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OOoooh oh! The Guns of Brixton! *boiioiiiong!*

07/11/07

OOoooh oh! The Guns of Brixton! *boiioiiiong!*

Permalink 06:38:11 pm by cassie, Categories: Announcements [A]

I'm a big fan of the Clash, thanks to my super cool, ultra-punk parentes. Once upon a time when they were but younguns in love, one bought the other "London Calling" on cassette. Little did they know that one day their nerdy daughter would pick it up and ask where they got it. "Wait... Mom bought that for you? You guys were, like, really cool!"

And so they were.

Anyways, I'm way past learning how awesome my parents were when they were younger, and now I'm just trying to fill their shoes - and I have, even to the point of needing New Balance E-width shoes and coming within a half a size to Mum's wakeboard-sized duck feet. I bought Emvee London Calling a few years ago as a birthday present and he really liked it, and at the time I didn't even know that I'd end up inheriting all his junk when I married him three years later, so he burned me a copy so I could listen too. This was my secret plan all along, really - buy Mark a present but think of myself too. heh.

So it's all old news to everyone by now that a few nights ago, some bald guy in fatigues was prowling around our house at midnight. I thought I was imagining things, because I'm a big paranoid weenie all the time and I'm trying not to be so pessimistic about life, but I still turned out all the lights in the house and tried to see if anyone was outside through the windows. I eventually dismissed my fears, but it turned out that there really was someone outside because the next day at church, our landlady told us that her daughter, the renter who lives behind and directly abutting our apartment in the house had some guy pound on her door and throw a chair at her window. He wouldn't go away so she picked up her phone and dialed 911. The guy just walked down the stairs, like, no big deal, and left, not even breaking into a run until he was some twenty feet away. Ridiculous and terrifying and I haven't slept particularly well the last few nights, let me tell you.

All this to say, as we were driving home from a nice little date tonight while listening to London Calling's "Guns of Brixton" when I joked that the song is totally about me if anyone ever tries to break into the house again.

Mark said that someday when they make a movie about our life, that song will be playing in the scene where our house gets broken into. Instead of the guy breaking into the neighbor's house, in the movie, he'll be breaking into our house and he'll kick in the door and it will be a momentary freeze frame of splintering door hinges and dust, and right then, the song will start to play, softer, then really loudly as I totally jump into action and the whupping begins (me being the whupper, bald dude being the whuppee).

It will be such an awesome scene, seriously. Summer blockbuster. In the trailer, it'll probably have just a little bit of the whupping as a teaser, but definitely that song will be what is playing during the trailer, because, you know. I'm so awesome like that. And because the movies are a lot more unscary than real life is sometimes.

9 comments

Comment from: Jen [Visitor] Email
JenHoly cow, Cass. I like being on the second floor. The only kind of prowlers outside the window would be Peter Pan.
That's what I'll miss when we move to our new place. (Not Peter Pan. the security of living on the second floor).
You DO happen to have a fire arm on hand, don't you? Or at least a sword? I've got any number of swords in my house. And if I forget to take the safety off the firearm, I can beat him with it, right?
That and the free hot water and heat. Wouldn't you know it, when we had free heat we never had to use it. We kept our windows open in the winter. Now that we have to pay for our heat, we'll need it.
07/11/07 @ 19:15
Comment from: Brian [Visitor] Email
BrianHahah! Great post, Cassie. Your parents just keep earning coolness points. The Clash is awesome. I have a few remixes of "London Calling" that I like, too.

Yikes on the intruder. I had a friend in Missouri who blasted a would-be thief with a paintball gun. I wonder if that would be legal in NYC? Probably not. I'll just have to stock with my pointy hiking poles. :/
07/12/07 @ 05:39
Comment from: phampants [Visitor] Email
phampantsi love the song "brand new cadillac". it just happen to work the best in the video in honor of the basketball coach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USsddi5XT6Q

fwd to 5:31 to hear the song
07/12/07 @ 15:16
Comment from: court [Visitor] Email
court;-D
I'm sorry Jen, but I just had this image of Cassie running after a bad guy with her arm on fire. (Not that it wouldn't be effective though).

Brian... I'm sure it would work if you could say with a straight face that you regularly play paintball in your apartment, and that you just thought he was another player. Oh, and the paint washes out.

Rock the Casbah!
07/13/07 @ 15:41
Comment from: court [Visitor] Email
courtYep, calling 911 isn't quite as big of a threat to a bad guy as showing them your big and heavy stainless steel .44 magnum revolver, or racking a shell into your shotgun.

Heh, let me add my own little anecdotal story that I heard from someone else. A guy from church happened to hear some small noises outside one night maybe about 10 years ago, and looked outside and saw someone sneaking around and siphoning gas out of his truck. He got his .357 Magnum revolver and quietly went outside and fired the revolver into the air. The thief skedaddled so fast he could have probably qualified for the Olympic sprinters team. He wound up leaving behind a new gas can and siphon tube too.
07/13/07 @ 15:49
Comment from: Paperboy [Visitor] Email
PaperboyWow, the Paperboy missed that one and the Dracut PD didn't tell me about it when I checked in like I do every single day and ask, "Anything happen overnight that we may have missed?"
I was pretty shaken up when I heard about it. I live on the same street. I have a nice Louisville Slugger right by the door and the teen boy has a number of nice weapons lying around the house, including a pair of 15-inch Chinese Sais.

"The Future Is Unwritten." -- Joe Strummer
07/13/07 @ 18:39
Comment from: cassie [Member]
cassieNot much chance of firing a gun into the air on my street, for any reason, and getting way with anything less than jail time, Court, unfortunately. :)
07/15/07 @ 12:59
Comment from: Heidi [Visitor] Email
Heidiim totally with paperboy on this one - my trusty louisville slugger leans against my bedstand - even though we are now on the second floor and not in some ghetto neighborhood, it's just habit.
I definitely recommend one. It fended off some kid breaking into my car one night, just by me holding it over my head and yelling from like ten yards away.

so, yah. dont ever jump through my bedroom window at night. unless you like baseball.
07/15/07 @ 21:59
Comment from: Charlie [Visitor] Email
Charliehttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/retromullet/HK45full.gif
07/16/07 @ 16:17
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