allow myself to introduce.. myself

[matt judge]

penguin park? i'd go to that. and pizza street. WELCOME TO BEING 12. maybe we should do that as soon as possible.

i never lived north of the river. i don't know if i'm eligible.

aesthetically speaking, freemasons are all right with me. jimmy (from tanka ray, do people from kansas know about this?) got married in one of their temples or whatever and it was brimming with sinister and creepy shit.

[mookie]

TRAP DOORS!!! SECRET HALLWAYS!!!! LEVERS THAT, WHEN PULLED, DICTATE THE ROTATION OF THE STARS!!!

[page]

NORTHLAND ONLY!!!!!

[greg]

i've always lived south of the river, but a few years ago i lived about 7 minutes away from it. I DON'T NEED YOUR STINKIN' RIVER!

[laz]

on an interesting note. today i will be eating lunch in north kansas city with an old friend from high school at RUBY TUESDAY'S. we went through a list of shitty fast food resturants that we used to hang at when we had open campus lunch at NKC high and proceeded to laugh hyseterically for some reason. what should i order?

during open campus lunch the metalheads hung out outside of dairy queen and smoked. the rich kids at subway. the thugs and skaters hung out at quicktrip. the people who were REALLY into smoking hung out at long john silver's because there was a smoking section. you only went to taco bell on special ocassions cuz it was a lot further away...

i mostly went to all of these (minus long john silvers) at one point in time. mostly because i just didnt fit in anywhere. i wonder if theres punx there now?? well i guess there the emo tech metal guys probably which is WAY better than what we had when i was there. oh there was one girl with a huge mohawk! she was a nazi! (but not anymore) she had a white zombie shirt.

the closest thing to punks at my school were my couple of stoner skater friends (i saw the movie KIDS recently and was reminded of them). we went to the daily grind together a couple of times. we saw less than jake before they signed to capitol. like 30-40 people were there. it was SO fun. at my first show the gadjits played in a very young skapunk 3 piece form ("da gravy on yo grits" era). shortly after that i had no friends again....i went to skankin pickle by myself that summer (thanks for the ride mom). i believe Bill Wennington Fan Club opened. little known fact: Kurt Lane (of Ad Astra fame) was a fill-in drummer for this band!

after that i didnt have many friends at my school anymore. except for a couple guys who were really into computers. one of them i happen to meeting today for lunch! wish me luck!

HAVE A KICK ASS SUMMER!
KEEP ON TRIPPIN!!!!
KURT COBAIN RIP

peace, love, empathy,
laszlo toth

[greg]

yea that was about the closest thing to punks at my school too. nobody was really into politics, just skated a whole bunch and smoked out while jamming to epitaph bands. apparently after i graduated was when the whole swoopy black hair, black shirts, tight pants thing got big.

also, KIDS is a really good movie. i've been meaning to watch it for awhile now but haven't gotten around to it.

in other news, i have a crucial job interview in a few hours and i am hoping it goes well. its to be a mental health technician (or, MHT) at an outpatient house in independence (by the vaile mansion)

[Will 2]

I don't think much has changed... As lame as it is, I kind of tried to seek out people who were into cool music (heh, rather, what I listen to) when I went to Northtown and at first when I went to Oak Park, and the only kids I met graduated and have since moved. Since then, I don't think there's really anyone who is into old hardcore or noise rock at my school. Maybe it's changed at Northtown, but I kind of doubt it.

-Will

[JORDAN ALERT!]

NORTHLAND FOR LIFE.

LIBERTY... and i still work up there... WITH MY DAD!

they changed penguin park and made it all safe... the kangaroo probably still smells like pee though, we should go and make sure. we should go to all of these places in one day:

perkins
waffle house
thrift village (it's a DAV now)
kearney truck stop (mike grice's dad met the misfits there once... ALSO ONE TIME SOMEBODY FOUND A HUMAN HEAD IN A BUCKET OF CEMENT THERE!!!) GOOOOOOOOO NORTHLAND)
steak 'n shake
watkin's mill
jesse james bank museum
jesse james birthplace
busy bee (holt, MO) ((apparently they have the best crab rangoon ever)
metro north mall:
---ballons
---topsy's
---orange julius
---original pizza
antioch center
---absolutely nothing... maybe orange julius again
--- oh what's that oriental place... foo kee?
pizza street AND cici's

man maybe we should just have a northland WEEKEND... WEEK or MONTH there are too many radical places to list!

[mookie]

dude, shit's gotta wait until i'm in town! seriously. i'll be back in december. we should mount an expedition to go find our new northland friends and make a whirlwind tour.
fucking topsy's is right.

[smellygirl]

yeah let's all just stay at my parent's house for a whole week doing northland things non-stop. we'll just send my parents to a hotel or something for that week and take over the house and go to all those places and we'll probably never want to leave because it's SO AMAZING UP HERE

and high school was rad. I wish we got open lunches, laz, because then I would have known where all the kids went. pretty much everyone ate lunch in the cafeteria except for me and my friends and some more "weird" kids in different areas. but it's kind of sad/funny that all the black kids at Oak Park definately only hung out with each other. we got in a fight with them my sophomore year about why we couldn't hang with them

mookie, we will absolutely wait for you!

[THRAKNAR]

SUP!! my name is Chris, my barbarian name is THRAKNAR. i turned 22 a while ago, and i foolishly live in columbia. everyone definitely has social anxiety. i'm just getting over being a hermit, since the caves are getting too cold to live in, and i haven't found enough acorns to plenty my stores. i live in a tower in columbia with a friend of mine from st louis named Britanny, who comes to shows every now and then. My friend Deathspike just moved from our tower to portland for school, and i've been working a lot lately to try to afford safe travel to visit. i've also been spending a lot more time by myself. I love having anyone at all over, i love the opprotunity to get to know people better, and to let them get to know me. i play in the bands when good robots go bad, dick cheney's dick, overthrow the government, you're all gonna die, and GROND. the later 3 have not played shows, but i wanted to write those names I'm almost done with school at MU, i'm going to move back to KC in the summer, and I plan on taking my nursing clinicals here in town. columbia is absurdly depressing and also extremely fun every day, and i have way way too much time to think and go crazy. i try to be friendly to everyone i encounter, and it makes me feel better, even though half the time it seems like treating people with respect makes them freak out. i'm taking classes that are most useful for giving my constant pissed off-ness a good focus.
i love kansas city, and i love everyone i know here. every time i come back, and every time we play a show especially, i feel closer to almost everybody, and i feel like things get better every day. in columbia, sometimes it's really confusing to know how to act. visiting kansas city reminds me of who i am, and i feel like it restores my confidence in myself.
devil dan's band CROSS EXAMINATION has a song called "3.99 THE NUMBER OF THE FEAST" which is about pizza street, or some similar street with pizza.
i feel like i could type for so long right now!
i need to go get some KHAN
last night was fuckin awesome. YAY!

[xnickx]

HEY DUDES! i'm nick, chris' little brother. I do vocals in that band Give It Up. I love KC's punk and hardcore scene a lot and i'll support it every chance i can get. Like Mookie and Gator i live/go to schoo in chicago.... BUT! i'm back in KC whenever i can i guess. I'm not the most punk lookin' dude but whatever! i love everyone! UP THA PUNX! I book shows sometimes at el torreon - and i like singing along to bands.

oh! and i love high fives and circle pits! also doing the mashed potato in the pit!!!!

i'm obnoxious right now sorry.