Take Me Back Tuesday

It's another Music Memoirs meme!

This week we're going back to the 80's.

List 3 artists/bands from this decade

Duran Duran
Erasure
Oingo Boingo

List 3 one hit wonders from this decade

Well the 80's wouldn't be the 80's without these songs
Toni Basil - Mickey
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

List 3 movie soundtracks from this decade

Pretty In Pink



Less Than Zero



Vision Quest

Google Giggles

Ah yes, I've been googled again.

This time the lucky searcher that landed here came seeking the answer to this question.

Go on, click. You know you want to.

Yeah, it's the "Is Justin Hayward still married?" question.

~sigh~

Why not ask a better question?

Perhaps

How did Marie Hayward's nose get so long.

How many affairs did Justin Hayward have in the course of his 30+ year marriage?(And yes, he's had them, Marie said so in an interview)

Perhaps the question should be, "Why is Justin Hayward still married?"

My favorite would be this one...

How ugly do you have to be to be married to Justin Hayward?

Well I can answer that...

This ugly



Perhaps it's cruel of me to call her ugly. Perhaps, beauty is more than skin deep. Wait, does she really have skin? She's practically a skeleton in a leather outfit that should be worn on a much much younger (prettier) female.

Perhaps ugly isn't truly the right word for Marie...

Perhaps I should use a song...

Witchy Woman

Yeah...I think that's the one!

I'd like to thank the googlers that brought this moment of insanity to me today. It was greatly appreciated.

Now the Witchdoctors of Google Search shall dance



EDIT: This is another silly Google search.

Erm. Apparently the Official Moody Blues site doesn't list band members names? C'mon. We all know that's not true. (Though it doesn't list former members Ray Thomas or Mike Pinder....still)

So before bed, I think the witchdoctors get to go another round on the dance floor.



Oh and The Singers in that Rock N' Roll Band known as the Moody Blues are as follows

Justin HAYWARD (In case you can't spell it...and so many people can't)
John Lodge (The man, the myth, the sexiest butt in the band)
Ray Thomas (Retired from the band, flautist extraordinaire and composer of many beautiful Moody tunes)
Mike Pinder (Mellotron Melancholy Man...)

And the poet of the band

Drummer Graeme Edge...Breathe deep...the gathering gloom...witchdoctors dance in every room.

(apologies to Mr. Edge)

The only good thing about this cold

Is that I've started to lose weight again. Why? Because I can't taste anything! GAH! I've got Justin Hayward disease!

Ok, now most of you are probably wondering what the hell I'm talking about, right? Yeah, I thought so. Justin has some strange issue with his sinuses that takes away his sense of taste and smell. Google it, you'll find an article. I found it once, when googling for pictures so I know it's out there...SOMEWHERE! (couldn't resist the pun)

Anyway, the evil scale from hell is now hitting 135. That's down 2 lbs from last week and down 20 lbs total, at long freaking last. Who knows, maybe I will hit the ultimate goal of weighing 125 by July 15th.

It's beginning to look like a possibility, and all so I can look good for 3 concerts where no one of any importance is going to see me.

Ah, but who cares?

Random 10

I'm finishing up my weekend with the odd weekend playlist. Do you want to join in? Go over and see what it's all about at Music Memoirs? I dare ya!

I went to Wheeling Island on Saturday, as well as the mall to get my new camera. Today, however, the cold caught up with me and I kept to my house, so that I could survive work at jobs 1 and 2 tomorrow.

Hear are the songs that figured into my weekend.

The Moody Blues - Minstrel's Song

Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come

Missy Higgins - 10 Days Thanks to Russ for introducing me to her this weekend.

Erasure - I Bet You're Mad At Me

Davy Jones - I'll Love You Forever (demo) This was taken from vinyl so there's some pops and clicks, but if you like the Monkees this song is just wonderful.

The Eagles - Take It Easy

The Moody Blues - Deep

The Monkees - Do Not Ask For Love

Stereophonics - Handbags and Gladrags (Go to Wenches, the download should still be available there)

The Moody Blues - Vintage Wine (GET THIS SONG OUT OF MY HEAD NOW!!!!!)
Downloads are available for 7 days. If you want the songs I haven't uploaded let me know and I'll post them.

And now for the picture that sums up my weekend.



