Bicycle weather!

[Just Some Girl]

For our esteemed captain.

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[Just Some Girl]

Just got a nice email from a friend about one of my stories (the lesbian s&m road story!):

We're going to use Tia Goes Pop for May's edition of our Flash Fiction on killerworks.com!! Yay!! You'll get a whopping 5$ and a copy of the anthology. What I'd like from you before we post it is a short bio to go with it.  And any weblinks etc... you may want to go with it.


I think that's more than I got paid when it was published the first time in a literary journal, so...

But a bio? Fuck, I hate writing those things. I'll just give 'em the crappity link and they can figure me out from there. (  )

[matthew]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gyGHHxUFY6w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gyGHHxUFY6w</a> .

[matthew]

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[matthew]

My first purchase was a cassette of Duran Duran's "Seven and the Ragged Tiger." I was seven. Virtually all of my early music purchases were dictated by MTV. I did at least, over time, gravitate toward the cooler stuff on early MTV--The Clash, Talking Heads, etc.

Got the Combat Rock on right now.

How is the Mescaleros stuff? I never got around to it.

[Bizarro]

The actual story of my musical tastes as a youth goes like this. My parents were devoted easy-AM listeners and for the first six or so years of my life, I heard nothing more rocking than the Grease soundtrack. Tons of Donnie & Marie, Kenny Rogers, etc.

When we first got cable, I heard about MTV from the other kids at school. When I turned it on, they were playing "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring, a cheesy fake noir video which ends with S&M bikini wearing chicks mock torturing/interrogating some dude tied to a chair. It creeped the hell out of me. I turned the tv off and just sat there for about ten minutes. When I turned it back on, they were playing "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash and I can remember very clearly thinking "This is the coolest thing I have ever heard."

I probably watched MTV between 2 and four hours a day for the next eight years.

[full blown possession]

wow, all this record talk has been really interesting reading.  Thanks for sharing.  You understand I shared a lot of my ick alblums...i also liked listening to the old fm style radio shows that dont exist anymore to find music, dr. demento.  I would say radio, mtv and tv drove my tastes until i went to college.  I also spent a lot of time listening to records early in life


off the subject but a poll question?  what is the price of gas in your city?  please state price and city if you wish.

indy 3.53

[matthew]

Montreal ~1.25 per litre, or about 5.00 per gallon.

[Tripp]

Lowest gas I can find in mempho is about $3.19  (regular unleaded)

[Bizarro]

Chicago burbs: $3.59
Chicago metro: $3.98

[full blown possession]

on subject this was my first bike:
http://johnsvintagebikes.com/Collection/Schwinn_Slik_chik_1971/dscf0006.jpg

except mine was purple sparkle

when i was ten, i got a fuji 10 speed

[Doctor Rock]

The high price of gas was predictable.  A few years ago, when Evan was thinking of buying a new car, I remember telling him to buy a smaller, fuel efficient, Japanese made car, because I was quite certain that the days of cheap gas were going to be over soon.  People have been talking about peak oil for years! 

[matthew]

Incredible that we are your greatest supplier of crude yet pay more for our own oil.

[Tripp]

I forgot yesterday about one of my sister's biggest contributions to my development as a music lover...

Led Zeppelin.

My 9th grade year of high school was her senior year (80-81) and I used to ride to school with her in her stylin' white Opel GT
and among the 8-tracks we used to rock were AC/DC Back In Black, REO Speedwagon (ugh), Journey (I liked em at the time)
and Houses of the Holy by Zep which was a huge revelation to me because before that I felt that Zep was the terrain of hardcore freaks and ruffians (of which there were many MANY at Raleigh-Egypt) but the first time I heard Song Remains The Same I 'got it'.  And I still rock that album whenever I can.

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[matthew]

  People have been talking about peak oil for years! 

Yeah, mostly the oil companies. While peak oil is inevitable, I wonder how honest their assessments have been.