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What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?
To have it all is to have perfection. And you can’t have perfection, you can only strive for it.
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In an attempt to stay gold, I managed to turn myself into an a hole. Ain’t always proud but it’s the lines that we choose. Guess it what happens when you leave your heart to exposed. Leaving petals on the concrete for every time that I rose.
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no tracklist today.. just listen
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Sometimes I think the democrats are playing stupid, like they aint got no tactics. No one is gonna limit the war budget once it’s on and popping. People are death, bombs were dropped. We’re going to have to see this one to the end. Another worthless war and another american taking the bullet. It’s shame really. Finally just got back to peace, after covid-19 and america soliders back at home from the war in afghanistan, we didn’t have five minutes before the american government jumped head first into another war.
Simultaneously, on the web, I’ve seen videos of a black solider celebrating the purchase of her first house. She was dancing. Something feels oddly strange about that. It’s not a consequence. I can’t trust it. I also saw a video of another solider crying as she realized that she going actually going to war.. I want to pray for her but I don’t believe my prays will protect her. They say war is hell, and how do you prepare someone for hell?
I think that why I never could join the military, not being able to be in full control. Not being able to have a full spectrum of my own will at an unfair price. Don’t get me wrong I think what they do is admirable, to march into war, ready or not to face death and destruction. But having to prostrate yourself to the US government is dancing with the devil. I hear of how they treat black people, I can visualize what they’d do to the arab.
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Though some people might find the actions of Rodney Hinton Jr. unacceptable in today’s modern society, I believe he’s the anti-hero American needs right now. A black Father willing and ready to risk it all for this son, in an America that sees black men and women as conventional for the America way of life rather apart of it. There is a general sense of being made to feel that we are outsiders in our homeland and somehow we’ve been trespassing since inception. The sight of us warns, malice, unaware psychological hatred, disrespect any being on this earth in his right mind wouldn’t stand for. And some how, as a group, we haven’t seeked revenge.
How many people haven’t died at the hands of a police officer supposedly “protecting and serving” the community? We’re clearly not there community. Police departments have set up a business invoicing the lives of black men and women with damn near immunity, because nothing changes. Nothing changes but the name of the person being shot, or arrested, or being beaten half to death. And “punishments” are not enough to absolve the repeated habits of our public servants. Leaving the victims and their families with less than they had; less money, less family, less belief in the justice system, less love.
At some point America should’ve know there’d be a Rodney Hinton Jr. I’m sure I can find another man that killed a cop. But the way that Rodney Hinton Jr. did it had a little extra on. It feels honorable. Like a samurai hunting down the killer of teacher, it’s not just pure revenge. Someone that means the world to me was taken from me and the only way to repay him is kill his killer.
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I was listening to The fast life garage while I was cooking, it tripped me out to listen to max schaaf and his view on how he approaches building bikes, the craftsmanship and how he approaches the business side of things. I know him from skateboarding, really falling in love with his personality after watching his epicly later’d. He seemed like a smart dude, passionate about skateboarding, opinionated. He has a point of view. He rubbed shoulders with some of skateboarding’s greats and still is cool enough to film the homie on the vert ramp.
Though he could probably make more money, making trendy shirts for his company 4Q and what not, he’s here for the bikes. When he got into his love for bikes years ago, it was a difficult journey figuring it out, banging his head across the wall. Taking courses, talking to people, and a little divine intervention, just chasing after, it got him here. Continuing to the old ways of sharing information and building relationships with people who actually know what the hell there doing out here. It’s not all business with him, how big corporation influenced us to believe it needs to be to have a successful business.
There are actual people behind these “products”.
His approach towards bike building and craftsmanship aren’t as money hungry. It’s passion first.
Listening to that got me fired up, it reminded me of why I do the things I do. Why I got into things in the first place. For me. To get me to tomorrow. It’s not about what the other guys think, whether he’s the elder on the block or the young buck. It’s about making something, anything that you can look at and be like, “fuck man, I made something cool with these two hands” I didn’t exist and now it does. Doing it the way you believe it should be done.
But it what tripped me out was that he’s authentically open minded, meaning he might not like someone approach towards bikes or whatever but he can recognized that guy or gal is just chasing the same thing he is. Maybe not in the same way, but to the best of their ability. He willing to admit he’s wrong even if he feels different personally.
You can’t change everyone to think the way you think. You just end up pigeon holding yourself.
Which today is a rare thing to come across. Most people feel a type of certain way about something and believe that it should be like that for everyone. As long as that person isn’t in your face about it, and even then, does it matter?
Shoutout to Max Schaaf, keep killing it!
Burning in paradise 