Pulled In Every Which Way

First 20 tracks on my iTunes hoping that I can manage to hold it all together.

1. "Blues From Down Here" - TV On The Radio

2. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" - Mamie Smith

3. "Mystic Eyes" - Them

4. "Why Baby Why" - George Jones

5. "Opus Of The Black Sun" - The Amorphous Androgynous

6. "Freestyle" - Jermaine Dupree

7. "Slipping Into Darkness" - Ramsey Lewis Trio

8. "Touch Me I'm Sick" - Mudhoney

9. "A Fire In The Forest" - David Sylvian

10. "I Think We're Alone Now" - Lene Lovich

11. "Dancin' At The Bains Douches" - Kid Creole & The Coconuts

12. "Moondance" - Van Morrison

13. "Help!" - The Beatles

14. "Champagne And Starlite" - Theya Hermann

15. "Let Me Help" - Bad Brains

16. "Don't Stop The Music" - Yarbrough & Peoples

17. "The Naked Dutch Painter" - Stew

18. "Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa" - De La Soul

19. "Scared As You" - The Cure

20. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott-Heron

This Ain't Pirate Radio

New external harddrive means NEW AUDIO JUNK THIS WEEK! Audio Junk is another Stoopid Kar Production live every Tuesday on randomradioonline.net and roundtableradio.net @ 8:45 pm EST.The World's Worst Mixing DJ -DJ JOE INC plays a variety of music-no format- just samples, variety, and more tonight.

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Ken Ober, 1957-2009

It apparently had been another one of those celebrity death internet rumors all afternoon. But as the day progressed the confirmations have rolled in: Comedian and host of the 1980's MTV game show Remote Control has died at the age of 52.

From 1987 through 1990, Remote Control was considered the network's first original non-music program, predating the many years to come of no more music programming in the near future. But Remote Control fit the format by being a game show about movies, music and television, often acted out by a cast of unknowns that consisted of Kari Wührer, Colin Quinn (later of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update news chair), Alicia Coppola (Jericho), Denis Leary (Rescue Me) and Adam Sandler, to name a few. And Ober was the good-natured everyman host, the face of the show, and my dad always though that he looked a little like Joe back when we were first dating. Anyway, we're sorry to see you go, Kenny. It was too young, that's for sure.

Now how about a Remote Control marathon on MTV for a change? I'm sure the cast of The Hills could use a break. Heaven knows we could use a break from them, too.

Edward Woodward, 1930-2009

RIP Woodward, star of the TV series The Equalizier. But your starring role as the moralistic detective investigating the possible disappearance of a child on a secluded island of pagans in the famous 1973 thriller/musical Wicker Man will always be much, much closer to my heart.

Ethnic Distance

Brunch at the Regal Beagle this morning with Joe, Mike, Ted and Joyce. Formerly the Twisted Fish on Va. Beach Boulevard, it's only been open for 8 months, and thank heaven for Google Maps or else I would have never spotted it. Nothing like dark green lettering on a black background to announce your presence to the world.

This had me howling last night on Saturday Night Live. Mad Men star January Jones should never play anything else but repressed housewives as far as I'm concerned.

I Am Disliking Google Chrome More And More

The Friday Five (On Saturday):

1. Do you believe in ghosts?

I thought I have experienced some peculiar spooky wooOOooooOOOOo type of phenomena in my time, but whether or not it was all my imagination I haven't quite received any true ghostly empirical evidence on any of that. Although I did hide my paperback copy of The Entity between the mattresses of my bed back in high school because it scared the tinkle outta me and thought I was going to Hell just for reading it.

2. Do you believe in extraterrestrials?

It stands to reason there should be other life forms on other plants out there in the universe. Whether or not they abduct me in my sleep and hide the remote control to my TV up my butt seems a little far-fetched. But it would explain how it got there in the first place.

3. Do you believe in mythical creatures (unicorns, vampires, etc.)?

Unicorns and vampires, unlikely. But I am a bit of a cryptozoologist in spirit and if we are discovering new species of animals every day so.... yeah, heck, unicorns and vampires. I believe!

4. Do you believe in a higher power (God, Allah, Buddha, Hecate, Zeus, etc.)?

I believe that faith and science are two entirely different realms, and people aren't going to find God while looking into a flower. Jesus and Mary can only be found in sponge-painted ceilings and tortillas, people. Remember, FAITH.

5. Do you believe in the power of crystals?

I believe in the power of Crystal's 8-inch lucite platform stripper heels and how they act as ballast for when she's hanging upside down on the dancer's pole at down at Mermaids.

And Now The News...

Assessed the damages this morning, and for once I have been spared.

Others haven't been so lucky I hear.

159,000 people without power, and entire streets and houses submerged in some places. I went by work early this morning to do some data entry and one of the girls I work with out in Ocean View says that she'll be without power for two days, and the downstairs to her house is ankled deep in water. Even the local news channel was reporting in a studio filled with water.

Then the power went out on the whole block at my store around 10am, so I went home. I'm scheduled to go in tonight but I'll call later to see if the power cuts back on, or else I may have today off as well. Good thing I got in all those extra hours this week.