Zen Arcade |
Depending on the outcome of this latest experience, this may be my last blog, at least the last one that doesn’t read like a page from Paris Hilton’s diary. I haven’t been writing an...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:46:00 GMT |
One of My Favorite Misfits |
http://www.skafish.comI don't have much to add, except that I met Skafish in back of Bookie's as he and the band were geting out of their tour van. I begged him to get me into the show; they wouldn't ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:41:00 GMT |
Misguided MENSAn Miffs Misses |
[At some point, I will return to the VDC story. I know how it ends, I just haven't figured out how we got there. Here's something else to entertain you. Pardon the missing punctuation: it's that same ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:09:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 9 |
Maybe a first band is like a first love (or some maudlin crap like that). Even if it sucks, you're bound to remember it forever. Bah. Humbug.Listening to the second, third, fourth, or fifth reissues o...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:59:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 8 |
Of all the songs we played together, I was most impressed by Gerald's song "British Water," a tongue-in-cheek reminisce about his first trip (of many, in all) to England. Full of wonderment and passio...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:33:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 7 |
Oh, right - I was telling a story here...For a short while, I played on a kit borrowed from Gerald's friend, Robert. Robert never played them but, still, came one day to retrieve his set. With some mo...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:03:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 6 |
While I was looking for something, I found the notebook containing pages of things proposed to be manufactured by VDC Industries. I didn't find what I was originally looking for, so now I'm going to g...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:09:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 5 |
In August of that year, with nothing better to do with our time, Gerald and I joined Eric for a trip to look after his vacationing uncle's home in the city of Wayne, about an hour's drive west of Detr...
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 19:11:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was, pt 4 |
The flyer bug had metastasized my whole body by that summer after graduation and I spent a good portion of the days cutting words and pictures from magazines to create cut-and-paste pokes in the eye. ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 09:24:00 GMT |
The Greatest Band That Never Was pt 3 |
The majority of the school not only didn't understand punk, they were alarmed by it. Perhaps it was the stripped-down aggressiveness of the music, perhaps the stories in the news that described the Se...
Posted by on Thu, 18 May 2006 21:15:00 GMT |
