My 70's Flashback

I've been very nostalgic lately but it's not what you'd think. I have not been missing someone - but rather something:

Really good music.

I've recently discovered 2 new blogs: Rock N Roll Classics & Classic Video Jukebox. Both are run by the same guy - a guy hailing from Boston, the coolest city in the world (ok, maybe not the coolest to some, but it's definitely my favorite) who seems to have really good taste in music. In browsing his blogs it got me reminiscing (nothing like a little LRB to keep ya' grounded) about my youth and the music I grew up on. Some of it was before my time, but I lived it as if I owned it. And I miss it. Today's music is so totally different, and to find a rock station that I don't have to pay for that actually plays classic rock is almost impossible in my little town of Disgusta Georgia.

So anyway, as I was tripping down memory lane, I tried to come up with my top 5 favorite albums of the 70's. Notice I said ALBUMS, as in NOT cd's.... vinyl has a sound all its own, and the snap crackle pop makes the memory more authentic. Unfortunately I no longer have a turn table, and have since pawned many of my coveted LP's.... the naivty of youth is not always a good thing.

So anyway, I chose my top 5 favorites based on the albums I listened to most. The albums where I know every song, and every word (whether they are right or wrong. Just don't put me on "Don't forget the Lyrics"-I might embarass myself.) Albums I have since converted to CD's and still listen to today, never tiring of them. And I think I got them.

So without further adeu, in no particular order:

Journey Infinity & Journey Evolution (tied)

I can't remember a time in my life prior to turning 30 that I did not play music from the band Journey. To this day, they rank in my top 5 favorite. I even had my high school yearbook monogrammed with a tribute to the band. GAWD what a nerd I was - hhmmm..... perhaps I shouldn't admit that.

Anyway, check out this video- how in hell could we have ever thought that look Steve Perry was going for was a good thing?????


Another nerd confession: I was a WIZ at their arcade game, Escape. Top THAT people!

Reo Speedwagon - You Can Tuna Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish

I had this on 8-track. I was 10. I played that thing so much that I am amazed the tape lasted as long as it did. Needless to say I replaced it with vinyl once available, and now of course, CD. The song "Time For Me to Fly" will ever hold a special place in my heart; not because of a guy but because of an f'ed up childhood that will forever leave me dysfunctional.

All the songs on this release are awesome though, and I highly suggest you check it out.

I wanted to tie this one with their album A Decade of Rock N Roll, but being as it was released on New Years Day, 1980, I could not in clear conscience. This is after all, a post about my 70's flashback, and even if the release was one day later, it was still one day too late.

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Meatloaf. Just one word and everyone knows who I am talking about. Fat and sweaty, and drug induced, but man could he suck you into his lyrical world! At least, he sucked me in, and I was singing his songs even when the album wasn't playing. And it has not stopped. Anytime I am having a bad day, all I have to do is pop this baby into the CD player, crank up the volume like I was 16 again, and Bat Out of Hell starts the de-stressing process immediately. It's awesome!


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Len-nerd Skin-nerd

The 70's would not have been the same without Lynyrd Skynyrd, and you didn't have to be southern to love them or appreciate their music. Unfortunately I am southern, but I would have loved them no matter what. Theirs is a bittersweet tragic tale, but their music is great stuff that I will never get tired of signing along with, although my husband really wishes I would.


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Since I tied the two Journey albums, that leaves me up in the air for number 5. I have so many that I am trying to narrow down: Van Halen, Boston, Deep Purple, BOC..... I was hoping you guys could sway me. Throw out some suggestions of albums that I have - dare I say it - forgotten about, and need reminding of....

So what have you got for me? What are your favorites from the 70's?

A Simply Haiku

So with all this doom and gloom that has innundated my days and consumed my nights, I thought I would post a haiku poem I wrote back in my high school days. It promises love and nobility and honor, and all those kinds of things the days of King Arthur romaticized....

A Simple Haiku

Longing consumes me
As my heart beats with fervor
For my noble knight...

For a day passes
Slowly until the night comes,
Yielding him to me.

Did I mention Lunar Pages Sucks?

So now - going into our 3rd day of multiple sites being down, "customer service" has decided to move our problem to "technical support" for assistance.

GOOD F'N GAWD!!!! It takes almost 4 days for them to even acknowledge the problem is on their end, almost 2 days to "try to resolve the issue" and another 18 hours to decide to get "tech support" involved.

