jesus, i've never been back to a class reunion and i don't think i could handle it. the thought of making small talk with ppl i haven't seen in 15 years...i just.
someone actually yelled "fag" out their car window at me tonight, it was the first time in years. tbh i was riding a girls schwinn with blinking lights. and wearing my g00dwi11 uniform. but still!
― arby's, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
and oh yeah: a few days after we moved in i was unloading a card table and chairs from my trunk. as i'm going around to open the trunk an old dude (looking v much like a sloppier dr. jakoby fyi) said hi as he was passing, only he didn't pass, and stopped dead and just stared a while. it took me forever to get the table/chairs out cuz i had a painting in one arm (idk why i didn't put it down), and i'm mucking with them for forever and he goes "well, have a good afternoon!", and i'm like "yeah you too!", but he just keeps standing there, staring at me. didn't go away until after i finally unloaded and closed the trunk and locked the car doors. kinda innocuous i guess but somehow really unsettling at the moment.
― arby's, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
You are truly experiencing HSTNGS to the fullest
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ this
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
the encounter with the old dr. jakoby had a very http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/136/s_45709fa94f19416e89a3391cde4ce6c4.jpg kind of drawn out awkwardness. y'all weren't kidding.
― arby's, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
We would never kid about HSTNGS. It's more like one of those things where you have to laugh about it...
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
people scoff at me when I tell them I grew up in a real-life Twin Peaks until I start telling stories
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
We didn't have a Log Lady (that I know of anyway), but that might have been all we were missing.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
you've forgotten Lu Stoff3l already?
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
OMG LOLOL
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Serious <3 <3 <3 to you for that, thank you
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
so, is there a curse here you guys aren't telling me about? we've had a small string of bad luck* punctuated by sort of a call-is-coming-from-inside-your-house moment last night. a few days after moving in KG's car has a $600 break down. no sooner than it's fixed, my car breaks down, so i've been biking to work all this week. (and, if we don't get it fixed/figure out reliable transportation, commuting to school=no go). my car's capacity to accelerate cuts in and out at its whim, which last night meant a pretty harrowing drive to the autofixit place**. then, we're walking home down sibley and KG receives a text, from herself, of an icon of a bicycle. yeah good joke, universe!!! this town is indeed strange and mysterious. also kind of a dick.
*(in addition to the car stuff, there has all the while been the difficulty of tracking down where my paycheck's been bumbled off to while my bank account's been sitting in the negative, but that's another story...)
**(this was dangerous and stupid and i regret it but we didn't have money for a tow)
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
this town is indeed strange and mysterious. also kind of a dick.
YES
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'd sell you my car but I'm in MA so
It's a 2001 Rav 4, 92K miles, manual transmission, very good condition except for scratched bumpers
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
i'd buy it but it's a manual transmission (and in MA). plus looking for something small...but anywho
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah Sara OTM, also I feel like the HSTNGS cru has done nothing but warn ppl about the vortex of weird that surrounds the town whenever it comes up
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
tracking down where my paycheck's been bumbled off to while my bank account's been sitting in the negative, but that's another story...)
i love this thread but have nothing to contribute, generally, not being a resident/reformed HSTNGSr, but just wanted to say that i had this recently & it sucks and is as infuriating as bureaucratic errors get, so feeling for you here
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah what's frustrating is that i didn't quit, just transferred locations, so it should have just been sent to my current location. but instead showed up at the old location, ten was sent to my prior address, an action that was sat on for a time...ultimately i should have just filled out the direct deposit paperwork a long long time ago and avoided all of this so
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, arby's, I'm so sorry that is happening to you! :(
and yeah, HSTNGS is just that kind of a place... still thankful for the many friends I made there - and that many of them remember the craziness as well as I do.
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
btw
http://i.imgur.com/srZNh.jpg
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have any recourse for getting back bank fees incurred due to this paycheck screwup?
Also have you checked the paper for used cars? You might get lucky.
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
it was only a $30 charge for one overdraft and i guess i'm just saying fuckit cuz i got other things to worry about (i'm now back in the positive btw after getting my deposit back in full from the last place).
been rummaging through craigslist for cars but ultimately waiting to see what the auto place says about the state of my current car before i go whole hog in search for a new one. will prob nab a paper from the gas station next to work today though, good idea.
xp to gbx waht is that!!
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
HSTNGS my friend
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
yay its my favorite picture in the world
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
That pic is always hilarious.
I'm just in "buy a car!" mode because put money down on a car that I thought we would have this past weekend but may not even be built until next week, so I am just trying to live vicariously through others until it gets here.
(kind of glad I didn't just sell our old car off tho, we'd have been SOL this month)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
lmao. in kato i lived in an apt above a place that sold knockoff designer clothes as a drug front for a while. one morning i looked to see someone had spraypainted <--CRACK in six-ft letters on the adjascent building. lolled all day.
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
given my non commute my car is going to last FOREVER
i drive literally 30-40 miles a week and the car has idk 70K on it? i started doing the math and now that i carried the two the answer appears to in fact be forever.
xp hahaha thats pretty awesome
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
why have i not made a tshirt of that photo yet
Yeah you can see from the stats on my old car (which we bought new) that I averaged about 9k miles/year on it, and that includes multiple road trips to NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Akron and Cincy. We could probably drive it for another 10 years easily but lol I'm almost 40.
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
picture is somehow extra brutal on account of failed attempt to spray in red paint
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
ATTN JJJUSTEN
I have just found your new favorite band
http://wavepoolabortion.bandcamp.com/album/wavepool-abortion
yr welcome
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Got a great tourmate for 'em as well:
http://herpes.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
wavepool abortion really is the best band name
― I thought that I heard you loling, I thought that I heard you steen (crüt), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
im scared to listen to them because i fear they will ruin their magical name
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's even better...they're from Moscow.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
based on my initial listen through I would describe them as a stupid version of JAMC
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
"VE ARRR VAVEPOOL ABORTION!"
wait, are they Russian or are they German pirates
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
nitpicky imo
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah on first listen they sound kinda cool tbh. too much color, maybe, but i unfairly want all russian punk to sound exactly like grazhdanskaya oborona so..
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
do it.
i still proudly wear my Hunter, Age 3 t-shirt
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even know what happened to my Hunter, Age 3 t-shirt
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
blargh, $400+ to fix my 1988 corsica lol. k gotta go to work where i will make 23 dollars c u
― arby's, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
definitely time to get a new car, srsly...
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
today, everyone with a Spotify account should listen to this:
http://open.spotify.com/album/6yuGZO9460TzKMMZ7qQZez
(be warned tho; despite being listed as the full album, at least one of the songs is a single edit as opposed to the album version)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
The fact that the first song is from Pop Will Eat Itself is making me smile nostalgically...
― Sara R-C, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, is this all PWEI? I am so out of it lately...
― Sara R-C, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
It's the entire Cure For Sanity album.
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
i am a this is the hour this is the day this is this man myself
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
no one said you had to choose
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link