It's Time for a Random Update
Yo Everyone. I haven't really been one to lay everything down at once lately, or look at my entire life all at once. so I randomly decided, hey, lets do a little bit of reflection, and lets tell the world how the hell Devan Bentley has been.
Well first off, we're going to go with whatever randomly pops in my head and hope I express all the important points. We'll start it out by explaining how the idea popped into my head. Tonight I just decided to check what mail i've gotten the last few days becacuse I haven't even thought about it. I see an envelope from the NYS DMV. uh oh. I guess my dad NEVER paid the fine for the ticket I got in HIS vehicle for not having it inspected. My license has been suspended!! no worries, a trip to court to pay the fine and to the DMV will void the suspension. Well with that, comes along another thing i found in the mail. THE JANUARY TRANSWORLD ISSUE!! I still hadn't finished the December issue because I had gotten it late ( just subscribed ). So tonight i was determined to finish it, and, with few distractions ( unavoidable with ADD ) I finished it. As soon as it was done it sparked the idea about a few ideas I have...and a few things I think I should throw down in writing, or history. Since I haven't really thrown it down in my journal at all.
I've been skating and hanging out with the crew hardcore ever since spring 05...and have become a religious skateboarder. The crew consists of Paul Sharman, Ian Alhiem, DJ Vascianne, Jesse Boop("Boop"), Corry Hannah, and the occasional Will Hindson, Mike Olyer, and Scott Sultherland,(DA, or Mogley) Russ Cambell and Sean Potter, n Dougy Fresh. Spring then turned into summer, and the summer life was great......the crew callin' me at 3 to wake me up...skating it hardcore, and partying all night, and then doing the same the next day. yes...and during this I've been progressing in skateboarding at an increasing speed, and now that i've got my heelflips on lockdown, I gotta holla dat OUT. But summer slid into september, most the crew would be in school, and I would still be staying up all night and waking up at 3 to calls from the crew to find out where the spot was that day. I was living the life. I had a job, may it be not much responsibility and not very much pay, it still payed for the beer and food for the weekend. and the weekdays? sleeping in and skating, and the occasional band practice with Little Debbie and the Cosmic Brownies. but this started to turn sour, with the weather getting colder, and the job disapearing with the lack of customers eating at the restaurant. (no need for a dishwasher) I'll admit, this brought on a little bit of depression. i would stay up all night thinking about crap and getting even more depressed, and then sleep all day. At this point I was planning on college in the spring at MCC for Music Preformance, but nothing had been done about it. I either kept making up excuses or just totally sleep in. I wasn't registered for classes and no one really knew if i was really going,not even me, so I was pretty much just a bum living with my parents with no job and just skating. This brought on Trouble Sleeping.
With trouble sleeping, I thought of ways to express my emotions and to kinda keep me busy. I've always wrote Graff but this gave me alot of time to just kick it back and concentrate on graffin'...cause its not like anyone was around to skate at 3 in the morning. My skills are advancin' but we'll just leave that for you to SEE. anyways, with the graff has really gotten me into the culture of hip-hop, skatin', Drums, Beats, n NYC dreamin'. seriously, the big city is where i wanna be. So with that will take money, and some kinda conection, and some f'n smarts, and skillz in the music, cause it could be perfect to get my music out around there. So that led me to COLLEGE. Finally, i know WHY i'm going to college, i'm not just doing it because everyone else is around me and everyone is telling me to. Drums, although with skating i haven't been getting down on them as often as i should be/used to, are still my #1 love. because thats the only way i can express music, and it feels like my love for music has been pumpin' through my veins since I was born. SO I SIGNED UP! ..Jazz in American History, Jazz Ensemble, Midi Recording, and English 101.
