Friday 17 December 2004
Nostalgia Boulevard (root around in old funny junk)
Something reminded me recently of the first time my silly writing was published, in 1990. It was a comical, scathing rebuttal to another reader letter in a music magazine. I don't recall which one. I was reminded because I was reminded of the guy who was almost a stranger to me until he approached me in public to ask me if I was 'the Chloe from Wilkes-Barre' who wrote the reader letter in the magazine. (Apparently he found it impressive somehow. Y'all can blame him for encouraging me, I suppose.)
This guy was also responsible for the very first time, but unfortunately not the last time, I was misquoted in a printed publication for the purposes of sensationalism, in April 1992.
I really hope that the reader letter in that music magazine isn't archived somewhere, waiting patiently to haunt me in my old age. But I, myself, actually found a copy of the printed publication when I cleaned junk out of my attic before moving to Scranton last spring. It was one of the few things that wasn't hauled away. So I dug it out of a box that contained some Star Trek: Deep Space 9 action figures (including Jadzia Dax), some medical school class notes from the mid 1990s (not in my handwriting, obviously), an old "instamatic" camera, some publications featuring my photos, and this publication where I was wildly misquoted.
So in a fit of xradiograph - foundlings-esque motivation, I decided to immortalize the front cover & inside cover, here:
Watermelon Punch - Photo Album - Zine (full size)
At the time I was "interviewed" for the 'Tube Talk' piece, I wasn't informed or aware that I was being "interviewed". I was asked a ridiculous question, and gave a ridiculously silly answer... And my answer was egregiously and exaggeratedly expounded upon, for the sake of comedy.
To set the record straight, I will say that in 1991 & 1992, I didn't have cable, and I worked the graveyard shift, so the only television I really watched was late night on nights I didn't work but was up... and so the only television I really watched aside from the news, were the shows Forever Knight, Sweating Bullets, and Baywatch (pre Pam Anderson). And from the moment I watched the Berlin Wall come down on television in 1989, from my dorm room at college, I became fascinated by David Hasselhoff's musical popularity in Europe. (I hadn't known of it previously.)
I decided to post this because, you know, it wasn't enough for me that I once, in 1999, unwittingly made available on a file-sharing network, an mp3 of this same guy's basement band cover of 'Mama Said Knock You Out':
Watermelon Punch - Audio & Video - 'cover' of 'Mama Said Knock You Out'
I didn't find out until a couple of years later when my friend informed me that she had downloaded the mp3 off of someone else, on a different file sharing network. So what the heck, it's all over the internet anyway.
posted by Chloe | Friday 17 December 2004 1:28 AM
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