Mark Gonzales #24.

Rock Box.

Gonz's part in Krooked Kronichles features him skateboarding out in the streets. He's cruising around Los Angeles and New York at a high rate of speed and rattling off whatever tricks occur to him at a given moment. There are boneless ones, wallies, wallrides, switch 360 flips, kickflips, and switch kickflips. Mark skates a few cement outdoor parks and indoor wooden bowls. He rolls around a large bowl in Brazil on a wide board, too. He lands a feeble grind down a handrail and does a boneless to lipslide on another rail. A couple tricks that I think are neat include a salad grind on a ledge as part of a line in a schoolyard and a plain old frontside 50-50 on a red LA curb. Spike Jonze even makes an appearance with an ollie down a set of stairs. What I like the best about Mark's Krooked Kronichles part is that it is straight up skateboarding on a regular board with minimal hi-jinx. That might seem like a slight, but it isn't. Sometimes you have to take everything back to the basics and let the skateboarding speak for itself.

I watched Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding with Anthony Van Engelen yesterday since it was slow at work. I think Vans used a couple of my scans of Channel One stuff.

RIP Daniel Johnston.

Thrasher - April 2004 Volume 24 Number 4