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The header DID scare me a bit, but I must admit her intentions are noble. Reminds me of the late great Johnny Cash when he started wearing all black head to toe to show solidarity with the common man, that was in 1971...
I must admit and I am sorry to admit this as I will upset a number of Bangles fans that I was never a fan of their music. That said, I have found that each individual member still has her own merits. I would certainly not have a problem with getting…
HELL YEAH TAYLOR! The 80s were a wonderful time for music...and those who work to keep it vibrant and alive understand this reality...
i'm afraid i was not much into her music myself, but it appears to be a very interesting concept...but in my case it's distance coupled with work that would keep me a no-show...but sit down with her for a beer or a pizza or a steak and talk, yes i m…
YES! I am pleased to learn of your victory! Hurry up...We can't wait to see you on tour!
Or maybe it is time for New York State Legislators to get tough on stalkarazzi like those that CAUSED Madonna's injuries like California did some years ago...
Bea Arthur had quite an extensive career and an impressive talent...She will be missed...
It is probably just you, but Anastacia DOES INDEED have a powerful, soulful voice. But then again, so does Toni Childs (her 1990 hit, Don't walk away, was a huge smash), whose voice is actually closer to Taylor's than that of Anastacia's, yet Anasta…
I am pleased that El has dedicated himself to the Lord Jesus Christ and that he is applying himself toward self-improvement. As in the words of a church sign I saw in northern Arkansas earlier this week as we were travelling between store inventorie…
OK SO THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ME...
I am just a very busy guy with too much on my hands...
My job as an inventory auditor on a dedicated team counting store inventories for The Home Depot takes me on the road very frequently, sometimes as much as 500mi one way. My work has taken me as far away as Hays KS, Jasper IN, Owensboro KY, Benton AR, Tulsa OK, and Garden City KS (which has quite the repute as a cow town and it smells like it too, nice town, but the BS smell is almost as bad as that in Washington)...
Ah yes, Washington, you should know that I have a keen interest in the government and what they are trying to do with us and to us and our freedoms...We may not always agree on those things, but I don't mind folks who don't agree with my right-of-centre views...I make folks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Levin, Boortz, O'Reilly, and Beck look like extreme leftists...yet I should point out that party affiliation does not ensure immunity from my criticism...and even conservatives draw my criticism as well...I support America, I support the military and their mission, I support the freedom of speech, I support the freedom to keep and bear arms, I support the freedom to privacy, you get the picture...
You could probably tell that I tend to favour Fox News programmes like The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, maybe if only because MTV and VH1 are NOTHING like they were back in the 1980s or even the mid-1990s. I want my MTV THE WAY IT WAS!!!! Enough with their reality shows and propagandist horse manure...there is ENOUGH social activism in the Establishment Media, leave that to Keith All-Bull-Man and No-B4LL5 Matthews on Most Soitenly Nuthin' But Crap...I also enjoy watching WWE SmackDown!, WWE RAW, ECW, and TNA Impact! as well as Cops, America's Most Wanted, The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, Family Guy, and American Dad...Back in the 80s I was into The Dukes of Hazzard and Diff'rent Strokes...but also became familiar with reruns of Dragnet, ADAM-12, and SWAT...
Then we come to the movies...I have long enjoyed the Dirty Harry and Lethal Weapons series of movies but also some unlikely films like Hot Stuff (a '79 film starring Dom DeLuise, the late Jerry Reed, and the late Suzanne Pleshette), Jimmy The Kid (an '82 comedy starring Gary Coleman, Paul LeMat [American Graffiti], and the late Noriyuki (Pat) Morita [The Karate Kid]), and The Toy (starring Jackie Gleason) as well as A Passage To India, an '84 British production featuring Sir Alec Guinness as the professor Godbole...
Of course I enjoyed the music of the 80s, and why not, I came of age in the 1980s. I always enjoyed Michael Jackson's music, even came to appreciate his earlier material, as well as his work as part of The Jackson 5, Prince was OK, and let's say just that because what I have to say about the Bangles, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, The Blow Monkeys, or Flesh For Lulu is less than totally positive I am not saying anything at all about them and let's just leave it at that. (But sit me down with them for steaks or beer or pizza and I would not have a problem; I am sure there are other redeeming factors about them, I have since learnt to look beyond their music...) Used to like Madonna, but wish she had not become so overtly controversial or explicit in her material or her activities, but if I had to sit down and have a coffee with her I could, now let's get on to the artists I REALLY like...
I would also become a rather ardent Depeche Mode fan as I got into high school, but the Beastie Boys derailed that to a degree, Mel & Kim (a horribly underrated British dance duo) further tested my loyalties, but Exposé would completely alter my musical loyalties altogether, and not because of their incredible beauty, they had ALREADY had me at the song, Point of no return, BEFORE I had ever seen the video for that song. I wound up a diehard fan of theirs by the end of that summer, and several years later I would actually obtain a licence plate bearing their name --- in California. I would ALSO develop an interest in other alternative acts like Midnight Oil, Big Audio Dynamite, The Church, XTC, Hunters And Collectors, New Order, Living Colour, and 24/7 Spyz.
But I ALSO developed a strong interest in other dance artists, Sweet Sensation and The Cover Girls stand out, I was into freestyle BEFORE I even knew what it was called...Techno would start developing by the end of the 80s and that laid the foundation for my interest in other groups that would come along, like 808 State and The Beloved and The Shamen...My interest was very strong at that point and still is even today, even as turntablism and electro have come into their own on the dance floor...
As for individual singers I would find myself getting interested in singers as diverse as James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams Jr, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Paula Abdul, Taylor Dayne, Danielle Dax, and Sinead O'Connor...I would also gain interest in rap as the 80s came to an end, artists like Public Enemy, NWA, and Ice-T would gain prominence in my music collection...
