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FK: no more REM 36

I know there’s not more than handful of you who give a FK about this, but I think I’m going to spend the day nursing an incommensurate sense of loss.

36 thoughts on “FK: no more REM

  1. Future Ed Sep 21,2011 10:52 am

    Is this memo from 1988?

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • monkeyball Sep 21,2011 11:12 am || Up

      Hey, I said “incommensurate”

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. nevermoor Sep 21,2011 10:52 am

    I never thought of you as: shiny, happy, person.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 21,2011 11:05 am

    Eh…someone will back a dumptruck full of cash into their various driveways in five years and persuade them to do a greatest hits tour, doubtless with a Super Bowl halftime show included.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Future Ed Sep 21,2011 11:18 am || Up

      They all seem like reasonable guys (Michael Stipe excepted). I bet they don’t NEED the cement mixer full of cash (Michael Stipe excepted). I would never say never, but I say much less likely than a similarly situated rock act.

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • sslinger Sep 21,2011 11:28 am || Up

      I was about to be all cynical and ask what the over/under on # of years before the reunion tour, but I’ll hold off on the odd chance they’ve made enough $$ to hold them. R.I.P. REM, I thank you for being part of my lifes soundtrack rich pageant.

    • monkeyball Sep 21,2011 11:37 am || Up

      In 5 years, they’ll do a 3-night gig at Philips Arena, playing Murmur, LRP, and Fables through each in its entirety, proceeds entirely to benefit, respectively, Greenpeace, Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, and the Defeat President Perry in 2016 PAC.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. Poppy Sep 21,2011 11:40 am

    The requested URL /news_story.php was not found on this server.

    So will 404.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • monkeyball Sep 21,2011 11:42 am || Up

      Just how old is your computer, anyway?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • Poppy Sep 21,2011 11:45 am || Up

        Not very?

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
        • Poppy Sep 21,2011 11:45 am || Up

          Oh, now it opens.

          There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  5. elcroata Sep 21,2011 12:45 pm

    I really liked them. I still think that a concert on Donauinsel in Vienna where they and Cranberries played is my favorite one.

    Because survival is insufficient
  6. the dogfather Sep 21,2011 2:18 pm

    I feel fine.

    The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  7. Leopold Bloom Sep 21,2011 2:24 pm

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    • Poppy Sep 21,2011 2:27 pm || Up

      Awesome.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • sslinger Sep 21,2011 2:49 pm || Up

      Hunh…grover’s nowhere to be found.

      • spwc2010 Sep 21,2011 5:22 pm || Up

        Some drunken hoodlums tried to light Oscar’s garbage can on fire, so he’s probably putting that out.

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • nevermoor Sep 21,2011 5:29 pm || Up

          I thought putting out was Bert/Ernie’s job.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. DFA Sep 21,2011 2:55 pm
    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • monkeyball Sep 21,2011 2:56 pm || Up

      You dare sully this nonGrill post with football talk?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • DFA Sep 21,2011 3:21 pm || Up

        Shit… I did post it in the wrong thread. We can fight if you want but who will turn out the lights

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
        • FiveMinuteMajorette Nov 20,2011 12:08 pm || Up

          I will. I’ll trip you first, turn out the lights, set off the fire alarm, and tell the police you did it.

      • Future Ed Sep 21,2011 4:17 pm || Up

        FLAGGED!

        I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • nevermoor Sep 21,2011 3:01 pm || Up

      Yeah. No fun.

      Though the lawsuit thing is stupid. When players don’t sue it’s taken as evidence everything is true. When they do, they’re being petulent children.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • DFA Sep 21,2011 3:22 pm || Up

        this, and his bad boy rep did hurt him on the market.

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  9. suspicious coin Sep 22,2011 12:12 am

    Out of Time was the first cassette I ever owned.

    1. I’ve always liked their version of One (favorite covers alert!)
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    2. “Everybody Hurts” is an all-time top-10 music video

    3. I will always associate the Losing My Religion video with my dad walking into the room and asking, “What the hell are you watching?”

    4. I missed most of their early catalog due to youth, but for about six months in high school all I listened to was Automatic For the People and Monster. This musical choice, shockingly, did not impress the ladies.

    • Leopold Bloom Sep 22,2011 12:15 am || Up

      RE 4: How old are you?!

      • suspicious coin Sep 22,2011 12:18 am || Up

        Old enough that both of those albums predated my matriculation in high school.

    • spwc2010 Sep 22,2011 7:41 am || Up

      Well, go get a copy of their first album, “Murmur.” I personally think they never topped it.

      \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
      • JediLeroy Sep 22,2011 1:45 pm || Up

        I was a hipster before it was cool to be one.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  10. suspicious coin Sep 22,2011 12:28 am

    One more memory:

    My folks didn’t want to pay for me to take a Driver’s Ed class so they told me to enroll in the class in summer school the year before my senior year of high school. One of our assignments was to plan a road trip, complete with time and money budgets, and then write a fake diary telling the world of this non-existent trip. Think of it as a pre-cursor to travel-blogging, except totally fake.

    One of the details I threw in to my report was that I “stashed plenty of U2 and REM tapes in the glovebox.” When I got the assignment back, the teacher specifically commented on that sentence, writing in red pen that it was “a good use of detail.” So that’s another REM memory.

    Incidentally, I was not a typical summer school student and so my report was clearly the best in the class (a low bar, needless to say). The teacher was so impressed that he sent it to the district office so that teachers who taught the class in the future years would see what a good fake account of a non-existent road trip would look like. It, along with the gum I stuck under the desk in 10th grade math, is my legacy to the Mount Diablo Unified School District.

    • dmoas Sep 22,2011 7:47 am || Up

      Neat. I just that as “gun I stuck under the desk…” which would have created a whole other kind of legacy.

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 22,2011 8:45 am || Up

        “Can you get me off the hook, Tom Principal Diablo? For old time’s sake?”

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."

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