I just saw Jeff Tweedy at a rest stop in Portage, Indiana

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it was pretty funny. I was coming back from Michigan for the holiday, on I-80/90 and we decided to use the rest room even though we were almost back to Chicago. As I was walking in I stare at this scraggly looking dood for a couple seconds before I can figure out who it is. He notices me and meets my gaze ... at that point I'm thinking "oh yeah, right, that's Tweedy" and then I recognize his wife Ju1ia who is holding the hands of their two little kids. Pretty funny. I watched them get into some kind of Chevy SUV type thing.

Brushes with greatness. ANyway, I thought Gear! might enjoy that story.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yoo shoulda said, "heyman, i lurve them whiskeytown rekkids of yerz".

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I SAW J3NNIF3R ANI5T0N AT A REST STOP SOMEWHERE NEAR ALBANY NEW YORK...SHE WAS GETTEING SOME FRO-YO

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

hrm...
I saw Spiral Stairs at a GbV show.
I saw Les Claypool at Lollapalooza '92.
I saw Lars from Rancid at a Swingin Utters show.
no rest stop tales or anything like that.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I yelled at john oates once in front of his family when i was drunk. he left the general store the night before without paying for his nightly 6 pack of Beck's. He came in and payed for it the next night and boy was i ever embarrassed. i scared his oateswife.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

john oates was at the mobil station at 4 corners in brookfield, connecticut.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

before i left philly this guy came up to the counter and started talking and his voice freaked me out and then i realized that it was george carlin and then i freaked him out by rushing up to him as he headed for the door so that i could shake his hand. he said it was no big deal and that he would be back, but he never came back cuz i'm such a goon. i just wanted to thank him for the funny while i had the chance. he's a really good writer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw g1bby fr0m m4k39utclub at a rest stop on the mass pike

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, I just realized that Tweedy's wife is $ue, not Ju1ia. I had to look it up on the internet. This proves that I am not actually a big fan of the group or anything. But I did know that it was one of the two women who used to run the Lounge Ax. I just got them mixed up.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw Ian McKaye walking down Thayer Street in August. I think he was with Ted Leo.

― brock (brock), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a copy of husker du's zen arcade on thayer street in 1984.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

October 1st, 1984. then i went back to my dorm room in barrington and got drunk and listened to it. (wilson's whiskey and coke from the coke machine.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

where did u go to sckool

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD SCOTT IS OLD

― brock (brock), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

scott, did you go to roger williams college or something???

thayer street = total shithole now. the good record store is gone. the bookstores are all gone. (except the brown bookstore, which is nothing to write home about anyway.) there is at least a pizza/burrito place that is awesome and Spike's is still there.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I met my wedding DJ in Portage, IN.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 November 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus i want spikes real bad right now.

― brock (brock), Monday, 29 November 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmm spikes mmmmm

― Remy Snush (x Jeremy), Monday, 29 November 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i was 16. i went to st.andrews school. my folks sent me there cuz i was bad.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

A girl who buys me lunch every week is from Portage, IN. Meal points!!

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I woulda said to him, "More like A Ghost Is Bored. Haha, just kiddin', man, it's pretty good."

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I drove through Portage, Indiana last Wednesday. It snowed from the Iowa-Illinois border to the Indiana-Ohio border.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

MANY MANY ROFFLEZ 4 ONE GEAR!

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

PORTAGE, INDIANA IS 20 MINUTES FROM WHERE I GREW UP!!

― nicole ssssss (nsierra), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hi nicole.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

we saw the Valpo exit and I thought of you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hopefully you didn't see the valpo exit on the day before thanksgiving because at that time some fucking kid was stabbing 8 kids in the high school!!

― nicole ssssss (nsierra), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

STAB ONE KID.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"controversial"

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

JO3L GETS STABBY SHOCKAH

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What was Joel doing at Nicole's high school??? (besides applying for a job as history teacher.)

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicole I know some very strange people from Valparaiso

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't take the Valpo exit, and yeah I heard something on NPR 'bout the stabbing. Why would a kid do that on the day before Thanksgiving? Was he pissed it snowed Wednesday instead of Tuesday?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i also know some very strange people from valparaiso, including myself.

― nicole ssssss (nsierra), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I used to drive by Portage IN on my way back from Michigan, I'd get mock-frustrated because there's a Portage MI right next to Kalamazoo, and I'd be all "we haven't even left the state, nyuk nyuk!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: N/A and I saw Tweedy at the Animal Collective/Black Dice show!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my brother saw him at confirmed noise hangout TRADER JOE'S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i just freaked out at Scott's age and figured he was ancient and was about to give him a yellow card (what the hell are those anyways?) but then did the math and realized he's only 36 and that's not that old. gygax is like 42

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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