Catching up with Anthony Johnson
Skateboarding ambassador and House of Cat contributor Anthony Johnson on his new pro-model deck, life on the Struggle team, backyard riding and what the future holds.
How’s skating going?
Excellent. I am really stoked on all of my sponsors. A lot of fun projects coming up. The Struggle Skateboards promo vid is coming out soon and it [...]
Overheard at the Record Store – Part 7
“Do you want to do debit or credit?”“Wait…what?”
“First Burning Man, then Symbiosis then Earthdance. By the time he gets finished he’s going to have one brain cell left.”
“What’s your problem man? You’re always helping everybody.”
“I used to think that George Thorogood was my dad.”
“The first time I dropped the needle on Revolver and heard that [...]
Monk and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
As the story goes, in 2005 while thumbing through tapes in the Library of Congress, Larry Appelbaum discovered some reels labeled “Carnegie Hall Jazz 1957″ with “T. Monk” handwritten on the back.
Finding lost Thelonious Monk recordings would make any day great, but the heart-racing moment came with the realization that the saxophonist on the tapes [...]
Interesting and Inspiring 78 Labels
Though 78 rpm records are a rare sighting these days, they do still occasionally show up in my world. The records themselves are usually trashed, having been stored with no sleeve for several decades, but the labels still provide a great deal of design and type inspiration with their classic and creative style.
If you dig [...]
Overheard at the Record Store – Part 6
“I wanna be David Bowie.”
“But then you’d be almost dead.”
“Yeah, but I’d have had a good life.”
“Dude, how do you fall off a beach cruiser?”
“There’s a mohawk mullet in the punk section.”
“That hair deserves a website.”
“Grandma can freakin’ rip it on the harmonica.”
“I’ve downloaded 15,000 songs. Some of them don’t play, but I still keep [...]
