SongO’TheDay

The next to last song in this yearlong mixtape is dedicated to Major “Dr. Gonzo” Shlepcar.

When we worked together at a .com in 2000, we worked with a group of all men ages 25-45.  All of us had nicknames.  We had a Bishop, a Colonel, a G.Webb.

G.Webb was so fucking cool not only did he get a very alcoholic drink named after him, we started to use G.Webb as a term for “the best of” something.  Like when Radiohead was releasing Kid A, we contemplated if it was going to be the G.Webb of Radiohead albums. 

Sadly, it wasn’t.

Shlepcar still thinks it’s The Bends and I still say OK Computer.

I was given the nickname Slim and Shlepcar was given Sarge.  A few years ago I promoted Sarge to Major- I felt like he really deserved the promotion. 

This was during the heyday of Napster and everyone took advantage of the free bandwidith.  We even had a network share for trading music (and porn). 

I had never really gotten into Primal Scream before Shlepcar loaned me his copy of their recently release XTRMNTR.  I hated it so intensely on the first listen, I had to give it another go.  It grew on me and I ended up going through their entire back catalog.

It seems like a pretty upbeat and optimistic song is appropriate going into 2008. 

Shlepcar may need another promotion after spending this year working on this site.  Thanks to everyone involved with this site.  Especially Shlepcar for all of his great stories and hard work.

My top five favorite Shlepcar moments of 2007:

5- When he slept through us drunkenly spray-painting his collapsed tent at Burning Man with him in it.   Homeboy has true grit.

4- Shlepcar “liberating” one of the remaining 30 packs of Tecate left over from Burning Man from my basement.

On Thanksgiving.

3- When he was fish-sitting at my loft in June, I answered the phone in Philly: “I figured the only reason you were going to call was if you killed my fish or needed help operating the universal remote control.”  

He responded “Ummm…..Both.”

2- Him using the fish sitting time to rip the rest of my 700+ CD collection.

Too bad he ripped them all at an unlistenable 56k bitrate.

1- Reading this site.  Great work, Major.

I just wish it wasn’t ending.

-Slim

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