That's Gareth Liddiard of Tropical F*ck Storm. It's from the Braindrops video that Iggy Pop said was great.

There's your junk blogger's FURsona. They have two albums out now, and both are great. Lots of peeps sort of like the first more than the second, but not me. I love the first, I adore Braindrops. This band took over my head really fast so much that I was like a giddy fan boy as I sat at the bar and saw the band loading in their own equipment and going to the bar and getting beers. At the end, all four of the band were at their merch table.   I could barely speak. This music clicks so much in my brain that it leaped over other favorites. They use boombox speakers for guitar amps. COME ON! That's what makes their stuff so twisted.    

 

So, Never mind the other stuff in this photo. I think I used this photo before. See, the MP3 Player is loaded full of Tropical F*ck storm, the earplugs are so I don't hear anything else. The cheap ass scrapers are now gone because as scrapers, they couldn't even hold the razor blade. The LED key chain wold say "Enjoy TFS" and the black paint marker, why did I buy that again? No, I just had a braindrop. It involves Sears. The Sears lanyard was all I had on short notice to present as SEARS. Of course I have a lot of dying and dead mall pictures where there were still Sears stores. Hmm. I didn't think of that. Let me get one from one of my favorite malls that doesn't exist anymore.

Woodfield Mall. Toledo Ohio. Toledo's first mall. Built in 1969. I lived a few miles from this mall while I lived in Toledo. All three anchors were there and it had a good number of stores, far from a dead mall. Writing was on the wall however. "Food Court" was nearly empty and well, I came here to shop for Christmas and you could have shot a cannon off and not hit anyone on a Saturday. Here was the Sears with a large separate auto store. It was pretty big and it was the only original anchor. Why do I show this? INTERNET RETAIL NERDS AND BLOG/BUGGER PUBLISHERS! THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL NOTICE! ......STOP! IT"S OVER JOHNNY! CEASE AND DESIST!

I was looking at one of the boogers that I follow today and 3/4 of thew recent posts have been all about local media saying "This Sears Is Closing. End Of An Era. No More Craftsman, er go to Lowes for that. Um, No more Diehard batteries..er, go to Advance Auto parts for that. No more Kenmore appliances, er...did anybody still buy Kenmore?" WHO GIVES A SH*T? Boo hoo, no more K-Marts in OHIO. Lets post about all the K-Marts and lament about them rather than doing an original post on cheesy FM transmitters. COME ON! That's that with that. It's been the longest retail death in history. It's been going on for years ever since K-Mart and Sears combined. Closing stores. Dying malls. WHO GIVES A FLYING F*CK ANYMORE?? Except for the employees that made a career of Sears and K-Mart. I do feel bummed about everybody that worked for them and  well, were displaced. RETAIL SUCKS. I said it before as I'm a veteran of the going out of business sale myself. But seriously, we all know the end game here. SO QUIT POSTING THE DEAD SEARS AND KMART RETAIL! I  mean, when Toys R Us was going under, there were a ton of posts about Americas favorite toy store.  Every day. Every blog.  Slowly but surely they stopped. Well, Sears/KMart has been every day, FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS!  CUT IT OUT! Nobody care! Be careful! Thanks Yoko from Isle Of Dogs.

So, here's a small entry of junk just to have a little junk in this post. These come from the collection of small junk. First up, they used to treat poor kids that couldn't afford video games or handheld games or even a quarter for the arcade games. They made a cardboard viewer and you put these rolls on the rollers that taught you how to play these games if you had any money to play these games rather than rolling a piece of toilet paper through some rollers. It really didn't make good rolling papers, but you can't see the piece missing...

#2 A Round Tuit. Thats it. I have a few of these. I finally got AROUND TO IT! Get it! Comedy that writes itself. #3, FOB! Yes, this drove around with me for the five years I owned a Dodge Omni. I remember driving the car home for the first time and cranking up my digital AM/FM Stereo with two speakers. (I ripped it out for a JVC with tape within a few days. ) It was Tone Loc with Wild Thing. It was my first new car. I loved that POS. Nothing went wrong with other than the head gasket recall, the squeaks and rattles that began as I was driving it home and the break caliper that froze so that I had to replace the break system in the front at about 70,000 miles. Of course I couldn't pay the 8 hundie to replace the calipers, so I bought a new car. Saturn for 10 grand. Stick. No Air. The breaks DID NOT go bad in 70,000 miles and the head gasket didn't need to be replaced. I saved the medallion from it. Got all the original books for it. When I had the chance to sit in one two years after driving my Saturn, it was like sitting in Caterpillar Farm Implement or an unfortunate but needed emergency dump in a porta potty..with a thick coating of toilet paper separating your ass from the seat.

Finally, #4. I sold Bose. I went to a few Bose "rah rah" sessions where they updated us on their products. I used to love those meetings because it was a few hours off the sales floor during the day and usually lunch was provided and a free gift was also provided. You know, the reason why your AM5 speaker system doesn't blow out is because they have a light in them to absorb extreme wattage?  Really. They had a clear subwoofer so we could see. Really. It was the Bose name that sold the speakers. They were  near the most expensive speakers we sold. Most of us thought they weren't that good for rock and roll but they were the greatest products to you, the potential purchaser. But then, you could have been the guy that said "well you know what they say, no highs no lows, must be Bose" to a Bose secret shopper. It wasn't me, I didn't care that JBL and Advent speakers sounded much better and paid a better commission. If the peeps wanted a BOSE, then we had several BOSE to show and talk up. Really.  I got this fancy MagLite penlight with the medallion in a nice BOSE box. I have another one and to this day, it's working. The other one I got, sits in my junk blog.  -Ric