Alex Gourdouros | Contenders
Even though Alex Gordorous is in new band called Crystal White and The Eels Of Satan he's not planning on retiring, in fact he skates his God damn face off so go check his CONTENDERS interview!
Contenders Alex Gourdouros
Tre Flip
Explain this house you live in. It’s on Ocean Park in Santa Monica. DJ lucky is moving in, we might get bunk beds. There’s a bathroom that I throw up in a lot. Oh, I vacuumed for the second time in my life yesterday.
You’ve only vacuumed two times in your life? Yeah, but it was dirty I had too. Guffy pretty much cleans everything usually.
Don’t you know you’re supposed to tell girls you have beer at the house and trick them into coming over and cleaning? Nah, guffy wakes up at like 6 am and starts cleaning usually. then we skate around two.
We’re sitting here in your room and your light doesn’t even work. That was Dan the mans fault, he broke that shit. A lot of stuff gets broke here.
What we’re you just talkin about? White dudes with good tre flips? Sean was talking about it at the skatepark. Someone said white dudes can’t tre flip, and at first we were like yeah I guess not. Then I was like, shit, wait that’s not true. A lot of dudes have good tre flips. For example, Julian Davidson and Nick Dompiere. Oh and Josh Kalis, holy shit.
You gotta good treflip? Not as good as those dudes.
Why do you hate the video game SKATE? Because I’d rather be skating. Like we all skateboard, why play a video game about it? There’s better games to play. Plus I’d rather come back from skating to the house and get wasted and not really think about skating. Like, I play guitar, and I don’t really like Guitar hero either.
Really? Not that I don’t really not like it, I’d just rather play real guitar.
You used to be in a Metal Band, you got a new one yet? No, but Crystal White is coming up! Crystal White rising, Crystal White and the Eels of Satan. Our new band is gonna be tough.
So how did you get into Metal Mondays even though your underage and don’t have a good fake ID? I’m psyched, I just called Nuge and he said just tell them Don sent me. Walked right in. They don’t even care there if your with the homies.
What’s your plans for shredding? Skate and film a lot. Get more photos with you, you muark face. You need to hang out more.
I thought you got a bunch of photos with Anthony Acosta? Yeah, but you need to shoot more.
50-50
You need to skate more. Dude, I’m trying to do work. But Kirchart pretty much shut it down in the Alien Video, but I feel like skateboarding is fun, and I should do it a little bit more.
Is that why you were over skating Culver City park today? Nah, I just want to film and do stuff. Foundation doesn’t have any tours and shit going on right now. Economy badness, I don’t know what's up actually.
What’s up with all your filmer homies filming porn now, is that messing up your filming game? It’s a little harsh, but I’m psyched they’re making some money. Dudes gotta make money, can’t really live off filming skating.
But if they were like camera men on the Martha Stewart cooking show you’d be making fun of them an calling them sell outs! But since it’s porn its cool? Yeah, but they’re out there doing it. Dudes just want to film.
So here’s the part where you show us some web clips you been watching. What? Like stuff I watch?
Yeah, you watch metal bands or what? Dude this is a hard question.
No, it’s not. Just show me the shit you’ve been watching on youtube or something. Oh I watched Sean’s Mag Minute earlier, it was sick.
I usually don’t watch skating, I just kind of sit here in the dark and play guitar, listen to some music, I don’t really have a life. I don’t know, I’ve been listening to a lot of Roky Ericson. I listen to a lot of stuff. But this Roky clip is tight. Creature with the atom brain, acoustic though.
What do you like about this clip? Because Roky is sick, I feel like he is awesome.
Wow, that’s profoundly deep. Got anything else to say? Fuck, I gotta say something more? Uh, he likes to shock people with his music, I like to shock people with my skateboarding. I feel like I am the evil one...
Ha! Dude, I’m cut you off before you say any more. Why do you like this song compared to other Roky songs? Because. Are you listening? I like the electric one but it’s not the same. Roky’s insane. Just to go to sleep he listens to like 20 different songs at the same time.
