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Speed Street
Want to know how badass Houston was in the 1980s? Check out the film about about our roving gang of prankster roller skaters, the Urban Animals. Last night we went to Aurora Picture Show’s Scoot In event, where they were screening a series of short independent films about wheeled transportation. They showed Speed Street, and while the quality in these YouTube vids is shit, the movie is fucking awesome, with an excellent ’80s soundtrack to boot. We met up with our scooter friends and rode to the screening, at Sesquicentennial Park. It was nice to be back on the Vespa. Even after 3-4 months of her sitting idle in the garage, she started up right away. That was, after I remembered to turn on the ignition. The weather was perfect. Pretty soon it’ll be too hot to ride during the day. Below is another movie they screened, which I though was pretty badass.And they’ve talked on the phone a handful of times. Oguchi called after Sept. 11 to make sure Otto and her family were safe, and Otto reciprocated after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan a little more than a year ago.
Pen pals since 1949 meet up for the first time. So touching.There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Marriage advice from Ronald Reagan, via Letters of Note
Learn How To Be a Starfucking Superfox!
Sigh. Anybody remember Groupie Central?
32 years ago at 7:22 a.m. Central Time I was born at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City. Birthdays on a Wednesday suck. I mean, how to celebrate?
Saw him in OKC a few years ago. Blew me away, singing in his modified motorcycle helmet. Does he still do that? Didn’t realize he was still around. My favorite Bob Log song: Clap Your Tits. He has the absolute best song titles.
And now that I think about it, I wonder what ever happened to the “band” Captured! by Robots.
Captured! by Robots is still around, I think. And yes, Bob Log does still play with the phone receiver-motorcycle helmet. He was so awesome. The crowd on the other hand, not awesome.
Maybe the crowd was just imitating the one in Blowup, huh? Come to think of it, the crowd when I saw him wasn’t so great either. I think I saw him play at a friggin’ bowling alley. My memory of it is hazy, much like a bowling alley.