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Jonmc, you don't happen to work in a steel mill, do you? It's the only job I can ever picture you in (skinny, flannel clad, listening to Journey and the Ramones, fixing up the broken car on your front lawn...basically, every 70's movie about steel mill workers ever made, rolled up into you)
Nope, I work as a data-entry clerk at a music database company. I probably make less money than a union steelworker, if such a creature still exists. In the past I was a worker in a bread factory, a baker in supermarket bakery, a bookstore clerk, a supermarket stockboy, a PC Salesman for a company that semi-went under, and various stupid jobs that lasted a week or two. I'm the son of a teacher and a home furnishings salesman.
You should go back to supermarket stockboy. The image fits you better. Or, seriously, consider getting a job in the steel industry in the late 70's. And make sure to get laid off and have a buddy get drunk and in a fight.
(Note: if you became a supermarket stockboy, you'd either have to give up The Ramones or, conversely, switch over to an entirely early 80's punk diet. The steel industry is probably much better for you musically)
I'm in beer-stained plaid boxers, my Pleased to Meet Me tee, and a 10-year old brown and blue plaid flannel, which is beer-stained as well.
posted by jonmc 28 June | 19:31
Off-topic -- but what isn't?! -- I'm currently learning how to like The Replacements.
I'm not casting asparagus* on your taste, but the 'Mats' impact is fairy immediate, I never figured it to require intellectualization.
*this is a joke from an old Three Stooges flick. I saw it in a bar a few weeks ago, when they played the stooges during a rain delay in the Mets game. The sound was off, but the closed captioning made sure we didn't miss any subtle nuances in the dialogue.
My first exposure to them was unknowing -- Paul Westerberg's solo album, played incessantly on the Austin radio station that gave me my very first post-adolescent taste of "good" (i.e., not small town Texas; i.e., not christian rock) music.
Didn't like his album.
Was recently re-introduced to "The Mats" through a reacquaintance with a punk fetishist.
Was recently re-introduced to "The Mats" through a reacquaintance with a punk fetishist.
Tom Carson once wrote of The Ramones:
"Punks in the original sense of the word, were the sort of people who were such hopeless losers that they couldn't even be convincing as outlaws; far from romanticizing that status, the Ramones glorified their own inadequacy....and yet they were genuinely sexy,too; in spite of everything they were cool."
The same could apply to the Replacements. And since I'm definitely one of "those people" the quote refers to, I'm definitely feelin' it as they say.
Oh, mudpuppie, I thought you meant the movie The Replacements which is great when it's seen in the light of the best sports movie ever.
posted by frecklefaerie 29 June | 00:20
Rhys Ifans trumps keanu.
i wonder if that "Keanu's brain" thing from suck still exists. i bet that's why his friends are so quick to defend him, in part.
you may even trump Rhys Ifans' naked
but not Alan Tudyk
i was about to say i'd see him in anything until i realized i've accidentally seen him under extreme duress and didn't know it
I think it was The Replacements (although it could've been Varisity Blues) we a WaPo called attention to the flick's mis-en-scene and I was so struck by the review that when I went into the movie I watched it as if it were 8 1/2 or something.
I heard the woman who played Riff Randell in Rock 'n Roll High School said that the hardest thing she'd ever had to do was pretend to be attracted to Joey Ramone.
I never post naked. But when at home I often post in my short cotton nightgowns (in summer) or in a flannel bathrobe (in winter). MeFi's not an orgy - it's a slumber party.
I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot,
And I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not.
But sometimes in the sprigtime,
And sometimes in the fall,
I slip between the sheets with nothing on at all!
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