Archive for the 'old school' Category

President 6th Grader

Posted by Brendan on August 8th, 2006 filed in bicycling, old school, politics

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 [...]

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It’s Kelly Bray!

Posted by Brendan on August 7th, 2006 filed in Rock-n-roll, biography, friends, old school, punk rock

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, [...]

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Friday Night Fleshtones

Posted by Brendan on August 4th, 2006 filed in Rock-n-roll, old school, punk rock, youtube

Wendy, don’t watch this. The flashing colored lights will give you a seizure for sure.
Seeing Zaremba THAT young is mindblowing.

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Friday Fleshtones: Let’s Go! and Accelerated Emotion

Posted by Brendan on July 28th, 2006 filed in Rock-n-roll, old school, punk rock, youtube

Enjoy. h/t Tim Kelly

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New Add, and a Flashback

Posted by Brendan on July 24th, 2006 filed in Rock-n-roll, old school, punk rock

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 [...]

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Fleshtones, 7/14/06

Posted by Brendan on July 17th, 2006 filed in Rock-n-roll, alcohol, old school, punk rock

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 [...]

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Chris Steeves

Posted by Brendan on November 18th, 2003 filed in friends, old school, punk rock

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 [...]

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UncleFucker Tour Diary Entry

Posted by Brendan on November 18th, 2003 filed in alcohol, heavy metal, old school, punk rock

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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