doesn’t happen in North America, land of lyposuction and fake tits.
Warren: Books, films, stuff that moves you (No, not laxatives) discuss.
P.D.- Books by Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, My Ishmael, The Story of B), if you haven't read these books, you should. Movies, I have to say I was hooked on Star Wars since I saw the first one in the movie theater. The originality of the whole Star Wars concept is what grabbed me. Besides Star Wars; Repo Man, Drugstore Cowboy, Do The Right Thing, The Pope Of Greenwich Village, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Clerks, The River's Edge, The Warriors, Style Wars, old horror flicks, Jason And The Argonauts … way too many to list here, but the best flick I've seen in recent years was, "When We Where Kings", a documentary about Muhammad Ali … fucking inspirational. P.S. fuck television, I got rid of my t.v. about six years ago and it was like a huge weight being lifted from my shoulders. Televisions are like big remote control units that control human action and perceptions … fuck 'em.
Warren: Music. Do you feel that the, 'be a Pepsi punk t-shirts' in The great Rock and Roll Swindle was prescient in the extreme? What do you think of modern punk? (Sorry). Who do you like and why? (All eras).
P.D.- Fuck The Rock and Roll Swindle, Malcolm Maclearn is a bitch and The Swindle was made from table scraps. I couldn't comment on modern punk because I haven't heard any … I will say that the recent wave of MC5 type bands is pretty fucking tired. To be original is a risk most people don't want to take; it's easier to do a version of something that's already worked. Honestly, I lost interest in the whole style when it became fused with longhair metal music in the mid '80's. I guess they called that Thrash Metal or Skate Rock or whatever … to me it's garbage. I liked it better when punks had their own thing. Lou Reed, NY Dolls, Sex Pistols, The Ruts, The Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers, Angelic Upstarts, The Subhumans (Canadian), D.O.A., The Adolescents … even GBH and The Exploited had much more going on than that contrived Suicidal Tendencies, DRI style bullshit. That metal posturing doesn't mix with the punk ethic from my viewpoint. Tony Alva introduced me to hip-hop in the early '80's and that old hip-hop is like old punk rock use to be.
Warren: Did you ever have a moment, when you looked at the people surrounding you in school, and you saw lab rats scurrying through mazes, scrabbling with their tiny paws for their rewards of sex, status, and money? Did you think, "Fuck this, it's horrible" and promptly went out and behaved in a manner suitable to your soul?
P.D.- Schools are designed to keep people stupid. I think this dawned on me in about grade seven when I realized I had to 'dummy down' so I could relate to teachers and classmates. I am not saying that I was smarter, I just mean that this system is designed to kind of herd people into a placated ignorance which didn’t appeal to me. I remember when I finally decided to quite school early in grade 11 and I was all nervous because I had to tell my counselor plus my folks and shit. When I finally spit it out they were all, "yeah, O.K." … what a fucking relief to be done with that bullshit.
Warren: Where is Feed I?
P.D.- Feed I lives in Vancouver where he drives a truck and is raising his son without the help of the kid's mom. He's pretty much out of the scene, but I keep in touch and try to get him out skimboarding and longboarding every once in awhile. I think he got burnt on the whole industry thing … He's cool and I respect his right to live how he wants to.
Warren: And lastly, give the world the statement of P.D. Let them fear. Oh yes, the Black Watch never retreat. Phew!
P.D.- Closing statement, use your Skul.