Yeah, that smiley works better than anything that my camera shot this weekend, and yes, I'm still sick. Grrrrr.

New Toy!

Thanks to Verizon Wireless I have a brand new cell phone and a bill that's 5 dollars more!

Yay to the new cell phone, which is a camera phone.

Boo to the $5.00 increase in my bill.

Every two years I've got $100.00 towards a new phone, which means I can get a free phone as long as I stay with Verizon. OK, I didn't need them to pull my leg. The Samsung a670 that followed me home had been taunting me for weeks. It's a pretty nice phone and the camera works pretty well too.

Here's a picture taken before I really knew how to use it.


The good luck bulldog and greyhound from the Wheeling Island gift store. 

It's a 1 mega pixel camera, but it seems to do a nice job and since all my concerts seem to have camera Nazi/Gestapo security people working them, I'm going to smuggle the new toy in.

Now I have yet another camera! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Cos you know I like taking pictures!

Do you remember?

When you went somewhere the first time? A place that was really special to you or was someplace that you were just dying to go?

I was reading a Harlequin Romance last night, (Shut up! I need my fantasy world) and I found a passage that really stuck with me.

The hero had asked the heroine how long she had been in Vienna to which she replied

"Not long enough to take it forgranted"

and she went on to say "When we first came here we looked at everything. Just as if we expected it to disappear tomorrow..."

Have you ever felt that way when you were somewhere?

I'm not the most well traveled person in the world, so when I go someplace new, I almost always feel that way. I remember seeing Atlantic City for the first time last year. I remember seeing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. It was overwhelming and so beautiful.

I was still in awe when I went back the second time in September last year. I think I might have even looked more, digesting every little sight and sound.

I know most people wonder why I have such a fascination with the city and with the casinos. I'll admit I'm amused by the slot machines, but there's something more. Something I just can't pinpoint.

For me it's a kind of magic and it's something I never experienced anywhere else.

And even on the overcast day it was...it was still perfect...

And I still dream...and remember...


Dreaming of the boardwalk 

And I can't wait to go back, so I can see it all over again. I know I had to miss something. There's never enough time to see it all.

Top Five On Friday

It's the Father's Day edition of this Music Memoirs meme.

Top Five Musical Dad's and a song by each: (If you feel frisky and have photos of the dad's with their children feel free to post those as well)

1. Justin Hayward

w/ daughter Doremi from the 90's.



New Horizons

2. Paul McCartney

w/ wife Linda (bless her heart) and daughter Stella. I found a shot with all the McCartney clan, but it was so small.



Once Upon A Long Ago

3. George Harrison

w/ second wife Olivia and son Dhani



Crackerbox Palace

4. John Lodge

w/ son Kristian, from his wedding last September. I never did get around to fixing the photo of the whole family, so I don't have a shot of Emily.



Carry Me

5. Simon Le Bon

w/ wife Yasmin and 2 of his 3 daughters. I couldn't find a good picture with everyone in it.



Dream Boy

Downloads will be available for 7 days! Enjoy!

I'm going to bed now

Midday today I thought I was feeling better. I got through job 1 feeling pretty good. Then the rain started and I finished up work at job 1.

The headache and cough were gone all morning. I was feeling pretty good.

Then I came home.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

Now I'm sniffly and coughy and generally miserable again. I went to bed at 8:30 last night, and I'm thinking I might do the same tonight, except that I'd miss Hit Me Baby One More Time and Howard Jones and Sophie B Hawkins are going to be on and I'd really like to see them.

Another problem with going to bed is that I haven't worked on my story in 3 days and I need to make a few more mix CDs. I told Lady Starlight that I'd do volume 2 of the Covers Mix, but I don't think I can go through my files on this computer tonight.

What I really want is a cup of tea and a warm fuzzy blanket, because it's still damn cold here.

I will stop bitching about this cold now and go to bed, because I have a lot of stuff I need to do tomorrow and suffering with a summer cold is not one of them. Unless, of course, Justin Hayward and John Lodge are going to come and coddle me. (And I don't think that's going to happen. Damn and blast)

I hate summer colds

Yesterday, I thought this was a sinus infection brought about by PMS. Oye! I was wrong. By the time I got home from job 2, I was dead to the world.

I'm getting ready for job 1 and I'm still dead, coherent but dead. I'm achy, stuffy and downright miserable.

Yay!

