Well the premiere went great! Just kidding. I don't remember getting out of the limo. Maybe
I'm still there and this is all a shitty dream? I do remember waking up in my bathroom at home.

I wrote out this big speech type dealer to help me with this Bree thing. Then later that day she told me all about this guy and I felt better. I'm not gonna tell you how redic it is on here. Maybe later or in a private convo you can laugh and I will cry.

We talked about her and how much she has lied to me the past month just to cover up her feelings and all around sneakiness to stay at his place. While I was in the falls we talked a lot and talked about how we missed each other while she was making out with him those days.

Talking to Larry I remembered how I was joking about him and she started crying about him. She likes him a lot. More then I can remember her ever loving me. I think this is the biggest of all the reasons I'm bummed. I love her so much it's not even funny.

It's weird to hear people talk to me about it. I had planned to ask her to marry me 2 years ago, but due to lack of money and living in the real world, I could not afford to get the ring for her.
It's not just a girlfriend for 2 years, but someone I wanted in my life for the rest of my life.

Man, screw me and sleep. I'm so used to going to work at 3, that I get up at 6 am now if I don't have to work. Bummer. I like that word. Maybe I will get a tattoo of the word bummer on me.

Yesturday went to work at 3 am and got done at 9am. Bought bree flowers and went home. Packed some stuff up and got Joel and started the 6 hour drive. It wasn't as bad as the weather channel said it would be thank god. Saw prob around 30 cars in the ditches. I also got to watch someone crash into the ditch. After driving 50 the whole way here, we made it. I had a nice T-bone dinner and opened some presents. Got the Nikes I have wanted for 2 years and a new skateboard. Pretty sweet. Then I had a dream about Bree and woke up. Now I'm typing this.

The new movies premieres tomorrow night. Should be good. Got the limo again this year and I'm torn on what im gonna do to my face. Moosestash, Hitler, or the Lemmy. They have there pros and cons, but i'll see in a few hours when I shave.

Welp, hope to see you at the movies tomorrow.

I haven't done a post abpout me talking about stuff in a bit so here goes.

Bree bought me The Hangover yesturday due to her oweing me money. Great funny movie. I wonder if Joel plays the chubby guy from Tim and Eric? They act so much the same. She also bought Inglouirous Bastards. I don't know why I hate this movie as much as I do. I put it in last night and watched a half hour of it and shut it off. I don't know if it's because he slows the pace down in his movies or how he shows them talking to get you to understand their character. The action scenes are ok, but it's nothing like resivour dogs. Not even close. I remember coming out of the theater after viewing it and telling Bree that I would have rather watched "Pride of the Nation" instead. To my surprise on the dvd she got they have it on there. It's really short, but soooo funny and amazing. Hollahollaholocaust.

Another day another drink. I'm going on my 6th?7th?8th? day drinking? It's a bummer living here, but it helps time goes by when she tells me she wants to live for good. She is so childish, it sucks. I don't know how a person can go from really happy to telling me she hasn't loved in in 2 years. I'm scared that we will get our own places and she will regret it and want to get back. If that is the case so much money will be lost, or maybe we won't get back together. She tells me there is no way we will.

Quick update.

Movie is almost done. I will watch a part and find one thing I don't like about it and redue the whole thing. It's close though. I have a list of stuff that I'm gonna do then that's it.

Due to some recent problems in my life I decided to take up drinking everyday to help with my problems. As terrible and shitty as it sounds and does help. We get into a fight and I drink some and just kinda pass out after a bit. It makes time go by faster.
Camo Can is the way to go.

Last night I went to Old Chicago to watch the fights with Beth and Joel. Joel got his usual and loved it.
I just love the way it looks. Dark on top light on the bottom.

Like the new header? I thought you would.

Just put the WTC facebook group up and we already have like 25 people. Cool. I hope we can get 50 people there. It would make my life easier.

I thought I had all the parts done for this video till Al tried giving me a new song. It didn't fit with the theme of this video so I told him to find another. All I really have to do is fit everything together and it's a wrap. Weird, usually I'm finishing up the day of the premiere.

Thrasher Skater of the Year.

It was just announced that Chris Cole is again the S.O.T.Y. and i'm not surprised. I know i wanted Dennis to win, but Chris Cole deserves it more. After winning the X Games, Malroof, and Battle at the Berrics he should have won.

Here is the video of them talking to him.

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=90&video_id=375

I mean it's hard to watch the last 3 tricks and not want to give it to him. back 360 kickflip down Carlsbad? Someone should put his ass in a armbar(would love a sweet Joel Holden photo of that. Chris's butt in a armbar.).

I just thought of Dennis for it because i know how people thought he shouldn't win it for a second year. The only other person to do that is Danny Way and I mean, he is bosss.


