RIP Richie

Quote of the day

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Camus.

 

Day to day

A while back I was trying to explain to someone how skateboarders see the world on a day-to-day basis. Literally the differences in what we focus on walking down the street or looking out the train window... They didn't really get it and I guess that's not their fault. Unless you've been doing something pretty much constantly for 15-20 years there's no way of identifying that this random outlook just becomes - not even second nature - more like 'first nature'. It's just who you are.

people of earth...

Quote of the day

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into. Dave Brubeck

Mullen

Hardly news

Yet another sideways mood

            overtaken at sunrise by it

contemplating the core of it over

a bowl of granola

Awoken with it lying in bed next to me

On my pillow with me

Looking into my waking eyes

The simplest desire of all humankind

The one universal truth other than death

The single most shared emotion and resentment

On Earth

Is the one of having to get up every morning

And go to the job

I don’t care how good the job may be

and I don’t care about those who love their work

like their work colleagues

their co-workers

Even if my career involved waking up at noon and

Hanging out with international rock stars

Even if I could stay in bed and interview world-famous

Actors and actresses

Over the telephone for a few hours a day and

Thousands of pounds a week -

I would come to  r e s e n t  it

There is no time for work

WORK -

To assist another in attaining a final product that

As recently as a few years back

You had no knowledge of whatsoever

So really how much can it all mean

Sick of it all again

Sick of red wine

Red meat

Sick of bleeding hearts and liars

Sick of both the demands of life and the lack thereof

Work…

There is no reasonable justification for this

I have far too many other things to figure out.

The Creative Act

I love John Frusciante. I can't emphasise that enough. Read this.