So college is taken care of, and now thoughts of building a plan for a career has started, and alot of the ideas are now revolved around the crew as much as music (if not more). But just recently the crew has been getting into playing music together, so, hopefully that'll help me continue with drums/music recording. But with the crew came soooo many ideas for making a cartoon, probably coming from our love for Family Guy and just taking notice of the funny things/situations/thoughts that come about from hanging with the crew. Also with that cartoon would be just the art of expressing and recording down this culture, this seemingly far out lifestyle, mindset, and way of life. all these awesome, fun times spent with this crew make me all warm inside, and i want everyone to experience that, but they can't understand by us just being in their face, skating and doing tricks in public. they have no idea that skateboard is so much more than just x-games and skate vids/magazines/pros and so on. so the idea of this cartoon connects with the graff and art i've been working on, and hopefully i'll take a few classes for that next year to help me organize my ideas a bit and learn how such media is made. wether it be a magazine, video, animation, cartoon, song, freestyle, poetry, essay, article. whatever. as long as its Authentic Shizzz B!!!!
Soo..what else has really gone on since the last real post...i guess we could mention a little bit of Myspace because I during this period started visiting this site alot. i tip my hat off to Tom for connecting the whole world on such a cool site that lets us have our own space on the net to display US. Thanks brah.
Katie Elizabeth Holland. from the time of skating, things started to get a little rough...from watching lots of skaters/bands stop doing what they're doing because of a girlfriend, it really got me thinking and it also started to push me to the point where i either had to pick skating or my girlfriend. Skating was somehow instantly my new love so to say, and i seriously was IN love with it. all my time was dedicated to skating and when i wasn't skating i was with the crew, and having a girlfriend was just weird cause from what i saw it causes alot of drama, like this tv show called Will and Grace, lol, pun intended. But as i saw it, she was going away to college and it was going to happen anyway...but...it never did, she left, and i only missed her. and then i realized that shes more than skateboarding, she was there BEFORE skateboarding and no matter what still remains important to me. But, our relationship isn't very well detailed to exactly what it is, but it just is. I've been visiting her at least once every 2 weeks since she left, or we've at least seen eachother. so, thats pretty neat.
i don't really know what else i wanted to say. in the middle of this, I took my sisters to school and visited my old band teacher. Hadn't seen her in a while, had to drop by and say hey. soooooo glad to be outta school, outta that system, f the small town school system. but anyway, we'll make this the first installment of many...( lets hope ) On the way home i stopped by aldon and found out they accept applications monday and wednesday 130-4 or something. weird.
well anyway, until then, you stay classy san diego, i'm ron burgendy?
Well first off, we're going to go with whatever randomly pops in my head and hope I express all the important points. We'll start it out by explaining how the idea popped into my head. Tonight I just decided to check what mail i've gotten the last few days becacuse I haven't even thought about it. I see an envelope from the NYS DMV. uh oh. I guess my dad NEVER paid the fine for the ticket I got in HIS vehicle for not having it inspected. My license has been suspended!! no worries, a trip to court to pay the fine and to the DMV will void the suspension. Well with that, comes along another thing i found in the mail. THE JANUARY TRANSWORLD ISSUE!! I still hadn't finished the December issue because I had gotten it late ( just subscribed ). So tonight i was determined to finish it, and, with few distractions ( unavoidable with ADD ) I finished it. As soon as it was done it sparked the idea about a few ideas I have...and a few things I think I should throw down in writing, or history. Since I haven't really thrown it down in my journal at all.
I've been skating and hanging out with the crew hardcore ever since spring 05...and have become a religious skateboarder. The crew consists of Paul Sharman, Ian Alhiem, DJ Vascianne, Jesse Boop("Boop"), Corry Hannah, and the occasional Will Hindson, Mike Olyer, and Scott Sultherland,(DA, or Mogley) Russ Cambell and Sean Potter, n Dougy Fresh. Spring then turned into summer, and the summer life was great......the crew callin' me at 3 to wake me up...skating it hardcore, and partying all night, and then doing the same the next day. yes...and during this I've been progressing in skateboarding at an increasing speed, and now that i've got my heelflips on lockdown, I gotta holla dat OUT. But summer slid into september, most the crew would be in school, and I would still be staying up all night and waking up at 3 to calls from the crew to find out where the spot was that day. I was living the life. I had a job, may it be not much responsibility and not very much pay, it still payed for the beer and food for the weekend. and the weekdays? sleeping in and skating, and the occasional band practice with Little Debbie and the Cosmic Brownies. but this started to turn sour, with the weather getting colder, and the job disapearing with the lack of customers eating at the restaurant. (no need for a dishwasher) I'll admit, this brought on a little bit of depression. i would stay up all night thinking about crap and getting even more depressed, and then sleep all day. At this point I was planning on college in the spring at MCC for Music Preformance, but nothing had been done about it. I either kept making up excuses or just totally sleep in. I wasn't registered for classes and no one really knew if i was really going,not even me, so I was pretty much just a bum living with my parents with no job and just skating. This brought on Trouble Sleeping.
