Grafwritah2

• Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

  Grafwritah2

  September 9
  I'll chime in as well - had to make a new account as I don't remember my password from 21 years ago, and it looks like I'm about 15 years too late to reset my password with a collegeclub.com email address, haha.
  
  Like most everyone else I haven't posted here in a long time, but really enjoyed the heyday of Soulstrut.  At the time, I was an immature barely-adult with small children, a C- GPA to manage, and occasional $6 an hour part time jobs.  I had no time but to take care of kids, go to class, and work. I remember it being an immensely stressful period and even though i was unnecessarily obnoxious half of the time, I enjoyed talking with you all.  In retrospect I regret not having the time or money at the time to have connected in person like a lot of you did, but the online community was fun anyway.
  
  A little while back I sold my house and in that process almost all the records I had.  They been collecting dust, untouched, for years.  Part of a different past chapter of my life, I guess.
  
  Soulstrut is like returning to your hometown years later - you're sad it's not the way that you remember it, but still nice to know it's there if you want to return someday.  But you know in the back of your mind that you and the people you knew have moved on and aren't coming back.
  
  As part of trying to figure out my login here I found an old Photobucket account I used for Strut related pics and whatnot.  Kind of a weird time capsule - everything from early stage memes to injokes to MySpace screenshots (I have no idea why).
  
  Does anyone still have any of the Leo Sayer Beat-Off archives?  Unfortunately a lot of stuff I posted up I used my own website/domain to do it and all that is gone.  I remember how many people's beats they made were actually pretty good given the source material.
  
  Would love to catch up with anyone from those days - feel free to drop me a line at rollingacres@gmail.com.  
  
  Nagging questions:
  - Where is TheMack these days?
  - How will Pap Day be celebrated going forward?
  - Is Guzzo still in West Covina?  Will he be making any more dating show appearances?
  - Is Reynaldo still down on the hippie commune?
  - RIP Brian Peppers
  - Does Faux_rillz still have this shirt?
  
    
  
  
  

  

• Anyone have an e-copy of the Soulstrut Break In the Road Katrina CD?

  Grafwritah2

  October 16

  kicks79 said:

  Better late than never. 
  
  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11GEzTVog5MnKS-j5qtlbXPWa9gvYAqoh?usp=sharing
  
  Let me know if this works for you all 
  
  

  Thanks for doing that!  Much appreciated.  18 years later I can finally check it out!

  

• Electionstrut 2024

  Grafwritah2

  November 6
  I would say old school Soulstrut was on the woke spectrum before the term woke was coined.  But considering that most people were somewhere between college and slightly out of it that's not that surprising.  I'd guess most people carried that political view forward, with the occasional exception like whichever one of us turned into an ultra-conservative political pundit.
  
  Setting aside the set of people who just didn't vote as happens in every election, the country has clearly spoken.  It wasn't a razor thin margin, and it wasn't a quirk of the electoral college vs. the popular vote.  And it wasn't just limited to the President, either; Republicans swept the country and many areas that are Democratic strongholds shifted to the right a bit.
  
  Personal opinion, Democrats went too far to the extreme on a number of their policies and alienated swaths of the populace, ran Biden when that was never going to fly, threw in Kamala at the last minute who was a weak candidate and had no time to develop her own brand, and basically made a mess of everything.  Obama was the last strong candidate with a mass appeal that the Democrats have run and don't seem to have anyone on deck to compete against a strong personality like Trump.
  
  I agree with others considering all of the track record of Trump both inside and outside of office that the majority of Americans were like "this is the guy that's going to fix things" is odd.  I won't say surprising as I expected him to win, honestly, but that so many people felt Trump is the solution to the errors the Biden administration has made is a head scratcher to me.