in 2002 on a cross country trip with ryan wiebust, jon hoisington, seamus deegan and anthony shetler i took this photo somewhere in texas. 
(we named the trip BRO'VER DRIVE. YEAH WE THOUGHT WE WERE PRETY DAMN COOL.)
the van had jsut broken down in some sort of washed away cattle ranch area. nothing but fenses and dried up mudd.  and a broken down mini van.
nearly broken down moral too.

at the time nick was maybe 14 and obsessed with the crocadile hunter. 

so well when your van breaks down in the middle of texas with nothing in site the general sentiment is that of "well we're completely fucked"

nick's response to our malaise was to run off into the dead texas swamp drought shreaking and yelling "im gonna find snakes"

great thanks for the fuckin help here ya runt.  dont mind this grown up situation we got on our hands.

so as we stand around all pissy and moany he completely disapears.  for maybe twenty minutes. and well maybe it was just me that was pissy and moany.
i have to admit on this trip the troops were pretty positive in the face of death due to exposer.

anyhow, after absolutely no progress what so ever and literally kicking rocks on the abandoned highway we hear "look what i found!!!!"

nick comes back with a cow head or what some one later told us might have abeen a buffallo head.

in some ways it saved the day.
we were all so hyped.
it smelled like 1000 corpses.

im not even sure how we got the van started but the motherfucker got working.

and we strapped the head on the front of our van and drove away.

years later. nick is an adult. a beast actually. his voice is no longer a shreak but rather alarmingly low. and he's got a tre flip that will fuck you in the ass.


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