I accomplished nothing last night. I came home, ate dinner and updated Wenches with an mp3 and promptly went to bed. (Only to have my cats use my bed as a race course)

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that. Plus the heat we've been having promptly disappeared and it's in the 60's. We go from too hot to too cold. It's no wonder I'm sick.

Have I mentioned I hate being sick?

I think he



needs to come and take care of me.

It wouldn't hurt to interrupt a few days of the tour, right?

This and That

~ I finally made the first mix for vacation next month. Yeah, I'm preparing early.
Click here to see the tracks I've chosen.

~ I finally saw a picture from Doremi Hayward's wedding. For all the hit's I've been getting looking for something about her, I should post it, but frankly its not nearly as amusing as the shots from John's son's wedding.

So to all of you coming here searching for info on her wedding, she got married on May 14. Enough.

Oh and John looks better in a tux than Justin. (Just my opinion after seeing pictures from both moody brats weddings) All offspring are brats, so before ya start screaming at me, I'm not playing favorites.

~ I'm joining the ranks of everyone getting summer colds. Just what I wanted to do! I've got a nasty sore throat right now and I'm feeling just a trifle miserable. I blame the weather. Why? Because the weather can only fight back so much and it seems like a good target.

~ Hump Day Hunks?

As always

When it rains

Would anything else like to break?

No, lets not invite any further disaster.

At work the air conditioner is on the fritz as well as our computer. There's a whole lot of misery going on there, let me tell you. When it's in the upper 80's and your trying to exercise without a properly functioning air conditioner, it gets hot and sticky and miserable, and people get really pissy. REALLY PISSY!

GAH!

At home the washer died and the refrigerator is slowly drifting away. Yeah! Now is not a good time to be an appliance.

I'm too hot, sticky, miserable and pissy to be able to think. I'm in firm belief my brain melted sometime during the course of my workday today and I don't have a freezer to harden it again. Damn!

This has got to stop!

OK, I haven't figured out why I've been remembering my dreams as much lately, but at least I have a clue of why I dreaming the stuff.

Yeah, I had another freaky dream last night.

Sadly, it didn't involve John Lodge or any of my other cuties. It did, however, involve Atlantic City and large sums of money. The large sums of money I just happened to win.

~That my friends would be the clue that this was a dream~

So basically I know most of this dream came from conversations I had yesterday. It's a month until my trip to Atlantic City. My sister and I were talking about going to Wheeling Island again this weekend. I can't explain the winning large sums of money though, because that doesn't happen, ever!

The best part of this dream was that I was trying to figure out what to do with my share of the winnings. It was either pay off debt or buy a new car. A real new car, not one that someone else has already driven for years.

~sigh~

I've never had a real new car. I probably never will.

(Oh and that part of the dream is explainable too. My grandma was asking when I was going to start saving for a car. The answer. When I don't have a zillion other bills to pay aka the twelfth of never)

Still it was nice to have a dream where I was suddenly rolling in cash. It's a shame it's never going to happen.

Well, it's official

I'm not going to see Duran Duran this year. I've been trying not to think about it. Really, I've been trying very hard. But sadly it's been on my mind off and on all weekend.

The tickets go on sale today at 10. Erm? On a Monday? Yeah a Monday. That's wrong in itself.

The concert is also at the 7th layer of concert hell; Chevrolet Ampitheater in Pittsburgh. I'm already dealing with that crap venue once this summer. I'm not sure I could stomach dealing with the KGB/Nazi enforcers twice.

These are the excuses that I'm using to rationalize why I'm not going.

In reality there are two reasons why I'm not going.

1. My concert funds are going towards seeing Elvis Costello and the Moody Blues.
2. The concert is on a Tuesday night and I have no idea what my job situation is going to be, but at this point I have no idea what job I'll be working at during August or if I'll still be working two jobs.

I think the game plan of the day is to sulk about this, because I really would like to see them.



~sniffle~

Let the sulking begin.

Random 10

It's the weekly wrap up of my weekend musically? Do you want to play too? Go to Music Memoirs and play along.

This weekend the music I listened to was pretty much centered on two artists, Don Henley and Stevie Nicks. Not to worry, I did listen to some other bands in the course of the last 48 hours too.

