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   It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:15:15 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸

   In an effort to combat my fear that my friends are far more interesting than me, here are #5WildThingsIveDone
   1) Played Bass in a local band for almost a decade...in my 30s.
   2) Installed hospital labs in 11 different countries. Including Liberia and Ghana.
   3) Done acid in two major American cities I didn't live in.
   4) Drove 15 hours to meet a girl I met on AIM when I was 19 for the express purpose of losing my virginity. Because she offered.
   5) Started my transition at 45 years old. 🤷♀️

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:15:12 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Tweetfiction Seems like a good time, so here's #5WildThingsIveDone
     1) Made a music video for an ex-member of Marilyn Manson
     2) Traveled from San Francisco to Los Angeles by bicycle
     3) Made a phone Michelle Obama used to call and congratulate the Teacher of the Year
     4) Demanded an in-person code review on a major open source project after traveling halfway across the world
     5) DJed an orgy

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:32:50 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Tweetfiction Actually, there weren't. The promoter just asked me to keep the vibe going. I was mixing a blend of melodic house & techno, deep house, and tech house, and just trying to keep the energy right. I was mostly mixing in a music trance; didn't even realize 4 hours went by. It seemed I did a pretty good job with it; a lot of the patrons came up and thanked me personally. One said I'd helped her mark off a line on her bucket list.

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     It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:32:52 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail Those all sound pretty wild, Kit, but I gotta be honest I really want to hear more about 5! Were there requests? 😂

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     Michael C. McGreevy (mcmcgreevy@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:52:18 JST Michael C. McGreevy

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction Re: #5 I could not be trusted with that level of responsibility.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 03:56:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @mcmcgreevy @Tweetfiction Ha! I could see you going chaos muppet on that. Thankfully, I was in the mood to earnestly show people what I could do on the decks.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:29:04 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • J. Jacoby (a person)

     @jacobyaudio @Tweetfiction Oh, wow. The Toasters are the people who got me into first-wave revival ska and ska-jazz. I'd love to meet them, let alone play ball with them.

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     J. Jacoby (a person) (jacobyaudio@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:29:05 JST J. Jacoby (a person)

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     #5wildthingsivedone
     1) Hiked over a mountain in Maine in a hurricane.
     2) Played basketball with the ska band "The Toasters"
     3) Did a 5 projector blend inside Homer Simpson's head
     4) Traveled 10K miles with my college football team as the radio play-by-play announcer.
     5) Cracked the proverbial egg at 43.

     Good times.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:35:01 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • J. Jacoby (a person)

     @Tweetfiction @jacobyaudio It'll happen. It's just a matter of time before it comes back around again. Granted, I'm very much a first-waver at this point, so I just listen to old Prince Buster records.

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     It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:35:02 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸

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     • J. Jacoby (a person)

     @roadriverrail @jacobyaudio Used to be HUGE into ska! Still hoping for a 4th wave one day...

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:44:50 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Tweetfiction @jacobyaudio The third wave came along at a moment in musical history when, IMHO, A&R execs had absolutely no idea what to do. Too many pieces of captured talent from the early 90s were dead, chronically in rehab, or had become passe. Rock radio music at the time was pretty diverse and weird...Tool would be followed by The Refreshments. Indeed, Stefani ended up playing the pop star game, but the industry also pivoted heavy away from rock and toward pop. 1/2

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     It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:44:51 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸

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     @roadriverrail @jacobyaudio I'm convinced third wave only had a brief moment because the two potential Kurt Cobain's if you will, Brad Nowell and Gwen Stefani, died way too early and got co-opted. But to this day I can still happily listen to Operation Ivy and Less than Jake and the like. It's peppy music for when you need that.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 04:46:26 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Tweetfiction @jacobyaudio I actually lived in and near Gainesville, FL when Less Than Jake were in their prime. It was a magic time to live in a college town with a vibrant local music scene. There were just so many great bands thriving in the area back then. The slow collapse of that scene really mirrors the "gentrification" of the college town experience. 2/2

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     Michael C. McGreevy (mcmcgreevy@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:09:38 JST Michael C. McGreevy

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction I may or may not have occasionally dropped “Mortal Kombat” on my dancers when I was a strip club DJ

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:13:45 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @mcmcgreevy @Tweetfiction Yeah, but that kinda fits the mood in a way. It's a good strip club track.

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     Michael C. McGreevy (mcmcgreevy@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:15:13 JST Michael C. McGreevy

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction That is what I said!! My dancers, however, disagreed.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:15:36 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @mcmcgreevy @Tweetfiction philistines, the whole lot of them

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     Michael C. McGreevy (mcmcgreevy@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:16:42 JST Michael C. McGreevy

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction Odd bit of trivia - The very first song I played in that role was “Pain Lies on the Riverside” by Live

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:22:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Michael C. McGreevy

     @mcmcgreevy @Tweetfiction Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who still remembers that song. It's a banger, and I reckon I could see a good strip dance being done to it, I suspect my tastes are well in the minority.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:22:57 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @jacobyaudio @Tweetfiction What a great story! Spring of 1996...that was around the time of Hard Band For Dead, which started my love with older waves of ska.

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     J. Jacoby (a person) (jacobyaudio@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:22:58 JST J. Jacoby (a person)

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction They played a concert at our university. I want to say it was the spring of 1996. I was on the student production team that had organized the concert. The band walked in and the first thing they asked was if anyone knew where a basketball court was. I was more than happy to introduce them to the court across the street.

     Being a trumpet player, I was a little in awe of Sledge. 🎺

     https://www.discogs.com/artist/784283-Sledge-2

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     Michael C. McGreevy (mcmcgreevy@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 05:27:10 JST Michael C. McGreevy

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction If you have not seen it before, check out this wild ride…

     https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/

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     Masha Medvednik (scalene@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 11:14:30 JST Masha Medvednik

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction 🌟🌟🌟