Unpopular opinions
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Reading through the last posts made me smile.
Most unpopular opinion: "It made me feel old!"
Reference pic from today.
Sims Jeff Phillips 1985
Jimmy 'z 1984
Town & Country bought 1986 Biarritz ((France)
Conklin Powell 1991
BodyGlove T from 1995
IH Duck 2018
No SupremeLots of nostalgia happening in that pic.
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Interesting. There are a few mini public skate parks here, one of which is located next to an elementary school. It’s pretty basic but has a couple of mini ramps and slide rails.
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The Twin Cities has enviable amentities that are years away from most southern towns that I'm familiar with. Paved, lit commuter bicycle trails were one of my favorites. Being able to ride in to work on the LRT and not dealing with sharing the road with motorized vehicles until I got downtown was amazing. Great parks too. I wish more cities were more like Minneapolis, even if it's a bit behind of my ideal on the light rail.
Buena Vista CO is a tiny town out here that is basically a mining town with a river tourism industry on the Arkansas River. They have a pretty nice little skate park, which impresses me for a town that size that is fairly conservative.
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Although I am a balding father in my (gasp) 30s, I still consider my formative years from 13-19 to be who I am today.
I still always have 3-4 skateboards laying around, and a guitar or two ready to lay down some Anti-Flag power chords.
I still have multiple pairs of “Bapestas” stashed away at my parents, and I wore the heck out of them, to the street wear wannabes dismay. I wore evisu jeans and hi-top ALife sneakers with Hedi Slimane Tees while blasting the Casualties in my Lancer. God I was cool (not haha)
I was probably also the only kid wearing Prada stacked jeans to warped tour in 2005 lol [emoji23]
I still live my life one quarter mile at a time (mainly because I can’t schedule anything further than 3 days in advance), and am thankful for the many subcultures I have always been able to insert myself Into.
I think we would all be cooler if we stayed 16. F*ck what anyone else thinks [emoji41]
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@Appfaff and @neph93 oh dudes I'm with you. The late 80s and early 90s were a great time. I knew the guys from Sick of it all, Murphy's Law, and H2O and sold merch for them when they came to the UK, and on one tri-state tour in the US. I've never skated, but Toby Morse from H2O tried to teach me once I Amsterdam . He gave me up as a lost cause.
As far as skate brands I knew some Japanese guys in London at the time. They were big on the brands X Large (as was I. Visited the store in NYC once and met the Beasties working a shift) Bathing Ape was big, and Supreme was coming through. Carhartt was big in the hardcore scene because back then (before 'work in progress') it was bomb proof and cheap. I remember loading an empty suitcase Iup with clothes I bought at Dave's in NYC (anyone remember that place?) And dragging it through UK customs.t's that era that got me into work wear and vintage denim when you could still find 50s selvedge xx levis for not too much money.
It's crazy that I only discovered the modern crop of US and Japanese companies a few years ago. So many wasted years.
Pay the bills, take care of business, care for family and friends (and society). Do that as an adult, then be that 18 kid for the rest, that's what I reckon. FTW….arghhhhh. ok calm down now due and do the dishes...
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I always went with my brother and his mates… As a spectator... First skateboarding, then rollerblading... Both in parks and on the streets... I was always disadvantaged when the rozzers arrived and all the lads sped away on their rollerblades...
Anyway: it was a great group to be part of... Positive, helping, caring,... I miss that, no longer being active in the hc/ punk scene... My brother's into scratching (DJ/ vinyl) and has private house sessions with fellow enthousiasts (world and Belgian DJ champions as well though) twice a year, and every time I meet those lads and lasses, it takes me back... Positive, supportive, vehemently anti-racist, accepting...
I will never see the point in being negative, or jaded, or hateful... Someone said it before, but it's true: I owe a lot to the punk/ crust/ hc/ screamo scene... You can never hate the world when you've seen a gay, Dutch mate screaming along to La Quiete playing CMAR-fest in Germany '06 whilst crowd surfing... Memories
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I always went with my brother and his mates… As a spectator... First skateboarding, then rollerblading... Both in parks and on the streets... I was always disadvantaged when the rozzers arrived and all the lads sped away on their rollerblades...
Anyway: it was a great group to be part of... Positive, helping, caring,... I miss that, no longer being active in the hc/ punk scene... My brother's into scratching (DJ/ vinyl) and has private house sessions with fellow enthousiasts (world and Belgian DJ champions as well though) twice a year, and every time I meet those lads and lasses, it takes me back... Positive, supportive, vehemently anti-racist, accepting...
