This is a really terrific scandal.
By coincidence I was looking up Screaming Trees the other day and it turns out that Gary Lee Conner was - and may still be - a paperboy in San Angelo. A 47-year-old paperboy.
Back when Soul Asylum were at their most incredible I read an interview with Dave Pirner who was mowing lawns for a living. Kind of a shit job in Minneapolis in the winter I'd think.
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gosh, I love that song. I saw Screaming Trees in Milwaukee on this tour.
dave Pirner? from paperboy to dating Winona Ryder. That's gotta foster a bit of shell shock, I don't care who you are.
Also, if things don't turn around for me soon, you may also know a paperboy architect. Or cab driver. I am weighing my options.
I wish you luck in putting food on the table that isn't me.
I saw Screaming Trees a few times, a fine ear-splitting experience, and yes, that song is pretty much perfect.
dude, you gave me music. automatically go to the bottom of the list.
That's awfully harsh. I doubt he's an actual paperboy.
Newspaper couriers are the guys who ride big fast bikes down to the telegraph office to pick up the wire copy & get it back before the paper goes to press. A very important job.
Also, the "paperboys" for L. A.'s most popular fish-wrapper are all adults, usually two to a Toyota pickup, who make enough money to have X-mess cards printed w/ the address where you can send them an X-mess check that allegedly insures your paper won't end up in the rose bushes next door.
My band opened for the Trees once, on the Buzz Factory tour. Nice guys, rocked hard.
Mine might have, can't remember. But while it was doing some screeching feedback I did a little slide on Conner's guitar with a bar glass.
I lived in San Angelo for a while. It's hardly the strangest thing to ever happen there.
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