Ok. Today, my lovely wife was looking through a catalogue when she shuddered uncontrollably. I quickly rushed to her side... and FOUND THIS!!!!! This is the latest in the signs of the end times! As it says in the book of Revelation, "After this, I looked and behold, a great multitude were drowning in layers of spandex and leg warmers. 'This' the angel cried in a loud voice 'is the punishment of those who would dare to wear such material after the year of nineteen hundred eighty-four!!! For great is God's anger with the material spandex!'"
I think that's in there at least... and if it's not, it should be.
Anyway, on to bad things that I like...
I was introduced, via that fantastic invention Al Gore likes to call the "information superhighway" to a band that no longer exists, but did for a short time in the faraway land of Norway. (Which, as everyone knows, is a make-believe place that Peter Pan is from...)
Annnnnyway... This band broke up in the late nineties, but not before releasing what is quite possibly the best and worst thing these old eyes have ever seen: their cover of Bonnie Tyler's classic hit "Total eclipse of the heart." Their name... "Hurra Torpedo."
It is astoundingly bad, and not just because the band consists of a lead guitarist and two percussionists... nor simply because those percussionists are playing nothing but kitchen appliances... nor simply because the guitarist sings monotone... ok, the main reason is that their pants are sortof falling down in the back while they play, and THAT is indeed badong.
If you have the time, the interest, and no impressionable children around, email me and request the video, and I promise you entertainment galore!
Well, that's it for now... Oh, except that I just got a call from my store manager in Woodridge to say that a secret shopper or "snapshot" as we call it, came in on my shift a few weeks ago. Massa, one of my favorite coworkers, and a reader of this blog, was on shift as well, and we got a five star rating on service!!! Awesome! Our store can get high percentages of excellence in the store, but that star rating always seems to hit the ceiling at 4. Very cool stuff.
Bye for now
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that bands sounds awfully familiar to a band i heard of once where there are two drummers... one on a set and the other banging on random crap... we need more bbands like this (this = odd set of musical instruments [such as a band with two bassist or a band such as morphine {one drummer a saxaphonist playing two saxaphones and a bassist with only two stuings that are tuned to the same note...}])
lol i loved your pictures. Kung Pow was a great movie :)
Yay us! Especially the you part of us for leading a great shift!
I would like to say that I am so very honored *tear tear* to be mentioned in your blog. My life has officially been fulfulled.
Don't knock the 80's if you didn't try them, little man! I was a God among mortals in the 80's and now in these times I am just old and cranky and making ends meet. I have found out that the truth in life is adulthood is way overrated, and that nothing GREAT happens after age 25.
That being said, I hated (and still do) girls wearing those weird stretchy pants and hated leg warmers too, even in the 80's. The 80's brought about some amazing things for human progress, like MT, the Space Shuttle, Apple Computer (one of YOUR favorites) and who could forget Motley Crue?
The obligatory power ballad featured on almost every LP produced in the 80's did one thing for Metal Heads... It brought scantily clad overly made up horny girls to concerts and clubs in droves... God bless those hair spray wearing makeup caking men who were willing to endure the hot lights and the late nights so us blue jean wearing beer swillers could party instead of worrying about finals or graduation or paying rent...
God bless them all... Quite possibly the true heroes of the last century...
Sorry I haven't written in a while... I do still read your rambling every chance I get... But I still haven't told you who this is... Of course, the info in this post alone should give me away....
P.S. - I am proud for your wife! Way to go!
MT should have been MTV. Sorry!
Hey man!
Good to hear from you!
How's the wife?
Oh, and thanks Massa...
It means alot to me.
Wifey is good. She is better than me! I will be in touch sometime soon to catch up a bit. Gotta run for now!
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