interview wit: kevin terpening

☞I hear there‘s some life drama going on?

☜Yea. I woke up and my old roommate called yelling at me. I didn’t pay the bills, and his power and water got shut off. We had to scrounge some money up so I’m kind of stressing.

☞At least you don’t live there anymore.

☜I feel bad for them because it’s my fault. I knew it was going to happen. I’m just an idiot.

☞Have you ever checked your credit score?

☜Heck no! It would be Screwed because I had a credit card once and a taxi driver stole it. He went and spent $2,000 on it.

☞Do you have a checking account?

☜Yeah, but there’s no money in it because it’s all going to the $1,200 DWP bill. I went in all sad like, “I only have half the money. How about I just pay you half?”
Trying to negotiate but they weren’t having it, so I told ’em I’d be back soon.

☞Was this the same house where you had no toilet paper and you used the paper from your éS shoes?

☜Yeah. There was always a bunch of empty shoeboxes lying around, you know? We ran out of toilet paper and started using that shit, but then our toilet got clogged a bunch of times.

☞Is the good paper the piece that's wrapped around the shoe or the part that’s crumpled inside the shoe?

☜The better part is what’s inside the shoes.
Oh. It’s softer?

☜Yeah, it doesn’t hurt. You know the other stuff is like, wax paper. It’s all messed up. You don’t want to try to wipe your butt with it. It depends on the shoe, though.
Sometimes they have actual paper and sometimes it’s like tissue paper.
Like cheap toilet paper versus the expensive kind?
Exactly. It’s like the toilet paper in the stall in the gas station or at your high school.

☞You live in Scuba’s garage now?

☜Yeah. It's pretty tight. We put up drywall and insulated the walls, and I got a whole set-up in there now. It’s pretty legit. I mean, it’s still in a garage, but it’s pretty tight.

☞Do you still owe him rent money?

☜It sucks. I just owe him one month right now and then maybe like, some bills. But I don’t have any money right now.

☞Have you tried to barter with him?

☜Like, “I’ll just mow the yard or plant some fucking flowers, you know, be the pool boy and shit.” We were talking about that, but then it all just fell apart. Now I have to pay a bunch of rent money. It’s fucked up.
Okay pool boy … are you still working at Huf?
Yeah. I work there a few days a week. Just sit there and hang out with my friends.

☞Who are you riding for?

☜Alien Workshop flow. éS flow. Shit, I feel like I’m at Tampa Am right now. Val Surf skateshop in North Hollywood and Spitfire.

☞How did you get hooked up with Alien? Obviously being from Ohio ...
When I was living there, my friend Scott got stuff from them, and we skated together all the time. We made a video and then somehow they started hooking me up. I was psyched because in Ohio that’s a really big deal. It’s pretty sick to get hooked up from a company like Alien that you actually like