Yesterday, we saw a covers band called Stonee Ridge at the opening of the Harley Davidson store in Washington, PA. Don't ask me why I was there, I still don't know, but I can tell you that as far as covers bands go, they were pretty good. And hell, two of the guys in the band were pretty damn cute, even if they were probably much too young for me.

But back to the songs

Don Henley - New York Minute
The Eagles - Hotel California
Stevie Nicks - The Edge Of Seventeen
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Duran Duran - Wild Boys (This played on the radio while we were driving home from the concert)
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (This song was one that Stonee Ridge Did)
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun (God help me! I'm starting to like this one)
Elvis Costello - Shabby Doll
Diana Krall - The Girl In The Other Room
Stevie Nicks - Circle Dance (live from NJ)


The Washinton Wild Thing and Stonee Ridge 

I have all these songs, so if any of you want them, let me know and I'll post them.

Thunder Only Happens When Its Raining

Last night was the Stevie Nicks concert. It proved to me a few things.

1. Pittsburgh is the crappiest city in the world to see a concert.
2. I will always have either a drunk or a whiner sitting in my near vacinity. Last night was the whiner. I think I'd have preferred the drunk.

As for the concert, Stevie Nicks was incredible and so was Don Henley. That's saying a lot for me, because I'm not a huge fan of either, but I like them well enough that I'm not going to complain about seeing a show.

Both did staples from their solo careers and from their respective bands. So yeah, I heard Desperado, Hotel California, Rhiannon and Dreams last night as well as The Boys Of Summer, Dirty Laundry, Stand Back and Edge Of Seventeen.

Don Henley opened the show and Stevie came out and did a few songs with him. They shared vocals on several songs in both his set and hers later.

Stevie Nicks is up there with Cher for wardrobe changes. Though her wardrobe changes weren't on the same caliber as Cher's she was running off stage to change clothes at least 6 times during the show. As always, her wardrobe made her look like a gypsy, but that suits her so well.

The best wardrobe change was for the song Beauty and The Beast, easily the best song of the evening. She wore a Victorian-esque gown. Black, of course. It was stunning, simply stunning.

Leather and Lace was part of the encore and another one of the highlights of the evening. Stevie and Don work so well together.

Oh and I have to comment on one more song, Stevie and Don did a Bonnie Raitt song called The Circle Dance. It was just beautiful. I hope it appears on an album sometime soon, because it should. They ended the song slow dancing together.

Taken from Stevie's website, here's the setlist

Don Henley
The Genie
Witchy Woman
I Put a Spell on You
Hotel California (with Stevie)
New York Minute (with Stevie)
The Last Worthless Evening (with Stevie)
Boys of Summer
Heart of the Matter
Dirty Laundry
Life in the Fast Lane
All She Wants to Do is Dance
encore
End of the Innocence
Desperado

Stevie Nicks
Outside The Rain
Dreams
Rhiannon
Enchanted
Gold Dust Woman (with Don Henley)
Circle Dance (Bonnie Raitt cover)
Band Introduction
Stand Back
Beauty and the Beast
Edge of Seventeen
encore
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Don Henley)
Leather and Lace (with Don Henley)
So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star (with Don Henley)

That's from the tour opener and I think it was pretty much the same in Pittsburgh. If you want to hear any of the songs performed on this tour, click here. It's the show in Holmdel, New Jersey. The quality isn't the greatest, but it's worth downloading just to hear, plus there are some other goodies there too.

Stevie is so incredibly beautiful up close and a wonderful performer, as is Don Henley. It was a great show and I'm glad I was there to see them!

In My Wildest Dreams

I had a marvelous dream last night. Mmmmm. You know, one of those naughty dreams that you don't ever want to wake up from.

Mmmmm.

I almost hate having those dreams, because when I wake up it's back to my normal, hum-drum, boring life.



And of course, the dreams are always about someone that isn't really in my life.

(OK, there are no men in my life...at least on a relationship basis, nor do I want one at this point. My life's too fucked up to involve another person in its craziness)

Not that I wouldn't let the visitor of my dreams in.



Cos...well, you know how I feel about Lodgey!



Funny that was the expression he had in my dream.

(Proof that it was a dream, eh?)

Top 5 On Friday

The last of the Music Memoirs memes of the week!

Top five songs to get you heated up.

