I’m mega-jealous of Austin based bike-blogger extraordinaire, John Watson. Dude travels the country shredding road and trail on some exquisite looking machinery. If you’re into pedaly, two-wheel contraptions, head over and check out his site Prolly Is Not Probably.
And John, if you happen to read this, head on up to Utah and we’ll show you around the Wasatch.
Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.
It felt good to get the rubber back on dirt last weekend. Shoreline is still a little sloppy, but we’ll take what we can get this time of year.
One of the silly things about being a musician is that your hands get soft. I think it’s a dangerous thing. You have to be a person, it’s too freeing to just be an artist. You don’t have enough coming in if you’re just experiencing your own art all the time.
Justin Vernon on being an artist from his Red Wing Heritage story.
Watch the first of the Red Wing Heritage story series with Justin Vernon.
This Red Wing Heritage video with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) is spot on. As a born and raised midwesterner, I relate to the sense of community and work ethic he references, as well as often find myself longing for that here. Right on Red Wing.
Via Whiskey Grade.
Risk in life is shooting heroin to see if it’ll make you more like Lou Reed. Risk in life is blowing your savings on an apartment in Paris so you can write The Great American Novel. Risk in life is quitting your job and losing your health insurance just so you can live some Mythical Art Life.
Risk in work, on the other hand, is risking humiliation—risking putting your work out there, risking being wrong, risking being laughed at. Risk in work is writing something that scares the shit out of you, something that might make your mother not speak to you for three years. Risk in the work is following your whims to wherever they take you, to risk not knowing where you’re going, and risking that you’ll lose members of your audience along the way.
Austin Kleon on The Risks Worth Taking
This past Super Bowl Sunday, we ventured out in search of some super bowls of our own filled with Utah’s finest. What we found was Utah bluebird powder skiing at it’s finest. Bear Trap Fork sits over the Park City ridge line in Big Cottonwood and offers quick access as well as mellow, gladed turns right outside the Canyons Resort backcountry skiing gates.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
From a letter written in 2006 to Ms. Lockwood’s class at Xavier High School. See the full letter below.
Photos taken from a morning walk with the dogs up in the hills.
