MAKE RUBYREDD'S DAY

at some point i'm going to want to post one of the pictures you sent me RR. pls to have permission in advance?

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/ModernMechanix/12-1932/lrg_car_meat_grinder.jpg

that might not mkae ur day though.

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper736/stills/3185kwg2.jpg

RR you are an attractive and radical young woman.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/sekritash/RandomPics/icecream1.jpg

Does NZ have ice cream truck?

we have mr whippy! icecream trucks. i love them.

nick, it depends on the pic. you might want to IM me first, you shifty bastard.

i <3 this thread and all of itr. i don't <3 my job.

fun facts about billy corgan and the smashing pumpkins would make my day. ned?

we have mr whippy!

NZ, land of elfin hobbits and friendly S&M ice cream.

fun facts about billy corgan and the smashing pumpkins would make my day. ned?

FUN FACTS:

Billy Corgan, being an obsessive goth boy at one time with no money, did some extremely ridiculous videos desparately trying and failing to be the Cure's "Lovecats" video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfTYbqUTZG0

RR did you know they were importing sex slaves into that weirdass Roman nip-rubbing emporium under their hoop skirts?

http://www.mychemicaltoilet.com/smashing_pumpkins.jpg

I would not want to be behind Billy's squat pose.

(That said, the video they did all that for was a masterpiece of over the top insanity -- Aubrey Beardsley's designs for Salome meets Fellini's Satyricon via D. W. Griffith's Intolerance)

jesus that video was totally awesome, loved the beardsley influence. pity no one but the two of us seemed to like it ;_;

abbott, i did know that, but thank you anyway :0

abbott, you could really make my day by telling me that you're ok and things are alright with you.

OTHER FUN FACTS:

There's an extremely obscure Pumpkins song that still hasn't been officially released called "Germans in Leather Pants."

mine too, abbott, i have been thinking about you a lot. xp

I'm way good, considering. Things are really chill and productive. I always make things chill and productive,

I fucking loved that video a ton. It was the thing that got me to like that album, actually.

xxp

Ned are you sure this isn't their "Pink Litmus Paper" prank equiv?

see? double whammy of happiness and days made good if you are ok!

<3 <3 <3

ned if you have this secret song, i would very much like it.

also: ned, i forgot to tell you - i didn't get to go to the wellington concert ;_;

I just put on their new album for first time. Someone plz tell me I won't be crushed w/remorse.

My fucking fiancé got to go to some private Boise record store 100-person SP show in high school...I think just after Adore. He just told me this like three months ago! "You knew I love the Pumpkins, why didn'y tou tell me?"""

"Forgot, sorry." That guy.

Yay for happiness! This is a good thing.

Ned are you sure this isn't their "Pink Litmus Paper" prank equiv?

Nope. It all has to do with the Starchildren...and I have that one single that is their only official original release. (I am, needless to say, not selling that one for love or money.)

I just put on their new album for first time. Someone plz tell me I won't be crushed w/remorse.

I regret to say I will not be that person.

Saw the Pumpkins...five times in the nineties? First time was late 1991, Hole opening, 200 people in a club show, Billy still had the long hair. Mesmerizing.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

xp

I bet they're fun to see live.

I have said this before but if Billy hadn't been so stupid as to give this new band the old name I would just enjoy it as a neo-Zwan or something. But that combined with the fact that it just sounds...off...well, anyway.

Among other joys I do have the Mashed Potatoes compilation sourced from the full CD set and seeing as providing an Abbott with good cheer would be a fine thing, let me know if you need it.

i used to be an obsessed smashing pumpkins fan. i think i saw them 18 times or something. it's a reason i don't use my real name here. if you all knew it you could find a buncha embarrassing stuff from alt.music.smashing-pumpkins and listessa

...?

I do not know what this is.

xp

You do not? Ah, you are missing out. Behold!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashed_Potatoes_%28album%29

a lot of it's crap but morning jam is well worth finding

Haha, this is hilarious -- I completely forgot I reviewed this thing for the AMG:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3d9as37wa3vg

there are some good moments, but i'm still warming up to it. i liked the zwan album when it first came up but it sure as hell didn't stand the test of time (also tainted by memory associations with stupid old ex).

i like 'bleeding the orchid' and 'tarantula' and 'doomsday clock' but i still haven't really given it a good listen.

OMG jergins really???? i knew there was a reason i liked you so much!!!

my sp love is more of a nostalgia now, rather than anything more serious. i don't even listen to their older albums all that much anymore.

but there is nothing cooler than being in a car and a pumpkin comes on the radio.

my sp love is more of a nostalgia now, rather than anything more serious. i don't even listen to their older albums all that much anymore.

This is me, pretty much -- other things, other obsessions, older and newer. I'd be bored if I just listened to the same things as I did ten, fifteen years back. But most people stop where they are, I've realized.

i was obsessed and then burnt out really fast and hard, just after the mcis box set. i only listened to adore like twice and the other ones maybe once each. but when i was into them, i was IN

i hadn't listened to the old stuff in years. lingbert came over the other night with some golden oldies though. i've had beautiful stuck in my head for a few days :)

oh i love 'lily'! and also 'beautiful'!

my username is kinda from 'thru the eyes of ruby'

it was always wonderful when they played that one live

i can't believe you saw them 18 times. so jealous. i'm really hoping they CA again, so me and jordan can go see them.

*tour

it was a few too many tbh

Rubes, what of Zwan?

i haven't listened to it in a couple of years! honestly, whenever i catch a few bars of one of the zwan songs i cringe, because it brings back memories of the shit relationship i was in at the time, with this total moron. i have serious issues with music-related memory.

"And So I Died of a Broken Heart...CAUSED BY THAT ASSHOLE"

haha no he was too much of a dick to break my heart. it's more like cringeing in shame and embarrassment that i ever dated someone who was such a loser and had an IQ of about 30.

sadly, he was australian, but i haven't let this colour my general opinion of all australians ;)

button my lips.

these are making my day today, and keeping my legs super warm:

http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/image_upload/product_variety_5257.jpg

i <3 legwarmers

I also <3 legwarmers. I still have one pair around here somewhere... no idea where, however. ;_;

go to sockdreams.com

mine were like US$12 and the shipping is FREE in the US!

Whoa!

Loooooove free shipping.

My favorite place to buy legwarmers: Grand Jete (oh, hells on not having the French accent aigu to place on there on this computer, but whatever) on Grand Avenue in St. Paul. I haven't been in there in years... sooooooo want to go now.

Also all this ballet thinking has me totally wanting to take a class again, although I think not doing it for 15 years would cause it to be a painful sort of thing to do. So tempted.

^_^