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IT’S ALL CONNECTED
Another multiple choice question listed at the end of the CHOPPER magazine that I bought was
Usually the most slippery place to ride is…
A. The center of the lane.
B. Near the shoulder.
C. Down the Hershey Highway.
D. Sue & Jean’s exotic massage parlor.
I met the three girls at the top of the stratosphere and the phrase “Hershey Highway” was still fresh in my mind. I used it to describe some event, and I felt remarkably normal about it. I felt normal, despite the fact that the phrase was from a winter 1981 issue of CHOPPER magazine.
Looking back, when I said “She put the capital ‘H’ in Hershey highway,” it must have sounded really freaking funny.
EARTH-SHATTERING FASHION STATEMENT
In Vegas I bought a number of clothing items including some black cowboy boots. I don’t remember why exactly I wanted black cowboy boots. It might have had something to do with the fact that earlier in the week I had watched Kix’s “Cold Blood” video about a hundred times. No doubt the song was stuck in my head and influenced my decision making.
From the night that I bought the boots until now, the amount of feedback has been overwhelming. It’s like I kicked Versace in the balls.
Feedback from both men and women, I mean. Two guys independently wrote me emails to tell me they wanted to buy some boots, and discuss which boots were good. Women that normally do not take much notice of me stop to converse about how nice my boots look. Just about every day that I have worn the boots, someone has stopped to ask me where I got them.
EMO SOUNDTRACK
In the same store that I bought the CHOPPER magazine, I also bought a bunch of vinyl records. One of the vinyls was the REO Speedwagon album, High Infidelity.
During my emo filled Sunday morning Vegas coffee trip, “Take it on the Run” came on the radio. It came on the radio when I was in the rental car on the way back to the hotel from Starbucks. I never thought of that song as a sad song before. Actually, like most REO Speedwagon songs, I thought of it as devoid of just about any meaning whatsoever. But when that song came on the radio it was the ultimate emo moment. I felt so sad. It was like an orgasm of emo.
Since I got back from Vegas I have tried to listen to the vinyl I bought. Oddly, now the whole album sounds too sad. I can’t listen to it.
If anyone wants the album, just let me know. It will be my gift to you. I’ll even autograph it first.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Allen // Jun 16, 2008 at 10:36 am
What? No reference to REO Speeddealer!? Well, now you have one.
Just drive that REO Speedwagon down the Hershey Highway, pal.
If’ I’ve been punny, then I apologize and will make it up in my next comments.
2 Alex // Jun 16, 2008 at 5:53 pm
When those songs were written there was no such thing as “emo,” so you can rest assured that these songs, are, in fact, not “emo,” but rather an unfortunate result of a major acid trip, just like all the things created in the 70s.
3 Ian Bowman // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:27 am
Allen,
Haha. It’s not really a pun if it’s double entendre. Even if it is, who cares? Double entendre is in a class by itself.
Alex,
There is no doubt in mind that you are right. Except well, High Infidelity was released in 1980.
4 Alex // Jun 17, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Right. It was released when they came off the trip in the 80s, and discovered that, while tripping, they have written several albums worth of music.
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