A Monologue on Skate culture
by GP duBerger
5/13/11.
Something happened to Blogger and Blogspot, I was worried sick! It's Friday the thirteenth and I just wanted to post this now because I'm now a happy Blogger. Blogspot emerged from whatever it was, it emerged out of. The internet chatter this produced was enormous from irate bloggers and webmasters whose websites are hosted by Blogger. It was frightening while they were out. I went to the neighbours and made myself at home and created an auxiliary blog on WordPress. Which in itself was a frightening experience when dealing with unfamiliar features. To give myself reassurance, I named it HTML'S MAGIC II and created a Banner using Powerbullet Presenter.
In Toronto, they know how to handle kids venues
better than
they do in Montreal
To make matters worse, a bunch of kids decided to practice
Skateboarding Stunts; right in front of my window. Me and the
Cats thought that bombs had dropped all over the place. What was
I going to do; Yell at them? They're kids; where were they going
to practice their skate, in this town, with their friends? To
practice in front of my window they must of been desperate. I
know there is a private skateboard place down the street (Which
has since closed, a year later, for mysterious reasons) but I'm
sure you have to pay for the privilege. Here in town, there used
to be a huge and wonderful place where there was an entire indoor
park to do BMX and Skateboard, called: Le Colisée, with all
forms of constructed platforms to practice and perform daredevil
tricks and anybody could come in to watch. These kids could shame
any act from the Cirque du Soleil and it was free too.

You must follow the straight and narrow where fascist authority knows best what's good for you. It is cheaper and more efficient to create and control criminals than creating a system that enhances humanity. Besides more prisons means more jobs for bullies. Training in anything can only come from government and corporate authorized sponsorship.
In the mean time, they will be referred upon as dirty rebellious misfits instead, like Pagans in Charlemagne's time, were considered as heathens, heretics and devil worshipers (The Pagans had no Devil) by "good Christians but believe it or not, these "heathens" were actually the Environmentalists and Naturalists of their time who's only horrible damning sin that guaranteed them hell before the formalities of death could occur naturally, was worshiping and defending certain gigantic trees and the environment and protecting The Commons against Enclosures (private property), which was, also, big deal in those days. The pagans and shamans in Europe considered themselves as stewards, custodians and protectors of the forests, lakes and mountains which were considered god haunted.
It's hard to imagine that people and entire societies all over Europe and in North and South America existed like this before Christians and Pharisees came over to "save" those people from this. According to all the religions of Abraham; Everybody is wrong, no good or a sinner, and you're born that way too. How does a god who comes from a desert supposed to understand a forest, unless he's a jealous god? The Son of God apparently found things in the desert that were equally beautiful as a natural forest and spread the message.
It appears now, that religion suffers too in the same way as science where/when incompetent and mediocre minds, thirsting for undeserved power, fortune and fame, are at the helm of these societies and their systems.

Princess Grace
In Quebec, there is a very narrow and defensive definition of what "Culture" actually is, which is not unlike reading a letter from a lawyer from CBS concerning one's copyright infringement. Maybe we all actually live in television land and are not aware of this. I remember when Martial Law existed here in Montreal. I was only 10 and the world was already falling apart. Anyhow I don't want to think about it but the soldiers on the streets in 1970 contrasted sharply with the peace, harmony and magic of Man And His World in 1968.
We see this readily, in this picture of Princess Grace miraculously sporting two halos during the initial event: Expo 1967. So I grew up in a cultural environment that was sharply divided into two diametrically contrasting promises for the future and both coming from Quebec! One minute we are hosting the world with an International Fair; in the next, there's soldiers and tanks all over the place. This is why I never pay attention to any form of politics here in Quebec or in Canada or Anywhere else, for that matter, because I knew Expo 67 and the October Crisis at the same time.


