I'm Samantha and I love to skate. I also like to shake things up a bit

good news and bad news.

good news: apple is sending me the upgrade for free

bad news: i had imported rob &  big onto my ipod like 3 hours ago.. it played fine then... i go to watch it now, the images are fucked up and have this wierd bright colors around them... i tried turning it off and back on. it's still fucked up... it looks almost inverted... i tried different episodes.. they're all fucked up. 0_0

do not buy an ipod touch.

i bought the 16 gig iPod Touch today(it's release date) for $431.. and i download the latest version of itunes, go to hook it up to my computer, and the iPod won't show up in iTunes....i call up Tech Support.. they're telling me I HAVE TO SPEND $130 TO UPGRADE MY COMPUTER SYSTEME in order for it to work..... you've got to be kidding me.. my computer is a 2004 Power Book G4... it was like a $2,000 or $3,000(i honestly cannot remember) computer back then; best on the market... Mac puts it out.. i should not be having to shell out money for mac's products to work...

I HATE MACINTOSH!

so i got tagged with the "top 10 celeb crushes" thingier again.. so this time i'm going to change it up a bit..

Top 10 Celebrity Crushes Hottest Skaters

Here are the rules:

1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls.
2. You tag 10 people. This means you must name 10 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.
3. You CANNOT tag someone who has already been tagged.
4. You have to let the people you tagged know that they've been tagged.
5. These are the rules they must be repeated every time.
6. THERE MUST BE PHOTOS! AT ALL TIMES!



#1 Bam Margera (Element / Adio)


#2 Rob Dyrdek ( DC / Alien Workshop)


#3 Tosh Townend ( Element )



#4 Terry Kennedy ( Baker / Ice Cream / KR3W)


#5 Tony Hawk ( bird house / adio )



#6. Chad Muska ( KR3W / Element )



#7. Arturo Sari ( Etnies / FLIP )


#8. Tim O'Connor ( Habbitat )



#9. Shawn White ( Adio / Birdhouse )


#10. Meaty ( Alien Worshop )

it's 12:30something or 40something..(what eves) and i was out skating.. i was practicing olling from the street over the curb into the grass.. i was doing it perfect.. but on my last go about it, i missed the board and stumbled off.. nbd.. but the tail of the board, impacted right into my chin causing me to bite my toung(it's cut, and bleeding a bit.. nothing major though)... i am so lucky that i didn't knock my teeth out.. it's seriously amazing that they didn't, honestly.  my knee hit something(either the curb or the board, i'm not sure) and is all swollen.. good times... SKATE OR DIE!!


I was looking on ebay earlier and saw Tony Hawk and Rob Dyrdek action figures. 0.3m. g33z i want  themmmm..  I wonder what other skaters have action figures out................   Oh the full set of FOB figs was on ebay for only $9.99.. oh why oh why do i have to be broke.. i REALLY badly want the whole FOB set. and the MCR set(oh i should go look for those on ebay).

so i've gone back to working on rsb. i've been lazy lately... today i got confirmed to interview the band Norma Jean on Oct 6th, and to interview Jess Margera (Bam's brother) from CKY on Oct 8th... If any of you have questions for me to ask either of them, post em' here.

if you type in Patrick Stump into Google Image Search, the picture of Patrick & I is on the first page, aswell as a picture i took of at an HCT show. funny shit...

it's wierd stuff i post on buzznet shows up in google a LOT. haha i got bored and googled my real name(samantha ), my old net name "sammi xo", rockstarsammi, and some other stuff.. haha i found some girl asking on Yahoo Answers what kind of jeans i wear... I wear size 29 jeans from URBAN OUTFITTERS...or atleast i do in most of the pictures on here.. i sometimes wear Volcom jeans to skateboard in, or Wet Seal jeans with high heals(thats very rare).

i was coaxed into having a tiny piece of steak. i feel so terrible. i probably wont eat meat, pork, or pultry for another 3 years though. sXe vegeterian yo.

Do you ever feel like you want to start a charity case? Like you want to save someone else?

Today i went to the Wedge to go skating.  I was there for a while and then i spotted this kid who looked familiar walk thru the parking lot and sit up ontop of the hill that over looks the west side of the park.  I picked up my board and walked up the hill after him.   It was Mason. 

