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ACHTUNG! Sp*mmers force another email change. doc2006 has jumped two years ahead. |
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09feb2010 — From Mickey Leigh's I Slept with Joey Ramone
It's not like we went out in the front yard and barbecued ham on the high holy days, but we did play loud rock music in the basement on several of them. Maybe that wasn't exactly kosher, and maybe they had a legitimate beef, but we were surprised at how intolerant such a recently persecuted people could be. Jeff asked me to teach him a song. He'd been listening to Alice Cooper's ''I'm Eighteen" about twenty times a day, so I figured that was a good one to start with. It wasn't terribly difficult chord-wise—there were only three. I showed him the frets to put his finger on and sang the song as he changed the chords. After two times around, he was doing it by himself. (92) [Cp. Johnny Rotten] "In my eyes John was a rock star from day one. He had the aura about him. It's like I fell in love with the image more than I fell in love with the person, 'cause the person was a pain in the ass." (99-100)
"They had maybe five or six songs at the time," Richard Hell remembered. "'I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement,' 'I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You,' 'I Don't Wanna Be Learned,' 'I Don't Wanna Be Tamed,' and 'I Don't Want' something else. I wondered, 'Are these guys serious? Is this an act? If it is, this is great! It's like being at the circus!'" "When we filmed the bedroom scene for the song 'I Want You Around,' Joey was spitting as he was singing to me," PJ Sales remembered. "I was lying there with my mouth open—and all this spit is coming into my mouth. I had to act like I loved it." (187-8)
The concept was for the Ramones to be photographed in a subway car. Photographer George DuBose suggested going to Fifty-seventh Street and Sixth Avenue, where the B train would come into the empty station and stop for twenty minutes. Johnny asked George to have Marky look out the window, because they were kicking him out of the band, but he didn't know it yet.
"Nobody knew what the real Joey was like, except for people that got really close to him. There was a side to Joey that was wonderful. People thought he was such a sweet guy. To a certain extent, he was. Then there was the other Joey, the one who said, 'You're an asshole! Get me my fucking coffee! Don't you know how to make a fucking egg?'"
The first things Joey asked for when he came into the hospital were the Beatles new release One and the new U2 CD All That You Can't Leave Behind. He still loved to start his morning listening to music. |
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The Pursuit of Liberty || How to lose an election, pester world heads of state, and fail to start your own country, all in the name of just being left alone. NEW: Phase IV begins... |
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Whip It! & Other Delights || Official home page of the Herb Alpert Whipped Cream & Other Delights Art Car. Burning Man, Art Car shows, cross-country tripping, breakdowns in tiny towns -- plus, your chance to win the What Is Whip It!'s Problem? Contest -- all here. But you're mainly interested in the Whip It! Girls, I'll bet. |
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The Mojave Phone Booth Project || The most popular item on deuceofclubs.com. Why? We're not sure. It was just a working phone booth in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert. But for a working phone booth in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert, it had a lot of friends. |
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Deuce of Clubs Gallery || The fame of the playing card mounts. Tension mounts. Mounting, mounting, mounting. Whew. Done mounting now. Carry on. |
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The Mountain Monogram Project || Why are there huge letters on the sides of mountains in the American Southwest? Yeah, I know what they stand for. But who thought of it? How did they begin? Any help you can offer may constitute evidence of insanity. But think about it -- that could come in useful one day. |
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oobiland! || Just two eyes and a hollow interior, it's ... Al Gore! No, no, it's ... oobi! Much as we disdain hippies, we LUUUV oobi! |
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666 Cough Syrup || Another old favorite. What damage control is like when brand-name recognition of your product consists of people crossing themselves and crossing to the other side of the store aisle. |
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