There's way too much grime on the streets of England to make these vids appear like innocent fun. Really nasty gravel/tarmac surfaces in the middle of winter. All the obstacles look real awkward and dangerous. I'll tell you a good British vid that came out that was worth remembering, "Sound and Vision" was a vid I bought which had some good music and memorable skating. Mike Manzoori was behind it. Anyone remember him? Blueprint was a bit cack except for Matt Pritchard before he started having a go at Jack Ass. Very grimey landscape. Unfriendly place in appearance compared to sun soaked california. To dark this country. I'm sick of it, but for me personally I don't know how to get away from it. I am a part of this stinking hole and I'm just trying to dig my way out to a better place like everybody else. That's why the pound is always strong. Bulldog spirit. No pain, no gain.
My advice to Americans right now would be keep doing your crappy $5/hour jobs. Don't get migrants to do the work. Ignore your neighbour who is in the military or the police and sleeps with a gun under his pillow. His wife may be better looking than yours and he may have a nicer car but love is the only engine of survival.
Keep it real, vote democratically to end these shitty foreign wars ruiining your country and stay the industrial power house America always was so that America has something to trade and isn't a worthless nation that has been seduced by the illusion of money/wealth. You can keep watching your best people die in wars no one cares about and which everybody knows to be illegal or you can democratically vote to not get involved in these wars. Stop your best people being sent to their deaths. Use them don't abuse them. America has the best skaters in the world. Probably got the best workers too. It could all go down the pan because nobody cared enough to stop the most selfless people from putting themselves in harms way. An occupation is an occupation, that's how to start wars not prevent them.
You'll end up with a load of perverted business men cutting up your country and selling it off and sending the workers to their deaths as soldiers for short term self serving gains. Stop the rot!! Work it out!!! Don't become complacent like us here. The biggest mistake Britain ever made was thinking it could conrol the rest of the world.
I like Lemmy's comments on the internet. The best invention of the modern age to help spread information and educate the masses has been dumbed down by humanity as being a way of publishing child pornography.
An absolute truth and a depressing one. Another tool that has somehow found a way to harm society rather than help it. Everything policed, everything with a price.
I remember the days when you could find out just obout anything you wanted to learn about on the internet for free. They soon put a stop to that.
My business plan, if I were to present one to my local bank would be one of the following:
1)open a gym in acocks green because the current one is permanently full.
2)get hold of a couple of metal die casting and press moulding machines and make parts for new products that are currently made in asia. Toys, cars, vacuum cleaners, whatever... Would need to research.
3)open a tailors. Learn to cut cloth for suits and open a tailors. I can only see suits becoming more popular again with society insisting on being serious about war. PLUS! It's really hard to buy well fitting suits from anywhere at a resonable price. I'm sure there is a market there...family business long ago.
4)kindergarden, safe place for parents to leave kids for a day in Solihull. I think there is probably a need for this kind of thing because there are so many dodgy areas around here the middle classes (rich)need their own.
5)specialist video store. constantly going to franchise video stores with limied varity of films. We need an encyclopedically diverse and obscure video store that just provides all the stuff you want to see that you can't get hold of.
6)i was thinking of opening a kite shop or a paragliding shop. You know those parachute devices you can run off the side of a hill with and you can fly thermals. I think people would want to get into that. Maybe become a qualified instructor, teacher.
7)A swimming pool fpr lengths. There are alot of swimming pools round here that are closing. I would make a pool just for lengths. All people who do physical jobs round here know swimming is the best excercise for strengthening their body and their backs but won't go to local pool because it is used recreationally and not for the express purpose of lengths and fitness. Needs to be done. ! in 3 people suffers from back problems at some point in their lives.
8)Milkman. My area could do with a milkman. I'm volunteering!
9)meals on wheels. Lotas of old people round here without this service compared to other cities.
10)I'd close down the brothels, they just piss me off now. They're just sleazy and lower the tone of where I live(make it unfriendly
11)build some new houses on all the new waste land created round here. I don't know what they're going to do with it but they should get building.
12)tobaconist in centre of town like the ones in europe would be cool. I don't think Birmingham has one? they have one in Solihull.
13)can't think of anything else....revive old industries. car parts. chairs, sledges for winter, horse chestnut and stuffing sandwiches and mulburry wine for winter, oh, the german fair does that.. anything
It seems "Thrasher Magazine" is insisting the link originally to an interview with Lemmy is now just advertising the magazine itself.
