skate for life, veggies for life, lust for life, laugh/cry for life, friends and love for life....do what you feel if it's real.
individuals of all ages and genders who have a disdainment for mainstream cultural norms and media brainwashing...basically people who stick to their guns without selling out their individuality in order to "grow up." In the immortal words of Milo, "If growing up means being like you then I don't want to be like you." This basically means all of my friends from the old that are on here now. Missed and NEVER forgotten. And then of course, there's YOU and yr friends. I raise my glass and exclaim, "TO ALL MY FRIENDS!"
Music is passion is music is life is skateboarding is passion is a gate is a path is a prism is a ray of lights is the essence is a cell is an organism is life is harmacy is the essence is a burning spear. Sun, Verve, SST, New Alliance, Sub Pop, Wrong, Sudden Death, Sugar Hill, Alternative Tentacles, Dischord, Twintone, Frontier, 4AD, Shimmy Disc, Merge, Def Jam, No Idea...Look at it this way: I built a tape rack that holds 640 cassettes...then there's one wooden cd rack with a row of tapes which adds 70 to the 640 making 710....a 9 cubicle record cabinet....and two Olympia Stubbie (R.I.P.) boxes both filled with 7"s. Just ask.
1991: The Year Punk Broke, We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen, Sir Drone, Quadrophrenia, Instrument, The Blues Brothers, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Rock and Roll High School, This Is Spinal Tap, Blade Runner, Project Omicron, Freaks, Geeks & Tight Asses, Scrum 3, Scrum 4 Promo, Barfly, Factotum, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Animal Factory, Kung Fu Hustle, 25th Hour, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, Smoke & Blue In The Face, ...Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jones, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Samuel Fuller, Russ Meyer, Jack Hill, John Waters, Tim Burton, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, Lloyd Kaufman & Troma, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Emile de Antonio, Frederick Wiseman, Woody Allen, Richard Linklater, Julie Dash, Dziga Vertov, Maya Deren, The Coen Brothers, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Raymond Pettibon, Dave Markey, Alex Cox, Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, John Hughes, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
not something I watch a lot...there is the actual device....it gets Fox in with rabbit ears attached...therefore what I do watch is with the household krew: The Fox Sunday Night Cartoon Lineup. Now there are shows I love and they're watched on DVD and VHS on the aforementioned actual device: METALACOLYPSE...really into the show these days. Kids In The Hall (+Brain Candy), The Young Ones, thanks Tish for finally after all of these years getting me to watch Faulty Towers, Robot Chicken, The Showbiz Show, Colbert, Daily, Metalacolypse
W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Wanda Coleman, Ronald Takaki, Sole Woyinka, Iris Chang, Maxine Hong Kingston, Karl Marx, Fyodor Dostoevski, Franz Kafka, Susan Sontag, Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Yuko Tsushima, Dorothy Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Frank Miller, Charles Bukowski, Bruce Campbell, Tom Robbins, Henry Rollins, Joe Cole, Jack Brewer, Exene Cervenka, John Fante, Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and more
... my father and all of my other relatives and friends that are no longer walking the earth...My mother for raising Beau and I on her own. I wouldn't necessarily call them heroes but I owe my life to them so we'll leave it at that.