Shout out!

Due to the contract on my job ending at the end of this week, I won't be posting for a little while, well at least not until I get my computer connected on the net. So I'd like to thank all of those who have been reading or have ever read anything on this site and all of you who commented on the random posts that I hope have even given you something to remember, (Global Dimming perhaps?). So, thank you all, and I'll be posting soon, I promise. But until then...

Live long, Skate fast and Have Fun! (The second one is maybe a lil' bit specific)

Thank you,

Adam Culyer

I'm Back!

I recently went skateboarding, and to begin with I was being very conservative and not trying any tricks due to fears of damaging my foot again. However, I came across no problems and decided to get a bit bigger as the day went on. By the end of the day it was as if the injury hadn't ever ocurred. Maybe I was in the right mindset, or maybe I had lots of energy, but it seemed that I was actually better than before I did the injury. It's strange but as I was jumping a small stair gap of around six steps (which I landed first try) all memory of injuries and not landing just disappeared and It seemed harder to bail(crash) than it did to land the tricks. I hope I can keep this up, because at this rate, I'll be much better than I was before. I also put it down to a new deck which I have recently purchased too, but it can't all be down to the board can it? I mean, I have to have some skill too! Also, my fakie 360 flips are smoother than they've ever been and have now become my favourite trick. Good times.

The Clock is Ticking

As the seconds whittle away I am searching for another job. I know I shouldn't worry about anything, what with the global dimming thing, but you wanna make the goochie go woo woo. And the only thing to make that happen is cash. It's a fact of modern life.

However, if I procrastinate in my search for employment, that means I can go skateboarding more. Plus, i'm planning to work at a music festival in august if nothing is happening then. Im crossed between my love for skating and music and the need for a regular income. Shall i be boring and skate on the weekends or just f*ck it and spend the next few months being overly hedonistic? It's not very practical, but by god is it fun. Plus, I'm only 20, so I suppose i'll get serious about work and careers later. But i may find out that i can't get serious because i've wasted all of the early opportunities and end up in an even more tediously boring, dead end job.

It's a nightmare.

Designing a winning concept.

I have had a lot of ideas over the past few months regarding shows and things. One of the things that i think will be funny is a comic strip depicting a character that asks for a cigarette at the most inappropriate times. But you really have to read it to fully understand. Anyway, I was puzzling over the idea that everone in this planet had an individual outlook on life, so how do you know if something is funny, or interesting? This is certainly an issue i will have to play with and try to create something brand new and refreshinly original. But nowadays the boundaries are being pushed further and further and the idea of being original is hurting yourself badly for entertainment value. I mean, what do i have to do... have a spasm in mid...

...aahgg woo woo. AAAAAAAAHHHH!...

...sentance? Is that funny? It certainly is original. But no one understands it, so therefore it is not funny. It a tricky balancing act. But one which, I'm sure, I will have fun trying.

I'm not even sure what this post was trying to say, but then again, does it matter? If anyone read this, then it's reason enough to write it, I think.

Peace.

The state of today's music

I have been an avid music fan ever since i could talk and now it seems the industry has ran out of original ideas. I mean, throughout the decades music has undergone a number of changes to what is considered talent. In the sixties it was all about being 'psychadelic' and the humble beginnings of bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In the seventies it was about getting as much feedback from an amplifier with an electric guitar as possible. For example: Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin etc. And in the eighties it was about being smart, having loads of money and using synthetic sounds on every track you produce. And then the nineties came and so did Oasis, along with the renewed laddish movement coined originally with the stones but then abandoned during the over-franchised eighties.

But today it seems as though we are back tracking. We over glorify karaoke singers and buy re-releases of old songs that are never sung as well as the original. And a lot of bands today are moving back in time. For example: Franz Ferdinand(80s), The Darkness (70s) and the Libertines (who seem to drift between the 70s and 90s).

Also, what really got on my nerves was the fact that a girl group, manufactured on television no less, can get a number 1 single for 'Eternal Flame' originally sung by The Bangles. What's going on? In my opinion, the only style that is really going anywhere is the hip-hop industry. But then again, it's starting to merge with pop music to create Hip-pop, with the likes of Beyonce and Mary J Blige.

Come on!!! Let's get creative!!!

Is cannabis addictive?

I used to smoke cannabis everyday, and currently i am off it. Occasionally i will by £10 worth and it will last me a few days. But recently, i have found out about a lot of people who seem positively addicted to the stuff. I don't need to be high ALL THE TIME, but these people can't function without being off the map everyday.

I don't think it's the chemicals in the weed that make it addictive, it's the fact that it feels so good to be stoned, and these people can't bring themselves above the need for this feeling. It also makes sobriety feel utterly depressing, which i beleive to be another factor towards dependancy. However, i don't feel these effects, even though i spent the best part of four years being stoned and all of a suddern stopped. Anyone else out there reading this (which I seriously doubt) who wants to share their wisdom with me then i will be very grateful. But to be honest, no one reads my stuff anyway.

TENK YOU VEDDY MUCH!!