•••WITH THAT ALL HOLY AND MOST RIGHTEOUS CULT LEADER, AARON MEZA•••

Top 5 magazines to read
while taking a crap:

1. Skateboarder
2. Thrasher
3. The New Yorker
4. Mojo
5. Some you don't read, you just look at the pictures

Top 5 video parts of all time:

1. Aaron Murray "Spead Freaks"
2. Mic-E Reyes "Sick Boys"
3. Mark Gonzales "Skate Rock"
4. Lance, Cab, and Tony skating the church ditch "Bones Bridage Video"
5. Any Jesse Martinez or Jason Jessee footage

Top 5 issues of Skateboarder Magazine:

1. 100 Greatest
2. This is lame
3.
4.
5.

Top 5 photographers [all politics aside]:

1. Oliver Barton
2. Mike O'Meally
3. Tobin Yelland
4. Brian Gaberman
5. Spike Jonze

Top 5 things to do instead of
having a Wild Weekend:

1. Record songs with Dimitry
2. Skate a pool
3. Eat
4. Plan for the big day
5. Skate a pool

Top 5 things about being the editor
of a skateboard magazine:

1. Get to say who's the coolest; and for some reason people listen
2. Trips with Brian Anderson and Brad Staba, somehow they're always on them
3. Getting a package of photos from Oliver
4. People still thinking that I work for Girl, four years after the fact
5. Getting phone calls from Phelper

Top 5 gripes about being the editor
of a skateboard magazine:

1. Being asked why you didn't run a photo
2. Writing
3. Hearing terms like "Key Industry Players"
4. "Dude, hook me up!"
5. Deadline, bro

Top 5 things you'd rather be doing
than writing out a Top 5's list:

1. Frontside carve
2. Snorkeling, no joke
3. Swimming in an ocean
4. Beating Smyth and Lee at Taboo
5. Ah, it's not so bad

Top 5 things about being a cult leader:

1. My influence only last about a day or until video deadline is over
2. Get to drive all the drunks' huge SUVs
3. I've never told anyone to say "No"
4. Having Rick beg me to drink, that's so much fun, man
5. Not realizing that you're a cult leader

Top 5 people:

1. Timothy "Speed" Levitch
2. Terry Gross
3. Lou Duva
4. Larry David
5. Borat

Top 5 things to eat:

1. Tuna steak
2. Mango
3. Cereal
4. Falafel from Truly Mediterranean
5. Any snack until I feel like puking

Top 5 things about the town you grew
up in (and the name of the town):

1. South San Francisco
2. Close to San Francisco
3. NorCal
4. Henry Sanchez went to our high school
5. I lived on a hill

Top 5 checks you've received
from Girl Skateboards ($):

1. $1200
2. $750
3. $600
4. $450
5. $375

Top 5 words:

1. Dev-O'd
2. Kooking it
3. Barney
4. Gavin always has good words
5. Benign

Top 5 CDs:

1. Rufus Wainwright "Poses"
2. Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
3. Mt. Egypt "Battening the Hatches"
4. Belle and Sebastian all
5. Scorpions "Fly to the Rainbow"

Top 5 rumors you could make up right now:

1. Bob K. went back to Giant...I mean Hardcloud...I mean West Beach
2. Mike Carroll took a shower, chose a breakfast food, and picked a skatespot without having to consult with anybody
3. I think that's all I got
4.
5.

Top 5 places to visit:

1. Kaui
2. Cairo
3. San Francisco
4. New York
5. Where ever you go there you are, dude

Top 5 reasons to visit Girl:

1. Dorothy
2. Table talk with Meg, Rick, Carroll, and Greg
3. I wish I can say the park, but I can't
4. They need a little mini or even a small quarterpipe
5. Jenkins office is pretty fun, but I haven't been in it in awhile

Top 5 reasons NOT to visit Girl:

1. Greg Carroll's product promo printout
2. Johannes is gone
3. Bob K
4. Meg took away her bowl of sweets
5. It's in the middle of no where

Top 5 excuses to the publisher:

1. "It's raining out"
2. "No one's skating
3. "They don't call us back"
4. "Just waiting for the cover"
5. I'm not really putting much thought into the above, to be honest

Top 5 reasons to go to San Francisco:

1. Food
2. Family
3. Skating a pool in St. Francis Woods with Jake
4. Best city in the world
5. Crocker

List these people in order of favorite to least favorite: Ako Jefferson, Atiba Jefferson, George Jefferson, Jefferson Airplane, Thomas Jefferson:

1. Atiba Jefferson is the rich one
2. Ako Jefferson is like, "Are you gonna finish that?"
3. Thomas Jefferson loved his soul sisters, can't be mad at that
4. George Jefferson, why not (remember Why Not Burger at the old Girl?)
5. Jefferson Airplane, "We Built This City" just burned it