I gave some sober alcoholics a ride home tonight, three alcoholics. 4 if you count me, which I do. 4 alcoholics all heading home after a small meeting that took place in a small room. One headed to meet curfew at the halfway house, another cross town to crash on a couch and a third armed with nothing but the clothes on his back, an old army blanket, a Big Book and 2 days of sobriety. I was there, I was doing him a favor by not letting him have a warm dry place to sleep. It can only get better for him and it will if he chooses so.

Seeing him head off in the rain in the blackness of night made me grateful, tears came to my eyes and a lump in my throat. I remember that blackness, the loneliness, the wet and the cold, ....the nothing. Looking at every warm lit house i passed with resentment anger and disgust. I and my bridge, I and my loneliness. I

Change the fuggin channell

If you never knew Cro-Mags...you should have, if you read this then you do now. I loved this old stuff growing up, well it wasnt really all that old then, but I spose it is now. What it was if you were anywhere outside of the NYHC was obscure, still is. I like the obscure. Here they show you all over the place.... screams, rants, fast, slow.

These are some special pictures my friends of a special time in history. I dont think there were any underpaid frat boys in yellow t-shirts at these shows, security, if there was any was likely done by the self selected right in the pit. Graffitti the bathroom wall if you got a sharpie, if not try and piss in the urinal.

Cro-Mags

ASS-VILLE

I might have been stricken with wet noodles back in the day for posting pictures of awesomness of the Asheville scene, these days it tends not to matter. The secret has been let out and what once was a sleepy lil mtn town has now been taken over by tourists, hippies, punks, bikers and even yuppies. Come visit the Paris of the South and see what y'all have been missing. I promise despite the new age propaganda that abounds we still serve sweet tea and briscuit in near every eating establishment.

Gods Country

Weaverville NC

Slack post I know but just so y'all see y'aint missin nuttin

Forgive thy neighbor.

A friend of mine sent me this video today as part of an apology. Of course I forgive this person. In doing so I wanted to share this with the rest of my devoted. Check out the drummer at the 2 minute mark. IN-SANE!

MUSIC WEEK!!

OK, my lil rant last night got me thinkin of all the ol school punk stuff we used to jam to. Green Day has nothing on this stuff. So in honor of the old guys who helped shape form and cultivate my existence.....We start off with some old Black Flag. Rollins still had hair, was young and idealistic, had yet to sign with MTV and what about them shorts!!! Damn Henry, those are shorts!!

The music you are about to hear may disturb you, it may make you wonder how a grown man could listen to this. Dont know dont care. Its Black Flag and this was one of the best half pipe songs ever recorded.

Ol Skool

I miss the old sk8 scene. It was raw, it was real it was unmolested and it wasnt cool. Mtn Dew wasnt on board yet, Tony Hawk wasnt selling anything he could put his name on at the mall. We worked with what we had where we had, cops hated us, jocks beat on us and girls were afraid to say our name @ the dinner table. We were punks we were loud mean angry and aggressive. Style want fashionable and we were rats and proud of it.

Non-skaters might look at this footage and think.... "that don't look so hard" B.S. that's Roskopp yo! He was on of the originators, he was fast, hard and full of attitude! Something is lacking in the scene today and I am not sure just what that is. But if you look at this footage, look a the scale of that pipe and think of how fast my man is really going.....bet U couldn't do that.

Carolina surf

Gettin amped and ready to go visit the Carolina shore and if all goes well soon relocate there.

The Blues....

On a whim today and a good hour needin to kill, I stopped into the local Goodwill. Much to my awe there on the end of the mens t-shirt rack was a near new lookin, feelin and smellin Motorhead t-shirt, and in the color black to boot! I nearly forgot for a moment what a pure hard rockin, balls out no apologies metal band Lemmy and the boys are. Of course I had to buy the shirt and wearing it makes me feel as if my manhood may have elevated another couple notches, only real "dont give a damn" type guys are capable of sporting a Motorhead T.

Of course I had to come home tonight and see just what the boys have been up to, Whores it looks like, nothin but the Whorehouse Blues. Enjoy.....Thanks Lemmy.

Hollister

Hollister is way more than overpriced hoodies to go with your overpriced Tevas. For all you who never been here is a shot of the real Hollister. Behold the sound of the 2 stroke.

Welcome back

Damn...what the hell happened round here, one day you look up, your effin 35 years old and you have neglected your blog for near two months. OK, so even if they become the standard robo-post, U-Tube video of some dudes doin' somethings we aint never heard of that how its gonna be. I have an exercise to continue here my friends and this must be done.

