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Well if you really gotta know, I'm from Cleveland Ohio. Ive been skating and been a proud member of Team Insanity since 1988. I have been pro since 1999. I play drums in a rock-n-roll band called the Heartaches, not to be confused with the Heartaches from Belgium, we're from San Diego (surf's up bro!)

(If you want to know more about him go to www.wasteoftime.com )


Most peple know its 2008 and not 1985 , but not our friend Mr. Svitak. Just look to the right here. How pathetic. We should just start making decks with a 7 degree kicktail and a 3" nose. Yeah Svitak would like that alot. Whats next a slappy grind?

(posted 11/17/08)
Lets see, Been skating a lot! Filmed some tricks and shot some photos over the weekend. I shot a possible new Innes ad yesterday. I did a b/s heelflip off this hip into a huge bank. It wasnt hard to do the flip into it but really scary going down the bank backwards! Pretty sketchy! I also saw Joe Jack Talcum play another show up in Long Beach, it was amazing! If you dont know who he is, look him up! My band the HeartAches opened up for Mudhoney saturday night. That was really fun. It was a sold out show. O.K., im going to go mow my lawn now. Go listen to "not richard but dick" by the DeadMilkmen!

kristian.

(posted 11/12/08)
I probably just had one of the best times at a show since I was in high school!

On thursday I flew to Houston Texas for the "make a wish" skate bash. I got there and first had a little meeting with the guys over at South Shore distribution. After that I went to the Raybourns house for a good dinner made by Bruce Raybourn himself. After that I got a good nights sleep.

The next day Ben was at school so Me and Bruce hung out, went to a music store and I bought a kazoo and a clown wistle for Ben. Friday, this is where it gets really good! By this time my buddy Dave (Bens tm at I path) was in town so we all went to the "make a wish" thing and skated. It was really fun! Ben didnt skate the bowl contest much because it turned into a big snake sesh with 4-5 guys in the bowl at one time. I guess they had something to prove?

Anyways we caught wind that the DEAD MILKMEN where playing 3 hours away in Austin! So what did we do? What any good team manager would do, go to see the DEAD MILKMEN play!!!! It was at a festival called fun,fun,fun fest.So me, Dave and Ben hopped in the rental car and drove. We got there when ALL was playing. The DEAD MILKMEN played and it was amazing to say the least! After the show we went out to 6th street for some pizza and more fun. Our next dilema was, do we go back to Houston in the morning for more of the skate stuff or do we stay and see Kevin Seconds, D.O.A., Cro-Mags, and the Bad Brains the next day? Duh!!!!!!!!!!! we stayed for the festival!

We got there nice and early. Oh, there was also a skate ramp there put up by Find n Grind skateshop. what could be better? A mini ramp with D.O.A. playing on stage while you rip!!!! It was amazing! We skated the ramp all day and took breaks to get closer to the stage for the bands we wanted to see. The guys from Find n Grind hooked us up all day with drinks from back stage. Thanks guys!!!!

Kevin Seconds played it was great! I got a chance to talk to him a bit after he played, super cool guy. The Cro-Mags killed it! They pretty much played the whole "Age of Quarrel" album. they also played a Minor Threat song. The place went ape shit! Then the Bad Brains played! Amazing. HR is out of his mind! Tons of old hardcore songs!!!!

Earlier in the day I ran into Dean Clean and Joe Jack Talcum of the DEAD MILKMEN. We talked a bit and Joe told me he was playing a solo show later that night at a small bar on 6th street. So of course we went to see that as well.

It was great! I got to meet Rodney ananomous and their new bass player Dandrew. Nice guys! Anyways it was great because there where only about 30 people there and Rodney was next to us singing with us while Joe was on stage playing Dead Milkmen songs with his acoustic guitar. It was very sureal to say the least.

I can blab on much more about it but I think you get the point. And I hate typing! Wow, what a great time!

Kristian

Photos

#1 - me eating pizza late night after the dead milkmen
#2 - ben eating pizza " " "
#3 - me and Rodney Anonomous at the Joe Jack Talcum show
#4 - Joe Jack Talcum in all his glory

So thanks to the super dupper surfing skills of me the 1031 web guy here is a clip of the Dead Milkmen from FUN FUN FUN FEST below that is one of The Cro Mags!







(posted 11/04/08)
Yeah, we had our big video premiere on Halloween. It was great, but we where all too dumb to take any photos or film anything! We suck! Go to the Thrasher site and click on "Burnout" then click on "all hallows eve". Burnett hooked it up for us! Hes got some really good photos up there! BK called me from Boston when he and his whole family and all of his friends where on there way to the premiere out there. It sounded like it was going off pretty hard. That sounded kind of wierd. Oh well, its all down hill from here.
Im listening to 7-seconds "ourselves" right now. Check it!

