The ***OFFICIAL*** Weekend Singles' Thread -- Dear Abby/Dolly (June 2-4, 2006)

DollyCali & all the SUPER singles at FR | June 2, 2006 | Dear Abby/Dolly

[pcottraux]

You should go to the church I do. EVERYone has kids (but me). I mean, it's practically a congregation full of screaming babies and toddlers scampering about.

[pcottraux]

EW!!! A picture of the evil fruit has soiled my monitor!!!!

[Nowhere Man]

I'm a big Nat King Cole fan, myself. When it comes to music, I'm oldschool. I think pop music since the early 1980s is astonishingly bad - right at about the time the industry ran Neil Diamond off the radio. :(

I like most music up to 1988/89, except rap and hip/hop. BTW, the links to the Soviet Ghetto Blasters on that page are broken, oh well......

Neal Diamond is pretty cool. Going to switch to Art Bell if he is on, after this tune from the Electric Light Orchestra is done. B-)

[HitmanLV]

I don't care for the song mostly because I think it has a phony sentimentality, and also fairly shallow. It's a very self conscious song, too. I also think Sinatra was riding more on luck and reputation than singing talent by then.

One of the all-time great singers, but NY NY is a dud.

[darkangel82]

Ugggh.
I usually avoid little kids whenever possible, although a friend of mine has a 4 year old who I've had to watch a few times.

[Victoria Delsoul]

OK, then, this one will do...

I know you like this song too, Hitman.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Oh no!!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, I meant older kids. Not little ones.

[HitmanLV]

I;ve seen Mr Diamond in concert many times and the only time he failed to please was at The staples Center last October. On a scale of 1 to 100, he is usually a 90+. He was a 60 that night - starting to show stronger signs of slowing down, and some strange selections of songs that really alienated the crowd (he did this JL Seagull medley and a psychotic song about the band for what seemed to be 40 minutes).

Still, Neil Diamond rules it!

[rzeznikj at stout]

AIIIIIEEEEEE!!!! 8^)

[pcottraux]

I can't stand little kids. Running, and screaming...they're so tiny, like little gnats or mosquitoes or something.

And the babies...the babies are always staring at you. Every time in church a baby stares at me, I always say out loud, "Hello, baby." Don't know any of their names.

Our church's young mothers are defiant. "I ain't raisin' no nursery kids!!!" (They refuse to put the kids in nurseries...or ever be separated from them).

[BigSkyFreeper]

Wow, how did you (rather then your parents) get the responsibility of grandma? Do you live with her? She with you? (I am care giver to my mom... she was given 6 months to live - that was in 1992 - another story, another time)

My folks help with the caregiving, they live next door. In fact, my father (her son) takes care of her monthly bills, like the electricity and telephone. I just happen to live with my grandmother, and have been living with my grandmother since 1991. It's been a pretty good arrangement. I pay rent, pay my share of the bills, and watch over the house in the winter months when she is wintering in Arizona near her daughter and son-in-law. The "watching over the house" has become more or less a year around affair in the last 2 years, as her condition has slowly gotten worse. My grandmother can't balance a checkbook, so my father takes care of her bills, and when we go out for grocery shopping, I write out the check, and let her sign her name. There are days when she can't even do that, so I end up signing the check for her. We live in a small tight-knit community, so the cashier at the store knows I'm the grandson, and knows that she has alzheimers.

[Nowhere Man]

Wow--those things still exist?

As for Savage--he's got a good show, if a bit unbridled 8^)

I remember one time, I tried like heck to hook up my ghetto blaster to my bike, stereo on the go, it was kind of hard though and finally I gave up. It took 8 D batteries too and has a music search system. I also used it as the cassette recorder to store my TI-99/4A programs on.

Savage, he's da man. I also like it when he talks about growing up in the 1950's and so on too.

It's sad you don't see ghetto blasters anymore, it seems like the 1980's were their golden age. There was even a model with a record turntable built in. If I had room and the money, I'd be collecting those things. B-)

[pcottraux]

Well, they can be annoying, too.

"Daddy! If you don't buy me the Fairy Princess Movie, I'll hate you forever!!!!!!!!"

[pcottraux]

That's okay. I doused it in Lysol.

[Victoria Delsoul]

You mean 20 years old kids do that? Yeah, I think so, lol!!!

[rzeznikj at stout]

My dad's got a couple of old boomboxes--and I have one about 10 years old...

"Savage, he's da man."

I like his shows--for some reason, I just prefer things straight-up. Nothing against Rush or Hannity, but Savage isn't afraid to venture out on many of these political issues and give the naked reality of the political landscape.

But his books are even better. Haven't gotten around to picking up the fourth one (The Political Zoo), but from what I've seen and heard it looks like an excellent read.

[darkangel82]

Now you know why I choose not to have any of my own, although when I say that, I get weird stares from people.

[HitmanLV]

Probably my single all-time favorite song, single alltime favorite arrangement, single all-time favorite recording by my single all-time favorite singer!

It's a lovely song in so many ways. I like so much about Cole Porter's work. Very moving, very literate. His explicit subtlety and wit when it comes to sexual images, also. And a dedication to romantic admiration, as opposed to more base desires. Timeless. Classic. Meaningful.

Gracias! :-)

[Nowhere Man]

I;ve seen Mr Diamond in concert many times and the only time he failed to please was at The staples Center last October. On a scale of 1 to 100, he is usually a 90+. He was a 60 that night - starting to show stronger signs of slowing down, and some strange selections of songs that really alienated the crowd (he did this JL Seagull medley and a psychotic song about the band for what seemed to be 40 minutes).

Still, Neil Diamond rules it!

Yeah, maybe Nel had a bad night, who knows or took the wrong direction from a producer of his concert. Then again, there are some performers who lose it as they get older, not saying this is happening to Neil, but in general. Mom and I saw Frankie Laine on TV one night, he is in his 90's and he still sings very well.

BTW, no Art Bell, Ian Punnitt is in for him, I guess Art cannot get his satellite uplink to work by plugging it into the only light bulb socket in his apartment in the Phillipines. B-) I guess over there, as my cousin put it one time, their idea of electricity is a bare 75 watt bulb dangling in the middle of the room and a 1960's era transsitor radio. B-)