I thought a friend of mine who called to ask me if I’d sold my car to some guy in St. Charles was off his rocker when he said he’d seen my car on the local TV news, a red bubble-back Barracuda with “WAYBAC” license plates and all (even though my plates are different now), until I went online this morning and found that a photo of my car was indeed used in the original story last Friday, and then again in a follow-up story on Monday! The story is about a used-car dealer who found an old class ring under the backseat of a car he’d bought and was wanting to return it to its rightful owner.
At least in the follow-up story John Auble says “a Chrysler (sic) Barracuda like this one” (in the original story they didn’t say that, which made my friend think that mine was the actual car the ring was found in)… In any event, they must’ve found the photo of my car on the Web or something. Weird! You’d think the news crew would have taken shots of the actual car that the ring was found in… I mean, they obviously went out there to interview the guy, right? How hard would it have been to get a couple shots of the real car?
By the way, the 2nd photo used in these stories is NOT my car. If you look closely, you’ll notice it has a side-view mirror on the driver’s side (mine doesn’t have side-view mirrors), and the wheels are also different. I don’t believe that 2nd photo is the actual car, either, since it appears to be a photo from a car show.
I suppose I should demand that Fox 2 News return the photo of the car they used to ITS rightful owner. :\
I’m not sure which is worse, late January or late July. Temperatures so cold that you feel your nose hairs ice over on the way to the bus stop, or so hot you can fry eggs on the roof of your car. As strange as it may seem, I think I actually prefer the cold. The heat just has a way of escalating mankind’s sick, violent nature, fueling tempers, madness, and pain, while the cold always seems to keep everyone in check, at least for a little while. This episode of Savage Kick was recorded on one of the coldest nights of the fresh, young year. The beer was kept cold by simply sitting it on the basement floor. The Blues vs. Canucks game on the tube in the background. Spaceheater on full blast. Almost cold enough to see my breath…
This episode features selections from such bands as The Barracudas, The Mortals, The Mants, The Miracle Workers, The Burning Hatreds, The Gentleman Callers, The Missing Links, The Talismen, The Reigning Sound, and many more. Click here for the full playlist. Crank this one up and put some tiger milk in your tank.
At Lemmons on Friday February 1st. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… The Modern Primitives are like Missouri’s own undiscovered version of the Black Lips (only younger).
Today I’ll be closing down the GaragePunk Forums message board to new posts. The forums have been dying a slow death over the past several months, anyway, as more and more people seem to be making their way over to the GaragePunk Hideout that was launched last summer. Obviously, many of the people still hanging out in the Forums have been pretty negative about the Hideout (for reasons I still don’t quite comprehend, but then again you can’t please everybody), so it’s really pointless to keep it open if most of what’s getting posted there isn’t of any substantial value to anyone, anyway. So those people that have been bitching and complaining about the Hideout can either join us, or find another forum to visit. I’m tired of the whiners.
A friend of mine posted this one on The Circuit recently. I thought it was pretty good, and especially dug the use of the ’60s classic “7 & 7 Is” by Love in it. Enjoy!
A young boy goes on a magical adventure after drinking his first beer.
If you happen to be in a band, have a blog, ‘zine or website or other project you think deserves a mention in ElectricRoulette, get in touch with Mr. Gimmers via his Hideout page!
I’m sorry (no, I’m actually NOT sorry), but Super Wall is Super Retarded, and FunWall is about as fun as lancing a wort from the back of your hand. In fact, there aren’t a helluva lot of Facebook apps that I find all that useful after having tried several and being continually annoyed and frustrated by them. But Super Wall & FunWall are the absolute worst of the bunch. They just seem like a good way for people (sorry, RETARDS) to pass along chain comments, which I guess has replaced stupid chain email forwards in the age of the social networking phenomenon.
So let me spell it out for you here: There is nothing “super” or “fun” about:
Junk mail, chain letters and forwarded bullshit.
Having multiple copies of the same crap on your profile.
Allowing people to advertise their crap for free on your profile (otherwise known as SPAM).
Let’s face it, if you have either of these on your profile (especially if you’ve actually forwarded something on to your friends with one of those “super” “fun” walls), then, congratulations, you’re a SUPER RETARD.
The applications themselves are not bad, per se. People misusing them is bad. And misuse is about all I’m seeing with either of them. I installed both when I first signed up with Facebook because I honestly thought they looked pretty cool, especially in regard to drawing pictures and having the capability of posting videos on someone else’s profile. One could get really creative and have some fun with it.
But I see no creativity or fun in anything anyone ever posted on either wall, either on my profile or anyone else’s I happened to visit. All I’ve seen have been highly impersonal forwards from people who received forwards themselves and decided to send it on to everyone else on their friends list. What a bunch of mindless automatons!
I deleted both walls because they weren’t adding anything of real value to my profile, and I highly recommend you do the same.
I know I can stop visiting people’s profiles or even stop visiting Facebook altogether if the walls and other useless applications bother me all that much.
But that isn’t quite the point. The point is that it irks me that people are perpetuating a useless custom and contributing more bullshit to an already bullshit-loaded society full of thoughtless, mindless puppets.
So, please. Grow a brain and think.
If you’re like me, and are sick to fucking death of these pointless Facebook applications, then check out the group This Has Got to Stop. It has some good information on blocking them as well as other tricks to avoid (not to mention complain about) stupid shit on Facebook.
I wasn’t able to make it out to the Nevermores/Thee Fine Lines show at the Underground at the Red Sea last Friday night, but I did ask John of the Nevermores about the show and he was nice enough to write a little review, which is posted here. I’ve read of other not-so-nice reports of how bands are treated at the Underground before (this topic came up once before on the GaragePunk Forums message board), but this really takes the cake. To actually tell a band they’re “headlining” and then to flat-out STIFF them, after forcing them to follow another band that wasn’t originally scheduled to even play (and not only plays way too long, but is so BAD that they run everyone out of the club)? Come on! How or why do places like the Underground think this is somehow cool or acceptable? What makes this bozo think ANY band will want to play this shithole once word spreads that they’re stiffing bands (not to mention fucking with lineups)? I’m sorry but this sort of thing is just unacceptable, and you may not read it anywhere else in St. Louis, but FUCK the Underground. Don’t play the damned place. I don’t care HOW desperate you are for shows, that sorta shit doesn’t help anyone, especially yourselves if you’re trying to actually make a few bucks to cover gas money (in the very least). There are plenty of decent venues in St. Louis that you can play these days… Lemmons, the Way Out, the Bluebird, Off Broadway, 2 Cents Plain (admittedly still wet behind the ears but learning), and more. But if you care about integrity don’t play the Underground. Thank you.
