Secret Asian Man - UPDATED
I (finally) took a motorcycle safety course this weekend. Twenty-four hours of training in a 48 hour time period. That seems kind of extreme, don't you think? Like teaching someone to fly a plane all at once, or the kinds of hours that an interning physician works? Extreme cold, fatigue and fast machinery don't exactly make for an ideal learning environment. But it was a blast. I passed. And I can take my course completion form and get a motorcycle license without taking the test.
But I won't get a bike for years. I can't accept the risk, with so many people depending on me. But once the kids are older......
I promised that I wouldn't YouTube. But this song is just too damned happy to resist. The Pipettes' "Pull Shapes". There are all kinds of extremely clever things going on in the backing track. Nods to the Supremes' "Come See About Me", some Philly soul violins, fantastic drumming, and pretty sweet harmonies. I'm shttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifmitten.
"As the teen tycoon of rock, I know I'd like to hear them..."
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10:32 AMThere's a lot of crazy shit going on in that video.
1:58 PM
Nice use of Russ Meyers, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".
Interesting.
xoxo Rev. Jack
2:02 PM
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px6TL-At9bA
2:25 PM
I really dig your cinematographic excavation, Rev.
3:55 PM
that was disturbing.
i want to jump into the monitor and steal some clothes though. would that be ok?
8:20 PM
I can't watch it.
8:46 PM
Did you take it at a harley-davidson place? that's where i took mine. and i don't know what's worse--freezing cold or stifling hot.
the first time, i dropped my bike on the test. whoops! second time around, i got my license. but i had never even been on the back of a motorcycle when i signed up. so, you know.
while i understand your sentiments about people depending on you, i tell you: the road is twisting now, and it might not twist forever. sometimes, you just gotta take life by the ears and shake the daylights of it. i cannot tell you how many days i have passed up riding, and how i mourn for each one.
that said, would you like to buy a honda 599? i'm trying to buy a house...
9:31 PM
Fritz,
You are not allowed to sell that bike. You love it too much.
My class was sponsored by the State of Illinois. It cost $20 (refundable!) to hold your place. It was pretty fucking great. I had both a riding test and a written test. The only thing I lost any points on at all was a braking test. I was concentrating too much on shifting back down into first, so I took an extra couple feet to stop. The extra distance cost me more points than the failure to shift would've, but they didn't tell us the point system ahead of time.
I was on a little Yamaha VT. 250cc. They also had Honda Rebels and Nighthawks. But they were a little too squatty for me. The Yamaha fit me a little better.
Ultimately, in the 22nd Century, my frozen cryonic noggin and it's new body would like to ride a big BMW 1200 LT.
9:32 AM
This is Sysm's happening and it freaks me out!
9:46 AM
i've been toying with the idea of a bike myself... checkout royal enfield no longer made in britain, but close enough... these look to be the closest thing so far to getting a cool vintage brit bike without the headache of parts procurement and reliability.
10:26 AM
I MUST possess the Royal Enfield military-ish dispatch bike. It's the motorcycle I've always, always wanted. It even beats the Ural with the sidecar.
Dr.: Thanks. I actually have acopy of that movie laying around. Did you know Chicago's very Roger Ebert wrote (or helped write) it? Creepy-tastic.
xoxo Rev. Jack
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