Repo Man - It’s 4am , do you know where your car is?

Watch this film, if you’ve not seen it you got a treat in store if you have seen it then watch it again, you’ll love it.

Things to look out for:

Outsiders/punks

The tinned food and drink featured have ‘beer’ or ‘sliced peaches’ etc on the plain label - proper Tesco Value style

The LA Reservoir from tons of films including Terminator 2 (T1000 in a lorry (truck?) chases Arnie and ‘the boy’ on the Harley)

The sweet soundtrack 

Ray ban Shooters 

Ray ban Wayfarers

The Crazy scientist

The 1964 Chevy Malibu

The Lobotomy quote: “You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It’s so small, no one knows it’s there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That’s what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he’s well again.”

What’s all this I keep hearing about Leslie Ash? Apparently she’s blown up over Europe - WTF? Are we talking suicide bombing here?

I met her once, Pre ‘lips’ stage, it was a week day, I remember that because it was June, she was clutching a plastic bag full of out of date sandwiches from Tesco, apparently she’d bought them after seeing the super low prices in the reduced section – egg and bacon for 50p, chicken caesar a pound. So, bargain crazy and cross eyed with greed she’d grabbed the lot.

Full of remorse as soon as she stepped out the shop, she was trying to get rid of the cut price bounty. She approached me from behind and grabbed my shoulder and leant in as if to whisper something in my ear, I froze for a millisecond, all my training went out the window, panicking I lashed out blindly and ineffectively with my arms instead of delivering a devastating backwards head butt (as I had practiced for so many years during the father–son anti-rape lessons I was forced to take.)

Leslie took advantage of my panicked state and swiftly dispatched two well placed rabbit punches to each of my kidneys, and as I fell to my knees I remember thinking - well that’s me urinating blood for the next week or so.

As I came round I realised someone was going through my pockets, I regained my senses enough to see it was Leslie Ash! As soon as she saw I had opened my eyes she quickly stopped rummaging and muttered what I assumed at the time was an apology. Now I think of it she may have been telling me to keep my mouth shut. It was all a bit of a blur.

She asked I if wanted to buy some knackered sandwiches. They were well past their sell by date but God Damn she made a good case for them, I bought three for a fiver.

Goodbye Leslie Ash you strange inflated creature, too crazy for this world, God only knows what they’ll make of you in the next.

That brief moment, when the rain stops for a minute, the clouds part and the sun comes through, yeah I know, summer, I think it’s on its way. Deffo. And what does that mean? It means floating in the pool on a blow up crocodile all day, drinking beer and wearing sunglasses. Best of all It means forgetting about work and going on a ROAD TRIP. 

Now the first thing you got to do if you’re going on a road trip is get hooked up with some fresh sounds. How you gonna cruise down the strip or past the beach (what beach!?) in silence? – The fact is, if the stereo ain’t on (and by on I mean on full) then you might as well be at home watching TV for all the action you’re gonna see. You need the seat back, your sunglasses on and elbow leaning on the door – especially if you’re driving.

Sweet tracks:

First tune of the trip:

Yarbrough & Peoples – Don’t Stop The Music (Long Version) - Long Version

Stopping for petrol, checking stuff out, leaning on the car etc:

Ice T – The Coldest Rap