Kristian.
(posted 10/27/08)
This past week? Well I skated a bunch! I went to the Volcom Damn am contest to check out the new up and coming kids. It was o.k. the course looked fun though. But, be sure to check out the "Daily Habit" on Fuel t.v. today. Me and Ben will be on there today! I dont get that channel so let me know how dumb we looked! Also "Turn Up The Hell" premieres on Halloween night! Also im listening to Dinosar Jr. "youre living all over me" right now. Go check it out!

Kristian

(posted 10/22/08)
Well, a lot of stuff went down this past week. first off, Ben came back in town and we went on the "Daily Habit" last tuesday. It was fun. Check the photos. Me and Ben getting our noses powdered by the make up girl before we went on. We are soooo gay! There are some we took of eachother on the set and then one of us with the host, Pat. Incase you clowns out there dont know, Pat is a really cool dude and knows whats up when it comes to skating. On our way back home, our limo driver; thats right, they sent a limo to pick us up and take us home. Arent we "high class"! Anyways, he had to take a 2 hour detour because some wild fire shut down the freeway. We ended up on this mountain overlooking this big lake. Check the photos again. We finally made it back to my house and ate hot dogs.
On Saturday we went out to the "Rumble in Ramona" contest and had some fun. Ben killed it! He wasnt "invited" to skate it but he did what any good skate rat would do and dropped in! By the end of the night he got 2 awards. He got a pirate bank for doing a bonedrecht and some wierd piece of metal for an all around ripper award. Some other highlights where my friends band the Smutt Peddlers playing along with Duane Peters, JFA and some other rad bands I didnt catch the names of. My favorite part of the day was watching Christian Hosoi do a christ air right in front of my face! He was stoked and so was I. All in all, I think that was the best contest I have been to since my buddys put one on about 13 years ago back in Cleveland. Live punk bands great skating and a very non cometetive attitude. Thanks for the fun day and restoring my faith in skateboarding!

Kristian.



(posted 10/13/08)
This past week Ben Raybourn and myself flew to Wilmington North Carolina to have a meeting with the guys at Eastern skateboard supply. It was pretty awesome! They have their own private park there, so after having our meetings we ripped! I can honestly say it was one of my favorite parks. Something for everybody and all birch wood! I love that stuff! Everyone there is super cool! Thanks to Subhan for letting us crash at his pad and for driving us around.
Im listening to the first album by Smashing Pumpkins "Gish". One of my favorites since about 1990! You have to be in a mellow mood for it so dont be trying to crank it on the way to the punk show. Check it out!

Kristian

(posted 10/06/08)
Once again I cant really remember too much of the past week. What I do remember is the googy vs. regular contest. Yeah thats right, I was there. I picked up Ben and his I Path team mate Aaron "Jaws" Hamoki from the airport Thursday night. Friday was the bowl contest. At first they weren't going to let Ben skate because of some world cup contest rules. Then they said he could skate in the locals contest to "prove himself". If he made top 3 in that he could enter the pro contest. Well to sum it up in a nutshell, The people that where giving him a hard time getting in and saying " Ben Raybourn, I never heard of him" where giving him a check for $1,000.00 for 3rd place in the pro bowl contest at the end of the night! Nice work Ben! Check the photo I took from the weekend. #1. Ben during the contest. #2. Me, really getting into it at the contest! #3. Ben after winning, passing out in the car on the ride home. #4. Ben showing his check he got for doing some stunts.









(posted 09/29/08)
UPDATE!!!! Ive got nothing. I skate almost everyday, big shit. Do you want me to talk about paying my bills or feeding my dog? Here's some news. "TURN UP THE HELL" video premiere, Halloween night at Hensleys flying Elephant pub!!!!! Also my band the HeartAches will be playing!!!! I know, so what.

Kristian.
(posted 09/22/08)
This past week has been pretty fun. Been skating a lot! Nepscha, Daxter Lussier and myself skated this rad ditch by my house. Check the photos bro! Daxter got really artsy and shot the one of me doing the f/s 360 over the hip with Nepscha giving the "thumbs up". Then I tried to shoot that one of Daxter doing a f/s flip over the hip. As you can see Im not very good on the timming with a little digital camera. In reality Daxters f/s flip was huge! I just suck and shot it to early. Sorry Daxter! Also I got a dog from the O.C. animal shelter. His name is Oscar. Check him out! P.S. I like corn dogs!

kristian.

