God Awful Things

No, this isn’t another post on my flowery youth, this is a simple link to a photoblog of pictures people have taken, with brief blurbs, of the one who got away.
I love this stuff, very depressio, I have plenty of pictures of my own, but I couldn’t dare post them.
Link: The One That Got Away

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Alright, this is a list of 50 or so bands I have seen in my travels, I was recently informed that some people found it amusing, so I have revised it here with hot links and spelling errors fixed!
The Iowa / Missouri / Minnesota Years
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1. Wilco – Saw these guys in Ames, IA when I [...]

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True believers, I’ve got some news for those of you whom don’t know me (all 2 of you).  In my flowery youth, I fancied myself a bit of a minstrel of love.  And so I would record songs (of varying quality, both lyrically, musically, and recording).
See, when I was in High School (oh to have [...]

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Hallucinogens are not for everyone, that’s for sure, and in formative years post college, I experimented (not planning on running for office ever so I don’t think I’m ruining my chances by posting this on the big ol’ internet).  In high school we would take lots of dramamine which would put you in a near [...]

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I probably started shaving in about 1994, maybe 1993.. I would have been 16 or 17.  Tried growing a goatee, it’s a rite of passage in rural Iowa that one must grow some gross facial hair as soon as the peach fuzz begins to change it’s color like the leaves in autumn.
Next, I worked on [...]

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I hesitate to even type this up, I know I will have to come back many times and edit things as more and more discoveries are made and research conducted, but, by God, it’s time to tell them world.  You see, me and the ladies, well, the relationship can best be described as trouble.  I [...]

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And now, another installment from the awarding winning series “My Flowery Youth”.
When I first went to college I spent a lot of my time on IRC.  Now for you youngsters who weren’t on the internet back in ‘95, let me tell you about IRC.  IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, I imagine it is most comparable to [...]

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When I was 19, I was kicked out of college for a year.  My grades weren’t up to snuff and a required year off was mandatory before retaking any of the courses,  along with attending some meetings that had a retarded name like S.T.A.R. or something like that.
During that year off I went to the [...]

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