I like Thrasher magazine. I like the way they sell Thrasher magazine at airports across the whole world because it's the best magazine of people just pissing about in their free time trying to get their kicks from skateboarding, a bit like being on holiday. Good for the flight. I like the art work of Thrasher and the way each month there is a competition for the best designed envelope art sent into the company.
I like Jake Phelps, I met him once (he probably doesn't remember) total phycho, gets the best out of skaters. So there you go. I like all the freaky shit that is always in each issue and all the freaky people that contribute to it. I like the way it freaks people out at work if you leave a copy lieing around because it's always borderline offensive, inappropriate material (and not in a gay way)
I've got a really bad atitude problem. I really struggle to control my emotions and my action. I hate alot. Hate is a terrible thing. A destructive thing but so seductive.
I find being nice to people a real effort. It's not nice getting older and being more grumpy and negitive. I was hoping I would sway the other way because I was always quite negitive to begin with but it just hasn't happened. Had to make myself scarce...too negitive. Carry too heavy a weight of bad vibes round with me where I go... I'm no good.
I think I'm actually quite jealous of people who do appear happy because it seems like an achievement that is always beyond my reach. I am an unhappy person. I can remember times when I was happy but when I look back to those times I always see the negitive of why i wasn't really happy. True happiness is a state of contentment, I've never felt that. Things have always been going wrong and I'm rushing round trying to rescue the situation.
What I mean is, it is easier to hate than love. Being hateful is quite sinful I suppose. People who are happy hate the most in my opinion. Unhappy people are probably unhappy because they are hated? Or are they hated because they are unhappy?
I think I am happiest at work. Work makes me happy. Boredom and having nothing to do makes me unhappy.
The only people who have a right to be happy in this world are poor people. Rich people should feel their wealth to be such a burdon that it depresses them in an unconsolable way.
I recognise the boy in the bottom left hand corner of the "heroin" advert as "Ollie". I think it's my friend Ollie I used to skate with. Had a good looking sister or something?
Just a comment on the Rugby this wekend. I thought Scotland against Fiji was a great match. Quite entertaining. Good win.
I missed England/Argentina but we won. Coach looked mortified with performance... A bit of a weak side perhaps. Need bigger players in there? Looks don't win games.
The Ireland/Australia match pissed me off because I think the refereeing was bias. Daniel Driskol did an illegal tackle that could otherwise have been a try. In protest a player tackled the offending player Driscol was protecting quite hard and was sent off.
It's only a game. Poor/bias refereeing makes for a poor show. Plus, commentators were negitive throughout every game. Technically, maybe the Ireland match was the best but the refereeing really let the game down.
I think England are going to thrash Ireland given a chance. England needs better discipline and needs to work better as a team. Bid egos creeping into the line up...again. Must treat it as a job.
I can't believe Driscol broke his jaw in a match. Some people die from a broken jaw let alone carry on playing. Full of shit....
... apparently some of the England players were missing from the Leicester Tigers team which is perhaps why they didn't play too well. Too much in fighting in my opinion. Rugby isn't "the beautiful game". It's ugly and it's real and there is no room for posing players or pussies on pedistools.
It's a balls out contact sport so if Australia stick a giant in as captain you've got to respect the fact that that particular player's main asset is that he's big, powerful and dangerous to tackle or be tackled by. Other players like wing or fly off are quick, agile and perhaps more creative with the ball but they have to be able to take the knocks too.
The commentators keep using the word "insipid" to describe the rugby that's being played. The commentary is insipid, it's predictable, it lacks character, flavour or passion. It's just three arrogant has-been rugby players sitting at a desk slagging off the players and being negitive about the performances for whatever reason?...with the possible exception of the Welsh bloke (can't remember his name) I found myself proping my eyelids open throughout the commentary because it was insipid and boring.
...and lemmy's interview: Lemmy probably doesn't realise the only reason his music is doing well in California at the moment is because Rowley's vids and skate culture are giving the music exposure. To be honest the only way I discovered Ozzy Osbourne's music was from a video part by John Rattray. I agree, the lyrics are good. A bit Narrcistic.
Manny Pacquio has earnt a position on the website as one of the most explosive commited athletes to boxing at the moment, a cause. Really hard core guy with "Bruce Lee" overtones to his physique and the accuracy of those punches. Throwing shots blind and getting them to hit is a rare skill. Really up there with the best of them for bravery and commitment in the way he boxes. HARDCORE!!!! Vertically he is monsterous and so he deserves recognition on the site.
Another thing about the modern game of rugby that is a bit annoying is people constantly doing high tackles which are dangerous. I saw some really bad ones a few years back. I think it was England vs Italy and people were just swinging arms at each others faces. The game of rugby has rules for a reason.