Speaking of exercise I am happy to report I am now 36 hours and only one cigarette in that time, I think, I know I will make today, this 24 hours with no cigarettes. I ordered some herbal stuff off the radio one day. You know one of those "free" offers and the first thing when you call they want a cc? So yeah, this stuff truly works and the cigarette I did smoke.......Smoked it in 2 parts. Lit the first half while out walking the dog on th local trail to the reservoir. All I can say is don't smoke on top of this stuff lest ye be ready for some serious dizzies.

Oh yeah, we musnt neglect College football season shall we, Heres my season so far, Ohio State has pitched back to back shoutouts this year with Pryor looking like maybe he aint all that, just a bag of chips, of course there one loss already comes to a team that got beat by Washington a week later and Tressell is the worlds biggest play calling wuss. The UC Bearcats are climbing the top 25 sittin at number 9 right now with winless Miami of OH to play this Sat lest they pitch another big time ass whoopin like the 70-3 punishing of SEMO they could actually drop down a notch or two. And believe this....Tony Pike has actually garnered some attention in the Heisman race this year, you know what I would pay to see??? Ohio State and Cincinnati in a Bowl game at the end of the year, long shot but could happen, I predict Ohio State would be going home unhappy.

Local DIII action has nothing more to report than a winless Ohio Wesleyan and the one Saturday time permits to go check out a game happens to be there Homecoming, I want to watch football not listen to some guy announce a bunch of girls names. Maybe I go maybe I wont I predict a homecoming heartbreaker anyhow.

And to satiate my dear friends yes its old news but who doesnt like seein the Cinti/Rutgers roll again?? Rutgers was favored with Kirk Herbstreit calling Rutgers the "team to beat in the Big East" Herbie boy also wants a mini NFL of the Big 30. Idiot.

DOPE

Going to see these guys in C-Bus tonight. DOnr know much about them, should be interesting, so far so fair from what I can U-Tube gather.

Dope.

I'm PISSED!!

MONUCKA"S PRACTICE WHAT U PREACH!!

Austin.....Cows. guitars and canoes.

My recent trip to Austin has longed for a sojourn. Here in this Ohio rain longing for the TX heat, the Austin thought and the desert bull. Look west young man. I did, hit the coast and turned again.

I landed at Bregstrom at 9:20, a quick Torchy's Taco and a fresh pack of Winstons later Hayes Carll stood before me on the famous Antones platform. Sing it to me Haye's, my life reads like an alt. country song and my soul like the novel of long before. The image of the Horseshoe brought a tear to my eye with the memory of the orange acid laden papers. The landing of the depression coupled with the wet. Whiskey never left my brain and nicotine still leaves a stain. The cancerous sore that invades my privacy and the love for which I left behind.

Hayes is the new black, thanks Eli, your one rockin lil' kid

KISS OFF EH

While I in an 80's moment

Raging Waters!!!

Yeah I been slack on the posts as of late but gimmee a break OK!! I am in Ohio and for OH the weather has been near perfect lately. I remember ridin the bike in February tryin to get over the 2 wheel DT's and folks lookin at me like I were nuts, well guess what??? I IS NUTS!!!

Some real sweet ol school footage here. Gotta love the tunes, actually you dont you are perfectly free to hate this music but it reminds me of The Ugly Americans or some other total Aussie band from the late 80's. Midnight Oil meets daylight.

Enjoy the Hosoi, he's outta prison and sober these days.

Lucinda!!!

Too Damn Sexy!

SAVE JESUS!

Really...what else can I say that isnt being said right here??

The ultimate bike clip!!

No, I did not choose the title but I did embed it here on my lil blog so maybe, just maybe my cager audience who lives through my two and 4 heel moto and sk8 adventures might just start to see it. Maybe just one lil glimpse into the life.

This past year nearly to the day I recently dubbed year of the funeral. I haven't seen this many folks check out in 12 months since the great heroin bottom of 2001. That was one hell of a painful year. But I will say one thing, seeing folks die from so called "natural causes" seems a whole lot more senseless to me than anything you may witness here. I don't know who was first quoted as saying so but it was something about "I do not want to live my life only to arrive safely at death" Sadly I have seen a lot of that this year. One death was a fellow rider, friend and business man who went headlong into a guardrail rounding an outside curve that he apparently misjudged and needless to say front wheel and shoulder gravel was a deadly combo. But hey!!! You can die having pushed the edge a lil too far or you can go quiet and safe like somewhere in an Omaha nursing home.

God Bless my fallen family.

OHIO??

God bless Athens County and Honda motorcycles.

What...huh???