Then there is the matter of sports...I am an Oakland Raiders fan today, but in the 80s I was cheering for the Houston Oilers, before they moved to Tennessee and became the Titans...I was also a fan of the New York Rangers AND the Islanders, but today I am an LA Kings fan, I was always an LA Lakers fan and from the time I was about 10 or 11 I was a Boston Red Sox fan, but before that I was an LA Dodgers fan...I am a Toronto Argonauts fan today, when I was an Ottawa Rough Riders fan in the 80s...I followed Darrell Waltrip and Richard Petty in Nascar in the 80s but today I don't have a particular favourite...
My job as an inventory auditor on a dedicated team counting store inventories for The Home Depot takes me on the road very frequently, sometimes as much as 500mi one way. My work has taken me as far away as Hays KS, Jasper IN, Owensboro KY, Benton AR, Tulsa OK, and Garden City KS (which has quite the repute as a cow town and it smells like it too, nice town, but the BS smell is almost as bad as that in Washington)...
Ah yes, Washington, you should know that I have a keen interest in the government and what they are trying to do with us and to us and our freedoms...We may not always agree on those things, but I don't mind folks who don't agree with my right-of-centre views...I make folks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Levin, Boortz, O'Reilly, and Beck look like extreme leftists...yet I should point out that party affiliation does not ensure immunity from my criticism...and even conservatives draw my criticism as well...I support America, I support the military and their mission, I support the freedom of speech, I support the freedom to keep and bear arms, I support the freedom to privacy, you get the picture...
You could probably tell that I tend to favour Fox News programmes like The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, maybe if only because MTV and VH1 are NOTHING like they were back in the 1980s or even the mid-1990s. I want my MTV THE WAY IT WAS!!!! Enough with their reality shows and propagandist horse manure...there is ENOUGH social activism in the Establishment Media, leave that to Keith All-Bull-Man and No-B4LL5 Matthews on Most Soitenly Nuthin' But Crap...I also enjoy watching WWE SmackDown!, WWE RAW, ECW, and TNA Impact! as well as Cops, America's Most Wanted, The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, Family Guy, and American Dad...Back in the 80s I was into The Dukes of Hazzard and Diff'rent Strokes...but also became familiar with reruns of Dragnet, ADAM-12, and SWAT...
Then we come to the movies...I have long enjoyed the Dirty Harry and Lethal Weapons series of movies but also some unlikely films like Hot Stuff (a '79 film starring Dom DeLuise, the late Jerry Reed, and the late Suzanne Pleshette), Jimmy The Kid (an '82 comedy starring Gary Coleman, Paul LeMat [American Graffiti], and the late Noriyuki (Pat) Morita [The Karate Kid]), and The Toy (starring Jackie Gleason) as well as A Passage To India, an '84 British production featuring Sir Alec Guinness as the professor Godbole...
Of course I enjoyed the music of the 80s, and why not, I came of age in the 1980s. I always enjoyed Michael Jackson's music, even came to appreciate his earlier material, as well as his work as part of The Jackson 5, Prince was OK, and let's say just that because what I have to say about the Bangles, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, The Blow Monkeys, or Flesh For Lulu is less than totally positive I am not saying anything at all about them and let's just leave it at that. (But sit me down with them for steaks or beer or pizza and I would not have a problem; I am sure there are other redeeming factors about them, I have since learnt to look beyond their music...) Used to like Madonna, but wish she had not become so overtly controversial or explicit in her material or her activities, but if I had to sit down and have a coffee with her I could, now let's get on to the artists I REALLY like...
I would also become a rather ardent Depeche Mode fan as I got into high school, but the Beastie Boys derailed that to a degree, Mel & Kim (a horribly underrated British dance duo) further tested my loyalties, but Exposé would completely alter my musical loyalties altogether, and not because of their incredible beauty, they had ALREADY had me at the song, Point of no return, BEFORE I had ever seen the video for that song. I wound up a diehard fan of theirs by the end of that summer, and several years later I would actually obtain a licence plate bearing their name --- in California. I would ALSO develop an interest in other alternative acts like Midnight Oil, Big Audio Dynamite, The Church, XTC, Hunters And Collectors, New Order, Living Colour, and 24/7 Spyz.
But I ALSO developed a strong interest in other dance artists, Sweet Sensation and The Cover Girls stand out, I was into freestyle BEFORE I even knew what it was called...Techno would start developing by the end of the 80s and that laid the foundation for my interest in other groups that would come along, like 808 State and The Beloved and The Shamen...My interest was very strong at that point and still is even today, even as turntablism and electro have come into their own on the dance floor...
As for individual singers I would find myself getting interested in singers as diverse as James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams Jr, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Paula Abdul, Taylor Dayne, Danielle Dax, and Sinead O'Connor...I would also gain interest in rap as the 80s came to an end, artists like Public Enemy, NWA, and Ice-T would gain prominence in my music collection...
Then there is the matter of sports...I am an Oakland Raiders fan today, but in the 80s I was cheering for the Houston Oilers, before they moved to Tennessee and became the Titans...I was also a fan of the New York Rangers AND the Islanders, but today I am an LA Kings fan, I was always an LA Lakers fan and from the time I was about 10 or 11 I was a Boston Red Sox fan, but before that I was an LA Dodgers fan...I am a Toronto Argonauts fan today, when I was an Ottawa Rough Riders fan in the 80s...I followed Darrell Waltrip and Richard Petty in Nascar in the 80s but today I don't have a particular favourite...
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- At 5:38pm on December 1, 2009,
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- Thanks for inviting me in, it's alway grest to know that there's still fans who remembers my brother "Jermaine Stewart".
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