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No, they had that German/Finnish big bones and boobs thing going, but they were medium height and from someplace icky like Brooklyn Center. I knew these exquisite, taller sisters, M!¢h3113 and @m¥ N@r¢1$$3 (girls from but not of Edina) where M was blonde and A was black-haired, but they were the v. arty girls who had to RUN AWAY from the same people.

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

I like the sound of this man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

whoa i worked in an office with an older woman named 4pr1l N@r¢1$$3, wonder if there's a connection.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still boggling that P3rry's getting married! When?

― Dan (Tell Him Congrats) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Do any of the Eric Johnsons that you people know play trombone?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Geoff, I can't remember their mom's name but their dad was D413. It's just funny that the most beautiful girls in Minneapolis at the time had that particular surname.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Almost time for me to move again. What'll it be, closer to Uptown, closer to downtown, closer to the U, closer to NYC?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

closer to NYC

so, woodbury then?

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

ZING!

I used to deliver pizza in Woodbury. BARF BARF BARF

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-post)
Yeah, or at least the Wedge.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the wedge.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread makes me nostalgic.

― A|ex "doesn't really post to ILE" P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone going to Stereolab tonight? My girlfriend's busy with her Iron Range friends.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

The Eric Johnsons I knew in high school (Breck, but with some scholarship $$) were either hockey players or math guys.

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

(Five-star review in the Twin Cities Reader.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

MY MOM WAS AN ENGLISH TEACHER AT BRECK, EAZY. PROBABLY WHEN YOU WERE A STUDENT.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm! WHAT IS HER LAST NAME?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

IS SHE FROM WALES?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

IRELAND.

(hold this up to the mirror): wokS

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I know her. Had a Scotch-Irish teacher named Hynes and a Welsh teacher named Hancock.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, ok then.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I went to Breck once to meet Isaac Bashevits Singer. He was very old and papery-looking.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm from pennsylvania, so i don't even know why i clicked on this thread, but i have to say that the extremes you go to for google-proofing is so cute! n_n

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I am at the quest club no one here drunk wtf

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 12 March 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe this thread went so long before anyone mentioned FANCY RAY

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"I am the BEST looking man in comedy"

NOTHING on YouTube, this must be rectified. Anyone?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish I would've recorded some late nite WB four years ago, or I'd have him on tape multiple times, spinning the Lickety Split wheel of fortune and whatnot.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Plus, I could be wrong, but I thought Fancy Ray relocated to L.A.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/fancyray

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

omg fancy ray!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

EEEEEEK. Totally body-dysmorphic, flamboyant but hetero black guys = welcome to Minnesota.

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

oh, the reader. even i get a little nostalgic abt that, and i didn't live here when it was running.

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

GBX! Was Mr. C4sperson still the band director when you were in high school? Had his son started teaching art yet? Because he was in John's and my class and he was a big comic book geek masquerading as a popular kid bass player. Also we lived down the street from each other.

― Dan (Curious) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Minnesota is completely classic even though we were able to show a friend the best and worst things about Minneapolis in one weekend -- great people, food, music, and surroundings, but we woke up Monday morning with a ton of snow on the ground.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah we just got dumped on too! i never fail to fuck up a snow emergency. i must have paid a thousand dollars in fines in my time here.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

C4seperson was 100% my band teacher, yes. Wonderful guy.

Don't think his son had started teaching yet, though.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

He made me feel really, really bad for quitting band. Not on purpose, but in that disappointed "Oh really? You can't put it in your schedule? Are you sure?" way. :(

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

Yeah, he was REALLY good at that sort of thing. I got it bigtime when I had to miss a jazz band performance (for, like, a major family thing, too).

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

hello Minnesota thread. My dad's from the Iron Range. in the past year I was forwarded approx. fifty news items on the film North Country (which was so-so but seemed to be pretty accurate about the culture up there). One of my second cousins is in the film.. driving a Zamboni. I also learned that a close relative was Duluth Citizen ofthe Year not too long ago.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

the new fancy ray commercials for that porno video store are awesome...when he slo-mo kicks the dude into the rack of video like a kung fu flick.

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

oh come on next you're gonna say you and ethan cohen got high in tyrel ventura's camaro parked underneath the paul bunyan statue with a tape of 'credit in heaven' playing.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

which i totally did once, btw

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Which is where I come in.

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

oh come on next you're gonna say you and ethan cohen got high in tyrel ventura's camaro parked underneath the paul bunyan statue with a tape of 'credit in heaven' playing.

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

and fuck a paul bunyan statue! this is how my hometown blue earth (jayhawks holla) gets down on the plastic statue tip:

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://marklauter.com/albums/PADOtto/050301_Hymies_Records.thumb.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Where is that place? I know where it isn't...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

it's on east lake street....amazing store. a little east of cedar and lake...

hymie RIP.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The great thing about Hymie's vs. Cheapo (and others) is that Hymie's prices things according to actual value, not some cutesy hipster kitsch. Also, the local music section is AMAZING most of the time.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

the other good thing about hymies versus cheapo is that hymies employees don't cherry pick all the good vinyl that comes in and buy it themselves before they put it out on the store shelves....the drummer in my band was right behind this guy selling this really rare new order live thing, and after the guy sold it, he asked the kid if he could buy it and the kid was like "sorry dude i'm totally taking that." grrrrrrrrrrr

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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