Mar
19
Jason Molina with Bean
20061101 - Brooklyn
R.I.P. Jason Molina
Mome Raths
Outrun, Outshoot, Outgrabe
Songs: Ohia - I’ve Been Riding with a Ghost
RIP. Heart breaking. A big part of my musical upbringing came from this album. Its hard to find any indie music that is good these days, and I’m glad I was able to witness this man live. Its haunting to think about.
Feb
25
Lets kick this shit off. Repost this picture with the tag #hollowbonesteecomp for your chance to win 1 of 3 tee + bag packs. Competition ends Sunday March 3rd! Mount up!
Seriously, even if I wasn’t in the running to win shit I’d still reblog this. Hollow bones is *the* label.
Oct
23
Beautiful Cinelli I saw at a local coffee shop called Harvest :)
Isn’t this Tom AZ’s bike?
It’s his old one, his new Panasonic is sex on two wheels
Jun
12
“The other day, someone asked me why I wear an analog wristwatch. After all, you can just pull out your cell phone to see what time it is. I told them I refused to be tied to an electronic leash. It’s not about knowing the time any more. It’s about asserting your humanity.”
I don’t always agree with Rob, but this rings true somehow.
(via indefensible)
I wear an analogue watch too, gives me all sortsa grief. Don’t know how I managed it but I never learnt to read a clock. Digital, no problems. But I think that ‘humanity’ line is dumber than being 23 and not being able to read the time. Wearing a watch in 2012 is at best a signalling mechanism, at worst jewellery.
(via monsterpussy)
I’m curious, why ‘at worst’ jewellery? Wrist watches were originally jewellery anyway, worn mostly by ladies. Men had pocket watches. When dudes like Rudolph Valentino started wearing wrist watches they copped a lot of shit for wearing ladies’ jewellery and being ‘effeminate’, etc.
Mobile phones = pocket watches for the 21st century?
(via cankerbloxxom)
I had a rant written about this, and then I lost it. The summarised version is this:
1. There is nothing about asserting your humanity through being able to read from an analogue clock, it just means that you can tell the time in another way. If digital is ‘soul stealing’ or whatever, why doesn’t he use candlemarks or a pocket sundial for true humanity?
2. There is nothing wrong with watches as jewellery, and is a great thing to ‘finish’ most outfits, especially for men (who really should always have a watch on IMO)
3. If I found out a ‘branding expert’ who charges $500/hour didn’t have a mobile phone, I’d wonder how connected he is to the world he’s marketing to
(via cankerbloxxom)
May
7
“When I’m balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making hundreds of unconscious calculations every second, that idiot chatterbox in my head is kept too busy to get a word in. I’ve heard people say the same thing about rock-climbing: how it shrinks your universe to the half-inch of rock surface immediately in front of you, this crevice, that toehold. Biking is split-second fast and rock-climbing painstakingly slow, but both practices silence the noise of the mind and render self-consciousness blissfully impossible. You become the anonymous hero of that old story, Man versus the Universe. Your brain’s glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.”
On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
While I appreciate the sentiment of this piece, I don’t actually agree with it. I only find one frequent state at which I am completely focused on cycling, and that is in a race. At that point, I am focussing on where everyone else is, who looks strong, when the next move is going to go.
Before a race, after a race, on training rides, commuting, all of those times I am thinking. It’s not usually deep. It’ll often be the last song I heard that I liked (Tigers and Sharks by You Me At Six) or something I hated (Call me maybe), thinking about how I should have trained harder, about mistakes I made in the last race, about who is beating me on what Strava segments, what bike bits I want to buy next (hello Rapha) and more.
The only other time I really clean out my mind is at the very opposite point from this quote. It’s hill climbing. I suck at doing hills on a bike, but it takes all of my concentration to make sure my heart rate isn’t going too high, I’ve got my breathing reasonably under control, I’m not burning myself out too early, remembering what the gradient is around the next bend and preparing myself for it. This really only comes in for climbs that are longer than 3km or steeper than about 8%, too. And even then, as soon as things start to go a bit astray the world creeps back in.
(via somethingchanged)
Apr
25
i feel like if people had to endure, first hand, their own bullshit, that the world would be more liveable.
(Source: theblueprint)
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