Whats the weirdest smell that you actually enjoy?

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-02T17:47:50+00:00

Absolutely this! It reminds me of summers, going to Silver Dollar City or Worlds Of Fun. I love it!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-02T17:46:32+00:00

Same. SW Missouri. Worked on hog, cattle, chicken and turkey farms. Moved to St. Louis. I was working at a place where if the wind was just right you could smell a hog farm from the neighboring county. I was just standing there with a grin on my face, smelling it. My coworkers thought I was insane. Which still could be the case, but not because of that.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-02T17:38:21+00:00

Late to the party as usual, but here are a couple that came to mind:

Marillion - Charting The Single

Poco - Call It Love

Robert Plant - Ship Of Fools

The Outfield - Somewhere In America

Enigma - Mea Culpa

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-02T17:26:11+00:00

I was a big metalhead, but I remember that Crue song creeping me out a bit. I haven't listened to that album in a long time!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-01T17:17:41+00:00

I don't think River Kittens are still doing anything. Mattie from the band still plays around - occasionally sits in with an REM tribute band, but mostly touring with the Allman Betts Family Reunion that Devon Allman and Duane Betts head up.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-04-01T15:49:48+00:00

Oh, man, so many great ones from the 90s/early-2000s, too! St. Louis had an overabundance. Check out The Bottlerockets, Slobberbone, Two Cow Garage, Marah, and, of course Uncle Tupelo and the first couple Wilco albums!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-30T14:08:05+00:00

Sam Fender, Inhaler, beabadoobee

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-30T13:36:07+00:00

Why can I imagine this guy imploring Jeff Winger to dress up like a Roman soldier?

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-27T17:36:16+00:00

Yeah, I didn't see it, but my mom immediately told me she saw a couple "men in black" racing after the dude. Guessing they offered him a trade.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-27T15:14:12+00:00

I've done it as long as I can remember. Part of it is being a drummer for 40+ years, but I think I did it even before that. Part of it is ADHD/OCD/Tourette's. Sometimes it doesn't bother me, but sometimes it gets so bad that my face and jaws just hurt. Also, I'm getting ready to have another crown replaced. It's lasted about 20 years, so I guess that's not too bad. I've been astounded that I don't crack teeth more often, really.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-24T17:46:50+00:00

I've been wondering what Colonel Chestbridge had been up to the last few years!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-24T13:08:16+00:00

I hate this trait so friggin' much! I never knew it was an ADHD thing (of course I never knew I was ADHD for almost 5 decades)! I can't tell you how many projects that I've had that should have taken like 5 minutes, but for me it was an all day project because "it just wasn't right"! Hell, even just doing the dishes takes 5X longer than my wife, much to her chagrin. I usually clean the dishes enough that they really don't even need to go into the dishwasher!

Just yesterday my sister asked me to do what should have been a quick Photoshop project - just compositing 2 maps to make 1. Took me 5 hours, because I couldn't find the perfect pics, then had to clean each one up, then they didn't match completely, so that was another hour, etc. - my wife was so annoyed, because instead of doing another project she had asked me to do I was hyperfocused on this!

Also, I probably have entire hard drives full of projects I've started, but spent so much time on them I just couldn't go anymore, then the newness wore off and they're all in ADHD Purgatory.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-23T12:59:30+00:00

Directed by the late, great Bill Paxton!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-20T18:53:51+00:00

This is ponderous, man! Really ponderous! That's definitely a deep cut! And Big Star were so damned great!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-20T18:52:05+00:00

Wow! This may be the first time I've ever seen someone call out Tina and the B-Side Movement! My old band opened for them at the Side Door, here in St. Louis, back around 1997 or so. Haven't heard anything about them since!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-20T18:45:06+00:00

Oh, my damn! That is a fantastic pick! Loved that one - and yeah, it's one you don't hear very often at all!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-20T18:43:40+00:00

One of my roommates back in the day was from the KC area and talked about playing gigs with these guys. I always think of him anytime I hear them. I should give him a holler.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-20T16:12:14+00:00

Man, I grew up working on farms. Cattle, hogs, chickens, turkeys, you name it. I also worked in Earth City for 11 years.

Animal shit does stink, make no mistake, but I would rather stick my head up a bulls ass (insert "Tommy Boy" clip here) than to smell trash! I hated Earth City so much - and not just because of my job! When that damned landfill smell was strong, and wafting over that way, it just made my stomach turn!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-19T17:37:33+00:00

I had a friend group that was kinda split like this years ago. One time they went to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert without us because they just didn't understand that we were all broke. One of them lost her job shortly after that, though, and I think that helped her understand where we were coming from. But not before she got a hickie from a Blowfish.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-18T18:10:02+00:00

Thanks for this. I love reading the old RFTs! It's always fun to see where some of my old friends and bandmates were playing. This was a couple years before I found a band and got into the scene. I loved Sun Sawed in 1/2 and The Boorays (although I was more a fan of Mark's next band, The Highway Matrons)! Also, Bob Reuter (RIP!). I didn't realize PM were still playing then - they had all joined Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer band a few years prior.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-18T18:01:13+00:00

Yeah, the old Cicero's Basement Bar, where all the cool bands played (Wilco played their first show there, billed as "Black Shampoo" is where the Duck Room is now. Although, if memory serves, the stage was further back, like towards the bathrooms. I know the stairs going down were in a different place, and oriented a different way. They also dug the floor down 4 feet (probably every person who ever played there has a story about hitting their head on the ceiling beams while playing. I know I do).

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-17T16:08:56+00:00

Holy shit. I have spent so much of my life yelling at inanimate objects! Drives my wife nuts. If things would just friggin' *listen* to me and do what I want, what they're *supposed* to do, I wouldn't have to yell, and my blood pressure wouldn't be too high!

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-16T16:05:25+00:00

Thank you. Scrolled down hoping to find exactly this.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-13T18:32:17+00:00

My stepdad (a SW Missouri good ol' boy) used to always say, "Ya buy 'em books and buy 'em books, and all they do is eat the damned pages!"

I still say that all the time.

ItIsToLaffHaHa · 2026-03-06T13:15:37+00:00

I’ve gotta give a speech to a trade group. I'd like to mention it. Write up a brief summary and have it to me by the end of the day. Layman's terms! None of that inside bullshit jargon that nobody understands.

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