The Blog Formerly Found On Vox: 7 posts from May 2009

Bringing Back 80's Music Friday

I haven't done one of these 80's Music Flashback posts in a very long time, but this song came up today in the shuffle and it made me want to see the video.

I'm going to my 25th college reunion this summer and have volunteered to reprieve my former role as a DJ at KRLX campus radio. I had the most eclectic play list imaginable on my Friday night 10 pm to midnight show: Hall & Oates, Rick James, Gordon Lightfoot, the Replacements, Prince, Billy Idol, Cat Stevens, the Gap Band, Elvis Costello, Diana Ross & the Supreme's, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, the Time, Steve Miller, Patrice Rushun...

Oh my, the mix was a mess on paper, but I think it worked on the air. But who knows, that was 1980-81 and no one gave a shit about a "format". Ronald Reagan had been elected President my freshman year and we kids at the college where Paul Wellstone was a ramble-rousing political science professor, just wanted to listen to some good music on a Friday night out there in the corn fields of Northfield Minnesota. It didn't matter one bit that the songs or the artists didn't really fit together and that only a handful of people were listening.

I've not been to one of the reunions yet, but I imagine I'll find that some of us still hold on to that heart of glass.

Blondie: Heart of Glass Video (1979?)

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good
You teasing like you do

Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside
We could've made it cruising, yeah

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out I had a heart of glass
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

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Posted at 22:56 | Permalink | Comments (2)

QotD: It's My Party...

Question of the Day: Which of your birthday parties was your favorite one?
Submitted by Jack Yan.

The cake wasn't nearly as cool as the sundae that had to be carried out on a stretcher at Farrell's!

Me making a birthday wish, but who are these kids?

Given the unimaginable ~~trauma~~ surprise I got after my last birthday party this past January...I think this question of the day is better left unanswered.

Posted at 20:12 | Permalink | Comments (0)

So They're Really Serious About This Paid Content Model

I can get it for free online, but if I "steal it" from their box without paying the seventy-five cents, apparently I'm going to jail.

I bought it because I have 15 minutes to kill before the Post Office opens, but...

Oh newspapers circulation managers, you're extinction is unavoidable.

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T (Ever notice how this little message is a essentially a free ad for both Blackberry and AT&T and how hard it is to remove it from auto-sending? If only the newspapers were so ingenious in their understanding of the things people do and social marketing opportunities.)

Think About It Mr. Circ Manager?

Posted at 08:18 | Permalink | Comments (7)

Memories and To-Duties

Spent the past half hour looking for my high school senior yearbook photo so I could reply to this Question of the Day.

It's here somewhere I know it.

I guess that means one of my projects in the next few weeks of "reorg-ed out of workness" will be to finally organize the bookshelves and memorabilia boxes upstairs. And I probably should address all the other crap in the garage too. It's only been close to two years since I moved in here. Tsk tsk. What happened to my organizational prowess?

But first, I think I'll pour myself a glass of red wine and look at booking that trip to Iceland I've been threatening to take before my 25th (Yikes!) college reunion.

I did manage to find a photo from my college graduation, with my dad.

PM and JFM at PM's college graduation

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Just Like A Woman

I watched "I'm Not There" on Tivo tonight. Powerful acting by Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett, plus, it has one of my favorite qualities...amazing eye delighting visuals.

I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

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