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Eve Doster's avatar

Jimmy’s inner goth. 🖤

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Or inner grunge

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Hahaha...when I refer to goths, in my mind I am thinking of Edgar Allen Poe or the Antebellum south, but, I’m pretty sure most people think Im talkin’ about Degens in whiteface/black tears. 😂🖤🤘

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I work at Smalls. Goths in my head are automatically people in eyeliner like asphalt making fun of Sisters of Mercy but still listening to them regularly

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Eve Doster's avatar

Love it.

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Anonymous
Jan 31, 2023

Amazing!

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Jim Latham's avatar

One of my faves from that band. I don't see it in the story, but it's probably a metaphor or something I missed. I usually miss them.

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It's a link in a word

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Jim Latham's avatar

Haha, I was looking for some sort of acrostic or something...which reminds me of Fugazi's Slow Crostic.

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I never got into Fugazi. People idolize them and I don't get it. Missed Minor Threat live. Love Dag Nasty.

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Jim Latham's avatar

Not an idolater. The only Fugazi album I like is Instrument Soundtrack. (Which includes Slow Crostic.) Almost no vocals, interesting sounds and rhythms. I got into the Minuteman, but only heard of them after the fact. About 20 years ago I spent a few winters shovelbumming all over the Mojave listening to their Double Nickels on the Dime plus Uncle Tupelo's Anthology and RL Burnside's A Asspocket Full of Whiskey.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

The Minutemen is iconic stuff. Not my favorite, but mad respect for what they did and what Mike Watt continues to do. He's played the bar I work at and one of the clubs I previously worked at.

I like some Tupelo stuff too.

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Steve's avatar

That's the only Fugazi album I liked also. The cool bass and chicken scratch guitar, under produced. Really like RL Burnside stuff.

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Steve's avatar

Lyle Preslar made me want to play guitar. I was 12 when I first heard Minor Threat, loved his work on War of Superbikes when I was 16 (saw that tour at Greystone) you could feel the ridicule of cheese metal in the guitar while playing it superbly. His work on Samhain "Initum" album is brilliant. Of course Dag Nasty. The list goes on and on.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Yeah, those MT riffs were amazing. Even though I was anti Straightedge I liked the music

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Steve's avatar

I was fortunate, the older skater kid down the street had a half pipe in his backyard and let me watch them skate. It wasn't long before I was their foul mouth 12-year-old punk rock mascot. At times I think I was a nuisance so you would hand me records and say "listen to these" process of elimination EP, Misfits Walk among us, MT out of step EP,999 wild sun and DK in God we Trust and Fresh Fruit. I'd go right home and start taping.

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Justin Deming's avatar

Great story. It’s one of my favorites from that band too.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. When I was crew chief at 7th House Pontiac, Jeff Ament's side project, Three Fish played there. They needed merch shipped to Canada, so we had to go to the airport and ship it for em. Their management handed me the Pearl Jam corporate credit card. My buddy/ coworker and I were tempted to get 2 one way tickets to Mexico. We did not. Jeff is an exceptionally cool guy.

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Justin Deming's avatar

Haha, wow, that is a ridiculously cool story. I would have been tempted, too! By the way, your band’s EP is insane! Love it.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I'm really happy you listened to it. We had something happening for a few years. A few of our biggest fans are now avid readers/supporters of Roulette Weal

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Joe's avatar

Routine engagement in increasingly risky behavior generally leads to an unwelcome end.

There is only one to whom I will trust to the end, and even he does not demand a blindfold.

Great story.

The twisted ending wrenched my heart.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I thought about their adventures for a while and didn't flippantly heave them off the cliff. But in the end...well...

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Joe's avatar

I know you didn't.

Your ability to see truth and reality and write about it - even in fiction, is what keeps me reading.

The wow factor is an incredible ability.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

That's an amazing compliment. Thanks Joe!

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Steve's avatar

I found the most risky behavior to be that they Wed, and still needed trust exercises? Wouldn't you want to know you could trust by the others integrity, before you Wed? Although, never engaging in risky behavior, would lead in unwelcome existence.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I put the word " period" in there for a reason. Most relationships have a honeymoon period without an actual wedding.

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Steve's avatar

I felt uneasy about everything except "exuberant, noisy sex". The thought of losing the sense of sight. The thought of being lead and/or leading someone else, has never been something I could feel comfortable with. Maybe it's a trust issue? I trust we all go over the cliff eventually.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Some people do it with blindfolded taste tests: trusting other people to put something in your mouth.

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Steve's avatar

No thanks. Although we trust the ingredients in our food, kind of the same thing I guess.

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Tony LeHoven's avatar

Nice story. Talk about falling in love. 

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Michael Welchans's avatar

By far their best song, and a another great turn in this one.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. I think I'm gonna listen to it now.

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