#1. Oscar
#2. Me f/s 360 over hip, Nepscha thumbs up.
#3.Daxter Lussier F/s flip over hip ( I shot this really bad!)








(Posted 09/16/08)
booooooooo yaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
I can never even remember what I did the week before. I know I skated a lot with my friends. We had some good sessions on my mini ramp. Been hitting the raw streets. Finished "Turn Up The Hell" and sent it off to the duplicators (thank god ). I got a dog from the Orange County humane society. His name is Oscar. My band finally played together after a 4 month hiatus. Looks like we will be playing at the 1031 video premiere on Halloween at Hensleys bar. Watched the G.G. Allen documentary, that never gets old. Oh yeah, suck it!

kristian.

(posted 09/08/08)
Ive just been working really hard on finishing up Turn up the Hell. Ive got Jeff Biedenblah in from P.A. living in my garage for a couple of weeks. He is the dude editing this thing. Should be good, Its almost done! Went down to the ASR trade show on friday. That was lame as ushual. So many "Bro's". Makes me want to shoot myself in the face. One good thing about it was that NSS had my new pro model shoe down there. They where working hard at making me look good because I need all the help I can get.
We where out skating on saturday when Officer Collins with the Oceanside humane Society decided to have a power trip and bust us for skating at a school. It was lame, he was so lame! The real police showed up and pretty much thought the whole thing was a joke. she was a sergent with the O-side p.d. she pretty much smiled at us and let us go. Way to go dog catcher! Feel free to contact Mr. Collins and let him know what a good job he is doing!
sunday I filmed a b/s heel flip into this huge grarly bank. I almost died, but I didnt. darn!

kristian.

(posted 09/03/08)
Update!!!!!!!! I swam with a sea lion. How dumb is that? There where about 15 of them in the water with me. The ocean is weird! We got our new boards the other day, thats cool. I went camping and saw 3 bears! Arent you glad you took the time to read this? Here is my album pick of the week..... Fugazi, "Repeater" and "In on the kill taker". Dont be stupid, go get them. I know you love your Sublime and Good Charolate but do yourself a favor and flush that crap and go get these albums. Really anything by Fugazi will be good. Every album rips!

Kristian
(posted 08/25/08)
I have been listening to a lot of my old death metal tapes from high school latley. Bolt Thrower, Deicide, Morbid Angel to name a few. Also Ive been listening to a lot of my old Staight Edge tapes as well. Mainly a lot of Youth of Today. That was a good band. I feel like when I was younger, as far as music went, we lived in the moment. The movements like punk and straight edge and hardcore where all happening at that time. Now I feel like those kind of bands and young kids today are just trying to recreate the "old days". It just doesnt seem current. Does this make sense? I think im just getting old!

(posted 08/18/08)
Im writting this as I battle the flu. Yeah rad! Lets see, well on sunday Ben , Chad ,and myself went to Woodward west for the week. It was super fun! We skated everyday and played around in the gymnastics gym. I didnt take any pictures but we did film some crap and made a little video. Im sure it is somewhere on the site by now. I dont really know what more to say about it, I mean there isnt a whole lot to do there other than skate and eat crappy camp food. Jumping on trampolines is fun! Oh yeah, Ben got in to the gymnastics demo with some Olympic gymnist and was getting more cheers then her! It was great. She was really good, doing all kinds of fancy stuff but then Ben would jump on the trampoline after her and just go crazy and almost die everytime! The kids loved ben. That was really funny.
I was skating at one of the outdoor parks the one day and I noticed Pamela Anderson sitting in the grass watching us skate. That was weird but she was there because her little boy was there as a camper for the week. I felt kind of bad for the kid because all you heard where jokes about her all week long. The poor kid is probably too youg to even understand the fame of his mom and dad. I mean I know I would be bummed if I heard kids talking about my moms boobs all day. Anyways, yeah that was kind of interesting. Now I have the flu.

(posted 08/11/08)
I left Ohio on tuesday and drove for 2 days straight! Got back to California on thursday and spent the next couple of days catching up on mail and paying bills. So Fun! Ben Raybourn flew out here on Saturday night and is staying at my house. Myself, Chad and Ben all drove up to Woodward west Sunday morning. Thats where we are now. We will be here for the next week. We are going to try and film some crap while we are here and have it up on the site later this week. Thats all I got fo now. Go buy the new Breeders album "Mountain Battles" its really good!

