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posted 09-25-2002 12:36 PM            

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I had a Variflex Duane Peters

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posted 09-25-2002 08:50 PM         

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I had memorized the #6 bus schedule (get me to Uptown, please -- the suburbs are scaring me

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posted 09-25-2002 09:03 PM            

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Wasn't there some sort of book about that?

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posted 09-26-2002 12:47 AM            

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Big Brother was watching me boink my high school girlfriend.

I had hair

I didn't have an 80lb gut

I had the biggest Sex Pistols collection in the midwest

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posted 09-26-2002 02:01 AM            

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turned ten years old

had a veriflex monster

discovered that girls were pretty damn cool.
('specially naked ones)

was convinced that the world was going to blow up at any second.

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posted 09-26-2002 09:07 AM            

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I was inebriated in Deutchland. I had a Mercedes and drove it to Frankfurt every weekend to buy hash, either from the Turks or the Africans. Then charge G.I.s 3 times what I paid for it. I pulled my head out of my ass 18 years later.

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posted 09-26-2002 10:06 AM         

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wow. i was seven!

And really, really into Cyndi Lauper.

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posted 09-26-2002 11:16 AM            

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And really, really into Cyndi Lauper.

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I saw the last date of the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" tour. 3 greatest show I've seen in my life (behind Kraftwerk and Roxy Music). They had been on the road for 18 months so they were the tightest band I've ever seen, yet loose and spontanious as it was the last night of the tour.

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posted 09-26-2002 12:20 PM            

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I was 10 and probably playing in the dirt pit behind my house in Oakland. Didn't care about music and was scared of girls (especially that one who would pin me down and punch me all the time).

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posted 09-26-2002 12:22 PM            

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Dropped out of HS, used a (poorly altered)fake ID to get into Uptown, 7th St., McCafferty's, McCready's, stealing my parent's car late at night, hanging out at Embers @ Henn. & 26th, No.Lights(block E), smoking a lot of pot, taking a lot of acid... Urban Guerillas, Replacements, Bauhaus, Patti Smith...

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posted 09-26-2002 01:15 PM            

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Went to a Van Halen concert. (Their last tour with Diamond Dave.)

Oh, and saw some band called "The Clash". I guess they used to matter.

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posted 09-26-2002 01:17 PM            

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i was plannin on the russians to nuke us, i made a ton of crazy bets with chicks. it didn't happen so i had to live up to those bets...d'oh

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posted 09-26-2002 01:21 PM         

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I was 10 and probably playing in the dirt pit behind my house in Oakland. Didn't care about music and was scared of girls (especially that one who would pin me down and punch me all the time).

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did you grow up in california?

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posted 09-26-2002 01:30 PM            

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did you grow up in california?

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Partly.
From 80-85 in Oakland. From 90-93 in Oceanside, then San Clemente.

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posted 09-26-2002 01:36 PM            

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I was inebriated in Deutchland. I had a Mercedes and drove it to Frankfurt every weekend to buy hash, either from the Turks or the Africans. Then charge G.I.s 3 times what I paid for it. I pulled my head out of my ass 18 years later.

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I think I still thought hash was for thugs back then. But by 86 I was smoking with the best of them! And living with a Turkish family. Where were you in Germany?

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posted 09-26-2002 02:06 PM         

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Partly.
From 80-85 in Oakland. From 90-93 in Oceanside, then San Clemente. [/B]

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I was in Santa Monica and Hollywood from 77-92, and up in Santa Cruz from 96-98. I prefer my times not in California, however

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posted 09-26-2002 02:15 PM            

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I was in Santa Monica and Hollywood from 77-92, and up in Santa Cruz from 96-98. I prefer my times not in California, however

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I liked Oakland, but I was a youngster. I would prefer that I never set foot in So.California again.

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posted 09-26-2002 03:10 PM            

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I was in Santa Monica and Hollywood from 77-92, and up in Santa Cruz from 96-98. I prefer my times not in California, however

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UC-Santa Cruz? Don't they have an amusement park there, too? Or is that the college?

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posted 09-26-2002 03:32 PM         

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UC-Santa Cruz? Don't they have an amusement park there, too? Or is that the college?

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yep, I was at UC Santa Cruz for two REALLY LONG years. There is a boardwalk there with rides, if memory serves, though i spent the majority of my time there trying to figure out how to get the hell out of there. For the record, I hate California. I, too, would live a happy life if i never set foot in SoCal ever again. It's icky.

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posted 09-26-2002 03:43 PM            

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As soon as I graduated, I packed up and moved to Wisconsin. People thought I was nuts "You moved here from California. If I lived in California (read: I watched a lot of 90210)I would never move away!"

It's the smartest thing I've ever done.

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posted 09-26-2002 03:50 PM         

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It's the smartest thing I've ever done. [/B]

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me too.

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posted 09-26-2002 05:56 PM            

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Maygun, I never knew. I hitchhiked to Santa Cruz in 91, from New Orleans and spent the summer there.

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posted 09-27-2002 01:58 AM            

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There is a boardwalk there with rides, if memory serves

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As immortalized in "The Lost Boys".

Doesn't really count as "SoCal", though, does it?

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posted 09-27-2002 06:34 AM            

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(especially that one who would pin me down and punch me all the time).

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thats the one i liked the most!
AHHHHHH the cruelty of women!

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posted 09-27-2002 09:25 AM         

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As immortalized in "The Lost Boys".

Doesn't really count as "SoCal", though, does it?

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no, but my 15 years in los angeles have given me many a reason to hate southern california. santa cruz made me hate central california-pretty, but i wouldnt ever want to live there again.

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posted 09-27-2002 01:36 PM            

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Point taken. Having visited the left coast a few times, I can't picture living there.

Bringing things full circle, in 1984 the company I was working for moved to California, and wanted me to go with. I turned 'em down. They went to Santa-frickin-Barbara. And then they went out of business. Ha.

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posted 09-30-2002 04:22 PM            

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I graduated from Marquette Middle to East High School (in Madison, Wisconsin), shaved my head, became friends with some Salvadoran refugees at my church, read Orwell, became a "radical," bought Double Nickels/Zen Arcade/Let It Be in one week, wrote my first record reviews, played in my first band ("House of the Rising Sun"/Butthole Surfers covers/"original" punk), went to my first student protests (anti-apartheid), was offered my first chance at sex (I chickened out), played in a reggae band for one day, wrote and received my first long love letters...

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posted 09-30-2002 05:20 PM         

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In 1984 I graduated from high school, started setting up hall shows with my Garage cohorts, applied to the U at the last minute and worked. Hung out at Northern Lights and continued my quest to get a job there (which didn't happen until the following year.

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