STOKED ON LIFE

What is life?

Unless a dress rehearsal, as there is certainly no main performance, so make it your best.

Chapter One

Jax loved art from an early age, the art form of paint on canvas, some doodle or his tag in the back of his school exercise book. This fuelled his passion for design and the street art revolution. On opening ‘rebel’, he entered the world of streetwear, music, skateboarding and the social scene which came with it. How the pioneers of street art, like Stash, Futura and Haze, were now involved in collabs with Nike and Adidas. Not forgetting the gatekeepers of streetwear, like Stussy, Bape, and Supreme, with their own legendary collabs in the golden age of streetwear, in the early 2000s, when he went over the pond to NYC as a sneakerhead. Pounding the sidewalk to gain entry into the inner sanctum of Supreme, Recon/Nort and Alife Rivington Club.

Music played an integral part within this lifestyle; DJ mixed tunes by Rae & Christian, Norman Jay, Scratch Perverts, Freestylers, Wideboys and Krafty Kuts, to name a few. This led him to opening a vinyl record store, called ‘Pitbull’. Offering the latest white labels and promos to his clientele.

Chapter Two

He harboured a passion for film from an early age, holding up his hand and covering the word ‘ount’ from Paramount. Seeing his Punjabi name up in lights. He knew, deep down, this would be him one day. After an accident in 2006, which meant he was off work for six-plus months. Screenwriting became the next chapter, with six penned screenplays ready and waiting to be brought back to life on the silver screen. Jax has written another fifty-plus projects at draft stage, also awaiting someone to come knocking. So, come on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky, Film4, Paramount and the Hollywood studios, fancy a chinwag...! Not forgetting a natter with the titans of global media, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Peter Jones, Dragon’s Den, we need to chew the fat also.

Jax, like Hitchcock and Kubrick, the great directors of yesteryear, would love a walk-on part in his own production. Something gritty, punching above its weight, here to intrigue and ignite the senses.

This all naturally progressed to Jax becoming an author, as the stories just flowed as he endeavoured to disregard his chronic pain and suffering, which is still controlling his life to this day and is a book which needs to be written. Now turning fifty and becoming a grandfather for the second time, his perspective on life has changed once again, the nucleus now being family and his writing.

Chapter Three

So here we are; let’s have a chinwag and make some bloody noise. A proper racket at that...