Tuesday, March 4, 2008

"You know what you've got? You've got S-T-Y-L-E ... Style."

Welcome to OrenStyle. OrenStyle is a web page where i can share my thoughts and opinions in style on life and creativity. Not everything i suggest can be relevant to you but its out there to help everybody.
When i was 14 years old i thought skateboarding was the coolest thing in the world. I was 5'9 and 250 lbs. walking around with ripped jeans and a skateboard. I was WALKING with a skateboard, i was able to skate but i could'nt even land an "ollie". When i think about it now i realize that it wasnt the actual skateboarding that i thought was cool, it was the lifestyle of the skateboarder's and the material things around it. The cool graphics on the sweatshirt's and the skateboard deck's it was the cool backpack that held my skateboard. It was anything but the actual skateboarding because we both know that a fat kid isnt dropping in on a half pipe.
One of the things i liked the most about the "skateboard culture" was the music that went along with it. I was always into "rock" music but this was diffrent, it was the same rock music with anger and "slackerness" etc.. Even though i had nothing to be angry about i would listen to the music and i loved it. This developed into a great time period in my life. The boys and i would take a train in the freezing cold nights to see a band we loved. I still think we were the coolest 16 year old kids on the block.
As much as i loved "punk" music and the style it brought i still wasnt and actual "punk". I was 16 and scared of my own shadow, i hope you didnt let the mowahk fool you. What im trying to say here is that style does'nt have to be something you wear or something you do but style is who you are as a creative individual. My web page is'nt here to tell you what to wear or listen to, but to share what i like to wear and listen too and hopefully rub off on you because my STYLE IS THE SHIT.
(free spark up if you tell me what movie my title is from)

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