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Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (1 Viewer)

rockaction said:
This caused me to re-visit Dogrel. What a great, moody album! 
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They get played a good bit on some of the radio stations I listen to, and I don't know exactly why but I cannot warm to that that singer. I don't know if it's the tone or the vocal melody or what. I seem to have that issue with a lot of the punkier (to me) UK singers (especially those from Ireland).

 
If I had known this draft included epic tales of lthe Cap Center, Kings Dominion, and lost virginity, I would have been in here years ago.

 
I went to a #### ton of shows there in the late 70s & early 80s. It was an easy 25 minute drive (then, not so much now) up Rte 202 from where I lived in southern AA County. Plus, it was cheap. Those Summer Fun concerts may have been around $5. I remember seeing the Commodores & LTD for $7. Saw AC/DC and KISS for free - I drove my brother and some of his friends there for someone's birthday and the parents had rented a skybox. Was backstage at a few P Funk shows for free because a friend of a friend was a roadie for them.

 
simey said:
Where is that?
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Do you know where Annapolis is? That's in the middle of Anne Arundel County. It runs along the west side of the Chesapeake Bay up towards Baltimore.

It was an odd county when I was young - you had Annapolis in the middle; north of there was suburban/urban (for the most part); south of Annapolis was straight country - in many, many ways it might as well have been Alabama.

My high school was the only one in South County (& covered about 1/3 of the entire county area-wise) until late in my teen life. We'd play Annapolis HS in hoops and their fans would chant for us to go back into the woods.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Do you know where Annapolis is? That's in the middle of Anne Arundel County. It runs along the west side of the Chesapeake Bay up towards Baltimore.

It was an odd county when I was young - you had Annapolis in the middle; north of there was suburban/urban (for the most part); south of Annapolis was straight country - in many, many ways it might as well have been Alabama.

My high school was the only one in South County (& covered about 1/3 of the entire county area-wise) until late in my teen life. We'd play Annapolis HS in hoops and their fans would chant for us to go back into the woods.
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I kinda know where it is. My second cousin, Lou Ann, may live there. I'd have to ask my mom. That's rude that Annapolis HS fans would chant for your team to go back into the woods. Sounds like you guys were the "Deliverance" school. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
They get played a good bit on some of the radio stations I listen to, and I don't know exactly why but I cannot warm to that that singer. I don't know if it's the tone or the vocal melody or what. I seem to have that issue with a lot of the punkier (to me) UK singers (especially those from Ireland).
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He’s sort of from the Lou Reed school of non-singing. 

 
scorchy said:
Lol. I mean it is a few hundred pages... Or maybe it's that I still have no clue what all the weird verbiage around dice rolls means.
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I don't know how the dice world works. All I know is Eephus is the Dice King, and rock is his protégé. 

 
scorchy said:
In the late 90s, if I flew to Detroit, it was usually via ProAir into Detroit City b/c it was crazy cheap. At the time, it definitely qualified as one of the more interesting locations for an airport.
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DTW is a huge hub and a very nice airport actually.

simey said:
Several years ago, I saw a segment on television about plans to revitalize some of the abandoned buildings/neighborhoods in Detroit. They were excited about the projects they had in mind. Has that happened yet?
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Oh yeah, the city has had a ton of revitalization. It will never return to what it was though. Detroit was the wealthiest city in the country, getting close to 3 million people. How’s it not an economic powerhouse and down to 700,000. However it still is one of the largest cities by square miles. It’s unruly but so many places have been given new life the last decade.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Do you know where Annapolis is? That's in the middle of Anne Arundel County. It runs along the west side of the Chesapeake Bay up towards Baltimore.

It was an odd county when I was young - you had Annapolis in the middle; north of there was suburban/urban (for the most part); south of Annapolis was straight country - in many, many ways it might as well have been Alabama.

My high school was the only one in South County (& covered about 1/3 of the entire county area-wise) until late in my teen life. We'd play Annapolis HS in hoops and their fans would chant for us to go back into the woods.
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I think we've joked about this before, but parts of Northern AA county (Pasadena especially) qualify as Alabama-esque too .  At least he governor never called your hometown the "####hole of the State."  Not that I thought he was wrong at the time - I couldn't wait to get away from the Eastern Shore.

ETA: How many of you all have ever actually watched Heavy Metal Parking Lot?  Captures the essence of redneck Maryland metalheads too well.

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Not saying you're wrong, but the same was said about Baltimore in the '80s & '90s - money won out, as it always does.
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Detroit has improved and we have more white people there than we have had since the 60s-70s but Detroit is wild. It won’t be tamed any time soon and that’s the appeal. 

