Atlanta kinda sucks. It’s true. It’s hot as fuck in the summer, cold as balls in the winter, and it’s filled with douchebags.
Skatingboarding in Atl is cool. There’s a bunch if concrete parks and even though they’re spread out, it’s better than nothing. There’s a few well known street spots here, but they’re spread apart to. The whole city is too big.
So I’ve decided to move back to San Francisco. I don’t even have to talk about skating in SF because everyone already knows how amazing it is. I have some things to square away here before I leave but my plan is to apply to some school out there and use my GI Bill.
My goal is to be outta here in June or July. I can’t wait to be back in The City.
How many times can you start life over? Do you go at it with less effort everytime? Does your heart get harder and your outlook dimmer each time you push that button?
I’m doing my best to stay positive. 2009 has been a fairly shitty year. My wife left me right at the start, and then 9 months later I got laid off. Not to mention the financial woes that have come along since then.
Next year I’m going to start school. I got accepted to GA State, but I’m gonna switch to Gwinnett Tech. The school is shorter, cheaper, and more geared towards what I want to do. Besides, I hate school.
I’m hoping that decision alone will help make 2010 a better year. This past few months of not working and going skating everyday has been awesome. Dating is still a headache sometimes. But it’s better than sitting home alone. One day I might blog about my trust issues and why I may wind up single forever, but not today.
So there have been a few more changes in my life. Enough so that I actually have something to say about it. First thing is that I got laid off. To some that would be a disaster and while it’s not a good thing, I have decided to take advantage of the free time.
I have decided that Im going to to college. I was dead set against going for years but I’ve come to the conclussion that I hate the work I do and if I ever want to do anything else Im going to need a piece of paper that says I can. (Thanks Susan)
I haven’t ridden BMX since summer. I’m pretty back into the groove with skateboarding and it’ll prob stay that way for at least a year. Who knows, maybe even permanently.
I’ve also decided to stop ignoring this website. I have a laptop now (even though i’m writing this from my iPhone) so I’ll be sure to start posting more often.
nehW i rtsat ot riwet ym wodsr ti lal moesc uto ielk hist until my brains gets it together enough to make it happen. Its Sunday and in a week my Daughter will be gone. She will fly back top the armpit of California and our relationship will be back Continue reading ‘The begining is the end’
So, its probably not a surprise to anyone that I don’t sit in front of a computer all day. I don’t even own a laptop. Sometimes when I think of blog worthy stuff I’ll take notes on my iphone, but in reality that hardly happens. Most of the time I spend on the Internet is via my iphone. One of my latest addictions has been Twitter. But i’ll talk about that in a minute. Continue reading ‘Twitter’
So, my daughter is here. She arrived on the 7th and she’s here for almost 2 months. Last summer she was here for only a month, and the summer before that We both lived in California so it was easy to see her. In true other brother fashion Continue reading ‘Burning out, flatland bmx, family man’
So, yeah I’ve been busy. In between work, riding, computer being broken, all my furniture and belongings being taken (wife moved out) having to get new stuff, and preparing for my daughter to come for the summer, I haven’t had tim to mess with this site.
On a positive note, I do have some stuff to post once I get it done. Chilly-O and Freako Rico interviews. I need to do a op 5 with Edgar and take some pictures of all the dudes that chill at Deshong park.
In my otherbrotherly world I’ve been playing kickball, I had a Mohawk for about a month, I’m thinking of getting my head tattooed, and I want to learn to play the bass. In my BMX life I’m back to four pegs. Hooray for opposite grinds and flatland tricks.
If you haven’t seen Motherlover yet, you’re slippin.
Here’s a hitlist of things that went down between Thursday and Sunday in no particular order.
Watched a dude get pissed off and storm out of work.
Cut my Afro into a Mohawk.
Turned 29!
Watched that same dude try to come back to work the next day and saw him get escorted off the property with his toolbox.
