From Picaresque #1:
"At times, I know, the community can seem cliquey, can be as isolating and alienating as it is embracing. But when you’re ten thousand miles from home, don’t know where to get vegan food, have had to explain straight edge to drunk kids a thousand times, and been faking enjoyment while dancing to some indiscriminate boy band for the past three weeks, to rock up at a show and feel a part of something seems to me to be exactly what punk rock is about. Eventually knowing half the people at the shows you go to, corresponding with the people who make the records you listen to, singing along to the same bands every week. It’s not everything, but it makes you feel, if only for a moment, that everything else – starbucks, the fashion industry, bus travel and seasickness, just to name a few – has fucked off to some other place and left you standing here, feeling alright."
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"At times, I know, the community can seem cliquey, can be as isolating and alienating as it is embracing. But when you’re ten thousand miles from home, don’t know where to get cheap tubes, have had to explain fixed gears to drunk kids a thousand times, and been faking enjoyment while joining 'cruisers/chopper' rides for the past three weeks, to rock up at an alleycat/event and feel a part of something seems to me to be exactly what the fixed bike scene is about. Eventually knowing half the people at the rides you go to, joking with the people who fix your bikes well, riding to your favourite places every week. It’s not everything, but it makes you feel, if only for a moment, that everything else – internet hype, the bike industry, forum haters and cars, just to name a few – has fucked off to some other place and left you standing here, feeling alright."
not perfect... but its close
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