(2) Judas Priest’s “You got another thing coming” video: my gateway to heavy metal, which would occupy a tad too much of my life for the next 25 years.

(3) Donnie Brasco (the movie) – inspired me to get into what may or may not be my current line of work (and as you know, Dan Fielding from Night Court was a definite inspiration for me getting into my old line of work).

I’m pretty sure I saw Rad with you that day. This brings me to my top 2 movie-going experiences with Roy C. countdown:

(2) The Negotiator, for our long streak of successfully predicting what would happen next all throughout the movie

(1) Dead Poets Society, cause of the whole standing up on top of the seats thing.

Good times, good times…

I still miss my Powell-Peralta “R.I.P.” board, though – I left it in the trunk of Scott Griffin’s car once, never to be seen again. If you remember, that one had some Mark Gonzales-inspired artwork on the griptape. It took me days to paint that.

Does that board still have the Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me-era Cure logo on the griptape?

I finally saw the “Dogtown” documentary just this past weekend and was so inspired that I dug my old Corey O’Brien board out of storage. It didn’t take me long to remember that I wasn’t that great of a skateboarder in the first place. Still, it was quite fun (and, I imagine, a strange sight for my neighbors).

It seems to me that, true, the DJs there were affected by “Rockit”, but perhaps also — just as importantly — now continue to be affected by the fact that almost every other DJ they know was too. I guess it’s this accrual of personal relationships to something into a larger, group relationship to it that makes it an artifact?

Oh, and I remember “Rockit” for the same reason you did – those crazy-ass mannequins. :)