Gabriel Mendez

First music memory (first song you remember hearing or learning)?
As a kid I remember a lot of oldies being played on the radio. My dad listened to The Doors and some classic rock too. The riff to “Come Out and Play” by the Offspring was the first guitar thing that I learned.

Favorite book–now and when you were a kid?
One of my favorite books is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, a sci-fi novel full of crazy tech and some skating too. As a kid I loved an adventure book called The Kay, about a boy stranded on an island with a cat. Today I read a lot of info-tainment like fish keeping, ecology, drone piloting, or research on RCA’s failed CED analog video disk.

First album or single you ever owned, how old were you and what was the appeal?
The first CD I bought the first System of a Down album. I was 13 and they were screaming sugar.

Favorite place in the world and why?
Nature. It just feels good.

List 5 items currently in your fridge?
Ginger beer, seeds, homemade fermented hot sauce, sake

What’s the one thing you love now as much as you did when you were 14?
Skate or Die! I’m not very extreme these days, but I still like cruising downhill or on an electric skateboard.

Describe yourself in 5 words or less.
Romantic Futurist, Semper Abusrda