RIP George Carlin
"In baseball, the object is to be safe at home! I hope I'll be safe at home!"
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posted by Jackson Ellis at
12:27 AM
Monday, June 23, 2008
"In baseball, the object is to be safe at home! I hope I'll be safe at home!"
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A term you don't really hear much anymore is: "I wore the grooves off of that record, I played it so often." I guess with the advent of first, cds, then downloads, you won't be hearing anything similar anytime soon.
And really, did you ever actually play a record so many times that you wore down the very surface of a record to a consistency akin to the pate of Kevin Youkilis?
Well, this happened to me. And it wasn't the first Damned LP, or Kiss Alive, or even Smoking Popes "Get Fired." The one record I filed to a skidding nub was the mighty "Occupation Foole" by George Carlin. I memorized it, rim to runoff. It was the second comedy album I ever heard, after Carlin's epic, but not as funny "AM/FM" (so named to mark the bridge between his career as a straight, suit-and-tie, 60's comic and his rebirth as the counter-cultural Copernicus), and to this date, 35 years later, my brothers and I still know each bit like we wrote it ourselves. By 1978 that record was sandblasted.
I never needed to buy that record again, because I still can recite it verbatim. I know this because in '96 I bought it again. Me and an old pal--another Carlin-head like me--recited the damn thing verbatim.
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