The roller rink was the site of my first illicit slice of pepperoni pizza.
(at a birthday party!)
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
It's only in retrospect that it seems like it might've been fun. I wasn't really aware of roller-rink culture until long after it was a phenomenon, so I wasn't aware I was missing out on anything. At the time, it just probably seemed like another activity that required physical coordination that I wasn't going to be good at.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i have many fond memories of rollerskating as a kid. i think i was still going as late as 87 or 88 -- whenever Expose was really big. There was this kid named Jerome who was like the local Michael Jackson. He would seriously get down the light-up dance floor. I had a crush on him for like a week.
Joan Jett is like the ULTIMATE roller rink music -- esp. "Do You Wanna Touch Me" or whatever that song was called. I remember whizzing around hardcore to that song. Also failed limbo contests.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
it was basically rollerdancing that it was ok to do alone, so i was all about it. actual dancing? not yet. dancing while rolling around? SURE.
Skate-n-dances were always a source of great stress for me, at least the skate part was, because girls were supposed to skate backwards and I cannot do that, not even a little, so I always had to skate hand in hand with boys and hope that I didn't totally bring us all down.
John, we could have been total uncoordinated grade school BFFs.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
All my skating parties were on ice.
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The last time I went rollerskating was maybe after freshman year in college. Some kids tried to pick a fight with me! I can't remember why, only that "Who Let the Dogs Out" was playing.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I spent many days and nights at Skateville as a kid.
In Chicago I've skated at a rink out in Palatine (adult skate on Sunday nights, hint hint) and somewhere down by 75th and Halsted.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't find a photo of Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci roller-dancing to "Don't Stop Believin'" from Monster.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Led Zeppelin. But they stole their songs from politically and/or socially powerless black blues artists so nobody listened to them complain.
the lawyers listened, chicago's own willie dixon sued zeppelin over "bring it on home" and "whole lotta love" being similar to songs dixon owned copyrights to (whether or not he wrote them is another matter), both cases were settled out of court.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.skateville.com/DSC00111.JPG http://www.skateville.com/DSC00097.JPG
Looks like they've left the place as is.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
xp to Kevin: GO LAWYERS GO!
― Jenny, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking a, there's more planning going on to pick up two boxes of t-shirts than there was on the fucking landing at normandy.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
lawyers, is there anything they CAN'T do?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
skateville take me there
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
This stuff goes on in New Orleans all the time. Everyone plays everyone else's tunes, everyone argues about who wrote what, tunes contain riffs that have been bouncing around for decades, no one really has copyrights. It's crazy.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
One of your brass bands should play "Pony" by Ginuwine.
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Or "White Horse" by Laid Back.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
That is a great idea!
xpost to nick
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Nick, I listened to your mix and the big winner for me (ie I checked out their myspace and would buy a record) is Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. They actually remind me of the Lounge Lizards a lot. What can you tell me about them.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Brass band "Idiotheque"?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
no
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Brass "Creep"?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ILX 2You have tried to insert a duplicate message.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"Clocks"?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Theme song to "Hill Street Blues"?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Brass band "Holland, 1945"
(Neutral Milk Hotel)
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Secret: C4n4st4 rips off "Clocks" in at least a couple of different songs, although by "rips off" I just mean having the piano do an arpeggiated 3-3-2 meter.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I have thought for a while that some NMH songs had a vaguely zydeco/New Orleans rhythmic feel to them, so it might work.
Set list: 1. "Sanford and Son Theme" 2. "We Are All Made of Stars" 3. "TV Party Tonight" 4. "Anarchy In The UK" 5. "Fast Car" 6. (encore) "Don't Know Why" (fast)
― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
They were straight out of fucking Ruston, LA, too.
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Sanford and Son Theme"
We already do this
― Jordan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
freddie's dead by curtis mayfield?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
or (personal favorite) "the young mods' forgotten story" by the impressions.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
that opening blast from the horns kills me every time.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/84/6b/b013124128a090b224618010.L.jpg
My eyes must be going totally fucking wacko: I thought that arch on the right was R2-D2 for a second.
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ew I hate "Pony"
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i think "pony" is disgusting/hilarious
better without lyrics, with coordinated gyration
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
!!! Pony is like the best song ever!!!
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
the production grosses me out. all those...noises.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Um Jordan, I don't know what to tell you about Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The main dude has a few albums with different personel. His last album was credited to Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and was called "Git!" and was good too, though a little slicker/poppier than the new one. A bunch of us saw them live a year or so ago and they were really different than they sound on the albums, way more noisier/jammier and less song-y. If you like that one song, you would probably like the whole "Lucas" album, the sound is pretty consistent throughout.
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
If I were an ILM dork, I would say that song is one of Timbaland's like top 5 production jobs.
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Another reason why WXRT is pretty much the best commercial radio station, despite playing entirely too much Hootie: one time, the DJ followed up the Regular Guy's review of Freddy vs. Jason with "Freddie's Dead." You can't claim that ClearChannel preprogrammed that from a remote location.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Ginuwine sings real pretty. I actually can't help but listen to that song whenever it's on the radio but it also makes me cringe.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
How do you feel about the "In Your Jeans" song?
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qurW5mnaxAM
― n/a, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really remember how "Pony" goes -- I think I only downloaded it after Nick raved about it one time, and I don't recall hearing it on the radio (must've been in my Dark Period). I do often sing "In Those Jeans," though.
haha xpost
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I am sort of eh about the song, but I am loving the literalism of the video.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"baby can I get in those jeans" while pointing to jeans=awesome.
god now i'm voluntarily listening to "Pony" Nick what have you done.
I'm sort of fascinated by the grossness, I guess
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link