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kleinbl00  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

So I shot this video for Converse. It was 2009, 2010. We needed to get some skate punks for it. Back in my day, skate punks listened to a lot of Slayer, some Peter Tosh, some Anthrax. Know what they listen to now?

Some slayer, some Peter Tosh, some Anthrax.

Back in 2012 I went and bought me an Arbor. The shop I bought it from had skate videos playing. I recognized the music.

"Is that Dinosaur Jr?"

"Close. J Mascis."

It's almost like teen culture pressed the "pause" button in the '90s in some ways. But fuck. Legend came out in '84 and that album f'n never goes away.





user-inactivated  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is a bit off tangent, but you say you had to get some skater punks for that video. How does that process occur? Like what are the steps to acquire a certain demographic for a video?

kleinbl00  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Hey, anybody know any skate punks that'll work for beer?"

Although I'm pretty sure I actually overheard the call between the producer - a skater himself - and Rune on this one. I think they were some of the producer's buds.