 
Ilov80s said:
DTW is a huge hub and a very nice airport actually.
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Not DTW - Detroit City Airport.  Renamed Coleman Young.  Seemed to be right in the middle of run-down commercial area with lots of vacants on the side roads.  It no longer operates for commercial flights though.  

 
simey said:
I kinda know where it is. My second cousin, Lou Ann, may live there. I'd have to ask my mom. That's rude that Annapolis HS fans would chant for your team to go back into the woods. Sounds like you guys were the "Deliverance" school. 
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That's ok. Our chant back was worse - it was "Go back into the ghetto". Our school was about 50% black and 50% white, but were were almost all blue collar or poor. It was the black kids that made up the "ghetto" chant.

 
scorchy said:
Lol. I mean it is a few hundred pages... Or maybe it's that I still have no clue what all the weird verbiage around dice rolls means.
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The dice roll is simply this: I take a thousand-sided die and roll it. There are fifty categories, numbered 1-20, 21-40, etc., up until one thousand. I take the number that the generator tells me the dice has rolled and use a spreadsheet to select the corresponding category. Those categories last five times being rolled. On the sixth roll (or if the playlist is more than three hours it's the next roll after it hits three hours) the category is retired from the Main Event. 

What is the Main Event? Well, the Main Event is composed of those categories aforementioned. How does one get into the Main Event? Well, we have percolated categories sitting in a location that we call "Dayton" after the play-in games for college basketball. I take a six-sided die and roll it. Whatever number comes up, that's the new category in the Main Event! 

How do we replace those categories promoted from Dayton? Well, we already have categories, or we come up with a new category. If it meets the appropriate vetting process (and our vetting process is much like the uncertainty of the electoral college and its electors these days), it goes in The Hopper. The dice are then rolled (however many categories there are is how I choose the number of sides of the die) and the corresponding category moves into Daytona. 

So it goes like this

Main Event - fifty categories, thousand sided-die
Dayton - six categories, six-sided die
The Hopper - where all the categories go to wait their turn 

LOLOLOLOL. I must admit something. I've been really bumbling this up all along. It's "Dayton" and not "Daytona," which I've been using. Eephus has been kind not to remind me that I'm really messing it up and that its origin starts with college basketball, not Pusha T's great 2018 album or the race cars. 
 

 
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Looks like we have enough people for a Bonus Saturday event, but I'm not sure what category or how we could encourage a game that required a daisy chain. 

 
scorchy said:
I think we've joked about this before, but parts of Northern AA county (Pasadena especially) qualify as Alabama-esque too .  At least he governor never called your hometown the "####hole of the State."  Not that I thought he was wrong at the time - I couldn't wait to get away from the Eastern Shore.

ETA: How many of you all have ever actually watched Heavy Metal Parking Lot?  Captures the essence of redneck Maryland metalheads too well.
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I used to spend about one work week out of five in Frederick, MD. 

Fredneck may not have been the ###hole of the state but I was counting down leaving for IAD from the moment I arrived on Monday.

 
rockaction said:
The dice roll is simply this: I take a thousand-sided die and roll it. There are fifty categories, numbered 1-20, 21-40, etc., up until one thousand. I take the number that the generator tells me the dice has rolled and use a spreadsheet to select the corresponding category. Those categories last five times being rolled. On the sixth roll (or if the playlist is more than three hours it's the next roll after it hits three hours) the category is retired from the Main Event. 

What is the Main Event? Well, the Main Event is composed of those categories aforementioned. How does one get into the Main Event? Well, we have percolated categories sitting in a location that we call "Dayton" after the play-in games for college basketball. I take a six-sided die and roll it. Whatever number comes up, that's the new category in the Main Event! 

How do we replace those categories promoted from Dayton? Well, we already have categories, or we come up with a new category. If it meets the appropriate vetting process (and our vetting process is much like the uncertainty of the electoral college and its electors these days), it goes in The Hopper. The dice are then rolled (however many categories there are is how I choose the number of sides of the die) and the corresponding category moves into Daytona. 

So it goes like this

Main Event - fifty categories, thousand sided-die
Dayton - six categories, six-sided die
The Hopper - where all the categories go to wait their turn 

LOLOLOLOL. I must admit something. I've been really bumbling this up all along. It's "Dayton" and not "Daytona," which I've been using. Eephus has been kind not to remind me that I'm really messing it up and that its origin starts with college basketball, not Pusha T's great 2018 album or the race cars. 
 
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I love you for this, even if I still don't have the attention span to think through what you wrote. I'll just follow along. If I violate the rules, just send me to time out.

 
scorchy said:
I think we've joked about this before, but parts of Northern AA county (Pasadena especially) qualify as Alabama-esque too .  At least he governor never called your hometown the "####hole of the State."  Not that I thought he was wrong at the time - I couldn't wait to get away from the Eastern Shore.
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That was Willie Don who said that about the Shore, right?

