Pardon me sir, your teeth are in my neck

I’ve been trying to eat better. At the grocery store I bought 2 different kinds of granola cereal and a box of Special K with strawberries. Normally, I just fill up a bowl with cereal, douse it in soy milk and once eaten, I take seconds. Well, I’ve been trying to eat better, right? So this morning I actually measured a serving size of cereal. One cup cereal, half cup milk. Have you ever tried this? It’s amazing how little cereal is in a cup! Special K touts how you can lose up to one dress size eating Special K. The reason is because the damn thing fills you like air and you are ultimately starving yourself! One cup isn’t gonna cut it for me so I ate some Activia prune yogurt. I suppose my tummy is full enough to start the day.

I got a call from the Community Association yesterday at work. The man apologized for calling me at work but said it was an emergency. “You have a political lawn sign in your yard and that is a direct offense of our regulations… you must take it down- IMMEDIATELY!”
“That’s fine, I’ll take it down; but tell me, who turned me in?”
“Numerous people called.”
“How many?” I asked
“2”
“Who were they, I want names.”
“I cannot give you names”
“C’mon!”
“NO!”
“Pretty please! I just wanna know who I shouldn’t bother baking cookies for this Christmas”
“TAKE DOWN YOUR YARD SIGN!”
click

After much consideration, it’s probably a good thing political signs aren’t allowed. I might lose control of my car seeing certain candidates names.

Montag

Another weekend here and gone. On Saturday, Robert and I attempted to make California Sushi Rolls. The first roll was a complete failure– too much rice, not enough seaweed paper overlap. The second roll went much better. It was fun experimenting but I think we are probably better off just going to Minado’s. On Sunday we watched 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was definitely not Kubrick directed, I can tell you that. I wonder whatever happened to Keir Dullea? It’s like Keir Dullea and gone tomorrow.

Let’s try to get motivated, shall we? Today is going to be a wonderful day! I am feeling chipper and enthusiastic! I will accomplish the goals I set for myself. Dr Morita say, “DO IT!”

Something wonderful is about to happen…

Misheard Lyrics

In a previous post I stated that I was compiling a DVD for Robert of the songs he and his friend’s performed at Drummer Mike’s 40th birthday party. The problem was, I am not terribly familiar with the kind of music they perform. There was one song I had never heard before. I listened to it over and over trying desperately to figure out what in the world they were saying. Finally I decided they were singing, “Are you going down? Are you going down?” I entered that as the title of the clip and burnt the DVD. This weekend I gave Robert the DVD. After watching it, he complimented my mastery of Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker. He then told me that the song is not “Are You Going Down?” but rather, “Tie Your Mother Down.” Oddly enough, I kinda thought maybe that’s what they were singing but I dismissed it as misheard lyrics– kinda like Jimi Hendrix’s “Excuse Me While I Kiss this Guy.”


Obviously this is not Robert and his friends. The lyrics in this clip are much clearer.

Why does Rob and his friends refuse to perform any Monkees’ songs? Why no Elvis? C’mon fellows! How about wearing some tight gold suits!

Grease for peace

I can’t quite remember what spurred it but Robert said to me last night, “Sha Na Na was the f*cking SH*T!” I agreed with him and together we lamented that their variety show is not on DVD. I LOVED their show. My family watched it every week back in the late 70’s. Searching Youtube, we found that Sha Na Na is not forgotten. You can watch tons of clips from their show and old concert footage. I was obviously very young when I watched that show because I never noticed how tight Santini wore his gold pants! WOWZERS! My favorites were Bowser, Santini, Screamin’ Scott (with the piano keys on his sleeve!), Johnny Contardo who I always thought was Billy Crystal and Jocko. Here’s some youtube videos of their work….



SOME TRIVIA
Sha Na Na performed at Woodstock!
Santini’s real name is Scott Powell and after the show ended he went to medical school and he’s now an Orthopedic Surgeon! Here’s his official site.
Denny Greene is a Professor of Law at The University of Dayton School of Law.
Alan Cooper is the Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies and provost of The Jewish Theological Seminary

Heck, I’ll share it with everyone

Nathan emailed me asking if I knew how he could get a copy of Peter Wolf’s song Lights Out. My camera was sitting right next to me so I decided to record my steps of getting him the song. I then uploaded it to YouTube and sent him the link.

And kids, you may be wondering what in the world is that revolving black disk?! That my dear children is an LP record! A record is an analogue sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. These devices were popular before Mp3s, CDs and even tapes.

Listening to this song, it made me realize what a forgotten talent Peter Wolf is! I never hear his music anymore and I practically forgot all about him, but boy does he have some great songs!

Here’s just a small sampling:

I need you tonight
Come as you are

Dress Up in You

The other day I walked past a J.Crew store and in the window was the most beautiful dress! I was stopped dead in my tracks! I reached out my hand, I wanted to pet the material but the cold pane of glass stopped me. “MINE! MINE! MINE!” I cried! I haven’t bought it– perhaps I will try it on. What do you think?
DRESS
Isn’t it glorious?!?

And then, just now as I was browsing the J.Crew Web site, I found this:
DRESS 2

Mama wants both!

Mary Richards

Riding the train at midnight last night, feeling a little fried; I thought how things like this never happened to Mary Richards on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. She and Mr Grant never went out and ate too much and drank too much and talked too much. That’s a shame.

It was not easy getting up at 5:30 this morning. SO I DIDN’T! HA! I stayed in bed until 6:30. The day went well. I grabbed an early train home and here I am, stretched out in bed, waiting for Lisa to pop by and take me out for food. Donna HUNGRY!

The waiter from last night’s restaurant looked EXACTLY like Alan Cummings! He even had his ACCENT! No joke! I couldn’t help but smile at him and he would smile bashfully at me which just made me want to scream, “I LOVED BERNARD AND THE GENIE!” I didn’t say a word about him being Alan Cummings’ doppelganger. That could be akin to telling a straight woman she looks like Jody Foster or Portia DeRossi. It’s a compliment yet….

1984

It’s almost 8:30am but I tell you, it feels like 5am. I bought coffee and I took two tylenols. I need to lift this haze I am in!

It was a short week yet I am looking forward to Friday, 5:00. I gotta work on my attitude. I am wallowing in a sea of negativity. I need to hire Zig Zigler to be my constant companion and keep me enthused. HA! I can do it on my own. Starting…… NOW!

Oba oba

Driving home from the train station, I was listening to XM 50’s on 5 and I heard Eydie Gorme singing Oba Oba. At first I thought she was singing Oh Bo, Bo Bo. This made me super happy because I kept picturing my little Bobo spinning around and dancing to the music. I tired to find a Rhapsody link but unfortunately Eydie’s version isn’t available but Astrud Gilberto’s version is….

I have a splitting headache. I think it’s from staring at a computer all day. When I got home, rather than get in front of my laptop, I decided to get in front of my TV. So I watched a stupid VH-1 countdown of the best teen idols. I was hooked by the promise of a Shaun Cassidy segment. During the commercial break, I saw an ad for Almay Smart Shade Makeup. Supposedly you rub this white cream into your face and it magically takes on the exact same shade as your skin! I can’t imagine that this could possibly work! And what if it did work? If the darn thing takes the color of my skin, wouldn’t that mean that it would also take on the discoloration that I am using the foundation to hide!?!? I don’t get it. Regardless, I am sure I’ll buy it just to give it a go. I am curious.