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[thepeachfish]

I spent Saturday night hanging out with Legs McNeil. He was sitting my friend's uncle's living room reading a book, and then his ex wife Carol showed up and they started shooting the shit about Joey Ramone and how much they missed him. I didn't realize anything about who they were, though; I showed up with my friend because we were going to go to

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[illbeintheair]

Holy shit, that's amazing! Please Kill Me is one of my favorite books about music history. Wow.

[thepeachfish]

Totally amazing. How did I know that you'd respond to this post above all others. I've been reading up on Legs online, and some of the interviews are pretty amusing. There's one where you can tell he's totally bored and waiting for something interesting to happen, and at some point he asks the interviewer something like "so when are you going to ask me something serious?" and then later on he goes "want me to say something controversial? I think you have a small penis." Which is hilarious because I could totally picture him speaking that way to someone. It's nice to identify a voice and face with the texts of the stuff I've been reading.

[jennxtreme]

I'm completely baffled that this happened to you. How strange and wonderful!

[thepeachfish]

Baffled is definitely the word for it. I wish I had Legs as an uncle. Actually, I wish I were related to all of them and had more opportunities to hang out with them more, they were just really cool and lots of fun to talk to. Legs also talked about having great hair; he was telling me how he looks at his interviews on VH1 and he's thrilled by how his hair looks, because it's a total lie. He was also saying that they took away his right to drink years ago, and that was a good thing. Carol and Legs were lamenting the yuppies in the east village and saying how if you think too much about money when you're young, then you never have any fun, and I've been thinking about that a lot. BTW, I read that post about the guy who insulted you and at first I thought you were joking, but oh holy shit what a chode. I hope you didn't take it too seriously, the guy was clearly pissing into his own ear.