Just watch his last 2 tricks. Amazing. The fact he can go to a contest and do ollies speaks volumes.

Then there is this. Prepare to be blown awaayyy.

Hello. Update time.

Today is the first day it's been cold, and the forcast isn't good. Looks like Sunday was the real last day to skate. With that said...

Sunday we decided to hit up Some places in Eden Prairie. Went to this spot that is a curb with a 2 foot flat then a 3. Weird spot. Joel tried a trick no one else would ever try. After that spot we decided to go to this bank that Joel talked to me in a message about. This is it:

Joel Holden For the first time today I remembered to check out that bank by my jiu jitsu school, and all I have to say is that thing is GNARLY. It looks skateable and would look amazing on video but there's about 3 or 4 different things that could cause a major crash haha.

So we went there and that thing was sketchyyy. After standing there for 15 minutes trying to figure out a proper spot to try it at I gave it ago. It ended up me clipping a mound of crap at the bottom and flying 10 feet into a road. Somehow I fucked my finger up.I also landed so hard on my right side, I haven't been able to lift my right arm due to the slam. We drove to a gas station were Joel bought me water and some band aids to clean the cut in the parking lot. One of the worst ideas of my life.

Later that night Joel, Adam, and I decided to play b.e.e.r.s. The rules are the same but everytime you miss a trick you drink a beer, until you have spelt out beer. Get it? Joel and I lost and Adam was down to a T. It was a blast, we were also drunk by 5.

I thought about skating the day after, but decided I have the biggest part of all the skaters and decided that fall was the last of my skate bit.

Which brings me to the video. It's happing. Believe it or not it's dropping. Talking to people, I think the date is set to December 26th at midnight (technically the 27th). Full parts from Joel Holden, Adam Bergstrom, Al Salmi, and myself. I think this one is going to simply be called 4(I don't remember how many i've made. Maybe it's five.). I'll ask Bree she knows. Either the end of this week or next week I will make a group on facebook with more info and a "trailer."

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I did. Adam and I made plans to hit up Hidden Falls. You might have seen this spots in many skate videos. The roofs are oddly shaped hips that are terrifying to skate.

Despite it being damn near 30 we sucked it up anyway and went there. The bottom is built like a skate park and everything grinded. Adam got a line and we jumped onto the roof. We both got some tricks and Adam threw out one hell of a banger no one is going to believe. Adam " I don't skate the whole summer till I want to make a video part and it will be amazing" Bergstrom.



Later the day we went to the long manny pad and I got a line and Adam go another trick. I made a little montage for Adam and I and it was 4 minutes worth of stuff I can use. Awesome Thanksgiving.

The mother fucking B.O.S.S.

Nothing really to say as of now except I have been kicking ass in Mario Kart. The greatest game ever.

Look at that smile.



Also, I'm going to try to get these up once a week. Let's hope I do it now. The newest thing to the blogg isssssss.........

Larry came down last weekend and gave me some good memories. The first nigth we took him to a club. He was shiit faced. He almost drank a liter of vodkey and stole some of my beer throughout the night. After being rejected by 2 large groups of women(dancing like he was trying to hump their butts) and he was done for the night. It didn't however stop him from trying to suplex me in the club. As I fell backward on his face I looked at the people watching. I could only imagine what they thought.

Pretty sure we took him to white castle after and he never opened his eyes once.

The next day was Joel's Jui Jitsu compition and we went. I filmed it for him and he was amazing. He might not think that, but im proud of him. He is the only one of my friends who is willing to do such a thing so props. Larry will join him in January with a boxing match. Joel got third in his first comp. and lost in the first fight of his 2nd.

The next day Larry and I hit up the vikings game(thanks lair dogg). Madness outside the metrodome. As 64,000 people waited to see the game.


Then Larry left me. Until the day I go to Duluth or he comes back. Thanks Larry.

Noe onto some Chit Chat.
I love the MPLS skyline. There is something about it that makes me feel good about living down here.

This picture is a little close but I won't complaine.

Robert Galloway has a new part of Youtube of his acomplishments on a skateboard this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltQXYk2EEP0 <--- Peep it here. The song with the first part is kinda sad, but it picks up haha.

Speaking of videos ours is coming along. Al's part is just insaine. Joel's part is weird. If you skated with him while he did the tricks they're awesome. On video they are just weird. Who cares it's just skateboarding. A quote from Joel 2-3 weeks ago was "I don't skate for fun anymore, now it's just for the video." He was bumming about a trick. Adam's part is cool. Not a part you would expect from him is the onyl thing that comes to mind. The lack of skateboarding also comes to mind. The last 3 weeks though he has been kicking ass for stuff. My part is the longest which is weird. I guess I was the only one who did not have anything better to do this year.
I have a couple of ideas for a trailer for the skate video and when I feel like the video is nearly done I will work on it.

