already an offer…
Is that legal to sell on eBay? Some kid could use it to buy beer.
Al was still an Illinois resident in '99? The name of the Secretary of State on there would date that license to 1999 or later.
Then this is either fake, or he just didn’t update his ID right away.
Is he really 5 foot 10 ?
He seemed shorter than that when I last saw Ministry live.
865 N Larrabee was the address of Chicago Trax.
865 N Larrabee was the address of Chicago Trax.
I knew something seemed fishy about that address.
I was always under the impression that Al had the money for full-sized houses further north, rather than the apartments available in that neighborhood…even in the late 90s when he was likely salting away his money for well-publicized habits.
2,500 Dollars!!! [shocked]
That’s nonsense.
In some places you can renew your license by mail. They send you a letter and you reply with some money and they send you a new one. If someone was living at that address and got the renewal form they could have filled it out, paid, and had his license sent to them. Just one possible explanation although I can’t imagine anyone would be stupid enough to do that then sell it on a public auction site.
Indeed, that is the case here in FL. Now it is online.
I always wonder what people do with shit like this. You know this had to be in this guy’s (or ex-gf’s) possession for something like ten years. Why keep it? Throw that crap out.
I always wonder what people do with shit like this. You know this had to be in this guy’s (or ex-gf’s) possession for something like ten years. Why keep it? Throw that crap out.
I think it’s to interesting a little novelty to just throw out…but I’d probably put it in a drawer and forget about it…
[reply]I always wonder what people do with shit like this. You know this had to be in this guy’s (or ex-gf’s) possession for something like ten years. Why keep it? Throw that crap out.
I think it’s to interesting a little novelty to just throw out…but I’d probably put it in a drawer and forget about it…[/reply]
Yeah, same here. I’m terrible at holding onto stuff.
Back when the Phil Spector murder scandal hit, I actually lived pretty close to the place. At one point, all of the neighbors got envelopes on our doors with this funny letter from his lawyer about how his client’s name is being slandered in the press and how the prosecutors are out of line . . . etc. etc. It was pretty bananas stuff, and strangely fitting for such a bizarre defendant.
I put it off somewhere to the side, knowing that there are murder and true crime fans that collect crap like that. Where is it now? Beats me.
Same goes for all the wacky recall election stuff 10 years ago . . . ballots with Gary Coleman, Gallagher, and Jack Grisham on them. That stuff would be really cool and interesting to someone later on.
This is why I’m not a collector. I got piles of crap everywhere, but if someone would come over and just shovel it all away, I’ll give 'em $50.
I don’t have the patience to own anything small.
This is why I’m not a collector. I got piles of crap everywhere, but if someone would come over and just shovel it all away, I’ll give 'em $50.
I don’t have the patience to own anything small.
People who come to visit me invariably laugh at the minimalism of my ‘setup,’ because I’m constantly either relocating or getting uprooted, and just don’t have the ability to maintain collections of anything but books or records.
I still have some small items of memorabilia, but they’d be completely useless to anyone but me. I’d feel like an idiot auctioning, say, a bloodied razor blade playfully (?!) tossed at me by Ogre backstage at a Pigface show. And you can’t take something like that out to “wow” your friends with, since it’s impossible to prove that it is what you claim it is. What junk like that I do keep, I keep around as a trigger for my often faulty memory.
I’d feel like an idiot auctioning, say, a bloodied razor blade playfully (?!) tossed at me by Ogre backstage at a Pigface show. And you can’t take something like that out to “wow” your friends with, since it’s impossible to prove that it is what you claim it is.
That’s hilarious. I had almost the exact same memento. I saw Skinny Puppy on the “Last Rites” tour in '92 and Ogre had this makeshift 2nd skin suit on his belly and he’d slash it open and pull out sinews and guts and fling it at the crowd. So, yeah, I brought home a very small bloody chunk of guts and pinned it to my bulletin board where I used to put stuff like random ticket stubs and so forth. It dried out and looked pretty disgusting. It was just some gelatin and such as I recall and he would pull out his guts and chew on them and eat them, we had fun chewing on some chunks at the show too.
I also used to have the bottle cap from the bottle of ice water that Scaccia threw to me from the stage at the Palladium (DSOTS tour). It was a special moment as I’d always been a HUGE Scaccia fan boy and he was really diggin’ that while everyone else was cheering for Al, I was the only one screaming “MIKEY!!!” the entire show.
Everyone was dying of heat and thirst crammed up in front, so it was pretty rad when he nodded at me and tossed me the beverage (no one else got one, haha, but I shared anyway).
It would be another 5 or 6 years before I “officially” met Mikey.
That’s hilarious. I had almost the exact same memento. I saw Skinny Puppy on the “Last Rites” tour in '92 and Ogre had this makeshift 2nd skin suit on his belly and he’d slash it open and pull out sinews and guts and fling it at the crowd. So, yeah, I brought home a very small bloody chunk of guts and pinned it to my bulletin board where I used to put stuff like random ticket stubs and so forth. It dried out and looked pretty disgusting. It was just some gelatin and such as I recall and he would pull out his guts and chew on them and eat them, we had fun chewing on some chunks at the show too.
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Lol ahh the mighty Last Rites tour. Everybody needs to experience a complete “wait…did that just happen?” sensory overload like that at least once in a lifetime.
At some point I need to modify the Wikipedia page on [url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooey_duck]the geoduck to include an “in popular culture” section: “…briefly gained notoriety as a stage prop on the Last Rites tour of alternative music combo Skinny Puppy.”
how the fuck did al manage to even keep his driver’s license? seriously?