so, i just recently finished the answer is never by jacko weyland. pretty good book about skating, music, and being an old timey skater. he is a generation ahead when it comes to skateing and music, but it is still really intersesting. there was one thing in there he said that i realy liked ( i will tell you in a second) now, i have been trying to figure out what i hated )or was grumpy) about "punk" and skating now that has become huge. its still weird for me to see a bunch of punk kids at a mall or downtown, punk only cause they dress that way and yet listen to avril lavign and nelly.. its not that i dont like it things this way, i get to skate huge public skateparks, and i can find bands that i like at most record stores without mailorder. but still, its kinda weird, i like waiting a week or so to get an album, and i liked being differant cause i skated, and i miss being identified by my shoes. anyway, here is what he had said regurding the x-gaming of skating and punk and it really makes sense to me.. "the trip was a sentimental education, the final implosion of youths naivete and idealism. this was particularly true in the realization that punk had "won" and there was a nation out there of "punks" and "skaters" who had been able to buy their identities instead of finding them through a transformation process of self discovery." i gues you are all in the same boat as me. next time you see a 12 year old with a minor threat shirt on, punch him in the throat, then go see a show toghether..
Posted by larry at October 13, 2004 10:21 AM