I have no problem with "the kicking game" either, any way but lose. Just win, that's what it's about. Now I don't pretend to be an expert on rugby because I'm not but those are just some of my thoughts on the game.
"The Hubba" stairs is where I met Jake Phelps. I was just hanging around having a look at them and Jake Phelps pops up and says to me, " You should come and have a look at some spot up the hill, Julian Stranger has been doing some massive tail blunts on a concrete transition!" or something like that? Can't really remember.
He was basically just rubbing my face in the dirt that I was crap at skating. Thankfully for me, I didn't care, I was just glad to be on holiday in a beautiful city with nothing to do but skate for 3 weeks with like minded people and good weather.
That was the best holiday I have ever had. Thank you America, god bless
The homeless black people were a bit of a pain in the ass back then. Constantly hussling the streets with spiked drugs or trying to pimp women or conning people out of money in LA with dodgy basketball or trying to nick skater's camcorders and stuff like that. FUCK YOU the black homeless of California!
I think I may have met him when he was smoking an ounce of weed each week in San Francisco because I kept meeting what I thought was a homeless guy who would rant shit at me telling me to get a job in Mc Donalds or what are you doing here? And on the last day before I went home he did a massive 20 stair nose slide down this concrete rail about 20feet long down maybe 3 meters. Then, he said to me he had seen someone do it in Thrasher in a Krook grind but other than that it had never been done.
Now I think that was Jason Dill? on a fucking mad one off his tits on drugs? Maybe? Because only a professional would have tryed that trick. Also PJ Ladd used to skate Plymouth and work at Barclays, am I wrong? Probably will never know.
There's way too much grime on the streets of England to make these vids appear like innocent fun. Really nasty gravel/tarmac surfaces in the middle of winter. All the obstacles look real awkward and dangerous. I'll tell you a good British vid that came out that was worth remembering, "Sound and Vision" was a vid I bought which had some good music and memorable skating. Mike Manzoori was behind it. Anyone remember him? Blueprint was a bit cack except for Matt Pritchard before he started having a go at Jack Ass. Very grimey landscape. Unfriendly place in appearance compared to sun soaked california. To dark this country. I'm sick of it, but for me personally I don't know how to get away from it. I am a part of this stinking hole and I'm just trying to dig my way out to a better place like everybody else. That's why the pound is always strong. Bulldog spirit. No pain, no gain.
ReplyDeleteMy advice to Americans right now would be keep doing your crappy $5/hour jobs. Don't get migrants to do the work. Ignore your neighbour who is in the military or the police and sleeps with a gun under his pillow. His wife may be better looking than yours and he may have a nicer car but love is the only engine of survival.
ReplyDeleteKeep it real, vote democratically to end these shitty foreign wars ruiining your country and stay the industrial power house America always was so that America has something to trade and isn't a worthless nation that has been seduced by the illusion of money/wealth. You can keep watching your best people die in wars no one cares about and which everybody knows to be illegal or you can democratically vote to not get involved in these wars. Stop your best people being sent to their deaths. Use them don't abuse them. America has the best skaters in the world. Probably got the best workers too. It could all go down the pan because nobody cared enough to stop the most selfless people from putting themselves in harms way. An occupation is an occupation, that's how to start wars not prevent them.
You'll end up with a load of perverted business men cutting up your country and selling it off and sending the workers to their deaths as soldiers for short term self serving gains. Stop the rot!! Work it out!!! Don't become complacent like us here. The biggest mistake Britain ever made was thinking it could conrol the rest of the world.
LEFT WING PROPAGANDA FOREVER!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/ThrasherMagazine#p/u/8/rKLUiZzLM2E
ReplyDeleteROWLEY!! You're the naughty kid at school. Very edgy, high tensile fella. very skateboarding. Bizarre and disjointed (very british)
I like Geoff Rowley. Good skater.
ReplyDeleteI like Lemmy's comments on the internet. The best invention of the modern age to help spread information and educate the masses has been dumbed down by humanity as being a way of publishing child pornography.
An absolute truth and a depressing one. Another tool that has somehow found a way to harm society rather than help it. Everything policed, everything with a price.
I remember the days when you could find out just obout anything you wanted to learn about on the internet for free. They soon put a stop to that.
My business plan, if I were to present one to my local bank would be one of the following:
ReplyDelete1)open a gym in acocks green because the current one is permanently full.
2)get hold of a couple of metal die casting and press moulding machines and make parts for new products that are currently made in asia. Toys, cars, vacuum cleaners, whatever... Would need to research.
