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Top 5 things about having permanent living space

1. Not sleeping on the floor
2. Not sleeping in a recliner
3. Not sleeping in a van
4. Not sleeping in a box truck
5. Not sleeping on a couch

Top 5 tricks

1. Bi levels
2. Funky Cold Medina
3. Silas Thurman
4. Keith Lant
5. Play dead

Top 5 Cali spots

1. White Owl
2. Wall 91
3. Dog Park Ledge
4. Funks Grandma’s Drop
5. The Beach

Top 5 things about having a full time job

1. Paying bills on time
2. It sucks your will to live
3. Sitting in an office all day long (who wants to be outside anyways?)
4. Waking up early in the morning is awesome
5. Being a Weekend Warrior

Top 5 favorite people to ride with

1. All the homies back in Michigan
2. Homeless Crew
3. Florida Crew
4. The Real Goonies of Carlsbad (including other Californians)
5. Oregon Crew

Top 5 reasons u shouldn’t own a 1989 Cadillac Eldorado

1. The wrath of the 3 minute wait  “WAIT 3 MINUTES STARTING DISABLED DUE TO ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM”
2. WAIT 3 MINUTES STARTING DISABLED DUE TO ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM
3. WAIT 3 MINUTES STARTING DISABLED DUE TO ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM
4. Transmission (1st to 2nd gear can be rough)
5. Cop magnet
6. If you have emblems they get stolen
7. Gas hog
8. 60 dollars for a new ignition key
9. WAIT 3 MINUTES STARTING DISABLED DUE TO ANTI-THEFT SYSTEM
10. “Hey Brandon your trunk is still open”

5 couch surfers you have sheltered in California

1. Kyle Walton and Christine
2. Jake ‘the Snake’ Slone, Emily, Lulu and Crew
3. Brenden Kenney
4. Beni Horan
5. Little Ryan

Top 5 things about Lurkin

1. Nobody sees you
2. Study from afar
3. Ninja like stealth
4. Everyone knows a lurker
5. Traveling

Top 5 random spectator questions you have been asked while winching

1. What are you doing?
2. What’s wakeskating?
3. Do you know there are gators in there?
4. Do you know you are trespassing?
5. Sometimes I’ll ask them if they want to try it

Top 5 things about riding for Devotid

1. Supporting a Michigander company
2. Free boards
3. Hooking up the homies
4. Kevin and Jackie are like family
5. Buddy Blue and Emma Sue

Top 5 of your nicknames

1. Raaaaaaaaauuuuuuu
2. Brandonrau
3. B
4. B Rau
5. Brand

Top 5 songs that motivate you to ride

1. Pushin’ Too Hard- The Seeds
2. No Love Lost- Joy Division
3. Rumble- Link Wray & His Wray Men
4. Veni Vidi Vici- Black Lips
5. Walk The Line (alternate version)- Gray Matter
6. Where Did Our Love Go (Original 7″ Single)- Soft Cell
7. Blowin Up Fast- Lil Wayne
8. Spirit In The Sky- Norman Greenbaum
9. Down South- Ol Dirty Bastard

Top 5 wipeouts you’ve endured

1. The first day of summer around 11th grade I didn’t ollie high enough onto a rail and hit a barrel that was floating the rail stopping me instantly and breaking my tibia bone that they filled with my hip bone and capped with a metal plate.
2. Winching with OTT, I think it’s in the bonus footage of Not What ‘cha Think but I was trying to lipslide onto an incline rail then gap to a box. On my second try I didn’t really get on the incline rail that good and slammed my hip into the box and it spun me face first into the pile of rocks. I was sliding over. The left side of my thigh muscle has a serious indent and one of my front teeth got chipped.
3. Trying to fakie ollie off a start box in Homeless the board stuck and I flew down about 5 or 6 feet onto my back on the rocky shore in Canyon Lake.
4. I was doing a re-entry 3 shuv down in Florida and fell, when I came out of the water I opened my eyes and saw my board that I thought was just floating next to me. Instead it was cruising pretty fast and popped me in the cheek. My cheek was bloody like Johnny Depps in the movie Once Upon A Time In Mexico.
5. I was probably about 6 years old and I got stuck strapped in a kneeboard upside down in the water. Trippy.

5 reasons you hate cold water

1. It isn’t fun
2. Wetsuits
3. Numb limbs
4. General lack of heat
5. I would rather have a cold beer

Questions by Zac Boyd