Pat Franklin

I met Pat Franklin a number of years ago at the Tempe park. He was one of many randoms who were coming out to Arizona from Illinois at the time and I didn't really know anything about him. A little while after that, he ended up living at my house and we became good friends. He moved into my house in the hottest part of the summer while my air conditioner was broken and he didn't want to seem whiny so he never called me to tell me about how hot it was... so he just sweated it out at my house alone while I was away at camp. Pat is a good skateboarder with an awesome style. He is really good at a lot of tricks that I like to see done well. I think I said something similar to that about Rick Eusey when his interview went up. Pat also gets a lot of credit in my eyes for actually making the video below for his Chumpchange interview. Pat backs Chumpchange, Chumpchange backs Pat.

p.s. for the record, Pat's halfcab feeble 180 on that angle iron ledge was the most overlooked trick in the Yeah promo.

Here's a photo of Pat from the The SkateboardMag site recently. photo by Tim Johnson

Pat Sleeping on the floor of my apartment shot by Phil Jackson. I've always liked this photo because it sums up my old apartment really well

Name:Patrick Michael Franklin

Top 3 favorite cities:

Chicago, Illinois

Prescott, Arizona

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Top 3 skateboarders:

Dan Drehobl

Ethan Fowler

Ed Templeton

Top 3 skateboarders that you know personally:

Matt King

Kevinly

Brandon Vance

When was your prime?

Before I started skateboarding, I was dominating the Little League scene in my area. And I really didn’t have to worry about working or being a grown up.

5 good bands:

Frank Zappa

Devo

Cat Stevens

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Jens Lekman

5 good songs:

Say It Ain’t So - Weezer

Tea For The Tillerman - Cat Stevens

Don’t Worry About The Government - The Talking Heads

Apostrophe - Frank Zappa

Rare As The Yet - Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds

5 tricks you can't do:
backside heelflips
Frontside Flips

Backside Smith Grinds

Switch Backside Grinds

Switch Dropins

Spirit animal:

Bill Murray

5 good books:

Frank Zappa Autobiography

Einstein Biography

Animal Farm

Earth

Skateboarding For Dummies

What’s the worst?

Quitting Smoking

Hospital Bills

Contact Lenses

Buying Gasoline

Winter

What’s the best?

Diet Coke

Starbucks

Headwear

Not going to school

Nagasaki

3 good non skateboarders:

Eric Scholin

Sunny Wermager

Conan O’brien

What do you like to do outside of skateboarding?

Whatevz

What is your prized possession?

My boy Earl

What will end the world?

Aliens for sure

Pat's video is amazing

sent to me by: everyone else

Kryger all slazed up from Brad Rogers

skateboard art from Lindsey

Yeah Berrics ad from Lorena

Mountain Dew chapstick from Lorena. Ari, does this count as soda?

Halloween from Chris Poquette

Good crew from Chris Fetter

skateboard tourism from fetter

train stuff from fetter

the next few are from ari. Takis is some wierd snack that the kids that Ari and I tutored would talk about all day. I've never had them, I don't want to

some would say I'm an artist

xavi sent me this one, he made his krooked 3D glasses into yeah glasses

sent to me by: another steve davenport addition

these are all scrambled, and i'm not going to label them all because no one cares. haha.

looks peaceful

Steve Perdue for Yeah

he's so fucking good

YEAH! commersh from Garrett Van Arkel on Vimeo.

Listen to the music

Michael Kryger

Michael Kryger. Possibly the worst interview so far on this blog(who cares, no one sees it anymore anyway) We tried to do this interview over facebook chat, but it sorta just fizzled out. Oh well. Kryger doesn't talk much, so why would I expect to interview him. Actually this would have been an amazing opportunity for people to get to know a little bit more about him, but we blew it. He's amazing at skating. I got to spend about 3 months straight with him and it was awesome. Everyone who knows him loves him. When I met him a few years ago, he drank a 2liter of mountain dew per day. This intro is about as silly as the interview. Sorry everyone. go here to see some of his blogging.


kryger: when r we gonna finna this interview

me:Dude I haven't asked you any questions yet

kryger:i know. i just wanna get it over with. im nervous.haha

me:But you don't like the questions I asked

kryger:tell the people what they wanna hear

idk

me:haha

me:Just answer the questions. add/subtract go on tangents. get crazy

kryger:meh

me:drop Nbombs

kryger:haha. maybe i'll work to my advantage? probably not

me:duffel

Kryger:haha ask me the questions right naw. facebook interview

me:top 3 cities/places?

Kryger: roselle skatepark, tempe, andddddddd sheeeet idk, im gonna say san fran

me:Do you want any feedback from me?

kryger: yeah, lots. lets make it a convo

me:everyone, including me, say san fran

kryger: well becuase its awesome

me:top 3 skateboarders? not ones you know. cuz that's the next question

kryger: alright Kenny reed, Heath kirchart, and mike anderson

me:top 3 that you know personally?

kryger: there's wayyyy to many

me:name em all, You can do more than 3

Kryger: in no order:Punchy,kevin erst, my baby boi melone. i can think of some moreeee,lemme think for a second. oh ma gawd how could i forget Matt blevins anddddd Kevinly. I love everybody so it makes this hard

me:Ready for the next one?

Kryger: yeahhh

me:When was your prime?

kryger: im not gonna lie. ive never been gewd. i never land things. Today. i dont apply

me:5 good bands

kryger: can you link them to my facebook page? its all there

me:all the info you mean?

kryger:haha a bulk of the series.....if you know what i mean

me:Your answer can be "fuck off"

Kryger: that sounds like it'll work

me:So is that your answer to the bands question?

kryger: yeah "fuck off"

but make sure they know im jk'in

me:okay. 5 good songs?

kryger: this one could take a while. can i get an IOU

me:That was the point of emailing them

kryger: haha

me:so you could take your time

kryger: can you just right down gypsy by fleetwood mac, cause its the most relevent. oh and immune to emotion, cause you know....

me:5 tricks that you can’t do:

kryger: hardflip....thank gawd

me:what else?

Kryger: hmmmmm. i mean i try a lot of "tricks"

me:and what happens?

kryger: and never land them

me:haha So the only trick you can't do is hardflips

kryger: haha i guess so

me: This is going to take forever. I'm just going to email you the questions. haha

kryger: im not gonna lie, i wont finish it. can this just be the end of the interview?

me:haha sure

kryger: you just copy and paste this

me: if that's all you want the world to know about you

Kryger: maybe we'll do the hard hitting questions another time

another interview

perhaps.
there's alot of uncovered ground

me: so is this it?

kryger: i guess so

Here's some tricks to watch on

Frankenfurter

hiding....

Losing some of the blog fire. It just doesn't excite me like it used to. I'll still post stuff, but don't expect much. I still want to do the interviews, and I'll still probably post anything cool related to me or my friends, but don't expect to be barraged like you're used to.

Ben Smith

from the camera of Steve Biggs!

I got something to say.........

I wonder if this kid's ever heard "Last Caress"

The Thermals

Randy Ploesser High Five

One of my personal favorites has an amazing new part. I know Randy's good, but every time I see stuff of him I'm surprised by how much better he is than I even think!

sad news!

Brimley skateboards is no longer with us.