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When my brother and I were in high school we bought a 1967 Chevy Impala with a 283 V8 and 4 barrel carb, complete leaky fuel line and a hole in the roof above the rear view mirror, paying $25 for it.
We promptly went to the Fisher Big Wheel (a sorta low-rent K-Mart) and bought a tape deck and two small speakers for $35. At this point we were broke, and proceeded to make some sweet cassette tapes of various albums. Not having anything to cut through the rear seat deck panel to place the speakers, we ran some speaker wire and jammed them underneath the elevated headrests.
That car rocked.
We sold it for $200 a few years later, and my dad was as proud as only a used car salesman papa could be.
The latest mix theme for the growing CD traders at work thus was "Spring Driving with the windows down", prompted by my memory of said car, and to celebrate my dad's sale of a similar vintage Impala convertible he sold recently via the internet. He thought that was pretty cool that a woman in Seattle bought his car in western Pennsylvania...
And when I hear Van Halen cranking out You Really Got Me, I am back in my Impala....
I've never been able to get into Futurama, but totally dig the theme song when it pops up after Colbert...
But wait! Youtube tells me there is another version.. allegedly the original? Who can shed light on such obscurities.. Perhaps even better!
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OK, I'm up for the challenge.
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The guys name is Pierre Henry here's allmusic link for him, very intersting read.
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http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifpxqw5ld6e~T1
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It really fit well with premise of show: (from wiki: The name "Futurama" comes from a pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted what he imagined the world to look like in 1959"
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also, from wiki: Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal)
Leela is the competent, one-eyed captain of the Planet Express Ship. Abandoned at birth, she grew up in an Orphanarium believing herself to be an alien from an unknown race. She later learns that she is actually a mutant from the sewers.
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here's the link to wiki futurama entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama
wow, excellent digging! I will need to check him out... collaborated with Violent Femmes, and sampled by many others..
its tough for those sewer mutants.
Even better.
You can thank fistula spume for this one, he dug it up like a thousand years ago for me.
Read the full post here;
http://mog.com/fistula_spume/blog_post/67359
Yes, Sam is amazing.
Enjoy the weirdness.
Primary election day here in Penn's Woods. Go vote for the right candidate, my fellow Pennsylvanians!
"The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution"
Can't access youtube from work to post the video, but, hey, you get the idea.
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Did it already. The folks at the polling place said that by 9 a.m. they'd already had as many voters as they usually get in a day. No matter who takes PA, that's a good sign....
A cell phone company used this song for a campaign and they ruined it for me, they ruined it, I tell you.
But yes, people have the power. Go, Pennsylvanians!
Rock the vote Penn moggers!
I just heard that a record number of republicans switched their affiliation to democratic before the deadline...What does that mean where all y'all are from? Love to hear your opinion on what that is going to do on the primary election.
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I was just thinking tonight that if I owned a metal saw, I could have a convertible....
Yeah! Hey did you ever watch the show Top Gear, on BBC America? Its on Monday nights at 8 pm, and they did just that,, converting a variety of cars to convertibles, as well as other bits of mayhem and sports car bad-ass-ness. Its become must see TV here after Cooper goes to bed.
The converted convertibles, most fell apart.
As did the RVs they raced on a stock car track.
I saw the RVs - that was quite hilarious. Did you see the one in which they bought $1000 used cars in the Florida Keys and drove them to New Orleans, with a different "challenge" each day? One challenge called for them to paint offensive slogans on each others' cars ("Man Love Rules," "Hillary For President") and drive across Alabama? They nearly got themselves killed....