Old and new 2
My blog will never be compared to freshness or coolhunting, but here's another pair of old shoes I dug up. These are Rawlings bowling shoes that I rescued from my parents' garage! Yes, my dad used to wear them way back when, and I wore them last night.
No crazy saddle-shoe action or 3-D colorways, but they are clean and they work. More importantly, I didn't have to shell out $3.50 for some stinky old shoes with batting-cages spray in them. My game? It's been a while, but I broke 100 in the warm-up game and 150 in the second one.
What's new? I picked up the latest Cometbus at the GR store yesterday. Yup, issue 50 is out!
Next to GR, Cometbus is the only publication I read from cover to cover. Aaron Cometbus is one of my literary and musical heroes, and I don't think you need to be a punk to appreciate his sporadic releases. The enjoyment doesn't come from knowing the punk bands he alludes to or being a squatter or train rider. It's from appreciating life in every detail, from cheap coffee at dawn to running into old friends to hearing the right song at the right time.
This particular issue is divided into three parts: interviews, fiction, and essays. The interviews include members of Bratmobile, Minor Threat, TV on the Radio, Low, the Casual Dots, and Jawbreaker. The essays cover NYC's bookstores. I haven't read the fiction yet, but I know it will break my heart. The parts are puncuated by letters.
Still 2 bucks and mostly handwritten after all these years. It's often said that more things change, the more they stay the same, and this is one of those cases. Like seeing an old friend.
If people read GR and get half as much enjoyment and inspiration as I do in Cometbus, I'll be happy.
No crazy saddle-shoe action or 3-D colorways, but they are clean and they work. More importantly, I didn't have to shell out $3.50 for some stinky old shoes with batting-cages spray in them. My game? It's been a while, but I broke 100 in the warm-up game and 150 in the second one.
What's new? I picked up the latest Cometbus at the GR store yesterday. Yup, issue 50 is out!
Next to GR, Cometbus is the only publication I read from cover to cover. Aaron Cometbus is one of my literary and musical heroes, and I don't think you need to be a punk to appreciate his sporadic releases. The enjoyment doesn't come from knowing the punk bands he alludes to or being a squatter or train rider. It's from appreciating life in every detail, from cheap coffee at dawn to running into old friends to hearing the right song at the right time.
This particular issue is divided into three parts: interviews, fiction, and essays. The interviews include members of Bratmobile, Minor Threat, TV on the Radio, Low, the Casual Dots, and Jawbreaker. The essays cover NYC's bookstores. I haven't read the fiction yet, but I know it will break my heart. The parts are puncuated by letters.
Still 2 bucks and mostly handwritten after all these years. It's often said that more things change, the more they stay the same, and this is one of those cases. Like seeing an old friend.
If people read GR and get half as much enjoyment and inspiration as I do in Cometbus, I'll be happy.
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