3)open a tailors. Learn to cut cloth for suits and open a tailors. I can only see suits becoming more popular again with society insisting on being serious about war. PLUS! It's really hard to buy well fitting suits from anywhere at a resonable price. I'm sure there is a market there...family business long ago.
4)kindergarden, safe place for parents to leave kids for a day in Solihull. I think there is probably a need for this kind of thing because there are so many dodgy areas around here the middle classes (rich)need their own.
5)specialist video store. constantly going to franchise video stores with limied varity of films. We need an encyclopedically diverse and obscure video store that just provides all the stuff you want to see that you can't get hold of.
6)i was thinking of opening a kite shop or a paragliding shop. You know those parachute devices you can run off the side of a hill with and you can fly thermals. I think people would want to get into that. Maybe become a qualified instructor, teacher.
7)A swimming pool fpr lengths. There are alot of swimming pools round here that are closing. I would make a pool just for lengths. All people who do physical jobs round here know swimming is the best excercise for strengthening their body and their backs but won't go to local pool because it is used recreationally and not for the express purpose of lengths and fitness. Needs to be done. ! in 3 people suffers from back problems at some point in their lives.
8)Milkman. My area could do with a milkman. I'm volunteering!
9)meals on wheels. Lotas of old people round here without this service compared to other cities.
10)I'd close down the brothels, they just piss me off now. They're just sleazy and lower the tone of where I live(make it unfriendly
11)build some new houses on all the new waste land created round here. I don't know what they're going to do with it but they should get building.
12)tobaconist in centre of town like the ones in europe would be cool. I don't think Birmingham has one? they have one in Solihull.
13)can't think of anything else....revive old industries. car parts. chairs, sledges for winter, horse chestnut and stuffing sandwiches and mulburry wine for winter, oh, the german fair does that.. anything
Here's a snippet of Geoff Rowley doing England proud on the world arena of skateboarding. oUch!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLOtx0_lSY
Complete with Liverpudlian/Beatlesque accent.
It seems "Thrasher Magazine" is insisting the link originally to an interview with Lemmy is now just advertising the magazine itself.
ReplyDeleteI like Thrasher magazine. I like the way they sell Thrasher magazine at airports across the whole world because it's the best magazine of people just pissing about in their free time trying to get their kicks from skateboarding, a bit like being on holiday. Good for the flight. I like the art work of Thrasher and the way each month there is a competition for the best designed envelope art sent into the company.
I like Jake Phelps, I met him once (he probably doesn't remember) total phycho, gets the best out of skaters. So there you go. I like all the freaky shit that is always in each issue and all the freaky people that contribute to it. I like the way it freaks people out at work if you leave a copy lieing around because it's always borderline offensive, inappropriate material (and not in a gay way)
I'm not a hater. Honest.....you know I am.
ReplyDeleteI've got a really bad atitude problem. I really struggle to control my emotions and my action. I hate alot. Hate is a terrible thing. A destructive thing but so seductive.
ReplyDeleteI find being nice to people a real effort. It's not nice getting older and being more grumpy and negitive. I was hoping I would sway the other way because I was always quite negitive to begin with but it just hasn't happened. Had to make myself scarce...too negitive. Carry too heavy a weight of bad vibes round with me where I go... I'm no good.
I think I'm actually quite jealous of people who do appear happy because it seems like an achievement that is always beyond my reach. I am an unhappy person. I can remember times when I was happy but when I look back to those times I always see the negitive of why i wasn't really happy. True happiness is a state of contentment, I've never felt that. Things have always been going wrong and I'm rushing round trying to rescue the situation.
What I mean is, it is easier to hate than love. Being hateful is quite sinful I suppose.
ReplyDeletePeople who are happy hate the most in my opinion. Unhappy people are probably unhappy because they are hated? Or are they hated because they are unhappy?
I think I am happiest at work. Work makes me happy. Boredom and having nothing to do makes me unhappy.
The only people who have a right to be happy in this world are poor people. Rich people should feel their wealth to be such a burdon that it depresses them in an unconsolable way.
I recognise the boy in the bottom left hand corner of the "heroin" advert as "Ollie". I think it's my friend Ollie I used to skate with. Had a good looking sister or something?
ReplyDeleteJust a comment on the Rugby this wekend. I thought Scotland against Fiji was a great match. Quite entertaining. Good win.
ReplyDeleteI missed England/Argentina but we won. Coach looked mortified with performance... A bit of a weak side perhaps. Need bigger players in there? Looks don't win games.
