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Leighton rhymes with Leighton

If you got a problem with Krokus, you got a problem with me

About Me

My real blog is on the less-tweeny LiveJournalI have a Podcast,... no, REALLY .

My Interests

Guitar tones, lights, Ypsilanti, MI, old stuff...Mutts, bands I deal in (Glori5, Chapstik, Christpuncher, Tammy Tampon and the Blood Clots - see... no one reads these!)

I'd like to meet:

Isn't it WHOM I'd like to meet? Am I the only one who went to 5th grade around here?...wait I just ended a sentence with a preposition!I have a podcast , don't you?Come On! -Gob
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Music:

Bands in: ^^^^^Glori5^^^^^ , *****Chapstik***** , Christpuncher,...was in FistFuck USA, Strut, 4%, Worm, Carol Burnette, Barbed Wire Playpen, Dykemaker, Influences: Melvins, Pussy Galore, Today is the Day, Blooduster, Frank Black, Dust Devils, Buddy Holly, Cherry I have a music and trucking Podcast,... no, REALLY .
Valence, ILCK, Ween, The Chills, Chrome Cranks, Morning Glories, Unsane / CT-9, Dillanger 4/ Dillanger Escape Plan, Honky, Iron Maiden, Shellac, Joan Jett, Jucifer, Laughing Hyenas, Kinks, Lightning Bolt, Speedealer, Makers, Lydia Lunch, Diamanda Galas, Mastodon, Pain Teens, Rapeman, Zorn, Trex, Zeke, Sleepytime GM,...

Movies:

Santa Sangre, Withnail and I, Dune series, Manchurian Candidate

Television:

= TOM VERLAINE

Books:

War Heroes of 1812, Al Franken's, Clive Barker's Non-fiction...Frank Herbert, Fast Food Nation, Dominion

Heroes:

Steve Austin (almost all 3)

My Blog

Chapstik - Captain 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tbMp7vVMLo ...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:33:00 PST

No more smoking in MI bars?

"lily_larue" alerts us: Michigan Senate OKs smoking ban in bars, restaurants...Before contracting asthma working and performing in bars, I probably would have been a "live and let live" guy on the sub...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Fri, 09 May 2008 09:29:00 PST

Boxcar Chapstik Original reunion show: recrap

Though there were 3 HD cameras filming the event for a DVD, I must write down what happened at the Boxcar Satan 15th Anniversary / Chapstik reunion show before I forget. First, Mig Kokinda did an ama...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

3nd podcast

The Broken and Hearted Podcast page now has its 2nd installment uploaded and feeding the RSS MaSSes of 3.Broken and Hearted Episode 1.12 blurb: First true episode: with sexy CB clips, local nerd crack...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:50:00 PST

New Podcast

New Podcast (it's a mumblefest with a bad mike!):Tue, 21 August 2007Broken and HeartedLeighton's hybrid trucking / underground music podcast by an idiot with a Landscape Architecture degree and a 600h...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:25:00 PST

Draft every person who buys the new Of Montreal album

We are entering the 5th year of a fucking evil war. But you'd never know it from popular Hello Kittie culture (not just of our youth):Does anyone believe Ira "I'm Philip's nephew!" Glass isn't gay, ju...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:26:00 PST

Kill cello kids now. You know they use cat guts still?

Hey kids, your poorer former classmates are getting killed on the other side of the world. Drop the fucking cellos and make some music that reflects the horrible reality of today's situation. Stop obe...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:32:00 PST

Year end list of overrated crap people try to foist on us

Beating the 2nd rush to say what sucked or not this year, here are my year-end lists:Most overrated of 2006:Neko Case's newest one... sucks. No hooks. If she weighed 40 pounds more, she'd be ignored b...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:48:00 PST

Trip through Yugoland II

Our trip's local kickoff featured a great, red-dress wedding ceremony attended by Sonic Youth's drummer, then 3 babies and 8 countries (one featured beerchocolate, all required military pork avoidance...
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:17:00 PST

Truck ling favs. 3.5

Truckers have a lot of cute names for things...like car haulers being dubbed Parking Lots...or empty flatbeds being called Skateboards.Latest fav: Motorcyclists buzzing trucks are called Organ Donors....
Posted by Leighton rhymes with Leighton on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:07:00 PST