20 years ago today...

 

I was starting the 9th grade, fresh from a long, hot summer at my grandparents' house. I had spent all summer listening to college radio and jacking off to 2 playboys my cousin scored for me in between daily trips to the record store to look at tapes I couldn't afford...
That summer I heard Fugazi for the first time on MRR radio which was syndicated at like midnight saturday on the station that I dug the most (which I want to say was out of Bates college...) Amazingly enough they had just released in on the kill taker and were going to play vermont a few days after I got back home. I don't know if I had realized what was happening to me and how I was changing, but that was the start of it... My true gateway to punk and I guess to the rest of my life... Perfect timing. thanks.
Here's a recording of that show from the Fugazi live archives.
awesome.

Fugazi Burlington, VT USA, 9/13/93

My Insane Childhood...

This video scared the shit out of me as a child. Seeing it again, of course I think it's fantastic and beautiful and not without a hint of power or magic... but I remember seeing this as a very young child and really losing my shit... and years later recalling the memory every so often and wondering if it was real or something I made up... Well... I found the video...
It was a trip to watch it as an adult and realize that I didn't make it up and that I'm not insane...
well...
regarding the video anyway...
I mean... it does exist...
anyway, enjoy...
; )





Wind in the Willows : the piper at the gates of dawn