This is just a proposal but it's already copyright protected. Never in all my years on the computer, under any circumstances, have I been greeted with a JavaScript thing that turns my computer into a souvenir shop and the event doesn't even exist yet, nor has Montreal been selected yet to host the thing but thankfully, since I wrote this originally, this has since been won by EXPO 2017 Astana, located in remote Kazakhstan which is exactly where I like it to be.
This site and event for Montreal has absolutely nothing to do with culture and everything to do with money. Thank God for computers for making this fact so plain and easy enough that everyone can understand.
So for me, it's natural to expect one sort of paradigm with the other in any kind of situation and someone should inform these people that the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's are dead and gone forever and they should start encouraging unique cultural events that better reflect today's world, and maybe talk about some nice ideas about/for the future for a change. If you clicked or tapped on the link above ('Martial Law existed here in Montreal') we had our problems too with terrorists back in the 60's.
Anyhow, people now, and people then, are not the same and we all had/have to deal with the same problems. They only push this nostalgic event crap on us because its easier to sell and easier to graft due to former experience handed down through generations of politicians. If you force these politicians to work on new ideas; they can't institute graft and corruption too early in the event because the organizing procedure is being formed as the event unfolds while being built due to logistics.
This is why Expo 67 was a resounding success. It was a unique event that can never be replaced but still retains all its magic, lingering, to this day to those who were there and the Olympics were a disaster that everyone wanted to forget, but couldn't because of a lingering effect, in that this thing took 30 years to pay off. This is because the Olympics is a circuit event with built in formulas for graft, greed, corruption and nepotism. The Olympics is a marketers dream and a taxpayers nightmare to any city.

Unfortunately, and unlike condos, skateboarders lack the resemblance of anything snooty which I have learned, in life, is the hallmark of anything that is, usually, recognized as Cultural, anywhere. This is not the stuff that inspires Galas and Media events and does not have the aspect of family wholesomeness like Baseball and Hockey especially where violence and personal injury towards other team members is highly encouraged by the parents themselves. Maybe if we introduce Baseball and Basketball and Hockey; played with skateboards instead they'll start building venues for such sports and revitalized these boring little-league "athletic" events.

Stop Violence: (In Our
Dreams)
What are they preparing the innocent for, in the future, with this kind of conditioning which begins by teaching in schools the Verb: "TO HAVE" first, instead of the Verb: "TO BE" and then with religion, that gets in through the "back door" and not just figuratively, which if you ask any priest you'll find they are very versatile in that department too and after they are sated, they get to work with their young minds and explain, in detail, why they are filthy and unworthy beings.
Then back to school they teach them more violence in every form imaginable. There is more violence being implemented, practiced, perfected and talked about in educational and religious institutions at any level than there is in all the military bases on this planet. It reminds me of the dystopian movie 'Soldier' (1998).
There is a big difference when displaying violence when the theme is "good against evil" which is also another subject that has been warped in ways that are not obvious, which I discuss elsewhere on this site.
Maybe a little introduction to basic Thermodynamics would be nice
How to operate your
brain
Timothy Leary Archives
Timothy Leary Archives
That, my friends, is called a direction and the direction you take is your business, but now you know in advance what to expect, and in the case it is your teacher who will only teach you closed systems.
Nature, teaches all systems, (open, closed isolated) through Thermodynamics, so It is a better teacher.
That's just a small sample of their power "Brought to you by our real sponsor, The Universe itself, No purchase is necessary, just be gracious about it". It's OK to become a robot, but to be a robot for society is not good.
Only through chaos can one sense the
truth
Just like the life and this beautiful planet we were given
to take care, (not take) as every other creature does in its way
where balance and equivalency are like the drum and the harmony of the song of that thing
called Life. Can you hear it? According to the Zeroth Law of
Thermodynamics, and even the Bible if you read it
thermodynamically: If there was a Big Bang: You were there too as
substance since you are part of the Universe itself from the
beginning of time, and so you are also equivalent to it and it
makes no difference if it was true there was a creator or not
because humankind and each individual and everything you see and
know would eventually of emerged by itself anyway, one way or
another without any help because the clock does not exist and
time is Relative.
There never was any beginning or Big Bang, but there was the perfect moment. This moment was so perfect it became everything. Also, if time were to be referred to as a "reaction coordinate", this means there was an equal and opposite universe before this one.
This perfect moment (equilibrium) still exists and humanity along with all other creatures and all things are part of this.
Later, intellectuals of all sorts come along and divide up everything including humankind in all kinds of ways to serve their closed systems where there can be no more support from Nature or The Universe anymore. Humanity and its individuals become consumers, voters and tax payers, and the ones who do not conform are considered misfits and anarchists. There are no such things as misfits and anarchist among freedom-loving people. Societies, can be petri dishes that grow diseases that can only exist because of them. Outside the petri dish there is no disease or chaos.