(posted 08/04/08)

Na, na, na gonna have a good time, hey, hey, hey! I sure do miss watching Fat Albert. I saw it the other day for the first time since I was a kid, it was great! Anyways, All ive been doing is skating all week long. Nothing too exciting. Filming, shooting photos. I did get a pair of samples of my new shoe coming out on NSS. They look really good! I went on an all day park tour with some old friends of mine. Were all in our early to mid 30's so its pretty amusing. They get together every sunday and skate a bunch of Cleveland area crappy parks in one day. I got to go along yesterday for my first time.
I leave Ohio tomarrow (tuesday) to go back to California. I should be back by thursday. Thats right, Im driving! So While your watching t.v. and playing video games all day tuesday and wendsday I will be sitting in my car driving. YEAH!





(posted 07/28/08)
I went up to Toronto this past week. It was super fun. I skated a really good ramp in a barn. It was like 4ft tall, then it went up to 6ft, then to 6.5? Then on one side it had a vert wall that was maybe 8 or 9 ft tall. My measurements may be a little off but you get the picture. It was surfaced with old masonite so it was a little slow but still super fun! Thanks to Steve Kiely and his brother Andy for hooking that up! I also Saw my buddy Steves band play a show up there as well. The name of the band is HiFi. It was pretty hectic! By the end there where 2 girls from the crowd on stage taking their shirts off. I guess they just couldnt help themselves! Maybe I should start bringing a camera with me when I go out. Im sure you guys would have appreciated that!


(posted 07/21/08)
More news in only one week later? Yeah, I dont know either. Do you people even read this crap? Well here it goes.
I've been filming and shooting photos almost everyday for the past week. I'm still in Cleveland and its been pretty hot and humid. I went out last tuesday with a film crew for Fuel T.V. They where in town for the "Dew Tour" (how exciting!) and they wanted to go film some other syuff rather then just filming that "Radical" contest. So I took them out to 10 of my favorite spots and we filmed a segment for one of their shows. It was pretty fun but very tireing! (if you got nothing better to do see some pics of all this 'excitment' below-the web editor) We had a big skate bash at a pool in the woods yesterday. That was awesome! A lot of old friends came out of the wood work for it. Oh, I know!
I finally talked to BK (Brian Kennedy) the other day. He is our flow guy from Boston. He went on tour with us this summer and he killed it. I've been trying to hit him up since tour to tell him he is going to be on the team but he dropped his phone in the toilet and has been mia til now. Anyways I told him he has a spot on the team if he wants. He said he is super down so be on the look out for a BK profile on the web site soon!

Kristian

I'm Kristian Svitak and for the next half hour I'm going to bore the hell out of you!

Front side rock any time as Johnny Rad would say

Mommy I cut my hand

Yeah thats a really good way to grip a deck!

(posted 07/14/08) Well after driving 8,000 miles on our summer tour I decided to get in my car and drive another 2,500 miles to Cleveland so I can skate, film and shoot photos for the month of July. Im a driving maniac! Things have been good. Im supposed to hook up with some guys from Fuel T.V. today to film a segment on Cleveland street spots them Im going to shoot a photo of a pressure flip! Can you believe that shit!? If it turns out good I may use it for a 1031 ad. Anyways I will try to put some really lame photos up here soon. I forgot my camera back in California so I have to get my friend Chucks. He did text me a photo of a big shit he took the other day. It was huge and disgusting! Maybe I will put that up here. Would you kids like to see a photo of Chucks dump? Ah, maybe not. Anyways, yeah im in Cleveland shrreding til August. As for the rest of the guys, Chad is in Japan doing demo's, Harbour is in Denver filming for "Turn UP THE HELL", Nepscha is drinking beer and filming "BIG MOVES", and Ben Raybourn is eating candy and not brushing his teeth.

This is for any of you that are interested in checking out some new music. These are just some of the bands from my personal collection that I think are worth checking out. There is everything from crazy grind core to mellow wuss music. Rock and Roll will never die!
Its all in alphabetical order even .