The Ireland/Australia match pissed me off because I think the refereeing was bias. Daniel Driskol did an illegal tackle that could otherwise have been a try. In protest a player tackled the offending player Driscol was protecting quite hard and was sent off.
It's only a game. Poor/bias refereeing makes for a poor show. Plus, commentators were negitive throughout every game. Technically, maybe the Ireland match was the best but the refereeing really let the game down.
I think England are going to thrash Ireland given a chance. England needs better discipline and needs to work better as a team. Bid egos creeping into the line up...again. Must treat it as a job.
I can't believe Driscol broke his jaw in a match. Some people die from a broken jaw let alone carry on playing. Full of shit....
... apparently some of the England players were missing from the Leicester Tigers team which is perhaps why they didn't play too well. Too much in fighting in my opinion. Rugby isn't "the beautiful game". It's ugly and it's real and there is no room for posing players or pussies on pedistools.
ReplyDeleteIt's a balls out contact sport so if Australia stick a giant in as captain you've got to respect the fact that that particular player's main asset is that he's big, powerful and dangerous to tackle or be tackled by. Other players like wing or fly off are quick, agile and perhaps more creative with the ball but they have to be able to take the knocks too.
The commentators keep using the word "insipid" to describe the rugby that's being played. The commentary is insipid, it's predictable, it lacks character, flavour or passion. It's just three arrogant has-been rugby players sitting at a desk slagging off the players and being negitive about the performances for whatever reason?...with the possible exception of the Welsh bloke (can't remember his name) I found myself proping my eyelids open throughout the commentary because it was insipid and boring.
ReplyDeleteThis event looked quite painful. Women doing the kind of skating that would put 99% of male skaters to shame.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/ThrasherMagazine#p/u/93/EPP45MdUe6g
...and lemmy's interview: Lemmy probably doesn't realise the only reason his music is doing well in California at the moment is because Rowley's vids and skate culture are giving the music exposure. To be honest the only way I discovered Ozzy Osbourne's music was from a video part by John Rattray. I agree, the lyrics are good. A bit Narrcistic.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThrasherMagazine#p/u/15/jCwcGDRwHa4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhA66Tfwh_s&feature=related
ReplyDeleteManny Pacquio has earnt a position on the website as one of the most explosive commited athletes to boxing at the moment, a cause. Really hard core guy with "Bruce Lee" overtones to his physique and the accuracy of those punches. Throwing shots blind and getting them to hit is a rare skill. Really up there with the best of them for bravery and commitment in the way he boxes. HARDCORE!!!! Vertically he is monsterous and so he deserves recognition on the site.
Louis, I'm not marriage material. I'm uncle Ben which is punishment enough as far as I'm concerned.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing about the modern game of rugby that is a bit annoying is people constantly doing high tackles which are dangerous. I saw some really bad ones a few years back. I think it was England vs Italy and people were just swinging arms at each others faces. The game of rugby has rules for a reason.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with "the kicking game" either, any way but lose. Just win, that's what it's about. Now I don't pretend to be an expert on rugby because I'm not but those are just some of my thoughts on the game.
"The Hubba" stairs is where I met Jake Phelps. I was just hanging around having a look at them and Jake Phelps pops up and says to me, " You should come and have a look at some spot up the hill, Julian Stranger has been doing some massive tail blunts on a concrete transition!" or something like that? Can't really remember.
ReplyDeleteHe was basically just rubbing my face in the dirt that I was crap at skating. Thankfully for me, I didn't care, I was just glad to be on holiday in a beautiful city with nothing to do but skate for 3 weeks with like minded people and good weather.
That was the best holiday I have ever had. Thank you America, god bless
The homeless black people were a bit of a pain in the ass back then. Constantly hussling the streets with spiked drugs or trying to pimp women or conning people out of money in LA with dodgy basketball or trying to nick skater's camcorders and stuff like that. FUCK YOU the black homeless of California!
there is something not right about Jason Dill, there's something rather sick, wrong sick, about him that i find disturbing.
ReplyDeleteI think I may have met him when he was smoking an ounce of weed each week in San Francisco because I kept meeting what I thought was a homeless guy who would rant shit at me telling me to get a job in Mc Donalds or what are you doing here? And on the last day before I went home he did a massive 20 stair nose slide down this concrete rail about 20feet long down maybe 3 meters. Then, he said to me he had seen someone do it in Thrasher in a Krook grind but other than that it had never been done.
ReplyDeleteNow I think that was Jason Dill? on a fucking mad one off his tits on drugs? Maybe? Because only a professional would have tryed that trick. Also PJ Ladd used to skate Plymouth and work at Barclays, am I wrong? Probably will never know.