I will never see the point in being negative, or jaded, or hateful... Someone said it before, but it's true: I owe a lot to the punk/ crust/ hc/ screamo scene... You can never hate the world when you've seen a gay, Dutch mate screaming along to La Quiete playing CMAR-fest in Germany '06 whilst crowd surfing... Memories
@Seul you are so right. sounds like we had very similar formative years. I'll always refer to myself as a hardcore punk 'kid'. Some of the guys that we did bands with went on to big things (Frank Turner for example), others went on to work in music production, charity work, me, social work. Those values stay with you.
speaking of DJ ing, and old school mate of mine Ross (Dj Destruction) battled cutmaster swift and was a finalist in the 90 and 91 UK DMC championships. He was 16! such great times.
I had 13 good years being vegan and sxe. Got to meet amazing people from around the world. Some not so amazing (never meet a hero! they generally don't match your expectations). To this day, despite my sarcastic sense of humour, I am positive and optimistic.
you've made me want to post some vids in the music thread now!
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@Stuart.T @Seul I'm hearing violins… you two are so cute together
We should all stay positive though. That's just good advice. I'm going to tie this post together by way of two pieces of Craig Finn genius:
"Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band.
That's not how we planned it""No gods no kings let freedom ring
No faith no sin no hymns to sing" -
A lot of folk here come from the same scene/ background… I've been noticing that for years... It's always made me smile... It's also weird how a lot of us got into new niche stuff like coffee, beer, denim/ workwear,...
There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track...
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There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track…
As a mod I'm not even remotely interested in saving it
Thread's fucked in a beautiful way and what's even better is that @Megatron1505 's head must be exploding at all the nostalgic love going on here. Love you Gav 
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ok, here we go…Ian McKaye should have kept his self righteous mouth shut in 1980 and got himself a heroin addiction instead (I don't actually subscribe to the views expressed by the author)
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There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track…
As a mod I'm not even remotely interested in saving it
Thread's fucked in a beautiful way and what's even better is that @Megatron1505 's head must be exploding at all the nostalgic love going on here. Love you Gav I’m all for letting conversation flow, plus i’m at least partially to blame for this nostalgia trip
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I’m all for eating meat and getting loaded you weird clean-living mofos. (I’ve inferred from this conversation that “sXe” is shorthand for some ungodly combination of life choices)
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Straight edge my ass. I bet every one of the SxE people had a vice or an addiction. Unless your a Buddhist monk u ain’t straight edge or hardcore. Peace and love peace and love
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it was a perfect lifestyle choice for a 20 year old lad who until that time had sold drugs with 'mates' in clubs and paid off doormen for the privilege, had hand guns pointed at his head, etc etc. it was also the time in my life that I felt fittest, healthiest, and happiest.
I've eaten meat, been vegan, been rawfood, and now vegetarian. The difference now is I love a real ale and good rum. I've never forgotten the benefits of a vegan and non-alcohol lifestyle though. It feels amazing. Without alcohol you get a different understanding of yourself, you learn a self confidence that is necessarily present when you use alcohol when socialising. Having worked on mental health units I have got to see the devastation that alcohol and substance misuse causes, and the misery that the criminal aspects cause.
To each their own, as long as it is a genuinely informed choice.
weren't Boyzone just the greatest. I miss those guys.
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Straight edge my ass. I bet every one of the SxE people had a vice or an addiction. Unless your a Buddhist monk u ain’t straight edge or hardcore. Peace and love peace and love
Maybe not. I near match them even though I never heard of them. I don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, extremely rare I take Dr pills, no coffee and could quit tea if I really wanted.
A few of the other bits I think I could do because I have a real taste for fruit these days. -
I shouldn’t have spouted off. I respect whatever anyone wants to do. Youre on your path. I dig it. I just want to fade the shit out of some denim.
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Couldn't care less what others do as long as it doesn't interfere with what others (most especially myself and my loved ones, but ALL others) are doing. I've been "sXe" in a couple of forms throughout my life, and there is no question that there are people who live without vice.
There's also no question that, whether self-righteous or not, MacKaye lived his values. $5 shows, all all-ages, a do-it-yourself record label, never took major label bait, would crusade against violence in the audience, conscious lyrics about societal ills, etc. He made decisions that are easy to ridicule from afar, but would be impossible to make without character and commitment to ideals. It would be one thing if there were evidence of hypocrisy, but until I see it, I'll continue to admire him.
–decidedly NOT sXe-y
