Monday, January 27, 2014
Grammys
Now I know why I never really watch any of those major award show extravaganzas on Sunday nights at least not in their entirety. I skim and surf them at best but when it comes to the music awards shows like the Grammys it always inevitably devolves somehow into black/urban music aka rap/hip-hop which isn't really my thing and from what I saw somehow combining that with Imagine Dragons didn't work imo. Beyonce & Jay-Z, you know if we stopped helping celebrities trend on Yahoo everyday they might not be the massive ego-trippers they've turned into. Help them out will ya, google a major disease instead. Lots of parents and others are up in arms over Jay-Z and his wife's raunchy routine last night, what is it somehow classier when Beyonce twerks instead of Miley? and oh yeah there was some type of gay mass weddings going on although I must've missed that part. I've never liked the mixing of politics and any type of major awards show from LA but they all do it and that's usually when I change the channel to a NutriBullet infomercial or a Sanford and Son rerun. I honestly don't even know who won I was so turned off.
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Missed it, I guess. Us antiquarians just sometimes watch Dion & The Belmonts or the Seekers on
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I didn't know the Grammy s were on but would not have changed my plans. I watched Godzilla vs Astro Monster in th original Japanese.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on Godzilla the movies and the glue it together model monster that glowed yellowish-green in the dark. I'll still watch them and War of the Gargantuas and it's like...you know you just gave me an idea next time I don't know what to download on my tablet.
DeleteIt's so much better in Japanese.
DeleteI liked the Godzilla vs. Mothra one. I never got into the remakes.
DeleteBeyonce & Jay-Z have to rank near the top of any list of most egotistical couples on the planet and any talent to speak of gets eclipsed by how annoying they are. I once worked with a Jamaican chef who even way back when said he couldn't stand her. I like Pink but I think she has too many songs out at the moment. Prolific a kind of Stephen King of the music world.
ReplyDeleteSime friends of mine re all distraught that Jeff Hanneman wasnt recognized/honored. I am not sure why they were surprised. I dont listen to the radio anymore so i have no idea who all these new people are. I know names some of them but not the music. Pete Seeger is dead. A great American poet.
ReplyDeleteI used to think I was fairly hip until one day I walked into a FYE store and didn't know who the Butthole Surfers were. Browsing is interesting, came across a Marilyn Manson CD with a song title called "Cake and Sodomy." Thanx but no thanx.
DeleteJust finished the Dollanganger series the other day. Maybe it was a combination of this bleak polar vortex weather but I found myself getting depressed. Each book, there's five of them including a prequel but each story is filled with unrelenting tragedy and nobody ever really catches a break. Well maybe Jory got a little one near the end. I thought Ellen Burstyn was great in the Flowers in the Attic remake on Lifetime and the woman who played Cathy was good too but it got lukewarm reviews. Downloaded it from Google Play and it even had closed-captioning which is good at my age.
ReplyDeleteThe Beiber seems to be piling up a lot of run-ins with the law. Is there a Grammy
ReplyDeletefor longest rap sheet?
From what I hear there's actually a petition to President Obama to deport him to Canada where he's a citizen. All Obama has to do is sign it. Might be the kind of rare legislation that everyone can actually agree on.
DeleteFunny kid. Am waiting for him to show up on the list
Deleteof comedians from Canada.
I don't know if you're ever a reader of MAD magazine but I'll admit to browsing through it at Barnes & Noble every now and then. They have an occasional feature on celebrities and the given odds they'll die a certain way and they give usually about four scenarios based on the character's personality and history. All I can say is keep him away from the bath salts, he might come and eat ya.
DeleteI feel like a victim of the vast wasteland: didn't watch the State of the Union, the rebuttals, nor the spin....but today, I got hooked on an ancient
DeleteTom & Jerry segment on the cartoon channel.
I'll always remember President Gerald Ford beginning one State of the Union address with "the state of the union is...not good."
DeleteI have been sick and coming up with creative chemistry to keep my cough down (things I would NEVER recommend to anyone, ever). Floored a coworker today with my admission that I don't particularly like people in general. Apparently she has this idea that in order to be a good nurse you have to love everyone. Surprise. Compassion and empathy are in no way related to whether I like you and I would posit that nurses who let whether they 'like' a patient dictate their care run into problems because there really are a lot of unlikeable people out there. I had to backtrack it a little and explain that I don't hate people, I just have a very limited amount of "me" available, and my way is to give that 100% to the people I *do* like. Which means there just isn't anything left for the rest (vast majority) of the population. It takes me forever to warm up to people generally... there are a few that I will gravitate to instantly and those poor souls are just stuck with me, because once I put you on my like list, then you get me and all of me whether you like it or not. But that list is by necessity very short. And the vast majority of people I really don't particularly like. I don't particularly DISlike them, I'm just saying.
