Jason Dill’s Reading List | Five favorite books from the great skate eccentric

 

Jason Dill got the Epicly Later’d treatment earlier this year (again) and as part of the lead up VICE asked Dill to give five of his favorite books. A skateboarder who has some good taste in books and reads! Who knew.

And there is some good books in there no lies. James W. Loewen, Vonnegut, Claude Brown, Eggers, and more. Dill wisdom… suck it all in while you can.

 

Sample: Dill talking about Gladwell:

“When the Beatles weren’t known at all, they played strip clubs all over Hamburg. And when you play a strip club, you gotta play for like five hours straight. They just kept playing songs over and over and over and over and over and then you had the Beatles.

You see it in skating, too, because skateboarding’s no roll-call shit. Skateboarding’s never been organized. And think about it: There’s never any racism in skateboarding. There’s no fucking way. There’s never any segregation, none of that shit. It’s like, you’re who you are? Great. Do a trick. Can you do this or not? Peace. It came down to how you did it. It had nothing to do with what you looked like—that’s the beautiful thing about skateboarding. But that 10,000 hours shit is true because look at what skateboarding is—a kid from a broken home, such as myself, doesn’t want to be at home. So what do I do? Go outside and skate for hours and hours and hours on the flat ground. Ten-thousand hour rule, totally in effect.”

 

 

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