Went out to eat at Fuego and had Brazillian champagne poured down my throat by the bartednder.
Went to MJQ for the first time. One of the best clubs, in my diluted laidback ghettofabpunk opinion, in Atlanta.
Rode BMX at Deshong with my pegs on. (I keep taking them off and putting them back off. I hae to play headgames with myself to get me away from doing the same thing. I need to take them off and give them away to progress the way I want right now) Slammed super hard on all kinds of stuf, had way too much fun, and almost hopped off a ledge straight into a skater.
Rode my motorcycle
Went to a going away party, started drinking at around 8pm stopped at around 2am. Soo awesome!! Gonna miss you Chris!!
Sat at a friends apt waiting for the direct TV guy to show up to do the installation. Dude shows up with his 8yr old son and has the kid working side by side with him. Started making me wish I knew my dad. It was pretty dope.
Ran off the road in my motorcycle trying to avoid some kinda animal (it was dark) hit a bunch of wet grass/mud and went down. Laughed to myself, picked up the bike, and continued home. Not a scratch on the bike, bruise on my leg. Not bad if I say so myself.
Took my cat to the vet, he had a fever and an infection, he got some shots and I got some medicine to give him. Set me back over $100. And the ungrateful bastard tries to kill me everytime I have to put a pill down his throat.
Added like 5 friends to facebook, got my twitter on hardcore, oh and did I mention my MOHAWK!!
I just heard this today on Fresh Air (an NPR radio program) Death is a punk rock group from the 70’s that was lost to History. Apparently im late and people hanve been bloggin about this since they brought thioer record back from the grave. Here is an exceprt from the NY Times. That I got from another blog www.boldaslove.us
NYT on Death: “This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk”
The Hackney brothers: David, Bobby and Dannis
A very good and extensive article on Detroit punk rockers Death by Mike Rubin in today’s Times. Here’s an excerpt:
The group’s music has been almost completely unheard since the band stopped performing more than three decades ago. But after all the years of silence, Death’s moment has finally arrived. It comes, however, nearly a decade too late for its founder and leader, David Hackney, who died of lung cancer in 2000. “David was convinced more than any of us that we were doing something totally revolutionary,” said Bobby Sr., 52.
Forgotten except by the most fervent punk rock record collectors — the band’s self-released 1976 single recently traded hands for the equivalent of $800 — Death would likely have remained lost in obscurity if not for the discovery last year of a 1974 demo tape in Bobby Sr.’s attic. Released last month by Drag City Records as “… For the Whole World to See,” Death’s newly unearthed recordings reveal a remarkable missing link between the high-energy hard rock of Detroit bands like the Stooges and MC5 from the late 1960s and early ’70s and the high-velocity assault of punk from its breakthrough years of 1976 and ’77. Death’s songs “Politicians in My Eyes,” “Keep On Knocking” and “Freakin Out” are scorching blasts of feral ur-punk, making the brothers unwitting artistic kin to their punk-pioneer contemporaries the Ramones, in New York; Rocket From the Tombs, in Cleveland; and the Saints, in Brisbane, Australia. They also preceded Bad Brains, the most celebrated African-American punk band, by almost five years.
Jack White of the White Stripes, who was raised in Detroit, said in an e-mail message: “The first time the stereo played ‘Politicians in My Eyes,’ I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. When I was told the history of the band and what year they recorded this music, it just didn’t make sense. Ahead of punk, and ahead of their time.”
Stuck mojo is an Atlanta band that has been rocking out for a long time. Its interesteing to see who knows about them and who doesn’t. For instance the boss/owner of the nightclub I worked security at, used to tour with them. They never really made it big and I figure it was because they were ahead of their time. I first started listening to them in the 90’s. Oh and thier lead singer, Lord Nelson, is an Other Brother.
My fav song by them in Snappin Necks. You can hear it here but the video is just a still of some dude holding a guitar.
