If you saw the recent Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore comedy “Music and Lyrics”, and you happen to be over the age of 35 or so, you saw this video at the beginning of the movie and you had to laugh and cringe at the same time. They captured just how dumb and goofy early videos were back in the good old days of MTV….Videos you thought were great back then truly appear just this goofy nowadays when you see them on VH1-Classic. Hugh Grant actually does all his own singing in this movie and he could have had a good career with a 80’s teeny-bopper band if he had so chosen.

People say that I am stuck in the 80’s and that I do not embrace modern artists of today in the world of popular music. Hmmmmm OK, Let’s see…….We have Amy Winehouse representing modern music….

and then we have Stevie Nicks representing my Golden-Oldie age of the 80’s……..

Hmmmmm…..this is a tough one………..I may have to think awhile on this one……..

I still remember the day when my damn stereo from Hell started eating my Stevie Nicks “Bella Donna” Cassette tape. I managed to gingerly remove the tape and had to stick a pencil in the cassette to try to rewind the now wrinkled tape back inside and I remember cussing that now I was going to have to work extra hours to be able to afford a new $7 cassette…..Grrrrrrrrrr

Now…..I got every song the woman ever sang in amongst the 5,189 songs on my hard drive. That blood curdling scream you hear sometime in the future will be me when my computer crashes and all is lost…..

“Illinois Nazis!! Damn I hate Illinois Nazis!!”

I love the Brinks Home Security commercials where the young girl says goodbye to her parents, closes the front door, and then within 6 seconds, two intruders wearing black bust through the back door, activating all the alarms. Geez! You figure the idiots would have waited till Mom and Dad got out of the driveway….

But, of course, clueless Mom and Dad did not hear all the alarms that started blaring just 6 seconds after they left the front door….because the ever-vigilante male model phone-bank operator back at Brinks called into the house just 3.2 seconds after the alarms to ask the girl if she was alright. Get real. You get the Brinks system and the alarms do go off….some guy named BABOO from MUMBAI is going to be calling sometime within 10-20 minutes after the burglars have left….and will ask you if everything is alright…..of course, by then, you are duct-taped and bound on the floor unconscious, bleeding, ……..but whatever…..

Useless trivia: Price of a gallon of gas back on this date in 1983? .81 cents!

Not that I MIGHT watch the show or anything but…….Shawn Johnson won DWTS last night. She was deserving but I would not have been upset if any of the final 3 had won. By the end of the show, they were all pretty equal by what I could see with my “I know nothing about nothing concerning dancing” eyes. The worst part of the show was when comic Jeffrey Ross “WHO?” roasted all the contestants. Some of his comments were pretty cruel and mean-spirited.

Any “REALITY” show on TV that claims to follow the day to day lives of “Normal” families is just a load of BS. How would you act if a camera crew popped up in YOUR house and started following you around. Human nature is that NO ONE acts the same when a camera is turned on….NO ONE. You put a camera in our house and all of a sudden my wife and I become the next coming of Ward and June Cleaver. Take away the camera and we make Al and Peggy Bundy look civilized. Put a camera in our dining room….we eat roast, vegetables, and salad while drinking milk and juice. Take away the camera and our kid goes to the fridge to get everyone cokes while Mom or Dad nukes the TV Dinners in the microwave!

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