People do NOT use Lunar Pages. RUN from Lunar Pages. they are full of uncooperative idiots who thinks it's everyone else's fault but theirs.

LUNAR PAGES IS SHIT (see post below for clarification)

LunarPages Sucks!!!

Ok so for almost a week now I have been told that my primary blog's errors are not caused by the host server but rather caused by me having a cheap template (I promise you, it was not as cheap as they think.) After almost a week of going around and around with my host server to the point where I am ready to go postal and start kicking puppies, they finally just this morning acknowledge they have a problem.

Now since yesterday, my blog is totally inaccessable. All 20 something of our websites are inaccessible. We cannot even get into admin on any of them! We repeatedly get 404 errors and shit! Big giant stinky piles of shit that make my boxers look like German Chocolate cake!

SHITSHITSHIT!

That is my new name for Lunar Pages. Shit. And if they lose all my posts and drafts or my backups (since some were performed on their hosting site) I think I might be blogging from jail.......

OHOHOH - and this is not the first time we have had problems with Lunar Pages. In those other instances, they always claimed it was due to something we did as well only to find out it was usually a problem on their end.

Did I mention that Lunar Pages sucks???

Little things mean so much

My girl Nona, over at "Yummy! Down on This" made me realize something today.

I have been too long on the dark side these last few weeks.

Winona, or Nona if you prefer, always has a day where she gives thanks for things in her life. Little things, not big things like health and stuff, but little (sometimes weird )things, and she always seems to find a reason to smile.

So I thought I would turn this frown of mine upside down and smile for a bit, and see what little things I can come up with to be thankful for. Here goes nothing:

Little things I am thankful for:

1. My dogs who, even though they annoy the F*CK out of me more often than not, give me unconditional love even when I am at my worst.

2. Diet Pepsi. Because no matter how much I need my morning pot of coffee, I need my Diet Pepsi first.

3. My husband, for all the special little things.....

4. Straws. Cuz they make everything liquid taste that much better.

5. My mom. Cuz even tho I will probably be as crazy as she is one day, she's still my mom and she loves me even when I am a bitch.

6. Really cheesy B-movies cuz they make me laugh and forget life for awhile.

7. Metal music. Cuz when I feel like shit, and it's cranked up insanely loud, I just feel better.

8. Q-tips. Cuz nothing feels better than a good brain scratch.

And now I am supposed to finish up with some cute funny pics. So here they are in no particular order:



So go check Nona out. And if you are a fan of small pets (as am I) she's really rather informative when it comes to rats (another reason I like her.)

Wordless Wednesday: Before & After

Save Me...

What is this Evil
Growing inside me?
Who gave it legs and
Permission to feed,
On this - my own life….

Why can’t I cut
This evil out?
Why can’t I bleed
Fountains of youth?

I cry tears,
anguished pain;
Yet nothing…

Nothing
Can save

…me.

Life is Cruel

John Q is on tv right now. For those of you who don't know, it's a movie starring Denzel Washington as a father whose young son is in renal heart failure and needs a transplant. Problem is that his insurance, his HMO, does not have a provision for treatment of this magnitude, and the hospital is of course all about the almighty dollar. John Q (symbolically referring to "John Q Public") has no choice but to take matters into his own hands in order to save the one thing in the world that matters most: his son.

This movie breaks my heart in that it so vividly illustrates how we have become a nation of greed and indifference. How the value of human life has been reduced to a buck.

I have no idea how much radiation or chemo costs. But I do know that for one person, a 5-hour duration of chemo is $15000. I also know some sort of shot that has to be administered 24 hours after each chemo treatment in order to increase the white blood cell count runs another $7000.

This does not take into account blood work, ex rays, pet-scans, prescriptions, etc that go along with cancer.

I'm not quite sure where I am going with all this. I think it's just more of me feeling angry.

Angry and helpless.

I don't understand why bad things happen to good people. Why innocence has to die.

Why babies die.



Sprout was just a baby. She had done nothing that would warrant penance of life. So why her? And why so many others like her?

I was raised a catholic. I believe in God. But I can't believe that any of this makes sense in the grand design of his plan.

Call it blasphemy. Call it unchristian. Call it whatever you want but explain to the family of Sprout how this makes sense. Explain to my family how incurable cancer makes sense.

Yeh, I am in the angry stage. Hopefully it will pass and I will find the faith that I was raised on....

I just can't see it right now.