bob marley has been a large influence in my life.  so you can understand my excitement when the bob marley foundation did a collaboration with burton and sector 9.  snowboarding + skateboarding + bob marley = normurai gettin’ bob gnarly.

von zipper even released a pair of bob marley sunglasses.  of course i had to have them too.

in the mid 90′s, the bob marley foundation released a cd of original bob marley vocals added to later made studio tracks.  the album was called soul almighty – the formative years vol.1. it was one of the first music cds to feature an enhanced multimedia portion that you could enjoy on your computer.

i had recently acquired a laptop that was stolen from a professor at my university (purchased for $500).  while visiting toronto, i purhcased the bob marley soul almighty enhanced cd and proceed to the nearest licks restaurant to enjoy a meal and my new bob marley enhanced cd on my stolen laptop.  the cd did not work on my laptop.  so i took the disc back to sam the record man (i miss that record shop), and showed them how the enhanced cd portion did not work.  we tried another disc and it too didn’t work.  it must have been my laptop.  i went next door to future shop to see if it worked on one of their computers.  upstairs in the computer department, i opened up my laptop and showed the technician the bunk enhanced cd i just purhcased.  we walked 20ft away to one of their display computers and tried the disc.  it worked.  so it was my computer.  by the time i returned to the repair desk where i had left my laptop, it was gone.  someone had stolen my stolen laptop.  i freaked out and demanded to see video camera footage.  unfortunately, the repair desk was right beside the elevator and was not in view of the cameras.  the future shop employee asked if i wanted to call the cops.  what was i to tell them?  that my stolen laptop got stolen?  it was then that i understood how the professor felt when the laptop was stolen from him.  it is a terrible and violating feeling.  it sucked.

as i looked down at the bob marley cd that had set all of this into motion, the title track on the album was called what goes around comes around. thanks for reminding me of truth, bob.  when you steal from other people, don’t be surprised when someone steals from you.  karma.  its real.

bob marley lives forever. one love.

my mother and i under the bob marley statue – kingston, jamaica – 1993

~*…normaste…*~

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