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A connection between Ty and Marc Summers? OCD? |
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| Friday, October 25th 2002 @ 02:57:23 AM PST |
Sat. 19 2002: Today I was instructed by our hard working tour manager/babysitter, for some of us. Not me of course, cuz I am capable of waking up at a prescribed time hosing myself off then even dressing myself in a timely manor. It amazes me how slow some folks can be. Not just like the people in our band who need babysitters like Ty for instance. He, and I know I have written about this before, but why is it the smallest guy in the band takes far longer than anyone else to groom in the morning? Why? Why? Why? I think that is a Discharge song or album or something, but whatever. I remember being in Europe and when you travel in the Old World tis far different than in the States or Australia or Japan or Mexico for that matter. Oh yea, we are playing in San Felipe Mexico for spring break in like March or April. I’ll keep you all posted on that one. I think it sounds like the Guttermouth party of the decade. But back to my story of sluggish behavior. Before I do that I have so much trouble writing, well not writing but keeping my mind on one thought or topic. I guess I am pointing out the obvious, but whatever, now you know. So in Europe you travel in a bus, complete with individual bunks and nice little storage places for each person’s junk, a little sink to wash your hands and brush your teeth, but no shower. And while traveling through Europe you do not stop for the night in those cozy quaint hotels you see in travel magazines and at the AAA when you are registering your car. So as far as bathing goes you pray that the club you are performing in has a shower. Two would be nice, but they usually have just one and when on the road with more than one band hot water and cleanliness are worth more than DOA’s War On 45 on vinyl. Now I’m back to Ty Smith and his problem or should I say problems with being slow and a clean freak. I won’t go into the details of the second problem I mentioned, but let’s just all agree that it is very serious and terminal. Mr. Smith is a good friend of mine and some of you might find it strange that he is the one member of the band that I identify with more than any other member. But, the fact remains that he take way to long in the shower and when there are 12 other people who need one even if it is just every other day, you would think that he would show just a tiny bit of consideration for the others in the party. But, no He would do this. Guttermouth would pull into a city and we had The Line with us and thank god they were cool or they would have murdered him just as we wanted to on several occasions. We would go up and sound check (you know just to make sure that all the gear is working properly) then he would race to the one cleansing station in the club and spend nearly 30 min. and using every last drop of hot water. He didn’t give a shit if you had not bathed in days just as long as His Royal Highness (TY) was squeaky clean. I may sound like the rest of us are being crybabies, but the fact is-we are far from a crusty band and definitely don’t want to be. I’ll give you this example just so you can relate. Try running 5 or 6 miles or for you ladies do an hour-long aerobics class and not bath. Then do it again the next day and the next. Fact, you start to offend and not just you traveling mates, but the nice people you meet at the shows and all that. I hope this makes you understand where I am coming from and if you still don’t get it than please quit reading this and go back to you fascinating life working at Subway. Now Please remember that I just mentioned Subway because I think that I can tie this whole story together in another sentence or two. Well to make matters worse right after we would play little Ty would run like Bruce Jenner winning the decathlon at one of the Olympic Games. I’m not to good with dates, but I do remember that Dwight Stone was the victor in the high jump in the 72 Games. I have a knack for remembering worthless trivia. I’ll give you some examples if I can think of some, but latter. Ok, now that Ty is on his second shower of the day while the rest of us smell like a 3-week-old sock he would repeat the after sound check bathing process. Yes 30 more min. and all the hot water. Do you think that it bothered him, I ask? No, not a Goddamn bit. When it comes to being clean it a me me me me me me world for Ty. I don’t know if you are aware of this, but Ty is a so. Cal. Transplant. He came from the Mid West. Not that there is anything wrong with that part of the world, cuz there aint. It is just a little slower and not just slower in the séance that I guess a lot of people take long showers, like my pal Ty, but I will now compare Ty Smiths bathing habits to the employees at every single fast food establishment in the entire mid-west. You have all heard the California is the epitemy of life in the fast lane. I think the Eagles did that song wow! And it is a much faster life style and once you get used to it becomes a part of you. I hate people who are not on time or have no concept of doing things in a timely manor. Most of you probably think that I am a slacker or whatever your perception of me is, not that I really give two hunks of poo, but I just thought that I would throw that in. Ok so today we were filling up the gas tank in the RV we are traveling across the Mid-west in. There was a Blimpie sandwich place at the filling station so I figured hey I’d have a bite to eat while we fill up the 85-gallon tank, clean the windows and check the oil. Clint and I walk in the Blimpie and the lady behind the counter was just finishing up pouring a cup of soup which seems like a fairly remedial task to me, but was nice and gave this women the benefit of the doubt that maybe she was handicapped of something, but no, she definitely was not. I was amazed at how slow a human being could move while being pair to do a job. I no about being in the work force. I was and still am to some extent in the Fire Sprinkler Business. I try to work at least one or two days a month just to keep my contacts if I ever choose to go back into it full. Ok, so noticing how slow this person was Clint and I decided to share one sandwich instead of confusing the slug behind the condiments with two. My friends tell me to relax and enjoy this unique lifestyle. The fact is I can’t, I am not programmed to run my life in first gear alone. I know I sound like a pompous ass, but fuck you are being paid to work so fucking work. Maybe, just maybe that’s why California is the worlds 6th largest economy in the world. I would like to make a plea to all fast food restaurant owners…Please oh please send your employees, future or current to California for some formal training. It would work trust me. Some of these people are so damn slow that I have been forced to resort to some very drastic measures. I have gone to the supermarket and purchased refried beans, cheese and tortillas to roll my own burritos in a fraction of the time that it take to walk in one of those places I have been describing. No offence to Ty (I love ya man), but tell your people to pick up the pace. Oh yea the Punk-O-Rama tour is going great.
Your Pal,
Mark Adkins |
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| Friday, October 25th 2002 @ 11:56:43 AM PST |
| fuck off chach stevens! |
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