Had to look-up.....

by RayLee, Saturday, July 01, 2023, 04:08 (447 days ago) @ A K Church

that song on the "toob" only to discover I know it.

Med.Cruise-87 on a tin can in uncle ronnie's yacht club. Egregiously seasick. R. Division was shorthanded so d.c.central & sounding watches were 6hrs. on 6 off. After 1800hrs. only in d.c. central and the mess decks was the smoking lamp lit so there I was stuck in a 160 sq. ft. space that was always blue with smoke. It was stiffling/nauseating.

The nominal quasi-punkers from the bedroom communities surrounding "the city" and some actually from the boroughs played r.e.m. and the smithereens and X and elvis costello over and over and over and were angry at all mentioned for "going commercial".

A few years ago I heard the smithereens ode to the cigarette on a ride on a bumpy winding road and had flashbacks to the stormy north atlantic and thought I was going to hurl.

This kid does a dinizzio medley better than the 'reens ever did.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJPesIkcj4&pp=ygUgVGhlIGNsYXNzaWMgcm9jayBraWQgc21pdG...

Oh, b.t.w.,I hope to use the background booms of the fourth as cover to empty all of the percussion revolvers that I have unwisely loaded over the last year.