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Name: David
Country: United Kingdom
Metro: London
Gender: Male
Interests: Noire films. Novels. Skateboarding. Travel. Das Politiks. Abstract illustration art.Coffee style conversations. Existentialist. HC punk.Abstract Hip Hop.Blood-clot Drum & Bass rewinds.Grime.Indie. Dubstep.Freestyle photography Home Dj'ing in my room. Exitmusik.com. Anarchitecture. Cleaning Toilets. ODP
Expertise: illegal Broadcast & Rioting
Occupation: Prose works
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Member Since:
9/6/2003
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So it's been a rainy cold weekend in London town but I feel happy that i did some studies for my forth coming exam which I am rather stressed about it to tell you the truth. I had a nice chat with my mum who is currently in Paris as I often do every few days which which always blissful! However, not forgetting having Skype chats with Amus as well! I was reading in the Herald Tribune about France celebrating the anniversary of the making of the Eiffel towel. But looking there seemed to be question in the air in France as to what actually does the Eiffel Towel presents? Its not the Big Ben or Buckingham Palace to represent the royal family or UK's historical achievement of Empire or the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin celebrating Frederic the Great victories which came to symbolise his personal split personality of art & hunger for military prussian power. For years this would split Berlin for centuries between the left & right or the order & structure with liberal creative artistic views where finally people would rejoice in a historical wall dividing the two to be reconciled for a whole nation. For Paris the Eiffel Tower is strange one to identify but I like to see it as a symbol of forward thinking possibilities that France has come to share with her neighbors & the world. It will never be Sarko's extension of his penis!
Southbank was chillin'. had a nice session as the sun was setting across the river Thames set for another cold night. The corner of banks were wet but there was a nice dry spot to session. There were a few Fixie kids around riding around! Makes me miss my bicycle en France! I did miss out on a good documentary about the sex trade slavery that is currently exist in today's world. I am told, that this form of practice exist in this country and it is an industry that is almost as big as the arms industry! Not good.
Some Campaigning here! | | |
| OAKLAND CITY TO LONDON!!
Sitting around in my office drinking a weak cup of coffee having an excel moment trying t to reconcile a certain account where to my distraction, I received a text message from one of the guys from Repent Skateboards/ungodlytimes about Souls of Mischief playing a free gig at the Carhartt shop at convent garden. I was definitely there!
I remember many years ago when I started skating listening to hardcore punk & hip hop, Souls of Mischief would have been played endless in my walkman whilst cruising the streets of Singapore & Perth with my skateboard. The amount of times I had to rewind 93 till infinity was just countless!!! I am just glad that I bought the CD(many years ago) & the 12" repress of that tune! ha ha.
To have seen them tonight is just a dream come through! It was really nice to see a lot of the London Skateboarding community there as well as some of the ex deal real heads present. There were a lot of skateboards and fixies just all around on the Earlham Street which I have not seen for a long time. I was wishing of my mates from Singapore was present as he is such a devout fan of this group. He has often dropped some of their tunes in his nights a few times.
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| Weekend has been a rather lazy one cleaning the house with my flatmate as the house was in a sad looking state. I had managed to cover a few topics for my exams though I wanted to have at least have done 2 more topics namely Budgets & Finance Variances for all those eager Financial managers out there. I had a nice Mexican meal with Tom Kartel and the rest of the London HC people around central London where we ended up at some alley way behind 12 bar for jokes since it was a Rucktion night and as always Rucktion sticks to Rucktion time when HC bands play so it was all jokes man. I later ended up at Southbank where I had a 20 min skate as I met a gang of crack heads teenagers doing all kinds of hard drugs openly which I was not too comfortable been all alone there. As I was the only one around they were having a chat with me wanting to have a go with my board which I was happy to do so but they got a little aggressive among each other so I decided to split. It really annoyed me that I had such a short skate session though upon reflecting of my days progress over some mad J Dilla beats I did feel sad for these young teenagers. With unemployment amongst the young, living in South London with no outlet to express yourself other than to Blaze some crack living with a single parent struggling to meet ends meet is a rather dark thought. As skinnyman's LP woul suggest, "Council Estate of Mine". yeah just pure fuckupness highly neglected by our politicians.
