I'll be honest: when I first
got a call from Colton Showers about moving from Whistler to Vancouver, I was
stoked. In fact, I'm always stoked when people I know move out of Whistler and
come enjoy the city life and get a taste of something different. Curious about how
he could afford it on his own, I asked who he was going to be living with. Upon
hearing that he was living with Party Snake's very own Adam Mills, I made it a
personal mission to get down to the bottom of how this all got started. After posing a few short questions
about Adam's shred life, I felt ready to pry into his personal life and expose
the decisions that led him to move into the big city. Turns out I didn't have
to pry to deep into the real motive behind the big move: "...living close to the
bar may help out my game with girls." Amazing. Take a read below for more
laughs.
How was the past season? What did you get up to?
The past season went pretty
damn good. No injuries, which is a plus, and I basically just shredded Seymour
and tried to get out of town as much as possible. I might have hit the bottle a
little as well...
Hit me with some stand out moments from last season.
Well, basically any good day
up Seymour with the boys is a good day, but stand-outs would be and early snow
dump in Nanaimo with Heneghan, ECS and the one and only Sean "Chain Justice" O'Brien;
as well as a last minute Tahoe trip with Standish, Hoglin, Rupert and Heneghan.
Driving in a rental car for a long period of time with this crew brought
nothing but comedy.
Were you stoked on how your part ended up coming
together in last year's Party Snake video?
I was actually rather
surprised that it all came together considering I got broke off two times
throughout the season, but all-in-all it was pretty good. Maybe you can turn
water into wine.
Let's get down to some real talk... I personally
thought you had the best song in the video. So this is a two part question: 1)
How'd you end up picking that song and, 2) Do you actually get down with Too Short
on the regular?
All right, real talk it is
then... Well, I'll break it down. I can't lie: ECS is the don when it comes to beats;
he picked the song and edited the whole part for me, and what can I say? He
picked gold... he may have killed it this year as well. As for the second question,
despite Too Short being a little ahead of my time, I for sure get down with the
Oakland-grown boss.
Why did you move to Vancouver?
Well, we haven't made the
move yet... I am still in my hometown of North Vancouver, but in a couple weeks
the big move will go down. I grew up in North Van and have been there since day
one, so change is good. It may also have to do with the fact that living close
to the bar may help out my game with girls.
Now tell me this: just how did you choose to move in
with Colton Showers?
Well this, my friend, just
seemed to happen. I met Colton at Grenade Games this year for the first time
and needless to say, he likes to get down and have a good time, and its weird ‘cause
I like to do that as well. So basically we put our two brains together and said,
"le'ts live it up downtown, so high in the sky that we see birds out the window,"
ya dig? Seems like it could all be downhill from here, but in a good way...
Now I'm almost positive that your new pad will get a
few parties thrown in it, but just how can you make sure it doesn't turn into
the Party Snake downtown crash pad?
Well, Mr. Scott, quite
frankly I don't think I can assure anyone anything when it comes to this
matter. I work a nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday job, so weekdays will be mellow,
but come the weekend there is nothing else in this world that would make me
happier then waking up to a 900 square-foot room filled with all my dirtbag
friends.
Having lived downtown myself, I think that there's a
50-50 chance this move might negatively affect your shredding abilities. Care
to comment?
I would love to comment. I
figure it is gonna save some money for cab rides, which in turn will mean more
money to shred. The goal for this winter is to be out of town for most of it
anyhow, so it should pan out just fine, but if the snake bites for a week or two
on end, then really there is not much you can do.
You got a whip to get to the hills? What are you
pushing?
As far as our crew of
friends that we shred with, I am one of the rare few to have a dubbed-out
buggy, which we refer to as the Mother Ship. We're talking eight seats sitting
on chrome with screens falling from the ceiling, so the short answer is 2007 Chevy
Suburban. It does the job.
Do you have any future plans in life besides
shredding?
Shred ‘till I can't shred
anymore. I work for my old man's pen and pencil company, so that is always a
bonus to have that going for me and allows me to shred when I need to. But
other then that, no plans, really. Work, ride, have fun with my homies... If it
ends tomorrow it was a good run
Final question: Is there anything that we should know
about the new Party Snake video?
The less you know the
better. Hate it or love it. Actually everyone should just hate it. It makes it
feel like we have accomplished more that way.
Any thanks?
Thanks to Damon at Coastal Riders
for holding me down since day one. Thanks to Flynn at Nitro, Dave Birnie at LRG
(Time Bomb), Brady at Ogio and POW, Jon at Westbeach, Karl at IS design, Libby
and everyone at Monster, everyone at Mount Seymour, and to my family and
homies. Thanks to the P-Snake crew: you made me the shithead that I am today.
As well, thank you, Mikey Scott, for helping me feel more comfortable about
making the move into this concrete jungle.
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