Okay hit us with another, clip. These gonna be all Roky clips? Ummm, oh MC Nano!
Who’s MC Nano? He’s the homie.
MC Nano
He’s Tony Montgomery’s and Lucky’s friend. Lucky’s my new roommate, he DJ’s and him and Tony make the beats and shit. MC Nano is from Hawthorne. He comes over and just freestyles while Tony’s playing music.
He’s down with Furby and all the Hawthorne homies? Yeah he knows Furby, he went to school with Furbz. This shit is at our house, he actually raps about it in the video. He just comes over and does it big.
Lucky’s been DJing at Beauty Bar too? Yeah.
You going to the Swedish Model’s birthday party there tonight? Nah, I’m not going. Can’t get in. Last time I had to sit in the car.
You don’t have the hooks? I got Whitey’s ID, but they weren’t buying it. Bouncer was like, “You’re not 6 feet tall!”
Well that’s true. Looks like you’re gonna miss out on the Swedish chicks. Oh well. So this is gonna be on the web and shit?
Duh. Okay, just wanted to say Cadath rules, it’s a metal band. They rule, they’re my homies.
You got a clip of them? Uh, no this one is another band, they’re from Maine, so they rule. I hung out with them at the skatepark a couple times. They’re gettin’, like, gnarly these days. they’re down.
Absence Of The Sun
I like their name, Absence Of The Sun! Because if you were just called “dark” that wouldn’t be tough huh? Nah, they’re sick.
They look pretty fuckin’ evil, but kind of emo. I’m just psyched on a Metal Ban coming up from Maine.
If you went to their show and killed a chicken and sprayed the blood on them would they be psyched? Yeah, they’d probably take the chick to the boneyard.
What? No a chicken! Not a chick! Ah, what? I don’t know them like that, don’t even know what that question meant. You’re mind is tweaked.
I said kill a chicken, and you’re talking about chicks! You’re mind is tweaked. What’s the boneyard? The boneyard? That’s where you take chicks when they want to bone, it’s a fact. Wikipedia.org it.
Ha, okay guess we’ll end your Alex Gordorous’s evil death metal interview it with a wikipedia link to boneyard, that’s really tough... not. Ah man, wait! There’s way cooler stuff I can show you, like Motorhead and thin Lizzy...
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For the record I'm not stupid, I'm into music but I know the majority of my fans are from skating.
Okay, so what's up with your music thing? Music is going good, we just shot a video with Tiger, Young Keno, and Ya Boy. Basically me featured on one of their records. They’re editing it now, should be ready soon. Other than that waiting for Currency to get in town so we can shoot some Fly Society videos and work on a couple more tracks.
Are people giving you shit or hating for you doing your music? Like they can’t understand how you can do that and skating? Yeah, what’s so funny is to me it works hand in hand. Skating is not ever been a 9 to 5 job, it’s not like you clock in hourly. We pick out time when we want to skate. Say I get up at 12 go skate for a couple hours. Then later on that evening go to the gym for an hour, maybe skate the park with Paul. And later that night is when I’ll do my thing, listen to beats, work on music.
Crookz
That’s the thing, a lot message board people will talk shit, but I’m not sure they understand how much you actually skate compared to a lot of people. Yeah, I get so much shit! You’re always like, “Why you so angry at this spot?” Because I’m thinking like, how can these dudes be telling me I don’t skate? I’m around Paul Rodriguez skating every fucking day, and we know that dude does not put down the skateboard. I catch the most shit but you know it actually fires me up. The biggest fear I catch from it is kids telling me I better not quit skating. Like whenever I go out kids are like, “We love Fly society, but promise me you’re gonna keep skating.” I mean I take that as a compliment, and that’s what I came up out of and how I made it. And for the record I'm not stupid, I'm into music but I know the majority of my fans are from skating, and I straight have to skate or I freak out, I ain’t quitting skating ever.
Yeah, I like it when you get mad at spots, or at people talking shit, it’s just fucking entertaining to watch. I know, you encourage it.