Peggy Lee - Fever

Arcadia - The Flame

Erasure - Too Darn Hot

Paul McCartney - Your Loving Flame

Cheap Trick - The Flame (Not to be confused with the Arcadia song)

Downloads are available for 7 days, so go ahead, snatch the songs, you know you want to!

Now it's time to ramble

~ I forgot to watch Hit Me Baby One More Time tonight. Shoot me. The Knack were on and I really wanted to see them more than anything else. Why oh why, can I not remember when my shows are on?

~ I'm completely addicted to the Janet Evanovich books. I don't really need an author addiction to go with my reading habit, but sadly I've gotten one. Buy all the Stephanie Plum series now! You won't regret it.

~ I finally get on a roll with a story that I'm working on and guess what? The computer's crap-o-meter kicks on. Two pages, poof! Can I just say ARGH! Please? This was the first time I thought the pages that the computer swallowed were actually good too! Which makes that a big bold ARGH!

~ I'm going to be gone most of the day on Saturday, because of the Stevie Nicks show, but my friend has roped me into a few other things, including, believe it or not, going to church to see a priest that once had a parish in our town. (A priest we've all remained friends with over the years)

What the heck am I going to wear that's comfortable but can go to mass and a concert. A concert outside, mind you. Post Gazette Pavilion. Yuck, but you go where you have to go for concerts these days.

~ Job number 2 is becoming more stressful, which is not something I find enjoyable. This job should not have stress. It's an easy, fun job most of the time. Right now, it's anything but.

I have to constantly remind myself that it's not polite to kill people, which I haven't had to do since I got out of retail.

I think that's enough rambling for now, don't you? No, don't answer that!

In PA we are supposed to have 4 seasons

I don't believe that anymore, unless you go by that joke that says we have these four seasons

Almost Winter
Winter
Still Winter
Summer.

That seems to be the case this year, since we even had some snow at the end of April and now it's June and we're up in the 90's. What happened to spring? Why did it pass us by?

This is southwestern Pennsylvania, I demand all four seasons! At least a little bit of four seasons even.

Because I'm really hot right right now and its not even 7:30 in the morning. The highs for the next 5 days are all in the mid 80's.

YUCK!

I want some relief and I want it now!

It's Hump Day!

Can I get a Squee out of the peanut gallery for the week being halfway over? My god, where is time going? Where is my life going?

Oh who cares really?

I get up. I go to job number 1. I come home and eat and possibly change clothes. Then I go to job number 2. That's my life right now.

Blech!

On a happy note this hump day means I'm halfway to the Stevie Nicks/Don Henley show on Saturday. From what my friend told me, I'm not going to be around much at all on Saturday. He's making the concert a whole day event. So my tiredness will extend into the weekend! Can I get a yee haa for that?

But I've still got three days to go until that show.

~big sigh~

But again to keep me going, I bring you some pictures of my hump day hunks.



Why has he never been on a merry go round when I was at an amusement park?



Aren't they precious? Now if Justin and John would just bring me some posies.

~even bigger sigh~

Happy Hump Day, all!

Take Me Back Tuesday

Here's the 2nd of 3 memes from Music Memoirs

1. Name three songs with the word 'time' in them.
Elvis Costello - Next Time Round
The Moody Blues - Strange Times
The Zombies - Time of The Season


2. Name three artists with time related words in their name.
The Time
Three Dog Night
Strawberry Alarm Clock

3. Name three albums with time related words in the name.
The Moody Blues - Strange Times
Justin Hayward - Night Flight
Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock

If anyone wants any of the songs, let me know and I'll upload them!

What keeps me going?

I keep asking myself that, especially now at about quarter after six in the morning, when I'm facing another very long day.

It's the little things that make me happy and keep me moving.

1. The tanning bed at work. (I go in for 15 minutes at the end of the day, it eases the mind)
2. My music. At least I know between jobs I can listen to my own mix CDs, and let me tell you that's a welcome thing. At the first job I have no radio at all and at the second job the music is all specially done (read killed) for the franchise. Yes, we have special CDs of songs covered badly by people that shouldn't be in the recording industry at all.
3. Books for when the world gets to be too much and I need an escape. Thank god for smut novels!
4. Thoughts of my vacation. I keep telling myself in a little over a month I will be in Atlantic City watching the Moody Blues perform the same 20 songs 2 nights in a row. (Life will be good then. Of course, I may not come back!)