These kids outside my window, who don't know I exist probably because of my age, are not touching each other but are playing together. I see very clearly that they are reinforcing each other's confidence, encouragingly pointing out each others mistakes et cetera and there is no competition. Where did these kids learn all this respect, politeness and a sophisticated form of encouragement?
Both the human body and the human mind are capable of performing miracles that are beyond the understanding of science and philosophy.
It is amazing to know now, that scientist's only interests involving the body have only to do with action, and the brain with its actions and none with their achievements in other capacities. For instance: great physical prowess or strategy in defeating the other team is overwhelmingly lauded by those that teach, yet if you have a serious cancer, virus of other disease and it went into remission or inactivity by the bodies own power to heal or put things back into equilibrium by itself, you are treated as an oddity by the doctors and is completely dismissed by professionals in medicine and science who should already know that there is nothing that occurs anywhere for no reason.
A Nice Wholesome Orange Drink
Commercial
God forbid that they discover some simple cure for
something that cannot be patented, by neglecting the type of
research that can only be achieved through open systems and what
is easily obtainable and understood through the Zeroth Law of
Thermodynamics and its Principles instead of from some closed and
manipulated petri dish somewhere and treating the human body like
a machine and the mind like a programmable computer. Diseases,
themselves, now have "seasons" (flue season) because they are
programmed into society to be that way and they even know the
types in advance, which are then traded on exchange markets
because there are billions of dollars of sales and advertizing
involved here; all done in advance. I haven't had a cold in five
years because I now live with Nature and do what my body tells me
to do when it wants it to get done.This is because our wonderful society allows multinationals to, even, patent diseases. See: Dutch group patented genome of Middle East coronavirus, which has killed more than 30 people and no one says anything like they actually created the thing itself. Show me, first, your invention on how to create life out of inorganic materials and convert them into organic matter and somehow create movement and self reproduction and then I will grant you patent for any flower created out of this thing; because that's what the laws does for the "pow" erful, is to allow them to pick flowers from your own tulip garden and run to the patent office and say; "this is mine!" and the majority of people defend these ideas.
This Milton Freedman-like Capitalism has become a weapon of self-destruction by extending the morals and power of greed, where we might ask, "What's Next?".
Copyrighting and even trademarking some unnatural, artificially-created genetic sequence, that I think everyone can understand; but Patenting it? DNA is language and information spoken by molecules and atoms, —not physics!
Woeful Education
On the personal level, a teacher or scientist who shows no
creativity in his area of expertise is only a robot and will
endeavor to make you into one too. This is why it is always
important to ask your teachers for explanations about anything
that you find odd anywhere, and to notate these occasions because
bad teachers and professors are definitely a subject of research
themselves which might come in handy one day. I would like to see
kids all over the world write blogs on what they suspect are bad
teachers with a critical and discerning eye. If I had the
technology of today in my time, I would of written stories that
would of attracted the attention of the Ministers of Education
back then.
The Universe is Horrifying
The Universe, the world or life itself, is a very bad and
horrifying place and you will have to buy X product or Y service
to make it better or buy it for someone else. Unless it's in a
video game who's theme is to destroy anything and anyone, or if
you are in a Mental Institution where they teach basic
hand-eye coordination to drugged lunatics so they don't
hurt themselves and then can be released back into society
as zombies; which/who apparently are more
acceptable in society. Hand-Eye-Feet coordination is simply
not taught like in a Serbian mental institution for kids.
Becoming a monster is as simple as not reexamining the
entire, imbalanced, public and private educational
systems.Parents themselves will have to decide whether their children are people or just expressions of some middle class value of fertility/virility or some bourgeois tax write-off to make themselves appear acceptable to society or not.
Give them a place to hang, practice, mix music and paint graffiti and they will go to those proper facilities and they'll take care of them too. This kind of setup was good enough for Socrates, for his students, so what's wrong with this now? Socrates, like Confucius, also believed wrongdoing was a consequence of ignorance and those who did wrong knew no better. Human beings have been painting nice pictures on walls since the beginning of time. To deny people of developing these natural and innate physical, imaginative, and artistic skills including the enhancement of intrinsic sophisticated social skills that develop all by themselves because they are encoded somewhere in our DNA to initiate these behaviours which are important for survival but they only provide instructions to initiate; it is the person's external environment, and his peers and, now, privately controlled technology that furnishes its development and people become equivalent to them.