With trouble sleeping, I thought of ways to express my emotions and to kinda keep me busy. I've always wrote Graff but this gave me alot of time to just kick it back and concentrate on graffin'...cause its not like anyone was around to skate at 3 in the morning. My skills are advancin' but we'll just leave that for you to SEE. anyways, with the graff has really gotten me into the culture of hip-hop, skatin', Drums, Beats, n NYC dreamin'. seriously, the big city is where i wanna be. So with that will take money, and some kinda conection, and some f'n smarts, and skillz in the music, cause it could be perfect to get my music out around there. So that led me to COLLEGE. Finally, i know WHY i'm going to college, i'm not just doing it because everyone else is around me and everyone is telling me to. Drums, although with skating i haven't been getting down on them as often as i should be/used to, are still my #1 love. because thats the only way i can express music, and it feels like my love for music has been pumpin' through my veins since I was born. SO I SIGNED UP! ..Jazz in American History, Jazz Ensemble, Midi Recording, and English 101.
So college is taken care of, and now thoughts of building a plan for a career has started, and alot of the ideas are now revolved around the crew as much as music (if not more). But just recently the crew has been getting into playing music together, so, hopefully that'll help me continue with drums/music recording. But with the crew came soooo many ideas for making a cartoon, probably coming from our love for Family Guy and just taking notice of the funny things/situations/thoughts that come about from hanging with the crew. Also with that cartoon would be just the art of expressing and recording down this culture, this seemingly far out lifestyle, mindset, and way of life. all these awesome, fun times spent with this crew make me all warm inside, and i want everyone to experience that, but they can't understand by us just being in their face, skating and doing tricks in public. they have no idea that skateboard is so much more than just x-games and skate vids/magazines/pros and so on. so the idea of this cartoon connects with the graff and art i've been working on, and hopefully i'll take a few classes for that next year to help me organize my ideas a bit and learn how such media is made. wether it be a magazine, video, animation, cartoon, song, freestyle, poetry, essay, article. whatever. as long as its Authentic Shizzz B!!!!
Soo..what else has really gone on since the last real post...i guess we could mention a little bit of Myspace because I during this period started visiting this site alot. i tip my hat off to Tom for connecting the whole world on such a cool site that lets us have our own space on the net to display US. Thanks brah.
Katie Elizabeth Holland. from the time of skating, things started to get a little rough...from watching lots of skaters/bands stop doing what they're doing because of a girlfriend, it really got me thinking and it also started to push me to the point where i either had to pick skating or my girlfriend. Skating was somehow instantly my new love so to say, and i seriously was IN love with it. all my time was dedicated to skating and when i wasn't skating i was with the crew, and having a girlfriend was just weird cause from what i saw it causes alot of drama, like this tv show called Will and Grace, lol, pun intended. But as i saw it, she was going away to college and it was going to happen anyway...but...it never did, she left, and i only missed her. and then i realized that shes more than skateboarding, she was there BEFORE skateboarding and no matter what still remains important to me. But, our relationship isn't very well detailed to exactly what it is, but it just is. I've been visiting her at least once every 2 weeks since she left, or we've at least seen eachother. so, thats pretty neat.
i don't really know what else i wanted to say. in the middle of this, I took my sisters to school and visited my old band teacher. Hadn't seen her in a while, had to drop by and say hey. soooooo glad to be outta school, outta that system, f the small town school system. but anyway, we'll make this the first installment of many...( lets hope ) On the way home i stopped by aldon and found out they accept applications monday and wednesday 130-4 or something. weird.
well anyway, until then, you stay classy san diego, i'm ron burgendy?