car, truck, jack, vespa with cannon?

Two of the bigger influences on my life in the late 80's. Motorhead and mad max.


Mad Max Tribute - Motorhead - Ace of Spades
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i don't feel like i've accomplished anything. but, maybe i have done everything.
something in front of me, so i put it behind, what will there be when i turn around to face forwards again.
now i have no energy. i don't feel like it. what's the point.
believe to believe what is right to do , but not sure that what it is-is even what it was cracked up to be.
some days you win, some days you lose.
today i did both.....

i think i'd like to fly thins plane, or one like it.

 or grow a mustache cuz it's movember,

 or go do some burnouts.

this van is parked in front of my fhouse almost everyday, so why is it not mine?

 circa 1930's rca victor, do yo want it? come take it.

 i could do a burnout in this car.

 sheer dedication.

 my idea in someone elses head

i always thought this was called "goon running".  To use in a sentence. "yo, lets do a goon run"...followed by the response, "cha chinnngggg........"........
i can dream.

Hunter S. Thompson writes the best cover letter ever.
TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN

October 1, 1958
57 Perry Street New York City

Sir,

I got a hell of a kick reading the piece Time magazine did this week on The Sun. In addition to wishing you the best of luck, I’d also like to offer my services.

Since I haven’t seen a copy of the “new” Sun yet, I’ll have to make this a tentative offer. I stepped into a dung-hole the last time I took a job with a paper I didn’t know anything about (see enclosed clippings) and I’m not quite ready to go charging up another blind alley.

By the time you get this letter, I’ll have gotten hold of some of the recent issues of The Sun. Unless it looks totally worthless, I’ll let my offer stand. And don’t think that my arrogance is unintentional: it’s just that I’d rather offend you now than after I started working for you.

I didn’t make myself clear to the last man I worked for until after I took the job. It was as if the Marquis de Sade had suddenly found himself working for Billy Graham. The man despised me, of course, and I had nothing but contempt for him and everything he stood for. If you asked him, he’d tell you that I’m “not very likable, (that I) hate people, (that I) just want to be left alone, and (that I) feel too superior to mingle with the average person.” (That’s a direct quote from a memo he sent to the publisher.)

Nothing beats having good references.

Of course if you asked some of the other people I’ve worked for, you’d get a different set of answers.

If you’re interested enough to answer this letter, I’ll be glad to furnish you with a list of references — including the lad I work for now.

The enclosed clippings should give you a rough idea of who I am. It’s a year old, however, and I’ve changed a bit since it was written. I’ve taken some writing courses from Columbia in my spare time, learned a hell of a lot about the newspaper business, and developed a healthy contempt for journalism as a profession.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you’re trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I’d like to work for you.

Most of my experience has been in sports writing, but I can write everything from warmongering propaganda to learned book reviews.

I can work 25 hours a day if necessary, live on any reasonable salary, and don’t give a black damn for job security, office politics, or adverse public relations.

I would rather be on the dole than work for a paper I was ashamed of.

It’s a long way from here to British Columbia, but I think I’d enjoy the trip.

If you think you can use me, drop me a line.

If not, good luck anyway.

Sincerely,

Hunter S. Thompson

man, it's been weeks and i've been wanting to post this video for ever. anyone remember the "fall guy", a show from the 80"s? IT was AWESOME!!!!!anyways, here's a video i found of colt severs jumping and wrecking his truck. AWESOME!

found this of 4Q, i wasn't sure if it was for real or not, but the kid sounded so genuine that i thought it was cool. I don't know if it is for real or not, i hope it is.

Scrapertown from California is a place. on Vimeo.

so three weeks ago, almost four, four next sunday, i broke my wrist by running my mx off a track. i was too stoked and didn't properly scope out the track before i started racing. that's a lesson for you, now three to four weeks later i'am just starting to regain use of my fingers. needless to say, my summer has been put on serious hold. three or four more weeks in a cast then i should be able to resume life duties as i would like. in the meantime i'm goin to update this blog. it's been awhile, have you ever tried typing anything substantial with just your left hand?
regardless, i have found two that i think are awesome and want to show you. and it is insane! here's a sample; found in Accidental Mysteries.
carvings by DALTON GHETTI'





the second is Dave DeVries of The Monster Engine, here's what he does; basically puts color to children's drawings...

my pal billy's 59 mayfair.



is for sale. $7000. or somewhere in there will get you a sweet ride.

the Isle of Man TT is a road race , wikipedia describes it as such...
"The race is run in a time-trial format on public roads closed for racing by the provisions of an Act of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man). The first race was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and was called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy.[1] The event was organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps of the St John's Short Course of 15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal touring motor-cycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and mud-guards".