See I need these things to keep me plugging along. 10 hours of work keeps me from writing and so much that I really want to do. The lack of writing is what depresses me the most. I have a story/novel that's very nearly completed and for the last two weeks I just haven't been able to write more than a few lines a day. That just makes me very sad. Which is why I need reminders of why I should keep plugging on no matter how tired I am.

Any other suggestions?

I Don't Like Mondays

But who really does?

Mondays mean the return to the 10 hour work day that I'm not too keen to start on. They also mean going to bed before 11, another thing I'm not too keen on.

Hmmm, from the sounds of things I'm not too keen on a lot of things.

But mostly, I'm not too keen on Mondays.

Now if John Lodge were around on Mondays...well, maybe I'd like them a bit more.



That is the only thing I like about this Monday. Nice thing to find in your inbox, right?

Random 10

It was an odd weekend. The weather was suddenly very warm and sunny. My brother visited from Canton, OH with his wife. I went to Wheeling Island, AGAIN!

What combination of tunes could possibly have made up my weekend?

Here they are:

The Moody Blues - Don't Need A Reindeer (It would probably be best not to ask why this song was on my playlist, but I'll explain anyway. I had a choice between 3 Moody Blues CDs to listen to on the drive from Wheeling back to Charleroi, and frankly I've heard enough of Long Distance Voyager and the Millenium Collection that I had to pick December! Yeah it's Christmas music. No, I didn't care)

Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day: I love this song. There are actually a few songs I like by these guys, which I find a bit odd, because they aren't the kind of rock music I usually listen to. This song however has been a favorite of mine since I saw them open for David Bowie last May and it sums up how my weekend turned out, 2 very nice days.

The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday: I was having a lot of Monkee moments this weekend, as most of you saw in my last post. I've always loved this song.

The Beatles - I'm a Loser: That pretty much sums up me at Wheeling Island

Davy Jones - I'll Love You Forever: I found the demo version here on the mp3 page. Not the best quality, but still pretty. There are lots of other great Monkees tunes there too.

Justin Hayward/John Lodge - My Brother: The reason is obvious, my brother was home

Duran Duran - Bedroom Toys (Smoking Weed Remix): I downloaded this one recently and was playing it over and over. It's quite good, though they took out Simon's Oh my God, what's this? from the mix. Sad. Sad. Sad.

The Monkees - Listen To The Band: One of Mike Nesmith's best songs for the band.

The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk: Cos that's where I want to be!

Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love: Downloaded this one this weekend, possibly for the Summer Mix.

Now it's time for the picture!


Cos I'm going to see them in July!!!

If you'd like any or all of the songs in this Random 10, just give me a shout and I'll upload them for you.

A Monkee Moment

For some reason in the last few days I've been in the mood for The Monkees. I don't know why. Maybe it has something to do with the summer. I don't really know. I have a mix CD in my car that has a pretty Monkees song on it. One of the bonus tracks from the Rhino reissues from years back.

Today I came across a great website.

There are some great pictures and video clips there.

~sigh~

I remember sitting for hours and hours watching the TV shows when I was in school. I remember going to countless concerts, 4 or 5, I think all throughout my life.

Why are my guys getting old?

WHY!!!!!

This cannot be.

I have Davy's official site linked here, and each time I click over, I get depressed. Davy Jones was my first crush, when I was five years old. I wanted nothing more than to walk down the aisle with him. He's not aging well. At least not in my opinion. (Not when compared to Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Paul McCartney etc.)



This is the Davy Jones I want to remember always.

Not this one



And this is one of the better shots I've found. It's from the Vh-1 Thanksgiving Special.

Dear God, don't let J'tiny Poo or Lodgey start looking like old men yet....PLEASE!!!

And I don't want to hear that all of them are nearing or our in their 60's yet!

~plugs ears~

My men are eternal I tell you.

Spring cleaning the computer

I'm trying to get my computer all cleaned up. I can't believe all the stuff I have on this thing.

OK, if some of you have seen my winamp playlist, you know how many mp3s are on this machine. Right now there are 4180 files. Eeep! It's time to make some room on the hard drive.