Mason used to be my best (skater) friend, back when i was 15. Then when i broke my leg right after Christmas that year(the day prior i spent the whole day with Mason skating all over down town, and jumping off rooves into pools) i ended up not seeing any of my skater friends for a few months, and by the time i was ready to go back and skate the park in March, he'd got heavy into drugs and was arrested several times in the spring of last year(2006)...  

I haven't skated much in the past year. Especially not in 2007.  And only started back at it a month ago; inspired by cabel telivision viewing.   So I don't see Mason much, if at all(maybe 5 times this year?).  But it's always good to bump into him.

Today I was happy to see him.  I think he the same.  We talked a little bit, but not much.  There were a few younger kids there with him, some i recognized, some i didn't.

Mason told me that he'd been arrested recently. I enquired more.  It turns out he's been out of jail a week. He spent three weeks in prison.  He'd got in a fight down at the wedge(there are two wedges.. the wedge skate park, and then this concreate ground under an over pass called the wedge that is connected to the park.. he got in a fight at the later), and appartently he punched a kid in the jaw, breaking the kids jaw, and some one "snitched" and he was arrested.  After being in jail he was on house arrest, but was apparently let off for good behavior.

Shortly after telling me this story, he then proceeded to light up a join, which he passed around with the other boys.  (I being straightXedge stepped back about 10 feet)

It breaks my heart, to see someone who is as good a skater as he is(he's one of the best skaters i know), fuck up his life doing drugs and other moronicly stupid stuff.  It reminds me of the Brandon Novak story. So sad.

I want to save him(no not in a religious sense).  I told him i want to help him get sponored.  I really hope he'll accept my help.

:(



don't.
do.
drugs.
kids.
it.
fucks.
you.
up.

diana and i went tonight to this magic show at the college i go to... haha.. it was wierd.. like some of the tricks he did were really amazing(like levitating, and going thru this chicks body), but others were really cheesey.. and then the magician talked to the crowd for like 20minutes on why he believes Jesus is coming back soon(like that all the revilations are coming true) and that we need to except Jesus into our hearts, and that people with STD's are going to hell. haha i had to stop myself from laughing.. the best part was that right after the magician said this prayer, my mom called my cell phone (and i have a very loud and obnoxious ring tone).. it was funny... haha but yeah i had no clue it was a christian dillo(diana and i = totally un-christian), i should have figured since the Campus Crusade For Christ was the club sponsoring it(haha a lot of my friends at school are in Campus Crusade, LOL i sometimes go just for the heck of it, even though i don't believe in jesus's miracles)...though the magician that preformed is the dude who taught David Coperfield some of his biggest tricks. 0_0.

after dropping Diana off, i came home, and skated in my garage for about an hour and a half straight. i'm dripping wet, because it's still pretty hot out even though it's midnight(in AZ during the summer it can still be 100º+ at night)... i landed really clean tricks tonight. i'm so proud of myself.. i wore thru the shoe laces on my left shoe from the laces scraping the grip tape.. i've never done that before in my life, let alone a pair of shoes thats only 3 weeks old(and i didn't skate in them the first week)... skating felt good. i think i shall hit up the wedge, and or desert west, and or tempe park tomorrow.

i spent $100+ today on an Alien Workshop Mini Horse skate deck, an Alien Workship black blue & silver Rob & Big skate deck, and a bag of ollie pops.

i have the spending habbits of an eleventeen year old boy.

i feel like everythings a mess right now.
maybe it's that i've missed my last two history of rock classes due to not being able to wake up in the morning.
or that it took watching two hours or rob & big episodes on my laptop and a sleeping pill to make me fall asleep at 3am this morning, and i still couldn't get up before 1, even though i had to be somewhere at 11.
or that the last two cd's i bought were 50 Cent and Kanye West, and i'm starting to hate rock. Pop Punk is boring, repeditive and old.
Maybe it's that i'm behind everyone in hip-hop(dance) class.
maybe it's that i'm always broke from spending my money on things i don't need or want, like skateboards that will never be skated on for $50 by brands i'm supposidly boycotting, or tutus i'm never going to wear, or "vintage" t-shirts i didn't really want to buy.
or the fact i can't find a roomate
maybe the fact i don't like being around people.
maybe it's the fact i hate some of my friends(coughaeslehccough).
maybe it's the fact i'm not good at anything.
maybe it's the fact i have no job, and i cant find a job, and i'm not good at jobs.
maybe it's the fact that my current only dreams in life are to 1. marry a rockstar or proskater and or 2. work in a skate shop.
maybe it's the fact i feel like know i'm a failure.
maybe it's the fact i want to be/dress normal.
maybe it's the fact that i strugle with the issue of race. its not fair to have interacial kids. i have no racial identitiy. and people expect you to be black, but i've never related to that. but when you try to fit in with the white crowd, it doesn't work. and definatly not when your into emo boys, and emo boys just want white emo girls. and the only guys who like you look like gang members.

