Gabe Taylor
I can't even think of anyone who loves snowboarding more than Gabe, he lives breathes and eats it. He lives in mammoth, and when he gets home from long crazy snowboard trips, he just snowboards every day at mammoth. He snowboards until all the snow is gone, and he's even down to snowboard more after that. He knows every trick in the book... he loves filming in the backcountry, and is pretty much known for being an amazing jumper, but he can hang on rails too, he's got switch back lips like you’ve never seen before. This fools crazy.
Nima: Gabe how are you?
Gabe: Well.
n: What’s your day to day?
g: I've been recovering from the winter. Playing a bit of golf, hanging with my lady and getting down to Encinitas to surf a bit.
n: what movie can I watch you in this year?
G: Grenade's "The Boned Age" and Autumn Line's "Technicolor".
n: damn, two movies I can't wait to watch
G: I spent most of my time with the Grenade guys, but managed to get a few things with the Autumn Line crew.
n: nice, I’m glad grenade did another movie
g: People seem really stoked on it.
n: isn't it crazy how much better Artec is than everything else?
g: Yeah, it is quite different than a lot of what's being pushed on people these days. It is the real deal.
n: you still down for the parachute thing with me?
G: I'm working on an aerodynamic speed suit right now.
n: crazy shit...you partying much these days? Or keeping it mellow? I know when we were in Germany, you were gettin loose pretty much all day and night, is that what your like when your at home?
G: Not so much. The wife and I are down for the mellow beer or two at night but that's about it. Maybe like once a month we'll go big and get super loose, but that's what we were doing every day, and night, in Germany. By the way, did you ever make it out at night?
N: haha nah i was comming off of a brutal sober streak, and you were forcing me to get wasted in the day time, and either throw up or pass out by the time it was the "real" time to go out
G: Did you really hook up with Ashley Olson?
N: hey this is your interview man
G: I gotta know.
N: ill tell you off record
G: alright
N: So I don’t think kids know how much work actually goes into filming a full video part in the backcountry... waking up at fucked up hours ,dealing with sleds, digging, just crazy weird shit goes down out there.....at this point, are you so worn out that your kind of dreading filming next year? Or are you hyped and excited right now for the season to start?
G: Right now I'm really satisfied with where I'm at. I had a decent year last year so first thing is I want to see the movie. I am looking forward to filming next year, there's a ton of stuff I'd like to get. Riding and filming powder is hard because you only have a few tries to get that trick, if that. It seems impossible to be totally satisfied with your part. It always seems like there's so much more that I could've done.
N: what size GT board do you use when you film out there in the woods?
G: 155
N: what kind of book bag do you take back there? jansport?
G: I just run the day-glo fanny pack. It's not like I'm going to shovel or anything anyways.
N: yeah I usually just make up an excuse.. I’ll say I have to take a shit, then ill go smoke 15 cigarettes in a row for 2 hours, show up later and say I got lost
G: I've seen a bunch of different approaches to the not shoveling gig. My favorite is Sketchy D. He just stands there and looks somewhat confused, somewhat contemplative. He'll move a little mini pile back and
forth for a bit and then go back to staring into space. Kind of like when you were a kid and you'd have vegetables on your plate.
N: who's been your favorite band these days?
G: I've been listening to "The Sword", which is a pretty cool metalband. Pinback has always been my favorite. I've always loved Agent Orange and a few of those older punk bands. A few reggae tracks at the right time. I heard Cyndi Lauper's new song on Sirius the other day and it was awesome. And I can't forget Michael Jackson.
N: lance wants me to ask you what’s up with you and Derek rue?
G: We're all good now. There was some tension that came from him trying to import these crappy little dolls. He was selling them to children
and the dolls' body parts would just start falling off. The kids would be crushed. I finally said "Derek, c'mon, you're killing these kids." He finally agreed.
N: who is your favorite snowboarder right now
G: go on to my myspace and check out sexysnowdogg. he has probably hit you up. Anyways, he tried to snowboard off his roof and totally ate shit. It's pretty awesome. worse than wawa
N: wait, snowdogg?
G: yeah
N: can you link me?
G: http://www.myspace.com/photodogg
N: hahaha
G: crazy huh
N: that was amazing...
so is he your favorite snowboarder right now?
G: pretty much
N: I rented that airplane for the follow cams yesterday
G: perfect f14 Tomcat?
N: I’m not sure its a commercial plane, so no...its a southwest plane
G: nice
N: we got the harness for the filmer.
G: ha!
N: no joke
N: peace
G: see ya Nima