Burnside

I stopped by Burnside Skatepark yesterday. I had never been there before. The place was actually built "guerilla-style", I think 18 years ago or something along those lines. By "guerilla-style" I mean these skaters just took this empty trashed lot under the burnside bridge, where a lot of junkies and prostitutes would hang out, and with what concrete they had, started forming ramps and whatnot, now it's one of the most challenging skateparks around. Built by skaters, D-I-Y, with a spirit of lawlessness. Their project eventually gained approval by the neighboring businesses apparently. It makes the skatepark back in Louisville look like Chuck-e-Cheese. It was wierd because I had visited this place via video games in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater when I was younger and it was actually pretty similar.

Back from Burning Man

My neighbor had just got back from Burning Man. He plays in a group called March Fourth Marching Band. I haven't seen them yet. They drove the fire truck and apparently a school bus too, to get down there. I think they said there were around 15 people at their camp. The name of their camp was The Dump. They also called it The Shark Camp, because they had shark costumes and fake blood and whatnot. They strapped an upright piano to the back of the fire truck, it was the one we had kept in the basement here that they had taken to BM the previous year. Everything was covered in desert dust. The piano is looking a pretty fatigued, I might see about finding a different one. People are giving away pianos for free on craigslist all the time out here.






Time to fire up the old blog.
Some photos from the other day.