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Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 10/17/20

18 Sunday Oct 2020

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Salutations™!!

The BCPF and I shook things up yesterday. We started with brunch at Mozelle’s and then after Underdog Records, we went to wineries with our friends PJ3 and his wife, Susan. We then met up with the couple at Mojito Latin Soul Food. Here’s the Underdog Records haul:

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Mar1lyn Man5on – Mechanical Animals — This is an import, the best I can tell. It’s my favorite Manson album, at least from what I remember from the last time I listened. The last two that I got are pretty danged good. This is on yellow splatter vinyl. 2xLP. New.

Tom Petty – Wildflowers & All The Rest — I don’t have Wildflowers, I don’t think, on any medium. This is a 3xLP that combines a newly remastered Wildflowers with something called All the Rest. There is also a 7xLP version and a 9xLP box set. I didn’t need all that. New.

Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey — The first note she sings on “Vision of Love,” I will contend, immediately rendered Whitney Houston irrelevant. That’s my opinion, I know. However, I love Whitney’s first album but after that, I just couldn’t stomach her. Mariah, however, got me through her first two albums before she totally turned me off. Mariah, still has a great voice. Whitney’s only saving grace after this was “I Will Always Love You” and while she sang that fantastically, she couldn’t touch Mariah’s voice. New.

The International Chorale – A German Christmas — No clue. It’s from the 1970s. It’s German. It’s Christmas. EX.

Melvin Van Peebles – Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (An Opera) — I love blaxploitation films. I try to watch as many as possible. I love the whole early 70s Harlem/NYC feel. The grit, the “gray.” I don’t know, I just dig it. This was playing in the store when we went and it’s like new.

So, it was a short haul. Mostly because next week is the final drop of the RSD make-up dates (not counting the ridiculous RSD Black Friday that they’re still going to have). That means for next Saturday it will be lottery-winners only. It also means that you have right now to register for that lottery spot. I hope I get drawn. I got drawn both of the last two. Go to the Underdog Records website to register for the lottery drawing. It will be Wednesday at the latest, Tuesday most likely. So, get your entry in, now! Also, I use Discogs for tracking my collection, getting info, buying hard-to-find records, and seeing my friends’ collections. You should, too!

Until tomorrow, keep spinnin’…
Scorp out!

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“Prayed through the nights. Felt so alone. Suffered through alienation. Carried the weight on my own. Had to be strong. So I believed. And now I know I’ve succeeded in finding the place I conceived. I had a vision of love and it was all that you’ve given to me.” – “Vision of Love” (Carey/Margulies)

Now Normal Chronicles or: Falling Behind

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Salutations™!!

So, doing the “listens” list yesterday, I missed a lot of big releases. Would You Believe? from The Hollies was 54. Aretha Franklin’s live Amazing Grace was 48. James Taylor’s Walking Man was 46. The Runaways’ debut album The Runaways was 44. Rolling Stone’s live Still Life is 38. Sting’s debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles was 35. That was yesterday. Today, we have the debut Bowie album which is 53 (not the second one with “Space Oddity” on it). Cockney Rebel’s sophomore effort The Psychomodo is 46. Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town is 42. Cheap Trick’s Found All the Parts EP is 40. Let It Loose from Gloria Estefan is 33. Mariah Carey’s MTV Unplugged and Wilson Phillips’ Shadows and Light are both 28. Buzzcocks’ Trade Test Transmissions is 27. And, Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore is 22. That’s a lot of stuff for two days, I know.

Out of all of that, here’s what I chose. Enjoy!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“We share the same biology regardless of ideology. Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too.” – “Russians” (Prokofiev/Sting)

Happy New Year or: I Am the Champion!

01 Monday Jan 2018

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So, it’s a whole new year! 2018 in da house! I hope this one is a great one. It seems like they all get harder to be “good ones,” with our aging. But, still, here’s hoping. We went to Willows and had prime rib and salmon and other things, then we came home and fell asleep on the couch until about 11:45pm or so. So we got to watch the ball drop. Happy-New-Year-Images-2018-300x199

Do you remember when you knew who the people performing on NYE was? And Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve was the only show in town for it? Now, some other channels were just doing regular programming but I kept switching back and forth between Ryan Seacrest and CNN’s atrocious pairing of Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. It was awkward and uncomfortable. I love me some Don Lemon, though and he was funny.

Seacrest had, once again, Jenny McCarthy with him and, other than her horrible plastic surgery on her face, was a good co-host. I know her face has nothing to do with her hosting abilities, but it was a distraction. It was like a bloated lipped version of the two models that died with Joker smiles in 1989’s Batman. And, jeez, Ciara was downright horrible. Lucy Hale wasn’t bad as hosting the New Orleans part, but the time delay and the fact that she just couldn’t keep from talking made that whole thing awkward, too. I didn’t at all mind Fitz and the Tantrums or Imagine Dragons. I thought they were great. Mariah Carey got to redeem herself after the last debacle she did for one of these things. But, it was okay. I got to kiss my girl at midnight, so I guess that’s what’s important. And, I got to hug 3B, that was great, too.

But, earlier in the night, with the football games going the way they did, I became the 2017 Willows’ Sweep the Leg Fantasy Football Champion! I finished the regular season with a losing record (6-8), but because I had Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Jacksonville Defense, they all finally decided to turn it on the last part of the season so that led to a few victories which put me ahead of the others in my division. It was nerve-wracking and my stomach was in knots. Ben and Antonio didn’t even play and I knew that Jacksonville was going to have a hard time against division rivals Tennesee. So, I put Matthew Stafford in and Martavis Bryant along with the Steelers defense. Steelers were playing the Browns and it was inevitable that they’d do good against them. Cleveland tried, but the Steelers held them off in the end. Anywhat!

During the regular season, The BCPF ran roughshod all over the whole league. She was 10-0 until someone (that lives in the same house with her) finally beat her. She ended up with a 12-2 regular season record. She won the regular season. The divisions (she and I were in two different divisions; her Willows, me Foothills) were torn up after that and the top eight got to play in the playoffs. I beat the first team, then I beat The BCPF (again) and then I beat the winner of my division for the whole thing. He was predicted to win all the way up until about 10 minutes before he didn’t. He was scary, though. Another accolade that I got was I had the highest point win during the season (202) and The BCPF had the “Most Points For” for the regular season (2051.1). We had fun.

In the TLD league that I run… yeah, let’s not talk about that. I finished first in the “consolation bracket.” Let’s just leave that there…

Congrats to me. The prize was almost $400. I’ll take it!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey