Woody: I think everybody collects stuff... actually my dad just decided to start collecting clown memorabilia. I’m buggered if I know why but I think he felt left out in the family. In my case I have a few thousand records, mostly breaks tunes from 1992-2000 and some classic techno from my youth. I lived in London for a few years and it’s the maddest music town in the world and I just started buying vinyl, it’s natural and a hard habit to shake. For the launch party of the book I’m coming out of retirement for one last gig! Aside from that, let me see, I have some other stuff that I have multiples of, I dunno if you’d call them collections. In most cases I’m not sure why I started but they have somehow found me... I have a whole box of nearly 80 WWF LJN figures from the late eighties, the hard rubber guys that are 9 inches tall. I love that fluoro era of WWF when the characters went ballistic, Hulkster, Ultimate Warrior, Bundy, The Iron Sheik, Killer Bees etc. I also have some Ultraman stuff, Kiss, Shoguns, BigFoot, all pure nostalgia, stuff from when I was a kid. I’m also a nut for early seventies muscle cars, my daily driver is a Camaro, I’ve also owned GM Monaros and Mopars. I’m looking to buy a 1971 Big Block Roadrunner actually, it’s a very quirky and distinctive lookin’ ride... not everyone’s cup of tea.

DM: My favorite scene from Just For kicks is the pitch Run DMC sent to Adidas via videotape to get sponsorship. So classic. What did you enjoy most about Just For Kicks?

Woody: Yeah, it’s mad isn’t it! I’ve still only seen a rough cut but I’d have to say I was a little rusty on the exact nature of the Run DMC and adidas relationship, I had no idea they asked for one million dollars... and they earned every cent I might add. But the best thing about the film is that it’s about the people and their stories as much as the shoes themselves. This whole sneaker head biz was really started by some kids who took the existing sports product, flipped it, wore it socially and most importantly, made it mean something on the street. It wasn’t originally driven by marketing and hype, it was a fluke in a way, or at least not a calculated thing.

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