And you're right - Pasadena, Glen Burnie, and Brooklyn Park were not sophisticated enclaves. But they all still looked down on us below Rte 214. Of course, you also had ####### Severna Park, who everyone hated because they WERE full of rich kids and wasted no time in letting everyone else know - a bunch of kids named Ethan and Biff and Muffy and ####. In many ways, they were worse than the junkies from North County. Then you had Meade HS, which may have been the biggest outlier of all (even more than my school, Southern), because they were all Army kids from everywhere and all of them hated where they were.

 
Ilov80s said:
596 Television Man by The Talking Heads (Medium Media)

When the world crashes in into my living room
Television man made me what I am
People like to put the television down
But we are just good friends
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I wouldn't call myself an expert on David Byrne or the Talking Heads in any shape, form, or fashion, but if you printed those lyrics with an unattributed source, the first thing I'd think of would be David Byrne. 

 
rockaction said:
I wouldn't call myself an expert on David Byrne or the Talking Heads in any shape, form, or fashion, but if you printed those lyrics with an unattributed source, the first thing I'd think of would be David Byrne. 
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Absolutely. It’s vintage Byrne. Lines up perfectly with his themes, tone, etc. 

 
Eephus said:
I used to spend about one work week out of five in Frederick, MD. 

Fredneck may not have been the ###hole of the state but I was counting down leaving for IAD from the moment I arrived on Monday.
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First, my condolences. 

Second, I'm not sure when you were there last but Frederick has turned into some weird ******* child of a bedroom community for DC/BLT and a huge outdoor shopping mall. Add in all the chemicals leaking into the groundwater from Ft Detrick, and it's still an odd place. And you don't have to drive very far outside of the town limits (hell, you don't have to leave town at all) to find the Stars & Bars flying proudly.

 
scorchy said:
I love you for this, even if I still don't have the attention span to think through what you wrote. I'll just follow along. If I violate the rules, just send me to time out.
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Lol. No sweat. Like ilov said, you'll be fine. You've already pulled out that double dutch bus song (the one where you can tell the songwriter and performer tried to get extras to double dutch while he got off the bus, only they kept messing it up the performance and timing, though the powers-that-be overseeing the video finally relented and used that take of him getting off of the bus while her feet were all tangled in the jump rope) and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. That's no small feat. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
And you don't have to drive very far outside of the town limits (hell, you don't have to leave town at all) to find the Stars & Bars flying proudly.
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I don't know if you remember, but last year I mentioned one of my friends had rented a cabin in the Virginia mountains for $45 a night. It is the one that has no ac, heat, or running water, but the toilet inside does flush until November. Anyway, driving through Elk Creek, Va, just about every other house on Comers Rock Rd had the stars and bars flying on their front porches. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
First, my condolences. 

Second, I'm not sure when you were there last but Frederick has turned into some weird ******* child of a bedroom community for DC/BLT and a huge outdoor shopping mall. Add in all the chemicals leaking into the groundwater from Ft Detrick, and it's still an odd place. And you don't have to drive very far outside of the town limits (hell, you don't have to leave town at all) to find the Stars & Bars flying proudly.
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The company wanted to relo me to Frederick circa 2005.  I'd told them no but brought Mrs. Eephus and the kids out to see what they'd be missing before a vacation to DC.  We weren't there long as a family but the vibe I got was different from when I was there alone on business.  I think it was my kids' first time in a Walmart though.  Refusing a relo was bad in the corporate culture but I still managed to survive in SF for another fifteen years.  That time they said Northern Virginia which was better than Frederick but I was close enough to retirement to say #### it.

It was just perfect that those Beltway trucker idiots encamped in Hagerstown

 
simey said:
I don't know if you remember, but last year I mentioned one of my friends had rented a cabin in the Virginia mountains for $45 a night. It is the one that has no ac, heat, or running water, but the toilet inside does flush until November. Anyway, driving through Elk Creek, Va, just about every other house on Comers Rock Rd had the stars and bars flying on their front porches. 
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I do remember. Hell, just up the street from me was a house that used it for curtains. And it's all over barn roofs around here or flying from the back of trucks.

 
Ilov80s said:
Absolutely. It’s vintage Byrne. Lines up perfectly with his themes, tone, etc. 
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It is a million years ago
I hear music and it sounds like bells
I feel like my head is high
I wish I could meet everyone
Meet them all over again
Bring them up to my room
Meet them all over again
Everyone's up in my room

 
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