HVCK has arrived..

by Ryan Williams

Like many of you out there, I have lived many lives. Full lives. Amazing lives. Seasoned with circumstance someone of my looks, breeding or intellect shuold never aspire to. These highs were paid in full by my share of lows. A liberal peppering of hardship, loss and loneliness complimenting the highlghts as only sufferiing can but spare me your tears, the odds are and have always been in my favour.

Im sure my circimstances are not unique. That’s why poetry, art, music, all stand the test of time. No matter how bizzare the circumstances of your life may be, someone, at some point, has experienced something similar and created something beautiful to make sense of it. It seems, for better or for worse, HVCK is to be my symphony.

“Come on mate. This is all a bit heavy, a bit personal. What happened to the larakin? The hairy wonder? Why so seriousss Mr Williams? As your internal voice of reason, I

feel you may be a little off track here mate?”

You’d think the semi-sentient facets of my psyche that actually get up the courage to converse with the guy at the wheel would know that I’m setting the stage to make a point. Through which I will reveal the theme, the common thread, the underlying pulse of this, the first ethically sourced, locally owned and operated, gluten, dairy and flesh free issue of HVCK.

“You said there wasn’t going to be any themes? That it made things feel forced and insincere? I thought you said HVCK was going to be organic and an exploration of tings that exc........”

Sorry about that. Give them an inch and they take a mile. What my almost completely autonumous future therapy topic revealed is correct. Our theme will be to have none. A stream of conciousness guided only by passion, curiosity and the clearly obvious bonus of being able to use “Im researching some stuff for the mag” as an excuse to get out of almost any mundane task that comes my way.

Jokes.. Just jokes.. :P

“Thats all well and good Ryan” I hear the highly caffinated of yuo reply. “but why that crappy image of a busted up Rolling Stone magazine from a time when mumble rap didnt even exist?”

Well my manic millenials, this ragged collection of manually printed physical media was the catalyst that turned indifference to incandecence. Given to me as a gift, one of the good kind. Out of nowhere, for no particular reason and unimginably thoughtful.

I am a huge fan of Hunter and resonate with his well loved literary bastard Gonzo. It turns out though that what I am more in awe of was the premeditated random act of kindness that facilitated this relic coming into my hands.

HVCK is my random act of kindness. Good will paid forward. It is my heart felt gratitude, my opus to the ideas, the culture, the technology and the people who

have inspired me and given this simple fool purpose and a richness of spirit I am compelled to share.

All that being said.. Lets hack some shit...

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