Comments | waltermonkey: as your body floats down third street

waltermonkey

as your body floats down third street

Sep 06, 2008 01:38

Rode bike home 8 miles in the pouring rain, belting early TMBG the whole way.

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waltermonkey September 8 2008, 03:04:56 UTC

When do you get here? Still in like a week?

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waltermonkey September 8 2008, 20:09:08 UTC

Post something when you arrive plz.

ideath September 8 2008, 19:53:55 UTC

This sounds perfect.

waltermonkey September 8 2008, 20:05:08 UTC

And then I found out that a couple of Don Red's books in my backpack got soaked.

Not ruined, just... swollen.

cleahpatra September 8 2008, 20:00:22 UTC

Why does bike-riding make us break into song?

The last couple of weeks I've been biking to work, and every day I end up singing something. Sometimes TMBG, but sometimes... Whitesnake?

waltermonkey September 8 2008, 20:07:47 UTC

I used to always bike with my iPod, but then it got stolen, so... I get bored.

You know all the lyrics to a Whitesnake song? Or do you just make them up as you go?

cleahpatra September 9 2008, 03:02:34 UTC

Biking while listening to an iPod sounds dangerous! But then again, I think biking around in NYC sounds pretty dangerous all by itself.

I only know the lyrics to choruses of Whitesnake songs, I've discovered. Probably for the best.

"Here I go again" and "Is this love" are the two I had in my head.
I also like to sing/whistle "Wind of Change" (Scorpions) and "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".

waltermonkey September 9 2008, 17:06:25 UTC

Biking in NYC only feels dangerous when I'm going down 2nd Ave for fifty blocks. The iPod never made me feel unsafe. All my warnings are visual, not sonic.

That said, the main thing that makes it unsafe is that *I* don't make a lot of noise, since if pedestrians don't hear a car coming, they tend to just step out into the street without looking. So that's another good reason to sing.