ok first of all. i want to make some VMA predictions.
VMA PREDICTION ONE: i predict Britney Spears gets married on stage tomorrow. most likely to Chris Angel(and or Justin Timberlake) . this is just a prediction. only because Britney claims she's going to shock us like she never has before... so i'm thinking she's going to get married on stage, because her first marriage did accur in vegas, and supposidly she's been sporting a huge ring of late.
VMA PREDICTION TWO: Rob & Big will NOT have Mini Horse with them. my mom and i have a $10 bet over this one(my mom has like a disturbing obsession with rob & big lately. it's creepy).... don't ask.
VMA PREDICTION THREE: Ashlee Simpson will be in FOB's room for their preformance.. it's kind of obvious..
VMA PREDICTION FOUR: Rihanna & FOB will be the big winners of the night.
VMA PREDICTION FIVE: Justin Timberlake preforms with Britney.
VMA PREDICTION SIX: Someone famous will be arrested in Vegas by the time VMA weekened is over.

ok. moving on. wow i'm usually a serial journal updater.. and i haven't updated in like a week +. haha wow.

ever since going to see that skateboard tornament(action sports world tour) thing last week, it's got me back in really wishing i was a skater... it's like something magically happened.. because after getting home from it, i went skating(well much later that night), and i had far more success than usual landing tricks. the next day, memorial day, i had my mom move her car, and i skated in my garage(i live at the base of a mountain, so the streets infront of my house is on an incline, my garage is the only flat ground i have, plus i have a mini ramp in there) all day.... and i skated well. i have never been good at flat ground tricks.. i
've always had trouble getting off the ground. and all of a sudden i'm able to and do it pretty consistantly.
later in the day on monday, i went to Side Walk Surfer, and bought a new skateboard(the bam deck i got for x-mas had got really haggard).. i got a Zoo York board, with black grip(the first time i've ever had plain black grip), i also bought a new trick tip dvd.........
when i got home(while watching Justin Timberlake's HBO concert.lol), i changed out the bushings on my old Thunder Trucks(haha they're from my first skateboard.. they're old but my fav trucks ever), oiled my bones swiss bearings from the complete i got for xmas(aka the element bam helium rocker deck), and took my cky wheels i got for x-mas out of the freezer(diana told me 124321421 years ago, that freezing wheels preserves them.. not true.. the wheels seemed slightly shrunk), and put everything together.
when i went to skate the new zoo york board.. i skated even better.....
i've pretty much spent every day this week skating...

maybe my skatings better because i feel free. i used to get teased at the skate park when i was 15 because i had all bam stuff. and over time everyone kind of expected me to get that stuff. i like the stuff because it was cute, and i was used to the element decks and the shoes. maybe i'm skating better now because i feel freed. no bam deck, no bam sneakers(or even adios), no bam anything.(am i really free though? i caught myself watching a viva la bam marathon on mtv2 the other night..well i wasn't fully paying attention). or maybe i'm just skating better because i switched from wearing Adios to DC's? Or maybe it's something else. i don't know. but i'm liking it.

i.
dont.
think.
i.
will.
ever.
aquire.
my.
dream.
of.
being.
a.
pro.
skater.
but.
it's.
nice.
to.
be.
decent.
at.
what.
you.
love.



it's wierd. like i've been such a fucking girly girl this year. i fucking gave up skating. and all it takes is getting sick of going to shows, and watching a rob & big marathon(if i watch tv shows with people skating on them it makes me want to go outside and skate) to get me back into skateboarding.
on new years.. when diana, my mom and i went out to dinner, i toasted to "good shows, good skate sessions" and i forget what else... i've got the good shows... i'd been wondering when i'd get the good skate sessions.

the secret?