Kid Gleason

Oddly enough, I bought the new fangled Intellivision 25 games in a controller thing, with the easy-to-use modern game controller (example: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...112265225&rd=1), and I tell you, it is a b**** to play these games on that thing! The stupid old Intellivision team actually knew what they were doing with those funky controllers! I put that thing aside, and busted out my old system! I've bought 6 games for it in the past month! I feel like a kid again! I'm such a loser.

Well, just this week I picked up Rundgrens "Something/Anything" set. I blame my not getting into Todd on his poor 80's turn-out. My sister kicked my ass last friday for not having any Todd, so she told me to go out and buy "Something/Anything", which I did on Monday. Damn happy I did. I was showing my sister the local (gasp!) band The Chamber Strings and she commented on the HEAVY Todd influence. I've been filling holes in my collection lately. Bought Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" and REM's "Murmur" last night. Owned the REM on tape, but decided it was time for the CD upgrade, thanks to Borders have a nice sale going on right now. The Van Morrison was bought out of my love of The Waterboys, and Mike Scott saying that their "This Is The Sea" album was done under the influence of "Astral Weeks". Familiar with all the Van hits, but never bought one of his proper albums. Love it!

I like Bowie enough, I guess. I just never got into the BS he did after his Glam period. T-Rex was probably one of my biggest influences growing up though. Is that atleast close enough? Love that Mott The Hoople, Sweet, Slade, Suzi Quatro... Just Bowie hurt his past with that 80's s***, IMO.

Oh, and for the past few years I have been gathering info for a book on the whole Glam movement. I have numerous great interviews for it with people from the 80's, who were in bands such as Wrathchild (the UK version), Soho Roses and even some great stuff with Vom Ritchie, who was the drummer for many a cool band in the 80's. If I ever get my procrastinating ass going, it will be a great book. It is being done while I write music for my CD, and perfect my sculpting skills. I need fewer hobbies. GO SOX!!! while I'm at it!!! So yeah, I'm a Sox loving, Glammy, fine beer swigging, Horror film junky, aspiring author and sculptor, who is also raising a family and starting to figure out how to build a MAME arcade system for his basement that he plans to finish in the next year. Back to songs that suck...everything by The Pixies and Radiohead.

If you must know, up until two months ago my hair was down to my ass. At the time I had the bands going, my hair was eggplant purple. My bands have always been Glam/Punk with more of a straight RnR style. Yes, I am a "Glammy", but no, I hate Poison, Motley Crue, Skid Row, et al. I am a Hanoi Rocks, NY Dolls, Dogs D'Amour, Soho Roses, Marionette, Lords Of The New Church, Dave Kusworth, Faces kind of guy. I don't like "Cock Rock".

Ray was pretty damn popular, one would almost argue with more popular than Reagan. I have yet to read any negative press about Ray, but have read TONS about Ron. So does this mean I have to have another Friday with no mail? Lucky me my Intellivision game came yesterday.

Well, ya know, violence is exactly what the Muslim religion is all about, so their actions make sense.

Well, if that is the picture of the world with Mel, I guess it is better that one than one of him all decked in leather and wandering with a raggedy looking dog, a lanky guy with a long brown leather coat, and a kid who never speaks other than grunting!!!

Not sure, the names aren't familiar. I killed off my bands numerous years ago, as it has become impossible to get any decent gigs lined up unless you are a cover/tribute band. If you do get shows, you can expect a turn out of 10-20 people, as long as you have that many friends. It got much to depressing. We did a show once, the band right before us was a cover band. They were TERRIBLE! Vocalist who couldn't sing, looked like s***, etc. The place was packed for them, and it was going WILD! This was at The Gateway, which isn't all that small. So they ended, and 20 minutes later we took the stage. We had about 15 people in the audience all of a sudden, most of them our friends, and one girl who was passed out. Our final show was in Delavan Wisconsin. We had a smallish turnout. I was pissed beyond belief, ended up beating the s*** out of my guitar to the point of busting it up a bit and tearing my hand to shreds (blood all over, I was known for a HIGHLY energetic show, and a rather violent one, almost got pulled off the stage at the Thirsty Whale for being too "wild"). About a week later the band kicked me out, and I was the lead vocalist and song writer. They decided they wanted to fit in with the current trend, and start doing more covers, and doing a "classic rock" sound, and they knew I wouldn't budge and give in. To this day, I would rather play in my room than cave and play s*** I don't like. The IE this month had their "Local Band Directory". Back in the day that thing would be about 10-15 pages long. This month is at the most a page. Two half page lists. Of the 32 bands listed, 9 of those are cover and or tribute bands. Pretty sad.

Phew, because lord knows I listen to that radio station all the time!

That's not too bad an idea. It would just have to be done without any media knowledge. I think we all knew this would be the outcome, as the captors knew. They knew we would never turn over any prisoners, and they really didn't want us to. They wanted us to do nothing, so they could kill again on a worldwide stage, and so that we would hopefully look like insensitive bastards who don't truely care for our own. I would also lay money on it that the guy didn't want to die, but he probably also didn't want to see us give in to the captors. I am sure he was resigned to his fate the second he made that tape, as I am sure he knew of Nick Berg. I just think we can start to expect to see more of this stuff. The real problem is when it gets so easy for them, and it happens in our country, and it becomes obvious that we as individuals are not safe. I don't expect the next terrorist attack to be a major event like 9/11, but rather many individual attacks, in our own homes, and in our own small towns.

