Sunday, May 7, 2017

People with opinions should shut the fuck up

My favorite concert was a free show. It was Mother's Day and Jw got on stage and started ranting about mothers and how people talk to them, and he insisted that the first thing we do when we got home was call our mother and tell her you love her. Then there was a lot of feedback and they made some noise. It was good. 

We got back highbei city and I couldn't skate, but I went out for a walk anyway. I called my mother but she didn't answer. I called my grandfather but he didn't answer either. I called my sister and she msgd back "board game." 

I went for a beer walk, first for a month, and found a trio of skateboard players under the bridge learning how to Ollie. The moon hangs dirty and yellow in the sky, which is thick with filth. I can see one star, that I think is Jupiter. I played kalabash criminel and wandered down the road until I got lazy and stopped at a bus stop bench. Traffic is going by so fast that the whole shelter shivers with the change in air pressure, mostly from taxis. There are no laws whatsoever about speeding in Taiwan. In fact, I'm pretty sure that there is no word for going too fast. I'm waiting on the Ferrari / lambo pair that race through my neighborhood at 2am so I can pelt them with my empty. 

The flash of hate passes with the brutality of a taxi and now I'm pretty sure I would even pebble their windshield as they went by. Maybe it's because I changed over to burial. A song called fostercare. 

Watched some internet video clips of skating. Fuck, there is a reason we don't do this sober. It's fucking garbage. Skating happens when it happens. If you film that shit, you're a creep, even if you make money off it. But if you don't, you're a fucking pervert. Scumbags are all around. When you skate, let it happen. If you see someone filming, go up and focus their camera. Unless it's a still film camera. Still photos, of frozen time, don't warrant violent drunken smashing because they are so primitive that they're cool. They aren't some digital cumswap that tries to make you feel like you were part of the session. Real film is a statement of aggression to the viewer, that they weren't there, and they missed it, and they need to skate better, or else. I'm not sure about how this makes me feel about film video (looking at you polar) but I'll have another tb and let you know.

Ok film video is less worse than digital. The truth is, very few things deserve to be filmed in skating. Fewer things than ever before. But more and more footage is dribbling onto the Internet. I could take my own advice, which is, if something on the internet pisses you off, the. Ignore it, but complaining is more self aggrandising. Also, there is an honest, troll-less thing to say here: stop fucking filming too much. Film the street, not the skatepark where someone did the same trick 20 years ago. If it isn't unique, don't film it, you dickhead. 


I wish it cost $1 to film every attempt. 

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