Joan Jett

Slumming around Rhapsody this morning I stumbled upon a song by Sweet that I honestly thought was a (relatively) new Joan Jett song! The song is A.C.D.C and the Joan Jett video featured Carmen Electra. It was right around when this video came out I posted an entry admitting I had no idea Joan Jett was gay and I was oddly surprised. Listening to the Sweet song, I noticed the lyrics were changed just slightly for Joan. Women became Fellah. I guess they had to do that to keep the whole AC/DC vibe going. Otherwise it would be AC/AC or maybe DC/DC? Is alternating current male or is that direct current? I have no clue! At any rate, it got me thinking of another Joan Jett song, Crimson and Clover. That was originally an old Tommy James and the Shondells song. (Is Joan the world’s best cover artist?) Joan didn’t change the words for that one. She sang, “I don’t hardly know her, but I think I could love her…” I remember, years ago, sitting in the car with Audra and Lisa and this song came on the radio and I said, “I wonder why they didn’t change the lyrics?”
“What would you change them to?” asked Lisa.
“Well, she could sing, I don’t hardly know HIM, but I think I could love HIM.”
And then Audra said, “Yeah but then the next line would have to be, Crimson and Clovem, Ovem and Ovem.” I don’t know why but I still get a kick out of that and whenever I hear the song I can’t help but sing it as, Crimson and Clovem, Ovem and Ovem. 🙂

Sweet:

Joan:

It’s funny what I don’t mind as long as it has a good beat and I can dance to it.

A Cure for Stagnancy?

My Rhapsody home page reports that The Cure have come out with a new album. I also heard that AC/DC also came out with a new album as well. These two bands have something in common– an absolute refusal to adopt a new look. Right? Robert Smith please stop smearing your lipstick and eyeliner all over your face. AND COMB YOUR HAIR! You are just a silly caricature of your old self. MOVE ON! Same thing with you Angus Young! GET RID OF THAT STUPID SCHOOL BOY COSTUME! You are no longer a teenager. MOVE ON!

I do apologize but I’ve been holding this in for years! I remember back in High School thinking that Robert Smith’s goth look was tired-looking. And that was a LONG time ago!

Can you think of any other celebrities who are stuck in a silly rut?

(I really shouldn’t smear Robert Smith, he did save us from Mecha Streisand)

Anything Can Halloween!

If I didn’t post this music video, I know Audra would be very angry with me!

Watch the inimitable, Mr. Tim Curry, in his greatest role ever!

[spoken] It’s great to be here, with you young witches, on this fabulous night! Remember Gills, show the world, let them know it’s Halloween. Hit it!

[singing]
I wouldn’t change places
With anyone tonight
We’ll carve pumpkin faces
And watch the witches flight
Every human heart will shudder
Every soul will shake with fear
Tonight, the creepiest
Tonight, the scariest
Tonight, the most wonderful night
ahhhhhhhhf the year
Anything can happen on Halloween
Your dog could turn into a cat
There may be a toad in your bass guitar
Or your sister could turn into a bat
Christmas time brings the snow
Summer time brings the sun
But on Halloween your blood begins to run
Something’s funky going down now*

Anything can happen on Halloween
It’s better than a video
Gremlins gonna mess up every cassette
From London to Idaho
April first can be fun
New Year’s Eve is a ball
But on Halloween your flesh begins to crawl
Oh, I’m losing control*
Anything can happen on Halloween
Your toenails grow long and your hair turns green
Your teacher could become a sardine
Your dentist could turn into a queen.
Has anybody seen my tambourine*
I may start playing
Begin the beguine
The craziest night you’ve ever seen
This hairy, scary, creepy, crawly,
Halloween.

*My favorite parts

Me so…

I am so tired. I DO NOT want to go to work today. I am POOPED! And here’s the thing. I’ve been pooped ALL WEEK! On Tuesday I thought to myself, “How can it only be Tuesday!?!” The next morning I woke up and thought, “Wow, tomorrow is Thursday!” It’s amazing the power of a Wednesday to transform the beginning of the week to the end of the week.

Last night I watched Ghost Adventures. It was the episode in which they locked themselves into the Goldfield Hotel. TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! The only proof they gave that I thought was credible was the brick that flew across the basement room! Holy Ghostbusters, Batman! I’d love to know if they toyed with that or if it really happened. And if it really did happen why did that wimpy jerk have to run away? He should have stayed and filmed! Obviously he wasn’t keeping his eyes on the prize.

If I reset to factory settings…

Remember to install:

Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

AlwaySync – This helps keep my external hard drive in sync with my laptop

Picassa – Photo Organizer

Mozilla Firefox – My browser of choice

Google Toolbar – Such a great search tool that I don’t mind they are spying on me

SpySweeper – What keeps the spyware at bay. Hopefully

CCleaner – Crap Cleaner

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer – So I can view the PowerPoint presentations people send me

OpenOffice – Because MSOffice makes me cry.

EyeFi – I don’t even know if my eyefi card still works but if it does– gotta load this baby.

Microsoft Money – I recently bought a copy although I’ve done nothing with it.

Rhapsody – I usually just go online anymore so it might not even make sense to download the actual software.

Norton 360 – Bastards automatically renewed my subscription so I might as well load it up and use it. I hate Norton! It’s supposed to guard against viruses but I swear it sucks all my system resources like a leach. I think it’s a virus.

AcrossLite – So I can do the NYT Crossword puzzles.

TomTom – The only way I find my way around… anywhere

GIMP – Because PhotoShop is too expensive

Netflix Movie Viewer – So one day I can sit and watch a movie on my computer, although that hasn’t happened yet.

Snipping Tool – Tom loaded this Snipping Tool icon onto my taskbar, I have no clue how he did it but I do love it and I suppose if I can’t figure it out, I can always invite him and Joan over for dinner and have him install it again.

DVDShrink – I used to use this program but it doesn’t seem to function correctly in Vista– so probably not worth the bother of loading.

His run has ended

Dear Charles,

I am sorry to report but your spree has ended! Someone else has linked to me! I know I wasn’t your one and only link (even though you were mine) but I still felt special. Very special. But now I have another person linking to me:

Perhaps this is the start of a huge tidal wave of linkage! We shall see!

Hugs and Kisses,

Donna

Costume IDEA!

I have an idea for a costume. I can dress up as…..

Ayn Rand!

What do you think? Or is that just too weird?

And the other issue is where does that leave my sweetie pie? What will my little pookie bear dress as? Howard Roark? John Galt? Nathaniel Branden?

Perhaps I am better off dressing as another woman I deeply admire– like… ANN MARGRET!

At least it’s a frightening idea…

I practice on my nose

I picked apples today! Went to a farm in New Jersey and picked a basket of beautiful apples! The weather was perfect and the trees were loaded with fruit. I had a blast! I plan on making the Jewish Apple Coffee Cake and an apple pie. YUMMY!