Archive for the 'old school' Category
President 6th Grader
When I was in 6th grade, my best friend Scott and I would ride our bikes out the giant sand pile across the street from the landfill by the Connell Highway rotary (what people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania call a “traffic circle” and what the British call a “roundabout”), where we would race our [...]
Read More..>>It’s Kelly Bray!
One of my best friends in high school was a whackjob named Kelly Bray, described by my mother as “a big pudding of a boy.”
I hadn’t seen Kelly in years until Matt Paddock, the guy who sent me reeling last week with an out-of-the-blue myspace friend request, sent me this shot of my old pal, [...]
Friday Night Fleshtones
Wendy, don’t watch this. The flashing colored lights will give you a seizure for sure.
Seeing Zaremba THAT young is mindblowing.
Friday Fleshtones: Let’s Go! and Accelerated Emotion
Enjoy. h/t Tim Kelly
Read More..>>New Add, and a Flashback
Knitting for Boozehags will be added to my blogroll just as soon as I finish this post.
You might be wondering why i’m linking to a site that’s all about knitting. Well, I’ll tell you.
This morning, I received a friend request from Matt Paddock, a guy I played punk rock with for about 3 [...]
Fleshtones, 7/14/06
Tonight I went to the industry party (?) kicking off Southern Comfort’s rock series in Philadelphia this weekend. I’m missing most of the event, which features the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, and a whole bunch of others, as I’m heading (-ed, actually by the time this post goes up) to New York for [...]
Read More..>>Chris Steeves
I was already knee deep into hardocre and punk the day i met Chris Steeves, a tiny mouselike girl with a tongue sharper than razors. I had been talking to Vadim Tchertishny, the Estonian parking lot attendant (motto: “I am tired of being a cog. I want to be a lever.”) when she walked [...]
Read More..>>UncleFucker Tour Diary Entry
Ray and i went back to Newport 2 summers ago and ended up wandering around the remains of the Starlite Twin Drive In, which was already out of business when we moved from Rhode Island in 1999, but had been completely abandoned and reclaimed by the land when we made our 2002 visit. It [...]
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