Thomas "Tommy" Giles

Tommy was my close friend for several years of high school. The collection of fond memories from that time in the early to mid-2000's includes: regularly body boarding together in the crumbly waves of Torrance Beach, skinning our knees and backs trying to learn to skimboard on flat surf days, obsessing over and critiquing the then-new hip hop and R&B of the era (P.Diddy, Jay-Z, Nelly, Usher), sitting in Corvettes and Porsches at the LA Auto Show, shopping for the whitest of all Nike Cortez'...