I got hit on my bike riding to work for the first time this morning. Nothing too bad, just some scrapes, but still kinda crazy just in that I got knocked off and was lying in the middle of the street for a moment there. Not my fault, a girl making a right turn on a red hit me in the cross-walk. Before impact I yelled for her attention, but she just kept going and I couldn’t get out of the way quick enough. Truthfully, I am usually quite good at avoiding accidents from ‘bike invisibility syndrome,’ but I was dodging a guy who seemed keen on turning into me from the left before she flanked on the right. A brilliant strategical maneuver. Don’t worry, I’m fine (she seemed more emotionally rattled than I was physically). I wear a helmet. The bike is fine too.
The above line is taken from a Nation of Ulysses song I must have played hundreds of times during the most angsty of my teenage years. That line is in turn is lifted from the The Crystals’ unconvincingly anti-battery song by Phil Spector. You 90s alterna-rockers might remember the Hole Unplugged cover of it.
This Les Savy song is a gem. It’s from an impossible to find 7″ they put out with Pop Frenzy for their 2005 Australian tour, and since I wasn’t crazy about “Plagues & Snakes,” it’s the best stuff they have out post-Inches.
: Les Savy Fav – Hit By Car :
: Nation of Ulysses – The Sound of Jazz To Come :
: The Crystals – He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) :
thanks for posting the crystals. i’ve been searching hi and lo for it after seeing grizzly bear covering it in concert 2 nights ago.
blimey – sod yer joy divisions and radioheads – if you want deep gloom, despair,and more teenage angst than can fit on 7 inches of glorious plastic then give me a girl group. ‘uptown’ is right up there, but ‘he hit me…’ is incredible.
thankyou