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The J Mascis image literally made me gasp. Thanks for aging me, Poppy :(
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OK. The part about Grandpa Chuck and Henry Rollins made me laugh. A lot.

I will gladly let Grandpa Henry use my body for whatever deviant sexual need he wants. He'd probably get on my nerves, but I'm also guessing he's not a sexual stallion anymore.
And J Mascis? WTF? Dare I look up Frank Black?! From 1991 to 1999, I listened to WFNX-Boston. Great, great alternative rock, not faux alternative like the pap you hear nowadays. Good times, my college years....

Don't look up Frank Black, Allison. He looks like my dad, only with less hair.

But oh, it was great to start college in 1991. Perfect time to be a 19-year-old music nerd. Add that to the list of things that have made me feel ancient recently: I caught myself giving the "Man, 1991 was awesome!" speech to a 16-year-old a few weeks ago.

omg - that j Mascis photo should've come with a "first, put down your coffee" warning. Egads!

He kinda resembles the current Vince Neil, minus the bottle blondeness.

OMG. I totally Stonecutter-posted about Before and After Andy Rourke yesterday.

Before Andy Rourke is so hot. That spiky hair. That '64 Fender P Bass. Slurp.

After Andy Rourke is so... Sad? Pathetic? A prime example of how right the "this is your brain on drugs" commercial was? Hard tellin.

And if Old Andy is gone, gone forever, does that mean that somewhere out there, someone is looking at Before and After pictures of me and doing this lovely compare and contrast exercise? Yuck.

Definitely don't look up Frank Black. I caught a documentary about the Pixies last month and was *shocked.*

Holy shit. J needs to *start choppin* that nasty hair. Sorry. I couldn't resist!

This is how much older and less hip I am than you. I don't know who in the fuck you are talking about, cept Henry Rollins and I think he looks hot. Sigh. Middle-age. Avoid it.

Barbara, Vince Neil is 97% plastic now. But yeah, there's a definite resemblance.

To J's credit, that's a particularly bad photo. If you can, go to the Rollins Show link and watch the clip of Dinosaur Jr. With the hair washed and combed, it actually looked great. Interesting. I was mesmerized by it.

Julie, oh God. The Smiths. If you keep talking about The Smiths, I'll have to increase my new antidepressant dosage.

As lovely karmic payback for poking fun at someone for the simple act of aging, I got a disturbing phone call today - my senior high school class president, inviting me to our 15-year class reunion, where we'll all look like J Mascis.

Lori, *snort*. Just ... *snort* I'm kicking myself for not thinking of that one.

Lisa, on a message board I'm on, someone made a point about being hip that cracks me up: hipsters are just nerds with more self-confidence.

Don't get me wrong - just because Henry's starting to take on some Grandpa Chuck-related tendancies, that doesn't mean that he's not still h-o-t. In fact, I think he looks better now than ever. But I've got a thing for graying hair.

on the flip side, i think the early j. mascis photo is exceptionally flattering. i crushed him sooo hard in the 90s and watched several live performances, always concluding that i was way more hot for his genius than his looks.

What, Robin? The Smiths were the purveyors of fine, uplifting, not at all pathological or even remotely bitter, music with such tunes as "There is a light..." erm, I mean, "Girlfriend in a..." uhm... I mean, "Reel Around the..." ah, erm, I mean, "Shoplifters..." um... I mean, "How Soon...."

Okay, I get your point. I think I need drugs just thinking about it. But not HEROIN. Cause that'll get you kicked out of the band for a couple weeks.

Ohhhh Rubber Ring Rubber Ring Rubber Ring Rubber Ring.

Julie, you just made me swallow my gum. I'm also going to get in trouble for laughing in the quiet section of the library.

You know that part in "How Soon is Now" when Morrissey whines about wanting to go home and cry and die? He's joking, right?

If that rich SOB wants to go home and cry and want to die, then there is little hope for the rest of us.

Ladies! Ladies! Shit happens!!!

Yep. And THAT is why people don't update pictures of themeselves in bios. :D

"Please, please, please let me get what I want!!!"

Poor Robin. She merely puts up with the fact that I think The Smiths and Morrissey himself are the bees knees.

Robin! When I'm in Manchester I'll have to find all Smiths related artifacts/homes/bicycle gangs/Morrissey's hoola-hoop, etc...

Wow, it'll be all that I ever dreamed and more.

'STINA! GET OUT! Are you going to Manchester for reals? I am so jealous. It is a dream of mine to have my picture taken out front of the Salford Lads Club wearing faded peg leg jeans and a boxy suede jacket!!! Seriously, color me gel-iss. When are you going?

Just had to come back and say that hours later, I am still cracking up over "bicycle gangs."

SNORT! Effin MOrrissey. I love that giant phuk ever so. He is good times.

Okay, just had to point out that "MOrrissey" in the above post was an unfortunate (yet slightly highlarious) typeo.

Heh. Big Mo'.

As much as I dislike the Smiths and Morissey musically, there is no one in the world more fun to make fun of. Jules, you need to be with Exena and me sometime when we're riffing on Mo'. It's a sight to behold.

Were you reading my blog, oh, about a year and a half ago? It was January, and it seemed like all of my friends were down about one thing or another. To cheer them, every blog entry I wrote had a Mo'-related title. Most of the titles even pertained to the topics I wrote about. I was rather impressed with myself over that one.

I don't recall that. I'll have to do some remedial reading.

You know, I didn't know you didn't like the Moz. Or the Smiths. Hmmm. So many ideas for fun ways to annoy you! So little time!

I'm going to be in England (well minus three days that I'll be in Edinburgh) from Dec. 18 - Jan. 9. My boyfriend and I are spending the holidays there with his sister and brother-in-law. They live in Stockport, which is a stone's throw from Manchester. I am sooooo going to get my photo taken in front of Salford Lads Club! I have to head down to Macclesfield and hunt down some Ian Curtis haunts too.

You know the video for "Shoplifters..."? Big Mo' looks as if he's going round and round with an imaginary hula hoop. That's what that's all about :)

This set of comments has inspired us. D and I are going to plan a "Pub Crawl Through the British Isles and Take an Abbey Road and a Queen Is Dead Picture" trip. Woo!

I'd better get a damn good souvenir from that pub crawl, as I feel partially responsible.

I'll send you pictures. Snork.

BTW. I have got to go clean my house. THis is the third time today I've looked at your blog. I keep going through all my favorites waiting for action. It's a sickness.