ReplyDeleteDunno whether it's the Christian Bros. but sometimes you'll have a totally offbeat thought out of the blue. Last night I'm dozing off and thinking when I'm really old and my time comes I'll probably have a rather small group of mourners since when it comes to friends I've always gone for quality over quantity. I've known men with boatloads of friends and buddies and for some reason they seem to get their apartment or house robbed from time to time. There's this annoying guy at work who'll just come over to you and just stand there and look at you like he wants to conversate and not to be anti-social or anything but I'm like doesn't he have enough work to do? ramblings.
DeleteNothing wrong with small funeral. In ancient times people joined funerary societies so that there would be a good crowd at their funeral:
Deleteor hiredprofessional mourners . Knew a lady that wrote her own obituary. It was very impressive and she seemed highly thought of-especially by herself. :)
I won't be causing any major traffic jams. Also I've never spoken at a funeral service and don't think I'd want to since when I was a kid I hated making speeches in front of the class. I know it doesn't matter at that point but I'm also not down with the idea of being 6' under. Put me on top of a mountain. I've alot of thoughts and even phobias about the whole death business.
DeleteI often think that when I'm old I'll be the person with NO NEXT OF KIN on their medical chart.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what percent of people have 'no next of kin' on their chart?
ReplyDeleteThe matter of wills, what to do? I'm not rich, technically I don't own any property and I have a little over 50G in the bank. Personally I'd like to spend most of it but folks can have my tablet and DVD collection and maybe even a cat.
ReplyDeleteMy hunch is that you will not include the Yonkers Ghost Busters among your heirs.
DeleteAlthough maybe they can have some insight as to why my browser app on my smartphone hasn't been acting right lately.
DeleteWe actually have quite a few who have that on their charts but we work with a very special population. In the rest of my career I don't think I've ever seen a person with no next of kin.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they put on charts, vitals? Drugs? Whether you ate your jello?
DeleteI was in for walking pneumonia for 36 hours one time, too feverish to look at my chart (I love charts). New novitiate nun came by and asked if I would like to pray with her. I told her I wasn't that sick and she was so disappointed I said OK.
It's all about paperwork BB like at work we have more mandatory paperwork than ever. In my line I can see stuff like hot food temp. logs and any other form legally required but I never got the point of production planners but ya gotta do it.
DeleteWorkplace follies: was watching a road grader and there was a guy with a clipboard writing furiously. Asked him what he was doing and he turned out to be an engineering efficiency expert. Can only guess he would go back to the ivory tower, have a big meeting and direct that turbo chargers be installed in road graders?
DeleteDid ja know BB cemetery workers have union rules too like if they work past noon on Saturdays they get extra pay. The mortuary world is interesting but funeral costs are rising and I'm rather surprised Obama or any Democrats don't talk about funeral insurance and how maybe the government can help, maybe pass a few laws. Call it ObamaCares.
DeleteI'm thinking funeral insurance would need a lot of healthy people, since the end result is so predictable. I live across the street from a cemetery.
DeleteTwo guys dig the graves, put up the awnings, take them down, cover the graves, mow the lawn, trim the shrubs, drive a front-end loader. They will sometimes dig on Saturday and Sunday. Not union, I have no idea what they make, but one reported that working in the 100 degree summer heat was better than this week when they were out in a blizzard. They like their work, being out of doors, and they have their own shop where they
work on mowers and other equipment. They don't seem superstitious about ghosts either.
When I went to Mt. St. Michael one student was a gravedigger on the side and reportedly they make quite good money. Death - discussing this at work but generally I don't cry at wakes but am more somber and quiet and reserved. I don't think either approach is wrong as everyone's different but I guess it's because of my logical approach. I mean if a guy's 110 because he lived in the Himalayas and ate Dannon yogurt all his life should I get that upset? As a Christian I've never accepted that in a perfect world God intended death to be but it's also a fact of life we can't do anything about although I thought Google was working on the problem.
DeleteThing about funerals: when it is a young person, they show up big time.
DeleteWhen it is a 95 year old, only a couple mourners show up.
& I would add when someone dies in their late 60's or early 70's it's still rather large, folks are quite sad because they feel as I do. We all know in the back of our heads that we all have to go sometime but we always feel so-and-so always had a few years left. When you're 95 most feel you pretty much wrapped it up kinda like Jay Leno stepping off the Tonight Show. At that point it's just paying our respects and reliving the memories and where do we eat after the wake?
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