WORLDWIDE SKATEBOARDING

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Worldwide Skateboarding, for skateboarding and everything after.

I’ve always come up with things in my head to write here, but either I’m not behind a computer or I just get too lazy and don’t do it (get it?). Somehow I feel websites need to have an ‘about’ section. It is something I always look for when I visit a new website that I like. Sometimes the ‘about’ section is as interesting as the content….

A few months ago I was listening to the ‘How to clean everything’ album from Canadian punk rockers Propagandhi and the opening song of that album, Anti-manifesto, is one of my favorite tracks of that album. I’ve always liked the lyrics of that band, but this song in particular. I’ve highlighted some lines that I think describe this website, and maybe even the skateboard world (at least what it means to me) best.

Thanks to everyone one for their news, contributions, support, hate, comments, emails, thank you’s and of course for linking this website over and over again. I’m thankful for all of it…..
Don’t talk about, do it, do it, do it!!! (Henry Rollins)

Propagandhi – Anti-manifesto lyrics:

Dance and laugh and play. Ignore the message we convey.
It seems we’re only here to entertain.
A rebellion cut-to-fit. I refuse to be the soundtrack to it.
While we entertain we’re still knee-deep in shit.
There’s something wrong inside.
We’ve played it safe, enjoyed the ride.
You won’t like this but I’ve something to confide.
We stride for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard.
Now we’ve rained on your parade and we’re out the door.
And I don’t even care any fucking more.
Witness this pair in accomplice.
Witness this pair; lethargic, unconscious.
No brows furrowed in question, complacent, completing their tasks
(no questions asked)
Consider this critic a cretin,
Just resting on laurels completely invented.
Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net.
I am so full of shit.
But I will remain until this self-awareness fades
Until I defeat the purpose of this soapbox that you made.
That you made.
Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt).
Green ink, a 26 oz., a bad case of big-mouth.
A sum of our parts and I’ve never laughed harder.
A song in our hearts and I’ve never laughed harder.
It don’t really matter cuz nothing’s ever felt as right as this.
(by the way, I stole this riff)

Here’s a live version of this song: