I wish the search function on here actually found stuff...
At the risk of repeating myself...you may recall the story of Jonas...years ago when W____ was managing this pitiful little mall "art" (the kind of laminated prints people purchase to match their suburban couches) shop, Jonas Tomalty was brought to her attention; and mine.
To make her day more bearable W____ would play the little tapes that I lovingly made her (Simple Ones, Oblivians, Grifters, Compulsive Gamblers, Flaming Lips, Drags, Man or Astro-Man?, Mudhoney, Kristin Hersh, etc.) on this cheap tape deck, and one day while
Crappin' You Neative was on her chucklehead co-worker piped in with adulation, remarking that she "really likes it" and that "it sounded cool". Following some further flattery of der Grifters she mentioned that it reminded her of her boyfriend's older brother's band. She bragged that she had met the lead singer in the hot tub at some West Island party. She made a point of mentioning how wasted they were and how "cool" they are and all this...I expect stressing that she shared the same bath water as one of them for some fleeting moments of her life.
The name "Rubberman" took some time to place; I knew the name but knew not from whence. I was determined to find - no matter how skeptical I was of the claim - if there really was a comparable West Island equivalent to the Grifters.
In the end I discovered that I knew the band's name as the winner of the CHOM "Home of Rock!" FM
Battle of the (Fifth Wave Pseudo-Grunge)
Bands a year or so earlier. I was horrified when I
finally heard what was being compared to Crappin' You Negative.
Years later I met a certain girl at Concordia who fucked with my head and we all remember that, but what might have been forgotten was that we were brought together (somewhat) in a mutual hatred of some assmunch named
Jonas who was plastered all over the Guy-Concordia metro.
Around the same time I mentioned the posters to my sister and she informed me that she had gone to school with Jonas' younger brother, who was also a conceited frat boy jerk off. She said, "Didn't you hate his band? Remember:
Rubberman?"
Around that time I believe I recounted everything above and posted some links to Jonas' site and the video above.
Now, my sister has informed me that...Jonas
has his own biopic:
JONAS: THE QUEST
Actual still from teaser trailer:
(same video on his fruity website:
http://www.jonas-music.com/quest.php?lang=en)
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