You ever read message boards? Well when I’ll be on myspace these kids will hit me up like, “How the fuck you on Myspace? You’re supposed to be a pro skater out skating!” Dude, I get so much shit. But I think it helps me in the long run because people think I doin’t be doing it, then when my shit pops up they’re like what the fuck?
Seems like there’s a lot of skater’s getting into music now, what’s up with JR’s tracks? Jeremy? Dude's in his own world, guess he be on it.
He gets some flack for his raps too, what’s his deal? All I can say is Jeremy is Jeremy. He loves to be on the edge.
Back 180 Crookz
Any JR, Fly Society collabos coming out? Nope. I’m mainly working on Fly Society. There’s some Fly Society clothing finally about to start rolling out through KR3W, and my Supra shoe just dropped. So psyched off that! And that’s another thing, people always giving me shit about my shoe, thinking you won’t be able to skate in ‘em. Truth is they skate fucking amazing. If you actually look at the design the laces are designed on the inside so they don’t rip, and the vulk sole grips good as hell. Can you put a picture in this so they can see what I'm talking about?
For sure, but you got to admit the design is very different from a normal skate shoe. Do people trip on 'em? Yeah, but I love it dude, just more hype and it's like I actually had input on the design this time around unlike my Ice Cream shoe, so I'm stoked.
I straight have to skate or I freak out, I ain’t quitting skating ever.
I gotta ask this for the gossip people, what happened with the Angela Daddy’s Girl situation? I respect where she was coming from. We broke up, she said it came down to sex, which clearly wasn’t the issue. At the end of the day I just got to a point where we started to grow apart. I wanted to focus more on skateboarding and the stuff I wanted to do, and at the end of the day she wanted to focus on what she needed to do. It’s all love, we still talk.
What was up with the Lil’ Bow Wow beef? Oh yeah, he was always talkin’ shit about me and I don’t even know the dude. I never met dude in my life, in fact never even seen the dude in my life.
Damn, he's giving dudes with the name Shad a bad name, huh? (Lil’ Bow Wow’s real name is Shad Moss). Ha! I don’t know. He was living by her, talking to her but they never dated, and he goes on some radio show where they ask, “What’s up with you and Angela?” And he starts saying, “Oh, we could never date because she likes some skateboarder, I ain’t trying to skateboard so she don’t like me” and all these low jabs. Then a couple of my buddies who bumped into him told me how he was speaking on my behalf. Reached the point where I know I’m a man, enough is enough so had to voice my opinion. I said what I had to say to him, got it off my chest.
You even had a nice lyric in one of your songs, what was it? Oh, “You’re three feet tall but talking like you’re on stilts dog, when I catch ya I’m gonna wire your jaw.”
I like it, straight and to the point. He didn’t come back at you with anything? Nah, that was it, it’s done. He actually called me up, let me know he wasn't running around talking shit. Because a lot of people will just feed it and it gets blown out of proportion, we talked and everything is cool now, no more beef.
So what’s your plans right now? Just skating a lot actually, practicing a bunch of tricks at the park I’m ready to take to the streets, filming for Rob’s Show, Street Dreams movie about to come out, you see the trailer for that?
Yeah, this is actually like the 4th movie you been in, huh? Yeah, little parts. But that’s what I been doing. We’re gonna get out tomorrow, hit that rail. I’m on the way to this Dub photo shoot, gettin’ these rims on my car.
Every time I call you you’re doing work. I ask what you’re doing and it’s never, “Just chillin’, playing video games smokin’ weed”. Nah, always doing something dude.
Today you’re like, “Yeah I can fit you in from 12:30 to 1:30.” Cause you’re going to your shop right? Yeah, it’s called District 8, skate shop and boutique. So it’s like cool sneakers, best skate gear. It’s off Atlantic and Carson street, 4242 Atlantic Ave Long Beach, CA. Check it out if you want some of my gear or some nice goods.
Anything you want to end this with? Look out for that Lizard King lunatic—passion! Give that dude a raise!
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