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The bit that you skip #124: Dave Navarro – Rexall
So my job in Ericsson didn’t last long. Just a few days over the sixth month stretch and out of the hundreds of trainees hired, less than 15% were still around. All the money spent/wasted on teaching us new technologies, for what? A friend told me there was an opening at the company he worked…
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The bit that you skip #123: U2 – Zooropa
Autumn of 1993 and U2 seemed to be at weird crossroad. Achtung Baby! was successful, but the recording sessions took a big toll on the band, something that became regular on them, as seen on POP. Although I knew U2 due to them being ubiquitous in the 80s, I never owned an album of theirs.…
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The bit that you skip #122: Jane Child – Don’t Wanna Fall in Love
Cable TV and a tendency to be a loner sorta made me a latchkey kid after we moved to Mexico City from Tula. My brothers were way older than me and there weren’t any kids on my street, just retirees and childless couples. My dad’s plan for Cable TV seemed to be two-fold: All the…
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The bit that you skip #121: Cliff Martinez – Helicopter
In early 2001 I got my real first job. It wasn’t a job inside the university any longer, no, it was a real job, with social security, taxes, strict hours (the paid ones, at least), and office politics. I was a “trainee” at Ericsson and I was in a group of 10 people who took…
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The bit that you skip #120: David Lee Roth – Just a gigolo / I ain’t got nobody
As I wrote yesterday about my experience as a kid with a 24 hour video channel, I had a nice memory pop up. David Lee Roth only existed as the wacky dude from Jump, a video I watched ad nauseam in both Tula and Tampico, as all my brothers and cousins were massive fans of…
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The bit that you skip #119: Men at Work – Overkill
When we moved from Tula to Mexico in August of 1985, the first thing my dad did was hire a cable TV provider that had as many NFL games as possible. He was frustrated with TV reception in Tula, and missing out games, especially from his beloved Cowboys. Since it was still the holidays, I…
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The bit that you skip #118: Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Big Mob
Contrary to other fellow Gen-Xers, my path with Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t start with Higher Ground, Give it away, or Under the bridge. It was the melancholic Soul To Squeeze, from the box office bomb Coneheads, what made me a fan. I usually ran into their “What hits?” compilation at the listening stations at…
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The bit that you skip #117: Sparta Red.Right.Return.
-“you’re falling straight in our hands” I’ve always loved rainy weather. When I was a kid, hot weather would make my head throb and I would need to lie down. Rain would soothe this pain, and I would be able to be “human” again. In autumn of 2007, it was a different story, rain didn’t…
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The bit that you skip #116: Thrice – Firebreather
It’s a cliché to grab to loud, brash music when things go wrong, but at the worst of times, it’s loud music what helps take away that seething feeling. I always get pinned down as someone who listens only to metal genres and their ilk, but I seldom do. Thrice’s Fire EP from the Alchemy…
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The bit that you skip #115: Thrice – A song for Milly Michaelson
D.A.R.Y.L. The flight of the navigator. The boy who could fly. We had this stretch of movies in the 80s focused on the outcasts of society in the suburbs. Yup, I identified with their protagonists. The boy that could fly had Jay Underwood and Fred Savage. Jay was the titular character, a quiet loner with…
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