[Music] One Foot in the Door, One Foot in the Gutter

[jon_chaisson]

Today's music while working at home courtesy of 1987. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed Pleased to Meet Me, I haven't listened to it in ages! (Which, btw, eMusic somehow made a deal with WEA (or Warners, or whatever that distributor's called now), which means the 'Mats stuff is FINALLY available there. I think I know what my next major download session will be, considering that I'm woefully low on drunken Minneapolis punk. :)

So let's see...end of sophomore year in high school and start of junior year...meeting up with head58 again after briefly hanging with him in jr high...working at the YMCA as a hall monitor/gofer/tidy-upper/babysitter (trust me, a locker room full of little nits post-swim class can get loud and dangerous)...finishing off the IWN after three years, contemplating starting a sequel...the start of a few dead-end stories (and continual work on Dream Weaver from '86)...class trips into Boston, one in which head58, myself and a few others get lost on the T and ride it out to Riverside and back...hanging around with Kevin in our computer class...writing music reviews for the school paper, LRS(aka Little Red Schoolhouse, for you non-Athol people)...staying up late on Sunday nights to watch 120 Minutes (I believe this was just before their Sunday night line up of Young Ones, Python and Comic Strip)...the start of listening to WAMH incessantly, taping all kinds of stuff off the radio, pre-comp tape era...Substance, Happy?, Music for the Masses, Strangeways, Here We Come...joining Columbia House...head58's infamous sniper game that nearly gave my mom a heart attack...ah, fun days. :)

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

I recall nearly shitting a brick when I found out what Kevin had done in that game. Should have been a sign to shut it down right there.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

heh...that was a fun game, but yeah, he'd definitely gone the whole hog (including camo, as I recall) on that one... :p