Angry Samoans
3
7-Seconds
999
AC DC
Adolescents
Aerosmith ( their old stuff from the 70's is my favorite )
Agatha Crawl (my brothers old band)
Agent Orange
Agnostic Front
Angelic up starts
Anthrax
Anti Nowhere League
Archers of Loaf
Artificial peace
Bad Brains
Bad Religion ( 80's and earlier )
Battalion of Saints
Beastie Boys
Beehive and Barracudas
Belly
Big Boys
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Biohazard
Black Flag
Black Sabbath ( the ozzy years )
Blood of Christ
Bold
Bolt Thrower
Boulder ( from Cleveland)
Broken Bones
Butt Trumpet
Buzzcocks
Carcass
Chosen Few
Christ on a crutch
Chuck Treece
Cider (from Cleveland)
Circle Jerks
Civil Disobedience ( from Cleveland )
Cock Sparrer
Corrosion of Conformity
Crass
Creadence Clear Water Revival
Cro-Mags
Crumbsuckers
D- Vision
D.C.Youth Brigade
D.I.
D.R.I.
Dag Nasty
Danzig
David Bowie
Dead Boys (Cleveland!)
Dead Kennedy's
Dead Milkmen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Death in Action
Deicide
Descendents
Devo (Ohio!)
Dictators
Die Hard (from Cleveland)
Die Kreuzen
Dinosaur Jr.
Discharge
Dolly Parton
Doom
Dr. Know
Drive Like Jehu
Eagles
Elastica
Embrace
Eurythmics
Excel
Exploited
F.Y.P.
Face Value (from Cleveland)
Faith
Faith No More
False Prophets
Fang
Figure Ground (from Youngstown Ohio)
FireHose
Flogging Molly
Foreigner
Fugazi
FU's
G.B.H.
G.G. Allen
Gang Green
Golden Earing
Gorilla buiscuts
Government Issue
Gray Matter
Guns and Roses
H-100's (from Cleveland)
Heart
Helmet
High Back Chairs
Holy Rollers
Hot Snakes
Hubble Bubble
Husker Du
Iggy Pop
Instead
Ivy Green
J Mascis
Janes Addiction
JFA
Joan Jett
Johnny Cash
Joy Division
Kelly Deal 6000
Kiss
Kneecapers
Kraut
kut-u-up
Labor League
LA's Wasted Youth
Lead Belly
Led Zepplin
Life Sentence
M.D.C.
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Midnight ( from Cleveland )
Mike Ness
Ministry
Minor Threat
Misfits ( old stuff with Glenn Danzig, not that new crap! )
Moody Blues
Morbid Angel
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Mr. Bungle
Mucky Pup
Mudhoney
Murphys Law
N.W.A.
Naked Raygun
Napalm Death
Negative Approach
Neil Young
Nip Drivers
Nirvana
NOFX
Obituary
Operation Ivy
Pack
Pagans (cleveland)
Pailhead
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Phenix (my dad and uncles old band from the 70's and 80's)
Pink Floyd
Pitch Fork
Pixies
Plug Uglies
Poison Idea
Police
Porno for Pyro's
Primus
Prong
Psi-Com
Public Image Limited
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M
Radio Head
Ramones
Rancid
Raxola
Razors
Reagan Youth
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Righteous Pigs
Rights of Spring
Ringworm (from Cleveland)
Rocket from the Crypt
Rolling Stones
Rollins Band
Rudimentary Peni
S.O.A.
S.O.D.
Samhain
Scatterbrain
Scream
Seaweed
Self Gradifukation
Septic Death
Sex Pistols
Sham 69
Shelter
Sheryl Crow
Sinead O'Conner
Siouxie and the Banshees
Slap Shot
Slayer
Smashing Pumpkins
Smogtown
Smutt Peddlers (not the rappers!)
Social Distortion
Social Unrest
Sonic Youth
Sound Garden
SSD
Steve Miller Band
Stiff Little Fingers
Stooges
Subhumans
Suffocation
Suicidal Tendencies
Sultans
SuperSuckers
T.K.O.'s ( from Cleveland )
Teen Idles
the Accused
the Amps
the Atoms
the Beatles
the Boys
the Breeders
the Buck Pets
the Clash
the Cranberries
the Creepy Creeps
the Crusties
the Cure
the Daggers
the Damned
the Germs
the Glove
the Go-Go's
the Goops
the Heart Aches
the Hives
the Hunns
the Jam
the Jesus and Mary Chain
the Lurkers
the Mark Russo Quintet
the Motherfuckers
the Outcasts (u.k.)
the Real Kids
the Rezillos
the Saints
the Spits
the Stitches
The Third Degree
the Users
the Victims
the Weirdo's
the Who
the Widows
Thurston Moore
Tom Petty
Twisted Sister
Van Morrison
Venom
Verbal Abuse
Vibrators
Victory Flag (from Cleveland)
Violent Femmes
Void
War Zone
Wesley Willis
White Stripes
White Zombie
Wipers
Wire
X
X-Ray Specs
Youth of Today
Zwan

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