I agree that there has been some pretty good stuff out of Chicago, but seriously, with the size of this city, don't you think there should have been one band that truely ruled the music soundscape? Buddy Guy and such are Blues legends, and while they have their place, I was talking about BIG success type of stuff, and Liz Phair doesn't fit that category. I am a HUGE Urge fan, but they never "made it". Smashing Pumpkins? Ugh. Terrible crap. Grunge turned Industrial, and all of it done mediocre. A city the size of Chicago, that list you gave me should be MUCH longer, with much more Nationally recognized names. Have you read an IE lately? Pathetic. If you don't like the Blues or cover bands, you're screwed for music in these parts. IMO, Chicago bites musically.

Gee, who would have thought. idiot.

Any of you ever hear KISS's The Elder album? That might just be the funniest damn piece of music I have ever heard. I still plan to buy it, just because it is SO damn bad I need it in my collection. I have been dipping into my youth quite a bit musically speaking as of late, and I have decided that no band in the world has aged as poorly as Styx! Good Lord and butter were they a TERRIBLE band with probably the silliest damn lyrics ever! I'm still awaiting a truely great band to rise out of Chicago! One that actually makes it big, that is. Rights Of The Accused were friggin' great, but the vanished and never broke out, and a few guys turned into Triple Fast Action. Cheap Trick is Rockford, so they don't count.

Could go for Below, but it is a strange mix of Horror, War, Action, Mystery, and whatever else you can imagine!

WOW!!! I have yet to meet anybody who thought that about that film! Most people who have seen it will praise it and tear into The Matrix for being the lesser of the two similar films. I found the FX work in Dark City to be nothing short of stunning, and it was even praised by most FX people I know of. I love these types of lists, as you really do get to see that not everybody see things the same, not even close to the same!

I think Caine was in every movie made in the 70's and 80's.

I fiddle with the harp a bit. I used to play it in one of my old bands, but then decided it was tying me to the mic too much, and if I wasn't singing, I wanted to be running with my guitar instead of standing at the stand playing that thing. It's kind of like the bass as far as how hard it is to play. It isn't hard to play it, but it is REAL hard to be good at it. I can do the bass work for any recordings I do, but I usually prefer to get a real bassist, as a great bassist can really help bring a song to life. I can play harmonica, but I would prefer to get somebody who is good at the thing, to make it's parts REALLY shine. If you just want to sit around a campfire, or in your house, buy it and noodle. In no time you'll be sounding pretty cool. Keep at it, and you can find a gig somewhere. But a harmonica is also a nice instrument as not many people will hear it and cringe by what you are doing. Bad violin, flute, guitar, piano, whatever, hurts to hear. Bad harmonica? I still have yet to ever really hear it.

I hope that for once, if a famous person is guilty, that a jury will find him so and will sentence him as they should. I'm sick of fame and fortune getting away with everything. But then again, I think the rest of the world is also getting to that point, so I think Kobe has one heck of an uphill battle ahead of him. He'd better pray he defense is half as good as what he just saw with the Pistons*. *I haven't seen one second of Basketball in about 10 years, so I am only going by what I have heard about those Finals.

It was all I could do to make it through the first one! No power on Earth or in Heaven can make me see that one, and Drew has always been a fave of mine!

I love Bubba-Ho-Tep, but then again, the original short story author Joe R. Lansdale is as close as I believe we will ever come to finding God on Earth, so I might be a little biased. I still wish one of his other, better, stories had been the first to be adapted to the screen. But with the word of mouth that Bubba has recieved, I can only hope that someday a great screen version of any of the Hap and Leonard novels might hit the screen!!! I also forgot to add what might just be the single most annoying movie ever made, I hate it so much I had almost successfully put it out of my head: WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP!!! God save this planet from that horribly annoying Rosie Perez abomination! Plus, Lord knows I have anything but a clean mouth, but the language in that film actually pissed me off! Horrible, ugly, and offensive beyond all imaginable realms! The worst film ever made, bar-none. The movies I walked out on? Robin Hood: Men In Tights and I think I left before the terrible Natural Born Killers assaulted my eyes for the final few seconds. That movie is only second to White Men.

Armageddon is up near the top for me, and so is Coyote Ugly. Oh, also anything with Keanu Reeves, with the exception of The Devil's Advocate.

I dated girls that were that young. I was also that young at the time, but ya know, I did have a thing for them 13-14 year olds once.

So, when do we drop the "better than thou" and "take the high road" stance and decide it is time to quit f***ing around and actually play "hardball" with these monkies? Hey, you want an "eye for an eye", fine, but you take out one of ours like this again, and we take out every single person in our "prison". Not to sound insensitive, but f*** those assholes. :fyou

I know, you said that in the Yahoo thread. I finally got to see what the new look is, but then it wouldn't let me into the "inbox" area. My mail is quickly building up too!!!