"Some of it is a blur".

I usually completely ignore these and my Eudora spam filter is pretty robust so that I don't see many of them.

This one, though, I found amusing, as though someone I knew wrote it.

It's definately spam as there is an embedded image about some stock that's about to go up in price.

The subject is "I've read that del Toro wrote Pan's Labyrinth after turning down The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and it's obvious that C."

It starts ( behind the cut )

QA - An answer

I'm asked:

"Ok. Not long ago you've posted pics of yourself glammed out when you were younger. Spill the beans. Were you truly the rocker-type in your high-school college years, or what? And how much've you changed since?"

When I was in High School I hung out with the music/drama crowd where I was one of the younger people. I remember a friend holding up the first Kiss album and saying "This is the new face of rock and roll and it scares me." They took me to concerts, like Bowie/Spiders from Mars, Jobriath, New York Dolls, Elton John. Music was a huge part of our lives and finding things that were great and not yet known was our sport. We'd see people like Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen at tiny clubs. The the whole punk thing started and we went to see everyone who came to LA - The Damned, The Clash, Devo - and the local bands like X and The Blasters and Los Lobos. Around 77 we started talking about putting together a band but didn't do much until 78 when we started writing songs and playing. We had a couple of long breaks in there and finally gave it up late 80.

We had huge amounts of fun. We'd play at parties and local clubs. We had *great* clothes as did the people we hung with and who came to our shows. Sort of a punk/retro BBQ look. We'd open for other bands and get everyone dancing. I ended up our first show covered in blood. But it's a sucky business and we weren't going to go anywhere with it and I got my computer science degree and moved on.

Here's a link to a recording from one of our last shows. I don't think I sound that good but back then it was more about the moment and energy than sounding perfect.

The Tikigods' cover of _Mad Love Battery_

It was a really fun time.