Tuesday Night Stuff
On a Tuesday night of no particular import, we all went to The Know to watch former pro skater Todd Congelliere play in his latest band, The Underground Railroad to Candyland.
It takes so little, sometimes, to make everyone happy. All the friends. A warm night. A crowded room. Poppy punk played pretty loud.
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I felt transported back to the '90s ... in a good way. Crowd surfing and college rock and complete and utter living in the moment.
All I'm saying is, you shoulda been there.
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Full moons in the daylight: What's cooler than an August "super moon" on a black summer night? That same moon, hung in a sky of pale blue. Ethereal and whatnot.
A cool shower and a nap: On a Sunday afternoon, after laboring in the blazing heat, it's the only thing to do. A Control-Alt-Delete for your heat stroke.
Foam rolling anything: Bought one of these for working the kinks out of my calves, but it's also proved useful in massaging the hurt from my back/neck/hips/thighs. As an aged skateboarder, you just can't not have one.
Neil Young, "Out On The Weekend": An easy pace, a Dylan reference, a lovely sense of longing—this song is worth your time.
A Skatepark Is Born
This one time I stopped everything in my life and built an indoor skatepark. This was way back in 2011, when I was young and starry eyed. If you know me, then you already know this happened—it's not like it's some breaking news. Still, time marches on, and you forget.
But! I paddled back into memory lane this week—looking through old photos and recollecting all about what a fun, tough, weird time that was.
(The above clip constitutes one of the only videos I've ever made in my life—disclaimers, and whatnot.)
Now, the reason for my remembrances: My dearest friend Tricia asked me to tell a few stories for Steller, this new, Instagram-y style iPhone app she works for.
For peeps of the creative disposition, Steller is hecka cool. Like Instagram, you can post photos and follow people and, importantly, you can "like" shit. But unlike Instagram, it's all about story telling—not just snapshots. It's like crafting a little zine each time you post. So fun!
Anyhoo, see below for my Commonwealth post. You can turn the pages by swiping, just like with those newfangled magazine apps.
Lifestyle Adjustment
There's no such thing as how things should be—there's just how thing's are.
I read that recently. It's true.
This morning I was thinking ... it's cool how when you have a dog, you're forced into securing a life that has plentiful helpings of outdoors and physical activity, of simplicity, of kinda semi regular schedules involving not staying out til 4 a.m. (and then sleeping through the fresh morning when dog walks are best due to the cool air and clouds of just-open blossom scent).
In other words, Lefty—who's both my dog and my dawg—makes me live a good life. Oddly, it's not something I might do (or have done in the past) for myself. It's easier to do something for someone else ...
Stretching our hammies.
Look, I don't want to go to the river every weekend ... but I HAVE to. Because of THIS FACE.
Camping trips, wilderness meanderings, and pondering the void with my bud.