When I see a disheveled Skateboarder on the street, I consider him or her far less dangerous than any prim 'Cellphone Trash' who navigate the sidewalks and streets with headphones plugged into their ears and who are not looking at where they are going because they are looking at more "important" text messages; or typing/wiping them or both and let's not forget games. They are already like the 'Borg' who ignore you and everything else unless you are a threat and as Picard once warned; "Don't let them touch you". At least I see the Skateboarder as involving himself physically and mentally with the Laws of physics both inside the body and outside the body, and in real time.
Update May 1 2013: I saw today my first skateboarder texting while navigating traffic. Talk about people addicted to technology.


We must not forget the din of intelligent-sounding banter of teenage boys expressing, I assume, praise and awesomeness towards each other as they reinforce each others growing masculinity, skill and prowess.
Apparently, this thing was invented in California, so this explains a lot and we need not dwell any further as to anything remotely connected as to a Why? So many of you must be asking yourselves, "Where does Disco come into this?" Ah! my friends, I saved the best for last, as this will show what a talented D.J. I used to be, where, I realized a long time ago the awesome power and influence of Music and so did my clients for their parties and how this is all ultimately connected to skate today.
My marketing strategy was "Any D.J. can make your party rock but it takes a special D.J. to make it suck!"
This was not funny back then because people knew what you were talking about. Anyone can play good or bad music but playing both with style; there you're getting people's attention and everybody's moneys worth; all the while producing results. So when the host announced to me that the party was over, that was my cue for showtime. My motto was: 30 minutes or less, or you don't pay! So, I would start with my "special mixes"; specially designed to "entice" patrons to go looking for the nearest exit door. Once for fun, I even started a fight when some drunk asked me why I was playing some particular song. I told him that it was a special request for him, "from that guy over there!" I was pointing at a nasty-looking gorilla who was highly obnoxious and even more inebriated and also was not leaving very quickly and was bothering the nice ladies. Suffice to say we had to call the police and everyone was out before a half hour and I got payed and they even said Thanks to me. It's all B.S. anyways as this little snippet from Tiesto, King of D.J.'s himself says:
Of course, this is subtitled and I don't understand Dutch or Flemish or whatever language he's speaking here, so I don't know that this is a properly subtitled rendition of his
What I wouldn't give today to be able to of played Jiani's dreadful underground hit 'Everybody Fuck Now' at this party of posterior munchers.("Underground" means: it's not listed in Wikipedia with other "works" by Carol Jiani.)
Here's a sample of Carol Jiani's 'Everybody Fuck Now' and yes! She is as vulgar in person too:
Other ways VIP's are disruptive and make
people uncomfortable.
I couldn't believe that people can display this kind of
behaviour and this guy is not even high up in the food chain. I
don't like celebrities, their entourages and managers who don't
use their V.I.P. lounges because they are, always, disruptive,
especially, when there's work to do. A lot of people attend a
party because they are there and whenever they leave their
lounges, they do everything to destroy the party. Anyway, after
that, I focused on producing compilations and doing studio type
work and my hats off to D.J.'s like Tiesto for their sheer
staying power in putting up with so much of the B.S. I know what
they have to go through and actually still manage to produce
something interesting on occasion. Of course these guy's are
"compensated" generously but I could never do what they do
