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Miles of road lay behind me. Road grime is caked on my sun baked face with the smell of gasoline and sweat filling my nostrils. My hands, covered in callouses and oil filled cracks, grip the bars as I beat down the roadway eating up white line after white line. I'm chasing down a dream one gear at a time but I can't really tell you what the dream is. Freedom? Adventure? Enlightenment? All of the above and more I guess. The rawness of the ride always draws me in, no question. I am completely in the moment and in my simplest and purest form. And strangely enough, in this raw simplicity I am also completely in touch with everything around me. I am the machine. I am the road. I am the trees and the air. I am the sun and rolling hills in the distance. I am everything but at the same time I feel I am simply nothing. After I get off my bike, everything else seems to move slow in my tranquility and my senses pick up everything. In this moment of heightened awareness so many things seem sweeter. My kids excitement of my return home. The laughter and screams of "daddy" as they run to meet me, throwing their arms around my still vibrating legs. My wife's embrace as I wrap my arms around her body and kiss her perfect lips. My chop brings me many things. It fills my spirit and lets it soar free but at the same time it helps me appreciate my roots. Sometimes I don't know what is better, the trip or the getting home. I guess you can't have one without the other.

Chop Dreams 2012 - Show Class Magazine / Death Science

A cool video from Show Class Magazine and Death Science with a poem overlayed and read by Charles Bukowski

 



 



“You can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.”





 

Still Kickin....Just Busy

It's been nearly a month since I posted anything new and for the few people that follow my blog I apologize, I'm back to it, I promise. So for my next offering here's a cool ass band playing cool ass music. I'm kinda behind the times on a lot of stuff so some of you guys might have heard of them already. If not, sit back and enjoy these couple of selections I've made for you.

 

 

Ramblings

The close of the year is upon us and so looms the reflective thoughts that accompany such a transition.  All over the place you see year in review stories filled with the deaths and dramatic moments that make up our popular culture. Many people make New Year’s resolutions of all sorts. Now I am not really a New Year’s resolution type of guy but today I was struck by something a buddy of mine (Barry) wrote on Facebook. He challenged everyone to only post original content as opposed to regurgitating quippy quotes, Willy Wonka demotivational posters, and political gibberish. Now most of us gave him a hard time about it but it really did strike a nerve with me. Perhaps because I had just watched a few clips of the movie Idiocrasy and it drove the idea home. And to quote Wikipedia’s definition of the society in the movie “Advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.” This just seemed right that it rooted itself as the reflective thought of my “end of the year” mindset.
So I am going to not only repeat Barry’s challenge to you but I am going to also up the ante. I challenge you all to stop repeating your same stories and to go and make new ones. Do what you can, maybe it will only be one big adventure that you chalk up this year, maybe it will be one for each month, I don’t care. But do not sit and be the same thing, doing the same thing, dreaming the same thing and not make something new. Learn a new language, play an instrument, something, ANYTHING. But let’s all strive to break free from the pop culture media nonsense that dulls our minds. Karl Marx said “Religion is the opium of the people”. I beg to differ at this stage of the game and say that in our modern society that MEDIA IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE.  So let us break free from that which binds us, the padded chains that so comfortably hold us back, and move forward to be something greater. That is my goal and my challenge to you. So to all of you I wish a happy and productive 2013.
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