Nothing really needs to be said...

Sunday we went looking for some spots and Joel had a couple grass rides in mind.

We found this handrail, but the ride up suuuuccckkkedd assssss.


You can tell by Joel's face he was terribly bummed.Then we drove tot he "Hill of Death." This thing is gnarly as shit. Lived up to its name for sure. Joel wanted to grass ride in. Just look at how high in the air this damn thing is.

Fedor

We had a pizza party/pot luck for the Fedor fight.
Joel got flipped turned upside down, and this how he became the fresh prince of bell air.

Good fight. Good night.

The Wtc hit the bar the other night. Talks of chick skaters, the game of skate date rape, and board slides slow mo shirt tear opens were the hot topics of the night.

Todd vs. Concrete

Rat was on the Tyra Banks show yesturday...

Life isn't easy being steezy.

A skate plaza 5 miles from my house. To bad I'm not allowed to skate it.

Let me give you a run down of the last week.

Drove to the falls Monday morning. The reason behind this is for multiple reasons, but a BIG chuck of it was 2 tricks I wanted to do. I didn't know if I could do them so I figured if I could to them I might as well try at the park in the falls. I know in one of my earlier blogs I talked about how much I don't like entire videos based at a skate park. It's not that I wanted them to be ay a park, but it's easy to have what you need right there. Every single day. It's a lot different trying a smith on a box then trying a smith on a real ledge not ment for it. Peopel who skated pre-parks understand. Anyway, I got there and went to the park right away. Bought some beer and skated around. Chris made an appearance and I ollied the launch. I haven't ollied that thing in like 4 years haha. Next day I tried going to the park five times and everytime I started to drive there it rained. Finally fed up with it I drove to the park and drank in the car waiting for it to dry. Chris showed up and talked about how im hoping for something that wont happen. So we left.
The day I was to leave was amazing outside. Woke up at 9 and was at the park by 10:30 and got to work on my first trick. After a couple tries I realized it wasn't gonna happen. Did what I needed to to get the second one going and tried it. I did it, after an hour of trial and error. I was happy to do it on camera finally. I know it's not the greatest, but it's something not everyone tried to do. Landed it and drove home and now I'm really sore.

This video was of the day or two before I left. Adam filmed some new tricks here and I was pleased. Joel made an appearace(!) and kinda got a trick or two.




It's hard to explaine how hard these banks are. Steep and small. EVERY trick is hard and when you do a trick you should be proud. Adam and I were talking about how every trick that can be done on them have been done, yet everytime we go there shit always comes out.

This video is soo close to being "done" it makes me mad. By some act of god. I hope we can pull it out. Just looked at my part and I got almost 3 minutes. Pretty pumped.

Long time coming. This week has had a lot of downs and not very many highs. Last week my car broke down and I had to push it to a auto shop from Wally Mart. After pushing uphill and having Joel drive into the other lane while cars would have to try their shot at defensive driving we got it there. 314 big ones down the drain. Later that week I took Adam for a little skate mission to the roofs. Assuming it was freezing out and no one would be at a park by the Mississippi, we would be golden. Drove there only to finds dozens of people in huge jackets all under the roofs next to a big fire. I guess they could have stayed home, but why waste the energy.

We left and made our way to the high school were the boondoggle guys call home and if you have the time, wathc the end of fully flared when they pan up and throw their boards at the no skateboarding sign. yea, that's where we skated. Adam got a sick cliche Adam powerslide trick that always is cool and I got a run that ended with a combo trick. Not bad. If we would have got a trick every weekend It wouldn't be this bad for the video. Lets hope we3 can get some tricks for some other people this weekend.

Last saturday I filmed 2 weddings. The first one is for Pure Bliss. Took 2 hours and got the big payout of $50 bucks. The other was a gig I picked up and man did it pay off. I got there early and shot the wedding and some extra stuff. I really only filmed for like a half hour and got a hundo for it. So nice not going through someone to get the extra cash. It only backed up me wanting to start my own video buisness witrh Eli and Joel.



Skating outside with Adam is usually fun. One person does something and we run with it. This time it was curbs. I got this board stall to nose and was really pumped. I might try this on a mini within the week.

Went to the skatepark today. For the first time in a week the sun was out. The news also said it would be 60. I headed out knowing I need to film stuff for this video that might not drop. (on on that later). Got to the skatepark and 1 guy was there. At the Mendota park you're either good or bad, Me being the only one that is dead middle. This guy was amazing and soon left. I quickly ran to my car and grabed the camera and tripod. Set that shit up and got to work. At first I didn't think I would do it. I have tried this trick on many curbs and decided to give it a go. Couple tries later I got it, and was really pumped. As you can see in the video of my ride away. The scream is not something I do a lot so you know im pumped. The devil horns was something I did and now that I watch it, it makes me fell pretty stupid. Oh well. Watch the ride away.





