I have an Instagram account called @kicksinthehead where I tell stories about all the shoes I own. As a sneaker enthusiast & packrat, it's hard to let these guys go sometimes. Below is the Insta feed (the last 20 posts), click on any to read their story. *But then come back to my site when you're done. 

 
NOT TIMBERLAKES - AIR JORDAN III INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT You know what, F Timberlake. Why does he get to have signature Jordan 3s? It’s everything that’s wrong with America. I mean, maybe not everything, but it’s a start. That collab m
UR MOM - LUNARFLY 1.5 / NIKE ID I stand by standing in these. My first ever custom NikeIDs, I decided to go crazy. Toothstripes - hell yeah. A Yellow swoosh with a touch of blue? Sure my feet lookin’ like a comic book. I wore these to work for
FINALLY GOT EM - NIKE ZOOM FLY MERCURIAL OFF WHITE Well like all the other sneaker fools out there, I try to enter every Off White raffle on the Nike SNKRS app. But no success. Repeat x5. Until now. These are real, official Off Whites. None of that f
FAKEOUTS - AIR MAX SEAN WOTHERSPOON Burned by some eBay sh!t in the past, I discovered the world of fakey fake shoes from China. I was excited. Air Jordans. Off Whites. You name it. Some without a swoosh. Some probably made by itty bitty like slave l
PLAYOFFS - AIR FORCE 270 Some shoes you just can’t pull off. At Foot Locker, when I tried these on, I believed that these were of that variety. Was I not cool enough to have this much air in my back soles? My friend gave me a reality check - i
MOOD SHOES - AF1 INTERCHANGEABLE SWOOSH Look everyone, I can change the color of the swoosh at my will. I’m a freakin shoe magician. Viola! Red. Abracadabra Black. Blue. Anything I want. A mood ring, aura telling, classy arse piece of footwear.
SIGNATURE HF1s - NIKE AF1 Customized My Air Force 1 compulsion had really turnt up right before winter time 2017. I was looking for some boots but didn’t like the AF1 duckboot, so I designed my own using Nike ID. Chose all black with some bli
A LIL OFF - NIKE AIR MAX OFF-WHITE I didn’t win the raffle to get the Virgil Abloh “The Ten Collection” aka Off-Whites. Well I thought I might have won the raffle as it was happening, but I had the wrong credit card saved on file on
THE ONE WITH THE ZIPS - NIKE AIR FORCE URBAN UTILITY These are Urban Utility Air Force 1 shoes. I don’t know what it means, but they’re leather up front and some sort of weaved material in the back, I’m assuming making it waterproof
SOCKSSTYLE - NIKE FLYKNIT CHUKKA San Francisco. Early 2015. No one had ever seen all-knit mid/high tops like these. I had a shoe crush on these for a month before I got them and starred in the Nike Store window watching them wag their tail at me. On
OLD STANDBYS - AF1 GREY LOW Buddy just looked old. I once had a family dog that was a Shetland Sheepdog. He was a silver furred beast and looked like how Lassie looked on a Black and White TV. I think my parents named him Buddy so we wouldn’t b
THE TOP UPS - AF1 GREY MID I was on a 3 month job in Los Angeles, and my everyday shoes, super bright white Air Force 1 97 lows were gnarly and not-so-super-bright. They were scuffed up all over, so I bought this white shoe polish to rectify, but it
NOT QUITE UPTOWNS - AF1 BLACK SWOOSH About a year after my first pair of Uptowns, I was looking for another pair of all-white Air Force Ones. The reason I know they’re called Uptowns is that I was at Foot Locker once looking for shoes and I pic
LOCKOUTS - AIR VOMERO These shoes are my workout shoes. In my apartment building I have a gym that allegedly had wifi and I was going to use the treadmill and listen to Spotify here. LIES. No wifi signal. So I downloaded a playlist once and ran on t
NO TEETH - NIKE FREE RUN 2.0 This was the first time I ever had a shoe without a tongue. Which made me think, what is the point of shoe tongues anyway. I mean it make sense for people to have tongues to help chew foods and stuff. And lick mouths. But
SHOES OF FUTURE PAST - ADIDAS ADISTAR RACER I have not worn these in a while and to be honest I used to be an Adidas guy. All Day I Dreamed of Shoes. You know? On a related note, I had this other type of Adidas that looked similar: they were all whit
FOLLOWERS - NIKE LUNAR GATO Ok, so I can’t tell a lie. I saw someone else wearing these and had to get ‘em. It was a little tricky since at the time of purchase they were out of print. I scoured the Internet but had no luck until I found
THE SHOE FITS - NIKE FREE 4.0 FLYKNIT I was at the Nike Outlet store in Flatbush NY and hundreds of unsold flyknits roamed the shelves. I remember seeing an ad where you could roll up these shoes and thought it may be nice to have shoes that can get
SUMMER STYLE - NIKE TENNIS CLASSIC ULTRA I know what these are. Clearly – Nike’s response to Rod Lavers. But damn if they don’t look pretty sweet. I got these at a Nike Outlet for $30, they were going to be for all my non-existent b
3 WAY SHOES - JORDAN CP3 VII AE The best part of these are they are completely a joke shoe, a pity shoe, and a homage to Chris Paul. I was working on a commercial for Foot Locker staring the Clippers’ Point Guard, Chris Paul, when I got them. (

Here's a little taste of some of the stories:

 
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