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Could you make the title any harder to click on in an RSS reader?
posted by mendel at 5:55 PM on August 25, 2006
posted by mendel at 5:55 PM on August 25, 2006
Whats an rss reader ? cant you just get a computer like everyone else ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:04 PM on August 25, 2006 [2 favorites]
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:04 PM on August 25, 2006 [2 favorites]
*dies and goes to mod heaven*
*comes back to life to add a few more*
all hail The Modfather!
the proverbial Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
He's the Keeper.
posted by fizzyliftingdrink at 6:07 PM on August 25, 2006
*comes back to life to add a few more*
all hail The Modfather!
the proverbial Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
He's the Keeper.
posted by fizzyliftingdrink at 6:07 PM on August 25, 2006
I was just looking at Vespas & Lambrettas on line, I kid you not.
I was just working on my two 30-year old Vespas. I kid you not.
Not necessarily mod, but associated... the Royal Canadian Motorscooter Portage hosted by the VCC in Vancouver is this September long weekend, as it has always been for the last 20 some odd years. Fun bands, good rides, and some mods. Well, maybe more... the mod population in the vintage scooter scene goes up and down with the tide.
posted by Extopalopaketle at 6:28 PM on August 25, 2006
I was just working on my two 30-year old Vespas. I kid you not.
Not necessarily mod, but associated... the Royal Canadian Motorscooter Portage hosted by the VCC in Vancouver is this September long weekend, as it has always been for the last 20 some odd years. Fun bands, good rides, and some mods. Well, maybe more... the mod population in the vintage scooter scene goes up and down with the tide.
posted by Extopalopaketle at 6:28 PM on August 25, 2006
I was just working on my two 30-year old Vespas. I kid you not. --
Only 30 years old? Why those might as well be P-series! ;) I've noticed that about the "mod" population in the scooter scene, too. Well... sort of, at least. There are the scooter folks that one could call "mod," and then there are the "mod"ish scenester kids who decide to buy scooters. I know it seems liks splitting hairs, but you probably know exactly what I mean...and one group is infinitely more tolerable than the other.
posted by kaseijin at 8:20 PM on August 25, 2006
Only 30 years old? Why those might as well be P-series! ;) I've noticed that about the "mod" population in the scooter scene, too. Well... sort of, at least. There are the scooter folks that one could call "mod," and then there are the "mod"ish scenester kids who decide to buy scooters. I know it seems liks splitting hairs, but you probably know exactly what I mean...and one group is infinitely more tolerable than the other.
posted by kaseijin at 8:20 PM on August 25, 2006
...That said, I do still have my M-51 parka, and appreciate my share of soul music. If you ride a '60's Vespa, that much is sorta de rigeur.
posted by kaseijin at 8:22 PM on August 25, 2006
posted by kaseijin at 8:22 PM on August 25, 2006
oh, and it's got nothing to do with vorspung durch technik, you know.
posted by shoepal at 8:38 PM on August 25, 2006
posted by shoepal at 8:38 PM on August 25, 2006
If you ride a '60's Vespa, that much is sorta de rigeur.
How true. I ride 70's machines, so um... I used to blast Keoki on my 100W subwoofered bike on rallies. (Never fully gave in to the Mod / Soul thing, but loved the rides and the restoration and the tinkering.) Vorsprung Durch Technik, you know.
Nevertheless, the New Untouchables website is great - thanks Sgt!
posted by Extopalopaketle at 9:04 PM on August 25, 2006
How true. I ride 70's machines, so um... I used to blast Keoki on my 100W subwoofered bike on rallies. (Never fully gave in to the Mod / Soul thing, but loved the rides and the restoration and the tinkering.) Vorsprung Durch Technik, you know.
Nevertheless, the New Untouchables website is great - thanks Sgt!
posted by Extopalopaketle at 9:04 PM on August 25, 2006
dadadress.com (the target of the last "Mods" in the FPP) has some amazing clothes! They're all really expensively bespoke, though. Does anybody know an online store with similar clothes off the rack?
posted by blasdelf at 12:44 AM on August 26, 2006
posted by blasdelf at 12:44 AM on August 26, 2006
blasdelf, you might want to check out DNA groove. Which has high quality italian mod style clothing. I have purchased quite a few items from them and have been incredibly pleased with everything that they have sent me (trousers, button down, knit top, and a prince of whales check suit.) You could say I look quite the dapper fellow riding around on my 65 lambretta...
Also, anybody interested in mod happenings (soul nights/scooter rallies) might want to check out the Uppers Organization who have an excellent jet setter's "city guide"
posted by tokyo drifter at 2:05 AM on August 26, 2006
Also, anybody interested in mod happenings (soul nights/scooter rallies) might want to check out the Uppers Organization who have an excellent jet setter's "city guide"
posted by tokyo drifter at 2:05 AM on August 26, 2006
all hail the paternalist critique of modernism !
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:27 AM on August 26, 2006
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:27 AM on August 26, 2006
all hail the modernist critique of paternalism !
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:29 AM on August 26, 2006
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:29 AM on August 26, 2006
Thanks, tokyo drifter, for making such a helpful recommendation your very first comment to Metafilter! That is so awesome of you.
posted by blasdelf at 7:49 AM on August 26, 2006
posted by blasdelf at 7:49 AM on August 26, 2006
You know, The Who are probably my favorite band, but I would've mad a horrible mod, and a great rocker. Go figure.
posted by jonmc at 12:46 PM on August 26, 2006
posted by jonmc at 12:46 PM on August 26, 2006
R U A MOD?
"If you know none of the records below you are defintely not a mod
my mod & rocker story
posted by madamjujujive at 2:18 PM on August 26, 2006
"If you know none of the records below you are defintely not a mod
my mod & rocker story
posted by madamjujujive at 2:18 PM on August 26, 2006
Great links, madam! From the first:
UNDER THE BROADWALK – THE DRIFTERS – 1964
Heh. (I know almost all those songs, so I'm a pretty tasty geezer!)
posted by languagehat at 5:32 PM on August 26, 2006
UNDER THE BROADWALK – THE DRIFTERS – 1964
Heh. (I know almost all those songs, so I'm a pretty tasty geezer!)
posted by languagehat at 5:32 PM on August 26, 2006
It's not Northern Soul, in fact it's southern (US) soul, but y'all might like this mix.
posted by shoepal at 6:47 PM on August 26, 2006
posted by shoepal at 6:47 PM on August 26, 2006
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