because there is no amount of money that they could pay me to put
up with this kind of crap. I just loved mixing music and sounds
but there was always some idiot interfering somewhere.These type of applications, among many, may of been developed for mobile users but they are a boon for PC users.
"The Death of the PC"?...I don't think so!
So I'm being more metaphysical about my art now, where developing standards, applications and techniques to make, other things move, even trivial things like making Gif Animations move to dance music, that is beyond making people move on a dance floor has become more pronounced in me and is entirely appropriate for a person my age. Want to be a D.J.? Go to a pawn shop and for less than $50.00 and a computer and a MIDI interface you can get stuff that'll make you the life of any party and impress your friends and is a great start to doing something that can be very rewarding that you can grow from, to being something beyond being a DJ, or change the meaning of what a DJ is now overtime, through your own work. If you're serious there's also platforms like Sound Cloud to publish your unique beats where many a career has been launched from nowhere because producers and record labels look there all the time.
So, to finish my story. Where everyone is still wondering what Disco and Skateboards have to do with each other. Actually nothing, but in my own unique form of aggressive creativity, I have managed to "mix" both together, nevertheless, in this story as a culminating event to Victory! It occurred to me that, in my time of youth, when I was the age of my skate-friends outside, we had a fad called Roller-Disco that was very popular for a long time. The following is an accurate rendition from 'That 70's Show'; that, humorously, represents the times:
The first song I selected was actually part of my playlist on You Tube and the channel that had it got deleted so bye bye. So I found another copy somewhere else that turned out to be much better. So click on the MP3 player in the box below and sing along with me ♫ ♫ :
♫ Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce!
Rock Skate! (Hands Clapping) Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll
Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce!
Rock Skate!
♫ Gonna skate and celebrate,
the Disco way!
Give your feet the freedom
let's Bounce today!
Roller skaters; one in front and one behind
Bounce your left, Bounce your right It's Disco Time!
There's ain't no stoppin', People rockinnnnnnn..... the groove!
This Funky kind of music simply makes you want to move;
Roller skaters one in front and one behind
Bounce the left!.....Come On AND Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce!
♫ Disco dancers, Dancing to the Disco beat, This ain't nothin' but a party, so stay on your feet! Rock left, Rock right; feel the groove
Music is the answer, it really makes you move , Sexy ladies, over there, strut so well, Lead on in all the latest styles casting their spell! Watch them rock, to the beat,
feel the body heat Come on Come on and Get DOWN! (Break) ♫ ♫
♫ Gonna skate and celebrate,
the Disco way!
Give your feet the freedom
let's Bounce today!
Roller skaters; one in front and one behind
Bounce your left, Bounce your right It's Disco Time!
There's ain't no stoppin', People rockinnnnnnn..... the groove!
This Funky kind of music simply makes you want to move;
Roller skaters one in front and one behind
Bounce the left!.....Come On AND Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce! Rock Skate! Roll Bounce!
♫ Disco dancers, Dancing to the Disco beat, This ain't nothin' but a party, so stay on your feet! Rock left, Rock right; feel the groove
Music is the answer, it really makes you move , Sexy ladies, over there, strut so well, Lead on in all the latest styles casting their spell! Watch them rock, to the beat,
feel the body heat Come on Come on and Get DOWN! (Break) ♫ ♫

My last compilation before
retiring in 2006
Mix by GP duBerger
Mix by GP duBerger
GP duBerger
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