Usually I delete the newsletter I get from Earthlink, but this time they had something that I know all you kiddies will enjoy! TVParty.com. Sure, it's a commercial site full of pop-ups (hint: right-click from the taskbar to get rid of pop-ups), but you can watch Ronald Reagan's last tv role! (Besides being president -- come on, these days it's a tv role as much as anything.) You can watch snippets of Irwin Allen's lost scifi tv show pilot! Old Batman episodes! It's a smorgasbord of delight! Or something.
So kick back, have a couple of brews, and relive those awful days of after school syndicated reruns, after homework was done but before it was time for Starsky and Hutch to be on. You know you want to. (Note: some words shamelessly appropriated from Black Flag's punk hit "TV Party." True story: I almost saw Black Flag play live, at a punk club on Miami Beach whose name escapes me at the moment. No one went near the stage until well after midnight. We sat through about three local bands that were mostly awful, and had to endure the pestering of a waitress who wanted us to buy more drinks. Finally it was nearly three-thirty am, and still no freaking headlining band. We were nearly comatose by this time -- from exhaustion, not booze -- and since one of us lived nearly twenty miles from the beach, we decided to leave before we were unable to drive. So I never actually got to see Henry Rolllins live. Boo hoo.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at April 14, 2003 04:57 PMAhhh, the memories. I saw Black Flag at some rathole on South Beach back sometime in '84 - '85, when they had Kira Roessler on bass. It was after I had seen a long series of ever-so-civilized shows at the Sunrise Musical Theater, and I just needed a change from the clap-politely-when-the-song-ends thing.
Black Flag certainly was a change; that was the only concert I've been to where personal physical saftey was the foremost concern of the night. All the injuries were up at the front, though. (If you're going to stage-dive, don't kick the band members on the way down - they will retaliate.)
(P.S. Got Henry R. to autograph a book of his for me, but I lost it some time ago.)
Posted by: David Fleck at April 20, 2003 at 06:33 PM