While I am not a scholar of
anything (unless you count the Life Sex Death YouTube catalog), I am pretty
sure Baltimorewashington is some sort of ancient civilization like Hammerjacks, Jaxx, or Cleveland, Ohio. After doing some more research,
it appears that this Baltimorewashington place was pretty kick ass.
There's actually quite a lot
of footage on the YouTube of this magical place. In fact, there's an entire documentary on it featuring Justin Hawkins (I never knew how much he hated punk).
This got me kinda pissed too...think of all
the wasted money spent on grad students flying all over the place to learn about and
"research" stuff...if they're so smart, why can't they figure out how
to get an Internet connection? Think about it...I just discovered an ancient civilization for whatever my neighbor pays for an hour of his monthly internet service fee...not to mention I didn't even
have to pack an extra pair of tube socks (I've heard that's what you pack for
traveling). If I had a grant...say $1k
or whatever they get, I would have a crap ton left over to do something
worthwhile. You know, like pay Dave
Mustaine to reenact his scenes from Some Kind Of Monster Disc 2 live in my
living room...
or at least get some new snow tires for my '85 Plymouth
Coke Sled...errr…Duster.
All I'm saying is that smart
people aren't all that smart if you think about it.
Back to Baltimorewashington...
The cultural hub seems to
have been some parking lot.
Apparently Dokken played
there like every weekend...
They had jacked up trucks...
Hell...even Neil Diamond
played there.
So what happened to this
place? Best I can tell is that it's some
shitty mall now. What a waste of an
awesome parking lot. I only hope I live
long enough to see the day when people pull their heads out of their asses long enough to recognize this place as the historic landmark that it should be.
It really pains me to think
of all the helpless IROCs that got senselessly bulldozed to put up a TCBY. Thankfully, we have the YouTube to keep the
memories alive.
I've been to this civilization, in this Firebird I'm sitting on.
ReplyDeleteCandii, you are livin' the dream!!! FYI - I always refer to "the dream" as being able to replace all my couches (even the one on the front porch) with the front ends of Firebirds. I just think that would be dope as f'n hell!!
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