From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #354 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, March 16 2008 Volume 07 : Number 354 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Just the facts (a request) ["John Q. Cockring" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:38:40 -0400 From: "John Q. Cockring" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Just the facts (a request) It's true -- you're nobody without a real name here. JQC On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM, PunkRok wrote: > Not to mention the fact that I don't even listen to Punk Rock with much > regularity anymore . . . . I all indie rocked out now. Maybe I need to go > by > Indie Chick? > > Or, how about finally going by my *actual* name (I think I got some grief > in > my best of 07 list for not signing with a real name . . . * wink * ) > > > Florez > > > On 3/14/08, Markwstaples@aol.com wrote: > > > > In a message dated 3/14/2008 1:08:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > > tmarcinko@gmail.com writes: > > > > It was also the release of Star Wars. > > > > > > > > I remember it well--I was almost ten. The Astro Theater, > > walking distance > > from where I work now, redecorated it's Mid-Century Modern astroness > with > > a > > late seventies vision of the future in space in honor of Star Wars, > > meaning > > indirect lighting, black walls and chunky looking chromed disco > furniture > > with > > blacklight(ed) eerie looking planets made of styrofoam in the > > lobby. And, it > > was COLD inside. > > > > Pretty stark contrast to the hot bright humid summer day outside of the > > theater--or the hot vinyl seats in my mom's '74 Newport which > charbroiled > > your > > butt on the way there. > > > > Also, who could forget the Bicentennial summer the year before where > the > > county lost its collective mind in overmarketed patriotism--a cousin in > > Tennessee had her red, white and blue wedding, and I had to wear a > > white polyester > > suit with huge apron-wide flag tie that made me drip sweat, predating > > Travolta > > by nearly a year. > > > > But I had a bitchin' Disco 45 collection, as I spent my dollar > allowance > > every week on a new record, which I would hear first spun by Casey > Kasem > > on my > > red, white and blue 9-volt battery sucking GE transistor radio with a > > huge > > "76" pressed into the metal speaker grille. > > > > Try your luck, don't be a cluck, > > --Mark, whose mother steadfastly refused to let him try out for The New > > Mickey Mouse Club Mousketeer search back then--I coulda been singin' > > and dancin' > > with Lisa Welchel, dammit!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:53:19 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Just the facts (a request) In a message dated 3/15/2008 9:47:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, sgtcockring@gmail.com writes: It's true -- you're nobody without a real name here. JQC John Q Cockring seems real enough to me. Beloved child of Fred and Reba Cockring of Big Sur, CA. You had a difficult, flaccid childhood in an Eisenhower era split-level ranch house, where you filled your wood-paneled bedroom/shrine with pictures and memorabilia of your two personal heroes, Sgt. Slaughter and Klaus Nomi, who were heavy influences on you during those early tender years. One eighteen-year-old day, after playing your "You Don't Own Me" 12" for the 57th time on your Emerson Wildcat with the taped tonearm, and watching your old wrestling videos all that morning on your Betamax, you decided it was time for you to leave the nest and make your way in the world. So, with hugs (and a salty salute) from Fred and mascara-dripped tears from Reba, you packed up your rickety red Ford Probe and headed down to LA to make your name in the porn industry. Not able to break into the career field of your choice (no matter WHAT you did), and not able to join the military, as you always had that lifelong fascination with boots and crewcuts, you did what anyone with something upstairs (and downstairs) would do: take a job at Amoeba and join a band. It was at Amoeba where you found your niche. Even Jane, the hardened Bettie Page lookalike let down her guard with you when she found out your extensive knowledge of both Klaus and feminist writers, which was an interest that you had never shared with anyone until that point. There were more than just porn mags under your bed with the wagon wheel headboard back home. At Amoeba, you discovered Scott Miller when Jane put on LOLITA NATION an uber rare CD that Jane threatened to cut off something if anyone touched. She'd always play the songs that Donette sung on and skip Scott's, but that was enough to hook you. That began your fan odyssey. Pretty soon, you even had the DISTORTION e.p., signed by Michael Quercio one afternoon when he dropped by on his way to a Renaissance festival. Oh, and the band you were in? A hardcore outfit, 'cuz they like to wear boots and had crewcuts. It was merely a happy coincidence that they called themselves The Cockrings. You were happy as a lark when you became their drummer. You had found yourself. You were home (and you didn't drown or electrocute yourself or anything). But, I never learned what that Q of your middle name stood for, - --Mark **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:53:06 -0700 From: Tim Walters Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Just the facts (a request) I just want to know if it's pronounced "kok-ring" or "koh-ring." - -- Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:30:26 -0700 From: "Tom Marcinko" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Content Sign me up for that, please! Thanks! Tom On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:48 AM, wrote: > I recently downloaded from dimeadozen.org a LF show from 1998. Pretty good > quality, but not soundboard. "Spot the Setup" gets cut off at the end. The > show > was at Brownies in NYC. If anyone would like a copy of this show, just > email > me offlist. We can trade, or a blank and postage. I was at this show, and > had a blast. > Andrea > aweiss4338@aol.com > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #354 *******************************