Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things about The Music Whore

1. Music has played a huge part in my life starting when I was 5 and fell in love with the Monkees. I was a few years too late for the mayhem they caused in their heyday. I discovered them in 1979. Davy Jones was my first crush.

2. I saved for months and months to get a CD player when I was in grade school. I paid for most of it with quarters that I had rolled. My first CDs were Then And Now the Best of the Monkees and 2 of the Beatles CDs that had just started to be reissued on the new CD format. (Lordy I feel old now)

3. The video for Your Wildest Dreams by the Moody Blues has always made me cry. I also always wanted to be able to dance like they did in the video.

4. Duran Duran weren't favorites of mine until the recorded they Wedding Album in the early 90's. After that they became one of my biggest musical obsessions. I'm still very sad about missing their show in Pittsburgh last summer.

5. I've had two hugs from Elvis Costello and one hug from John Lodge and a few kisses from Graeme Edge. Now you know why they call me the Music Whore.

~wink wink --- nudge nudge~

6. The last CD I bought was Cliff Richard - The Album, because I wanted one song from the disc and there are no download sites in the US that supply his music.

7. My CD collection is so large it takes up most of the space in my computer room. There are over 3000 CDs. I haven't counted in such a long time, so I don't know where I stand now.

8. I've seen the Moody Blues in concert more than any other band; 6 times in the last 3 years. The next band in line is the Monkees. I've seen them four times.

9. I prefer to see concerts in venues that aren't around Pittsburgh. Atlantic City casinos seem to be the nicest places to see a show.

10. The only reason I even know who Elvis Costello is, is because he worked with Paul McCartney. I bought Spike because of the songs that Paul co/wrote with him, and my favorite song on Paul's Flower's In The Dirt CD is You Want Her Two, which is a great duet.

11. There are two bands that I desperately want to see in concert and my chances of seeing them are pretty dim; Erasure and Grey Eye Glances.

12. A vast majority of the stories/novels I've written have been inspired by songs.

13. My favorite movie of all time is The Beatles Help!
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