Then there's the matter of cleaning up the picture folders! ARGH! Because if you think I have a lot of mp3s, you should see my pictures folder! God, I've kept almost every photo I've taken with my digital cameras on my hard drive. I'm a daft fool, I know. I think it's probably time to move some of them to CDs and delete the stuff I'm not going to use. But how do you decide? Of course, how many pictures of baby birds can I take. (Ok, it's best not to ask, but I will say that I'm fast becoming a bird photographer extraordinaire)

This project is going to take forever.

SQUEE!!!

10th Row!

John's Side

The Happy Dance of Joy will now begin!

More Shopping

Oye! I think I spent my limit last night again. Bad me! Very bad me.

Last night was Walmart night.

Oh yeah, I like to live large!

Well, there were some good sales at Wally World so I ended up coming home with a cute black skirt, two pairs of pants, two t-shirts and a rather sexy tank top.

Oddly, my sister and I bought the same thing.

Erm..

So yeah, we may not be twins, but we're sure going to look like it in Atlantic City. Especially since she said she was going to get her hair cut before we leave.

Weirdness.

Now I have one last bit of shopping to do, and that's to buy my Moody Blues tickets today.

Now if we can have some positive vibes that I get better seats for this long awaited show, I would greatly appreciate it!

Top Five On Friday

It's the last Music Memoirs Meme of the week!

Top 5 Male Vocalists
(For each vocalist list one song or album that you feel is their best)

I don't think you'll find any surprises here.

1. Justin Hayward



Best song: Shame
Best album: The View From A Hill

(I didn't do The Moody Blues, because well, everyone is kind of a vocalist in their own right there)

2. Elvis Costello



Best Song: Crimes Of Paris
Best Album: Blood & Chocolate

3. Simon Le Bon



Best Song: Ordinary World
Best Album: The Wedding Album

4. John Lodge



Best Song: Talking Out Of Turn
Best Album: Long Distance Voyager (For his Moody Stuff, it's really a tie between this one and Strange Times)

5. Andy Bell




Best Song: I Love Saturday
Best Album: I Say I Say I Say

Songs of Summer

It's that time of year again where I sit down and try to come up with a good mix for the summer months.

You know, bouncy, catchy tunes that make you want to move or toss into your car cd player and turn it up full blast.

Yesterday, I found one such mix on my travels throughout the blogosphere, and frankly I was jealous of it. It had everything from Bananarama's Cruel Summer to the rather awesome cover by The Ataris of Don Henley's Boys Of Summer.

I have a few ideas, but I'm not sure.

I really loved the mix I made last year for summer.

Click here to view the tracks. And while you do that, I'm going to try to figure out what I'm going to put on this years mix. And even better still, I'm going to try not to use any of the songs from that mix I found yesterday. (Which will make this just a little bit harder for me)

Waiting For The Weekend

My brother is coming home this weekend, which is nice. I always enjoy visiting with the family. Plus he can usually sort out any computer issues I might have, or pass along any new programs I might find useful, but that's not the real reason I'm waiting for this weekend.

The July 16th Moody Blues show at the Borgata will finally go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.

I'm prepared to suffer the Slings and Arrows of ticket buying again.

I'm also prepared to get less than stellar tickets. It seems the Borgata doesn't like to sell those 85 dollar seats that are in the first few rows. They either pass them on to ticket brokers i.e. scalpers/bastards or save them for the high rollers, who have never heard of the Moody Blues.

Yay!

~cough~

But you know what. I've decided. This trip is going to be more about being in Atlantic City than the Moody Blues. I want to be there and enjoy myself. Not that I wouldn't mind being close enough to see the beautiful gleam in Lodgey's eyes or Justin's for that matter, but I want this to be a real vacation.

Of course, this real vacation is going to involve seeing the Moody Blues twice. Now if only the ticketbastard fairy would smile on me on Saturday I'd be ever so happy.

Cos I miss these guys

I'm so sleepy

Working a 50 hour work week is very tiring and after only a week, I'm feeling it. I was in bed at 10 o'clock last night! 10 o'clock! I don't go to bed that early, ever!

This was me last night

What's worse is it's 6 a.m. and I'm still sleepy. I'm awake but sleepy!

There's something really wrong with that. I did get 8 hours of sleep. It just doesn't feel like it was enough, and I'm not the type of person that lingers in bed either.

Unless of course these guys are with me.



Did you think I'd forget my hump day hunks?

Nah!

Even as tired as I am, I can't forget them. Though if I had them here right now, I might just use them both as body pillows and snuggle right up.