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This would be a good thread to share stories of yourselves meeting J. I don’t want to ask what you talked about or anything, because that would be private. Did anything strange happen at one of their gigs? I had mundane times at the 3 gigs I went too…..
July 4th, independence, in the pendent, in deep end it day 2002……… I thought I would meet J at this gig for the first time, but I missed the chance. I was kinda sad I had to go to this one alone, as I had a girlfriend at the time. I was patted down upon entry into the club, and I don’t know if it was tight security but 4 jets did fly over that evening. I thought that was cool. I grabbed a good patch in the grass in the music park, to lie down and waste off my buzz. J walks strikingly close, almost stepping on me. I was gonna jump up and stop him but he kinda caught me off gaurd. It was like some kind of surreal moment out of the More Light cover art where’s J’s blackness appears before the sun, in his croc hunting hat and all. Anyway, that was a cool hat. I’ve never seen J wear that one in any photos. He walked to the belly dancer, then to get refreshments, then down to the fence to meet his friend, and then straight across right in front of me forming a perfect triangle. Not a very good story, but true. And here’s the whopper. That grass I was laying on was Bermuda. Suddenly, that memory disappears like a jet over the bermuda triangle.
I was dissapoined and in a strange mood when I finally got to talk to J. I wish I never even would have met him. After hearing this song called Pick Me Up, I’m thinking a Dear John Mascis letter is order.
"r.a.r.a. raines " wrote:I was dissapoined and in a strange mood when I finally got to talk to J. I wish I never even would have met him.Why
"maxini " wrote:WhyIf I would have never met him I would have never showed him what a fool I was. That means it has nothing to do with him. I asked him some dumb questions and I spoke too fast and I may have actually smiled which really ruins the image I want him to have of me. He just stared at me when I asked him questions.
This is a funny thread. I met J once, and it was strange. He just kinda stared at me, nodded, and walked away.
A good friend of mine worked at the Whole Foods in Amherst while she was in school, and J. and his wife used to come in all the time. She said he was always a nice dude, but kind of shy and socially awkward.
One of my other friends met J. once when J. got him into a show for free. My friend carried his amps in, and got to eat Indian food with him backstage. They talked a bit about the Smiths and some hardcore bands, and that was about it.
I like the fact that J seems like a total oddball. The greatest artists always are: Neil Young, Flannery O’Connor, Kurosawa, Clowes, etc.
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