Today I did have a rather good skate session today at Southbank where there were some familiar heads around skating hard in the cold. For most part of the day was amongst my textbooks & listening to some tunes online. Mainly Rush Hour Records sounds from Holland. Good laid back intelligent sounds from Holland!!! | | |
| A few years ago I traveled to Berlin with a few mates of mine on a week's vacation which just opened my views. The culture, art scene, the different periods of architecture & the history were what amazed most. Despite been an old city, Berlin has been through some of massive historical changes ever since Bismark's iron rule of Prussia. Recently Berlin celebrates 20 years since the wall came down where Germany was again united.
Despite the wall & a Reunified Germany, there were still psychological borders between East Germans & the West. Despite democratic capitalist Western Europe practicing an open market economy, we still close our borders to our Eastern European neighbors with strict EU work visas. It is as though the West is still clinging to the old divisions & attitudes to the East been of a backward, poor & possibly not quite Europe.
Perhaps when we think of the collapse of the Berlin, our attention should be brought to Palestine & North Korea where there is still a great political divide. Like East Germany it was probably the old Soviet Stasi guard that instilled fear into society for many years until the final moments in the late 80s where no journalist or politician of that day would ever imagine thousands of dissident East Germans demonstrating on the streets crying out for freedom. Image if people of both sides of the border of Palestine & Korea were too do the same? Somehow I fear there would be a different circumstanc
The Stasi HQ Above. | | |
| Yes I have spent a good half of the day sleeping & trying to revise for my exams coming up at the end of the month for the Performance Management paper for CIMA. I have tried remember certain techniques in dealing in a "financial problem" in an organisation such as the use to Absorption costing versus Marginal where I proceeded to dealing with Process costing used within an large organisation to a more tricky problem of what would be the best optimal price used to transfer a good from one department to another.......
By this time I am playing on Blip Fm, looking for new unheard tunes which I can distract myself. I am planning on going for a cold late night skate in Southbank later after I meet my mate for some quality Mexican food. There is a local all London HC gig at the 12 bar but I think I will give that a miss.
Yeah I sometimes must remind me that on such a beautiful day sunny crisp day, I probably take my board out for a skate in London Bridge or royal oak, bring my camera a long for some shots to take if i decide to take a walk somewhere and listen to J Dilla beats on my mp3 chilling at a cafe in-between all of this reading today's paper.
As much I love Finance, it does leave me cringing at times whenever I read the paper and the Bank of England decides to put a few hundred billions of Taxpayers money into the economy! There is something terribly wrong about this but we will have hundreds of academics arguing it amongst themselves as to the best possibly solution to this financial mess. Till then I am just really happy that I am surviving for now as well as many of my mates and that we are pulling through OK. For now i am just gonna think of some beats!
bless up!
Darren Dubwise Sk8ing in Singapore back in dem days
A quote from the film Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators)
"Happy, you think they're happy? Look around, get out of that company car and walk on the street! Anyone look happy? Or more like scared animals? Look into their living rooms, all glued to the TV listening to chic zombies speaking of happiness long gone. Drive around town you'll see all the filth, the overcrowding the masses in department stores up and down like robots on escalators. Nobody knows anybody! They think happiness is an inch away but it's unreachable because you stole it. That's how it is. You know perfectly well. But I have news for you, executive: The system is overheated. We're just the forerunners, your days are almost over. Swim in your shit technology, but others are full of rage. The rage of children living in slums watching American action films. That's one part, let see, Mental illness is rising. Serial killers, shattered souls, senseless violence...You can't sedate them with game shows and shopping. The antidepressants wont | | |
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