My first skateboards had steel wheels - we'd swap them with roller skate wheels stolen from rentals at Skate City - that's hard core for a 12 year old in 1978.
jimmydean said:
it is an interesting look at skating in the late 80's and the progression from culture to sporting event.
I read "There are no Children Here" and "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Bario" as a freshman in college and changed my major from Psychology to Urban anthropology to focus on systemic causes of poverty. I then read "Savage Inequallities" and shifted my interest from systemic influences on poverty, to specifically the school system and it's direct influence on poverty. I went on to get a master's in anthropology with a focus in urban medical issues and a speciliazation in community health. While my interests have shifted over time I still work in an urben setting within schools and child serving agencies focussing on systemic influences on health and health/quallity of life influences on poverty. I can trace it all back to those two books and one really great teacher.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) - I'm still trying to figure it all out, but it has had a rather profound effect on how I view the world. Too bad his sister was a Nazi (he despised both nationalism and conformism in the worst way, and basically told her to piss off before he collapsed).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Visible and the Invisible - Not actually a completed work, but the ideas in there are rather profound. Again, big effect on how I see the world.
JRR Tolkein: The Hobbit - got me into reading. Dad read it to me when I was 4. Read it for myself at 5.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5 & Breakfast of Champions - I discovered that writing can be thoughtful, irreverent and fun all at the same time.
My first skateboards had steel wheels - we'd swap them with roller skate wheels stolen from rentals at Skate City - that's hard core for a 12 year old in 1978.
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