- dad: 11 years ago...so you were 5
- me: how old am i?
- dad: 20
- me: -.-
english lessons
- dad: how do you put fuck into leave me alone? like leave me alone fuck or leave fuck me alone?
- me: (lollin) it's leave me the fuck alone
- dad: so it's "the fuck" you have to put it before the last word right? like get the fuck out and shut the fuck up
- me: (super lollin)i guess so
- dad: what about i want to kill you? i want to kill the fuck you? that doesn't sound right
- me: (rofflin) well you're modifying kill this time so you need to use a gerund so it's i want to fucking kill you
- dad: oh. see it's so easy to take language for granted! like chris rock, he uses fuck, shit, what the fuck, motherfuck, in all his sentences and it is so smooth
“For those of you that don’t know, I had the worst crash of my entire career the week before ATG 2010. Initially I didn’t think it would be so bad but after almost four months on crutches and complications with a surgery I eventually ended up turning down, I found myself unable to trick for the entire year of 2010. It wasn’t until January this year that I finally, finally got the chance to pick up tricking again.
Having said that, I wish I could be here today presenting some kind of momentous comeback sampler that changes tricking forever, but the truth is I was so totally humbled and defeated by this injury I couldn’t even cork this time 6 months ago. Following the first session I had this year I resolved to try and catch up everything I was capable of in my lost sessions sampler from total scratch, in exactly 6 months.
6 full months later and here I am in June of 2011. I could rewrite this paragraph 100 times and still never express the absolute emotional insanity that has been the dizzying highs and crushing lows of making this sampler. SO much has changed in the year I was gone and where I once could compete with the ridiculous progression of the community I now watch videos with my jaw wide open in total amazement.
These days I well and truly feel like I’m back at the bottom of the tricking ladder and honestly, I am honoured to be here. I realise now that before all of this happened trying to remain competitive caused me to lose sight of the happiness tricks always gave me and with it the essence of who I was as a person. I have found having to fight this sampler from the ground up has forced me to pour my absolute heart and fucking soul into tricking like I have never done before. This video in many ways is the essence of who I am as a tricker and a person.”- Mr. Double ABCDEF
holy shit.
t-6
back to school in less than a week…both anticipating and dreading it.
anticipating it because i’m eager to get my life moving again…dreading it because i don’t know if i want to deal with the former’s consequences. i can feel another extremely busy semester in my bones and it scares me like none other.
had a funky dream this morning about taking AP tests without preparation…wonder if that’s a bad sign…
ah well. six days to gather myself, then time to put myself to the test.
get ‘em.
Konlin and Friends vs. Polski Flavour
finally got the video from United Styles 7 courtesy of jmunny. my sets were not bad for being injured i’d say…
I cannot get over Achilles’ face in this painting. Holy shit.
He’s totally like: “Oh god, mom, put a fucking shirt on, I mean, what are you even doing? Can’t you see I’m busy lamenting the death of my boyfriend? Like I really need to see your tits at a time like this— YOU’RE SO EMBARRASSING MOM GAWD.”
And the rest of the Greeks are jazz-handsing in the background. They’re all ‘WOAH LOOK AT THAT TOTALLY WICKED SET OF TITS— I MEAN ARMOUR. WOAH’
no mom
mom no
NO
LOL
(Source: lemon-sprinkles)
"The thing is, nothing he taught me involved raw brainpower. The more I learned the more I realized that the bulk of his intelligence and his performance just came from study and practice, and that the had amassed a large artillery of intellectual and mathematical tools that he had learned and trained to call upon. He showed me some of those tools, but what I really ended up learning was how to go about finding, building, and refining my own set of cognitive tools. I admired R., and I looked up to him, and while I doubt I will ever compete with his genius, I recognize that it's because of a relative lack of my conviction and an excess of his, not some accident of genetics."
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"have you learned how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum? These are the most valuable tools you can acquire because they are the tools you will use to develop more powerful and more insightful tools."
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"And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying "has invested so much time and sweat that you make it look effortless." You feel like you are burnt out or that you are on the verge of burning out, but in reality you are on the verge of deciding whether or not you will burn out. It's scary to acknowledge that it's a decision because it puts the onus on you to to do something about it, but it's empowering because it means there is something you can do about it. So do it."
diseases
- me: what's gons studying? hodgkinson's?
- mom: no it's huckingson's
- me: what's huckingson's - you mean hutchinson's?
- dad: no not hutchingson's, it's parkinson's
- *the actual disease my sister is studying is huntington's
your head will collapse, there’s nothing in it
you’ll ask yourself
where is my mind
out into the water, see it swimming