This "video" is another story. I personley don't think it's going to be done. I'm trying to get a part for me knowing I can, but it's hard filming myself. People just don't want to skate on the weekends when we need to. The worst part is everyone is free Sundays. No one works and no one cares. It's always hard to make a video though. My videos are notorious for being filmed in 3 months or less. Another contributing factor is there is hardly any park skating in videos. I'm the only one who usually does and you can't just go out on weekdays and film at places in the cities. I know Al hates skatepark footage in his parts and Adam tries not to get any. I would rather not have much skatepark footage in the videos anyway. Just seems kinda easy? is the world im looking for I think. You dont have to worry about getting tricks fast, the grounds perfect, and you skate the same stuff day in and day out. Lets hope this video gets done though. I made a rough edit of Al's stuff and he was happy with it. I'm not. It's all good, but he needs a couple things it feels like.

A picture of my Dr. Pepper bottle. I love this stuff. This picture proves how evil this shit is. "I'm pretty sure Dr. Pepper is Satan's blood."- Todd Mortenson :) Look at how that bottle is just smiling at you.

I like this trick almost or then anything I have ever done. It looks cool and it felt cool doing it. I actually did it pretty well too.

Nothing really to report on. For the first time in almost 2 months we got rain, and it is currently raining for the 3rd day in a row. Bummers.



Went tot he Mall and Lauren Conrad was there. Among the MILLIONS of girls waiting to get there book signed and meet here, there was this man.

Only in Minneosta.

Sweet sheet

I found this a bit ago. It's Davis Torgerson skating around Minneapolis showing skatgespots and most of them are were we skate. Pretty sweet. Watch it for the spots. It feels cool knowing we skate the same spots are pro skateboaders.

http://etnies.com/blog/2009/9/24/rollin-with-davis-torgerson/

Here are some clips from spots in the video that I have some footage of.
Parking garage.



Government building.

Yoink

It's been a long time. Sorry about that.

Last Sunday went to Duluth to film skateboarding. I got 3 tricks and a line. Nothing really special. I did them already on film before the camera got lost. Bummer. Car ride was fun. This can sum it up.



Everyone got stuff, b ut we are far far behind what we should be. Every video ends up being filmed in 3 months. Imagine if we started in April! The next few weekends are gonna be hell for skateboarding.

I might make a trip up to the falls to film a couple tricks. I know if I can do one of them it will be my ender ender.

After all the money I spent the camera is finally done.
Pretty pumped. Now all I need is a bag and a extra battery.

This guy reminds me of Hoosta sooo much. If he Hoosta wore flannel this would be his long lost brother.
I'm Pretty pumped for the Billy Marks Battle Commander. Should be funny and amazing.

I'll do an update before Monday.

Went skating on LAbor day with Squid. We got jumped by a big ass praying mantis.
This I took before I went to bed. Just kind of reminds me of The dazig video I am demon. Where the demon jumped into the door.

As You can see from the image above.

New gear.

Just bought this today. Along with a wide angle. A cool couple hundos gone from the ol' wallet. :(

photo update!

I went to the falls the 23rd of last month to take the border test. The trip went well when we started it off by stopping in Duluth to film some stuff. I got a bunch of stuff for the video and was super happy. Went to the the falls and filmed suckas at the park. Matt held a "goodbye Larry" party and people got drank. Next day I filmed Larry trying to get a trick and lost my camera. Super bummed about it, but what can I do. I need to start remembering shit. Came home and went to the rennaciance festival with my uncle and aunt. This is some photos.

Gonzo was telling me when he finds anything with 138 he sends a photo to Larry.

Matt's Party got crazy and Larry's booty went threw a wall. Later that night Matt talking about People Mag. punched the wall out.

Bella trying to sleep in the car.
Camel

Elephant

Sweet ass turkey leg.

Squid bought a wooden cup and a cigar. We spent the whole day giving him beer.

Who do you think that is in the white?

It's Squid. Happy Birthday to the S-Town smoking chubby bastard. We took his butt to Valintinos for his B-day and it was something to remember. Some highlights include:

Amanda making Squid look like a player
Squid Actually making a effort to dance with chicks
The Chick that was into Squid for a hour
Me losing my debit card :(
Watching Squid dance from the top deck
Joel's face when the chick in our V.I.P. started shaking her ass
A man raping a girl on a couch
The chicks behind me making out for 5 minutes
Some black guy patting me on my lower back in the most creepy fashion.

It was a good night with everyone having a blast. Thanks to Smuda and Amanda for being there.