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The opening sequence shows prepubescent pro boarder Guy Mariano riding to the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back” — a bold and ironic departure from the usual hardcore-punk and speed-metal soundtracks found on skate tapes. To get permission to use the song, says Lewman, Jonze convinced his lawyers to tell the Jacksons’ copyright administrator he was using it in an...
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Bobby Puleo interviewed by Ricky Oyola →
Really interesting/heavy interview that discusses how wack skateboarding is at the moment. His assessment is generally spot on, though some of it sounds a bit Holden Caulfield-ish to me (apparently everything in skateboarding is phony and contrived). Whatever though, because Puleo is a total OG and one of the best things that has ever happened to street skateboarding. Wish things would start going...
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“I know about discouragement,” Leland said, “and I’ve learned not to be frightened by it. I’ve come to believe, Lois, that profound hopelessness is often a necessary catharsis. Only when you can accept the facts of what didn’t work, can you go on to find what does.”
-L.M. Stalvey, The Education of a WASP
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Can’t Hardly Skate.
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Fuck your stereotype.
lanthorn:
I’ve never seen a subculture, counterculture, whatever you’d like to call it, extol freedom and individuality so fiercely, yet freak out and hate on each other so hard when someone is actually doing something differently in the motorcycle “scene”; something that doesn’t mesh with all of the preconceived bullshit notions. Disgusting.
It’s so far from what it was. We need to bring it...
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