Books

[the redline]

Hey, everyone read Blindness by Jose Saramago before the movie comes out.  It's great and probably better than the film.

[bucky fellini]

I'm reading Junky by William S Burroughs.

Just finished On The Road by Jack Kerouac - was kinda disappointed, it was alright but I read so much about it being this epic book...but I do suppose it would seem pretty weak after reading Hunter S Thompson. 

So, yeah, I guess I've been going through a beat generation phase lately.

[Hefeweizen]

"What the Good Book Didn't Say" By J. Stephen Lang is a hilarious book that nit-picks every last falsity of the Old and New Testaments.

"The Sword and the Mind: The Classic Japanese Treatise on Swordsmanship and Tactics" by Hiroaki Sato is really short, but has these kick-ass philosophies of swordsmanship that you can apply to skateboarding. Like, "When attacking, the mind should be focused on nothing but the destruction of the enemy."

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen because it would be nice if I had some company in my suffering this semester. hah.

[bailgun]

read the book of the five rings when you finish the sword and the mind.

[spunsk8er]

not a recent book i've read but the illuminatis trilogy robert anton wilson is definatly  an eye opener, so is the sequel schroedingers cat trilogy, same faces differant names. currently i'm reading "hunter" by e.j. carroll. after i'm done with it i think i'm going to re-read reefer madness.

[the redline]

Just finished On The Road by Jack Kerouac - was kinda disappointed, it was alright but I read so much about it being this epic book...but I do suppose it would seem pretty weak after reading Hunter S Thompson. 

I worked a really chill job at a golf course and read this outside in the afternoon...It disappeared when I was about 20 pages from the end and I never finished it.  It's funny cuz I left it out at the podium where we were supposed to stay, and EVERYONE started reading it, from the jockos to the older burnouts who were working there...it was kind of cool.  But it was definitely prime conditions for reading that thing.

[The Lala]

Hunter S. Thompson's work is trippy

[ze RJM]

Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman was a pretty good read.

I also hear Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is good, but haven't had the pleasure yet.

[The brycickle]

Jocko Weyland's The Answer is Never! is great too. 

[bucky fellini]

I also hear Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is good, but haven't had the pleasure yet.

I read that a couple years ago. Its pretty good. He uses pop culture to make all these deep metaphors/social observations...sounds weird but it works well. most of the references are relevant to growing up in the 80s, which I did. what I mean is, some knowledge of something like Saved by the Bell, for example, would come in handy while reading this book. but yeah, worth reading for sure.

[the WORMER]

Jocko Weyland's The Answer is Never! is great too. 

Every single skater should be required to read that book, it's fucking amazing.

[malinas]

I've glanced in it, but now I have to barrow it from my friend.

[Thee Gnartical Adventure]

my god-sis got me mark gonzales' 'Broken Poems'
its a quick read, but its worth a buy if you can find it

[The brycickle]

I've glanced in it, but now I have to barrow it from my friend.

It's worth it to buy it.

[bailgun]

anyone ever heard of a book called life and limb? its a collection of stories written by skaters and others in the industry, including ed templeton, the gonz, and others..not all the stories are completely about skating, but 99% are at least skateboarding related..really interesting stuff if you get a chance to check it out.

that book is sick. i really liked "the ulf does not exist." it's almost true if you take the orginazitional aspects out of it...

scott borne's piece on skating=martial arts is epic. i've actually had some pretty cool conversations about the physcal and spiritual parallels between the two with a dude that i work with on stage builds sometimes. he's in his mid-forties and has been training in different martial arts since he was like 7 or some shit.  dudes rad. got like a 4 foot vertical leap and learned to ollie in about three tries.

oh shit. i worked with that dude yesterday, and he dropped the raddest bit of philosophy on me- "we do not train to defeat our opponents. we train to taste victory."