However, This video shows what it really is, only the coolest motorcycle racing event to ever be held on the planet earth!

josh evin r.i.p.

kootenay ripper. gone. this really sucks.

a little something for a rainy sunday afternoon...

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so , more about zepplin. After downloading a bunch of stuff i realized that John Paul Jones is a freaking freak of nature bass player. And Songs like "Going to California" really make me feel like i'm going there. In like 1975. with an old video camera to record it all. In hindsight i should have posted a video of just Zepplin, not with the Foo fighters like i did yesterday, so gimme a minute, i'll go find one...


o.k., here it is. enjoy my friends...

I've been listening to Led Zepplin for like 25 years now and to me they are THEE origional rock band. But i never appreciated Jimmy Page on his own as a guitarist. then i watched this cool movie called "It might Get loud", which is about Jack White from the White Stripes, who gathers the Edge and Jimmy Page together and they talk about music. More precisely, they talk about their guitars and and what inspired them to start playing. I then thought to myself, "that Jimmy Page seems to be a very cool guy". To make a long story a little shorter, i found a video of him playing along with the Foo Fighters. Theyre playing my song, "Ramble On". The Foo Fighters are not bad but Jimmy Page is about 25 thousand times cooler and he isn't even trying. He just is. i don't know what it is. Of course i'm trying to learn this song. maybe someday i'll be cool.

T.F.K., that's my gramps on the left flying that bird. a Lancastarian. basically a civillian version of the Lancaster bomber used in world war 2. He was one of the first ten pilots that started Trans-Canada Air. Which later became Air Canada. I'm just trying to figure out some acurate history and dates.more to come..maybe...

only one of these bikes has something that the others are missing.








not talking about the hat...

some say that buddy rich was the best drummer ever. what about kermit's spanish though?

this is just in case, cause you never know...


Do you know where this is? cuz if you do, then you know your way around for sure.


Do my tires make me look fast?

so a couple months back i decided to try and build one of these oilcan guitars. Also known as gascan guitars, can-tars, or canjo's, if there only 4 strings. but this one isn't. it's a bon-o-fide 6 string ee-leck-trick guitar. I found the can down at an antique store in new west. and for 30 bucks i walked out with an oilcan and a 3/4 scale classical guitar that was broken in two. The classical guitar has since become a resonator slide guitar.(More on that one later).

Like I've said before i work at the World Famous Panther Guitar Case Comapny where we can build you any case for any instrument. It just takes time. We also can build Lp storage cases, and cases for just about anything that is cool. even if' it's not cool, we can build a case for it. But we prefer cool. anyways, needless to say i have some access to some pretty sweet machinery. old wartime sewing machines that could literally sew two peices of plywood together. and rivet machines that you could build a tank with. Routers that are 6 feet tall and a belt sander that you could sand your arm off with. that sorta stuff. It's all at my disposal.

So being that i wield that kind of power, (i don't ) i decided to try to come up with something.

The neck is a Sparrow neck from a Twangmaster guitar, that i sanded down to make it a bit thinner. i routered the fretboard so the bulldog logo is inlaid. The bridge is also from a Twangmaster and the pick up is a "Handsome Jack" which is from Sparrow's custom line up of pick-ups. And as you can see, i also painted the headstock with latex paint to match the body. And to give it an aged look, i sanded the latex headstock before the paint was completely dry, this kinda smeared it and blended the white over the red, it also gave it a faded look.

The guitar felt awkward to play at first but once you get over that it feels nice, and when plugged in it sounds awesome! the Handsome Jack pick-up is real aggresive and crisp. and the good boys down at the World Famous Sparrow Guitar Company gave me an invaluble lesson on intonation.
A great bonus is that this guitar actaully sounds pretty good when not pluged in. It resonates because it is essentially a hollowbody and you can hear the "color" in the notes very well. (if that makes sense).
This is just one project of many ongoing projects, it never seems to stop for me. so stay tuned....or not...
Props to Billy Bones and Skinny Tim for the intonation insight.