LA RUE APPRECIATION
While filming for our video, La Rue, we are not only skating. Most of the time it`s just hanging out with our buddies, drink beer and go parties or something equally on the periphery of skateboarding.
One of these parties didn`t go so well, and I think I still have to say sorry to some people for fucking up their night.
The night began well, Yvo and I were just walking and talking when we decided to get some food at a Turkish, nightshop in Rotterdam where they sell a meal with the name ''Kapsalon.'' A local mixture of fries, kebab, sauces and some lettuce: a true cholestorol bomb. I asked the man to not put as much hot sauce in it, but I guess he didn`t understand me because my ''Kapsalon'' was more hot sauce than anything else. I`m just a Dutch farmerboy who`s stumache isn`t that used to spicy foreign food. After the meal I felt a little bit strange, but soon I forgot about it.
When Yvo and I arrived at the party there was nobody there. To enjoy ourselves we started to drink as much beer as possible in as little time as possible . The DJ`s from Left skateshop were playing music the basement of the party. That basement is strange, dark, and way too hot inside when you just had way too much hot sauce. Some of the other La Rue Warriors entered the party, and from there on, we, with about 6 people, got the party started.
Before we brought life to the party all the people brought new meaning to the name wallflowers.
When we screamed something everyone did it, when we were jumping everyone was jumping. Till there the fun part.
We decided to get some of the ''Grüne Stuffe'', as we are in Holland. Although, it is pretty stupid to do something like that in a club, full with security. We started to dance again while I didn`t feel my legs anymore. Alcohol and Hasj, and earlier in that night sambal, that`s not a good combination for me. It was almost like I was hallucinating, I was in my own world. Constantly I fell on the floor, actually I got no idea what happened, but it felt like that. It felt like I was bouncing into the ground, and then bouncing back 10 metres in the air.
A couple of us wanted to smoke a cigarette, so we sat down on a big stair. At that moment I thought I was going into a coma. Everything went black and I couldn`t control my eyes anymore. They started to roll back in my head. It`s pretty scary when you can`t see anything when you`re in a club, even more scary when you can`t control your eyes anymore. I`ve never been so scared before in my life. I couldn`t feel my legs anymore, my whole body was shaking and my eyes were rolled back into my head. Roland and Yvo were talking to me but it sounded like one big echo.
Suddenly I woke up, outside, in some vomit. They said I vomitted inside too, over the stairs and some girl slipped out over it and fell really hard. The security had kicked me out of the club.
Roland and his girlfriend and Yvo were really helping me out. They brought me some water, they kept talking to me and they didn`t leave me alone. For over 4 hours long, they stayed with me there.
After a while we were making some fun of the happening and the sun was already rising. They sat with me the whole night, they helped me out the whole night, we made fun the whole night, I really want to thank you guys for that.
So Yvo, Roland and Myrthe, I appreciate it really much, thanks for all your time and help.
