Only skimmed through it because @BvS mentioned his hot wife
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It’s not ‘hot wife’ in the modern sense, is it?
Are you measuring her hotness in metric or imperial?
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‘’Find what you love and let it kill you’’ is a Bukowski quote.
All things will kill us. We can’t decide not to die, but we can decide how, and it’s better to die in a lover’s embrace than an enemy’s. Finding what we love and letting it kill us means staying true to our inner beliefs and desires. So it’s actually pretty positive really.
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she always in the sauna innit.
Yeah, I immediately tried to order his book. You get redirected from Arto’s website to somewhere to ‘preorder’ but they’re sold out. Florence Marine have some but only on their US site and won’t ship to the UK. The hunt continues…
…definitely getting me a sauna/ steam room though.
Bukowski wasn’t a beacon of health though, was he?
It just struck me as an odd title. A celebration of a brand of masculinity I thought people had been critiquing and moving beyond.
Bukowski got to his 70s and seemed to have a pretty good time in life, all things considered.
Anyway, regardless of who said it, I totally agree that it’s good that there are different and more varied modes of masculinity to inhabit now, but that doesn’t mean the old ones aren’t without use, especially if you take ‘let it kill you’ in the way scrubrampwoody does.
I see it a bit like modern women who may feel that a traditional, domestic role is their calling. As long as it’s not forced upon them and they have the freedom to choose who they want to be to an extent, then who can judge?
Apologies if I’ve strayed off a bit tangentially here
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Really enjoyed it to be honest, can relate heavily as can many of you re injury and not coming to terms with how to end skateboarding. I really struggle with this personally, How do I let go?
Anyway, it was quite inspiring. I have lots of things going on in my life, old and new and while I can’t upsticks and move to Hawaii because of children etc it’s been a good reminder that just doing things regardless is the best thing, just keep doing and showing and you never know what new chapter can open.
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Re: Arto - Let It Kill You
I really enjoyed it, but Arto’s always been one of my favourites. I think it’s rad to see how he’s transitioned away from skating and his photography is epic! I also thought his wife is hot - however I seem to have a thing for blondes.
Yeah, enjoyed it too. His surf photography looks amazing. Sounds like he has epic levels of hyper focus.
Meant to say, his pics, especially surf are really fucking good.
I have to admit that I’ve never been overly familiar with Arto’s skating, but I’ve always thought he was a handsome bugger.
Not really sure what I’m trying to say here so, Skip to the end = I found that video interesting.
Interview with Anti Hero artist, Todd Francis.
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Not seen it but no doubt entertaining. These interviews are always sick.
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This is brilliant.
The story about being in the phone to Mullen and the whole pay phone stuff is gold.
Excellent, up a bit late mind.
Started a podcast as an extension of Skate Bylines which gets into the process of putting together a story about skateboarding and the context around its subject.
For the first episode I spoke to Brooklyn-based writer Ian Browning who wrote a Quartersnacks story on the tenth anniversary of the Lower East Side skatepark, using it as a lens to explore the history of that part of New York and how the city became further significant in skateboarding over the past decade.
It’s up on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube all via the link below, alongside shownotes and a transcript of the interview if you’d prefer to read it.
Here’s Ian’s story which served as the basis too: ‘Civic Center — A Profile of the L.E.S. Skatepark at Ten Years’
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Dude you forgot to ask him who his worst person to have on the sesh was?!
