Moonage Webdream

I’ve been around a while.  I basically got going musically at the tail end of the original punk generation.  The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Psychedelic Furs.  It started with a bang and then kinda fizzled out as they all commercialized.  They were replaced by Arena Rock and then Big Hair Bands.  Musically things just seemed to keep getting more and more boring for me.  Then, along came Pearl Jam.  Jeremy was what got everyone listening, but it was another song that completely wowed me at the time.  Black was intense, it had intertwining melodies, it had perfect crunch chords.  It was perfect.

Even the lyrics meant something:

Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Ooh and all I taught her was everything
Ooh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
I take a walk outside
I’m surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I’m spinning
Oh, I’m spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away…
And now my bitter hands
Cradle broken glass
Of what was everything
All the pictures had
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
All the love gone bad
Turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see
All that I am
All I’ll be…
Yeah
Uh huh…uh huh…ooh…
I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life
I know you’ll be a sun
In somebody else’s sky
But why
Why
Why can’t it be
Why can’t it be me
we-
we belong
we belong together
together
we-
we belong
we belong together

Suddenly I had found something to grab onto for the first time in a while.  But, for reasons I never have understood, Pearl Jam pretty much abandoned the crunch ballad for silly songs that had no meaning or depth of music.  Yellow Ledbetter was fun and cool, but nothing to the level of intensity they acheived with Black.  Eventually, I gave up on Pearl Jam as other bands attempted to acheive what Black was.  I don’t think any did.  No grunge song ever captivated me like that since. If Pearl Jam never makes another song as great as Black, they still will have done something 99% of all bands never do, create the perfect song.

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The University of Kentucky basketball team got a new basketball coach this year.  Some people I think expected an overnight miracle, which Billy Gillispie has never done the first year.  What he has done is greatly improve the second year.  However, Gillispie  don’t think ever had the talent his first year anywhere, or the pressure to win.  Kentucky got off to a fairly horrendous start, losing to also-rans like San Diego and Gardner-Webb, a LOT of people started asserting that ditching Tubby Smith was a mistake.  I never fell into that boat.  Tubby’s recruiting was horrid and UK’s performance had deteriorated steadily under his leadership to the point UK was barely breaking .500 in the SEC.  That’s just not acceptable.  So, after tripping all over themselves the first sixteen games of the season, the players I think finally figured out what Billy-ball was all about and started beating the expected.  Then, they actually beat a couple of unexpecteds.  Now, going into the final couple of weeks of the season, they are in a very unexpected place to be.  This Sunday, they’ll play the former #1 team in the country for a shot at first place in the SEC. Now, as goofy as it sounds now, they actually have beaten the former #1 team in the nation this season already this season.  So, a victory’s not 100% unexpected.  However, this game is in Knoxville, so that’s the caveat I’m holding onto.  However, back to the point, this time the last two seasons UK was completely out of that picture and hoping for some miracle in the SEC playoffs, which never happened.  Kentucky’s not back where they should be yet, but they are hustling and playing hard.  With that and the recruiting Billy’s done so far, the Big Blue will be a load of fun to watch again very soon I think.

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Yesterday during the Kentucky - Arkansas game, with the 30 seconds left and the game on the line, CBS cut away to the Duke game.  Now, it’s bad enough to cut away from the game everyone here wanted to see.  But, to suddenly be watching Duke?  After I imagine several thousand irate phone calls, they cut back to the UK game with about 10 seconds left and the game basically over.  I doubt too many people here hung around to watch the Duke game 

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Man, I love a headline like that.  Gets your attention don’t it?  The details are on Spacedream, since it seemed kinda droll for here.  But, gotta love a headline that basically just blurts our “YOU’RE GONNA DIE!”. ( For what it’s worth, you most likely won’t. )

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I am SOOO up with that!  Christopher Walken has always been possibly my favorite actor.  I have always loved the way he takes almost any bizarre character and makes it seem just like Christopher Walken.  Then, to top that, he’s always had the ability to take even very mundane and droll characters and make THEM seem just like Christopher Walken.  Now, with most actors that would be a bad thing.  In the case of Walken, that is great.  His personality just overwhelms anything he tries to do.  I like that.  I like that a lot.  I mean, could you imagine a better line-up to spend the next ten years watching nothing but movies than this?

