― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Matos - Rod Smith will probably be able to back up my story about the invention of gaydar (when I was 16 and in the store, employee GT was macking on some straight boy and I asked him if his really existed). But that song-parody doesn't even begin to touch THE GENIUS. He used to tell people that his folks were called Evelyn and Trevylan Smith; the sisters that wanted to meet/fuck all the instore guests, but were like punk versions of the Chaska girls in Fargo, were known as Doperone Twins. He may also be able to still impart ridiculous pieces of made-up bullshit to gullible strangers with a straight face, 'purely to generate a meme.'
Hastings massive: it sounds like for all the other weirdness, it was a good place to get an education, considering where people escaped to!
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link
He still does all this shit. It's just amazing. I want to grow up to be him so badly.
the sisters that wanted to meet/fuck all the instore guests, but were like punk versions of the Chaska girls in Fargo, were known as Doperone Twins.
tall? lanky hair? brunette? busty? First Ave regulars? I think I know these people.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
The big difference between Rod Smith and all the other bears is that he was 'generating a meme' in 1985, and knew it.
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Tell Him Congrats) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
so, woodbury then?
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I used to deliver pizza in Woodbury. BARF BARF BARF
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― A|ex "doesn't really post to ILE" P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
My high school job, just to reminisce, was at Musicland in the mall in downtown St. Paul that was not Galtier Plaza. One night, probably in late '87 or early '88, Axl and Slash stopped by because they were opening for Aerosmith at the Civic Center, and they wanted to see if we had their record, and we didn't.
The one cassette in stock of "Rhyme Pays" and "A Salt With A Deadly Pepa" were shoplifted each time.
The security guard there with a Malcolm X bright-orange close haircut came into the store one day, excited, and we both had read the five-star review of 'It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' and were excited to hear it.
A woman was browsing the jazz cassettes for a workout tape, and somehow I honestly thought that 'In A Silent Way' would be appropriate.
― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
(hold this up to the mirror): wokS
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 12 March 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link
NOTHING on YouTube, this must be rectified. Anyone?
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Matos, get Rod to post here or totally forward my mail to him, OK?
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
DT St. Paul is still a mystery to me. I've only ever been there after dark for one reason or another. But I did take a bus in and then out one morning this summer to pull my car out of impound. wow was that a good day. mm hm.
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Curious) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't think his son had started teaching yet, though.
― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I still have my tenor sax at my parents' house. I can't really play it anymore.
― Dan (;_;) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I've got my alto still, and have been playing on and off for the last few years. I WOULD be playing it in my band, but my neck strap broke and it fell to the floor during practice a few months ago, and needs a couple hundred dollars of work.
So, yeah, ;_;
― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I chatted with Fancy Ray once at a SON VOLT show of all places! Nice dude, but he stunk to high heaven! He was wearing a b&w vest and pants ensemble w/no shirt.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
My Minnesota stuff is like crazy magic realism that happens to be true. When I was home, my dad gave me a drawing of my grandmother someone had done in 1930, which I've had framed (I think I told you about this at FAP, Geoff). She was born in New York, but moved to Minnesota when she was very young. She used to tell me great stories about going to the Commodore and the Lexington in the '30s and because she was both startlingly gorgeous and in art college, she had a lot of fun getting chased by the film stars who drank there.
*Johnny Cash voice*
My dad was born in a town called Excelsior...
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
haha tyrel ventura deserves his own appreciation thread! he was the "k-fed" of governor's sons! kegger at the gov's mansion!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link