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1) Did you fart? Cuz you just blew me away.

2) Are yer parents retarded? Cuz ya sure are special.

3) My Love fer you is like diarrhea, I can’t hold it in.

4) Do you have a library card? Cuz I’d like to check you out.

5) Is there a mirror in yer pants? Cuz I can see myself in em.

6) If you was a tree and I were a Squirrel, I’d store my nuts in yer hole.

7) You might not be the best lookin girl here, but beauty’s only a light switch away.

Fat Penguin………………. Sorry, I just wanted to say something that would break the ice.

9) I know I’m not no Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make yer bedrock.

10) I can’t find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room.

11) Yer eyes are as blue as window cleaner.

12) If yer gunna regret this in the mornin’, we kin sleep til’afternoon.

13) Yer face reminds me of a wrench, every time I think of it my nuts tighten up.

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This was sent to me via email.  It’s the best thing I’ve seen in a long time!  Ever wonder what these stars would have wound up being like if the stars had aligned a little differently?





And my personal faves:

Even though it was sent without any credits whatsoever, my immense internet skills led to me figuring out the source of these pics was a site called Planet Hiltron.  It’s a HOOT!  They’ve got a bunch more there.

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Last night the Grammy Awards were given again.  For thirty-second time in a row, I didn’t watch.  I didn’t even think about them being on.  They’re pretty useless to me.  Fox decided to print a list of all the winners.  They ran out of room so they only listed 110 of the more important categories I guess.  This includes stuff like Latin Urban, Zydeco, Large Jazz Ensemble, Banda, Norteno, ( not to be confused with Latin/Latin-American ), and a whole bunch of other redundent and non-existent categories.  And, to top it off, they made sure to endorse a political candidate for president for a non-music recording.  Probably the most perplexing category outside of the non-music music award to me had to be “Album Notes”.  Hey Grammy People, I can do that. 

I could probably put together a heck of an album of non-music and do my own album notes.  But, I would need help from someone who knows more than I do whether my stuff qualifies for “album of the year” or “record of the year”.  As such,  I guess I’ll just skip the Grammy Awards again next year.

The only thing I did find interesting this year was the odd throwback to previous decades that permeated almost the entire show.  Anyone have an inside clue what that was all about?  Granted there’s not much good new stuff coming out, but this is supposed to be a tribute to the recording industry as it stands now, no matter how bad it might be.  This is their way of documenting history of how things were in 2007.  By documenting an aging Jazz performer re-doing even older pop songs they are giving the wrong impression that 2007 was all about aging jazz performers performing even older pop songs.  And, I don’t remember hearing a single one of Hancock’s songs on the radio.  Not one.  It may have been good, but it doesn’t represent what people listened to.  Even IF that’s what they should have been.

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I loved this:

Those are letters we got to put on Moonlet’s wall.  For those that couldn’t recognize the big huge letter D, they stick labels on the clear cover to make sure you don’t get it wrong.

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When I was in college, I dated a few “models”.  The most “famous” one I hung out with wound up modeling for Montgomery Ward I think it was.  She modeled lingerie.  Sounds hot huh?  I should just leave it there I suppose.  However, the sad truth is that she modeled KIDS lingerie, she was 20ish or so.  She was just that small.  And, unfortunately for me, that undeveloped at the time.  This was way before parents bought their teens fake boobs to boost their self-esteem.  She was smokin hot tho, until the makeup and everything else came off.  Then things weren’t quite so hot.  I learned a lesson at that time, look for natural beauty, it looks pretty much the same after-hours as it does prime-time.

Which leads me to today’s headlines.  A while back I did a Pavlovian post on Katie Rees.  A smokin babe who liked to party by similating lesbian stuff and had a title too, Miss Nevada, with a chance of being the next Tara Conner.  That was, of course, until she decided to do this:

Smokin hot, wild and crazy, a good time for sure.  Only problem is what I was alluding to above.  This is what you get post-prime-time:

That’s her mug shot.  She was drunk again, on a suspended license, and wound up in jail for more or less assaulting an officer.  Even worse, with no make-up.  I love smokin hot babes.  However, really stupid ones turn me off even moreso than their post-prime-time transformations. 

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