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Kool & The Gang, "Too Hot"

Knoxville hit an ALL-TIME high temperature today at 105° F/41° C. Seven generations of records and this broke every single one.

All I can do is stay out of the sun, drink lots of beverages and somehow keep my Precious and its peripherals from overheating.
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In 1979 we moved from Pittsburgh to Florida. Took us two days. We slept in North Carolina just so we could do breakfast and souvenir shopping at South Of The Border, SC. Lynn had an adventure with her cat at a Rest Area.

We listened to a lot of disco. It hadn't died yet.

PS: Actually, I think it took us more than three days. 55 was the national speed limit then because of the Energy Crisis and fuel rationing. We stopped first in Baltimore at Dad's brother and his family there. Then NC/SC state line. Then I think we took one more stop in Georgia before heading down to Peachtree.
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Feel The Heat )

Taking a Tylenol and washing it down with herbal tea at the moment. Hope this helps.
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* Early Voting for the Tennessee Primary Elections this year starts April 14th, or the day after my Knoxville IPMS meeting that month. I intend to vote early and make my Internet presence as apolitical as possible thereafter.

* * *

Local Standards may deem the following YouTube video to be NSFW. I was curious because I hadn't heard the song much since it was a hit, but I guess it impressed me (at age 12) more than it should have. I had no real taste in music back then.

The Mediocre Decadence Of Disco )
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I really could have stayed another week in Florida, but I got enough of the things on my list done and all the people who matter most to me. Darn it, if America had actual passenger trains running I'd shuttle between here and there all the time.

* "And I'm Never Going Back To My Old School..." As said earlier, on St. Patrick's Day a high school classmate had invited me and my brother to a party at an Irish/Sports bar. Going was a necessary mistake. The music was way too loud to carry on conversations. We found our "party" but beyond two or three people we didn't "mingle" and while I thought I recognized one woman--I didn't want to talk to her. The truth came to me that if I really wanted to socialize with my classmates in school, I would have. These days there is no meaning attaching me to this crowd. All of a sudden I feel okay with having been shunned and flunked. I just didn't fit in.

* Too many of the people I know are now attached to oxygen apparati. If you smoke, quit. If you don't smoke, don't start.

* I will never again go in a Disney store. Mike dragged me in one so he could look at Princess figures. They'd never hire me, but I bet working there would drive a lot of people insane.

* I will probably swear off eating more than one meal a day at a restaurant. Not so much the expense, or necessarily the food...just the stress is enough.

* Q-105 is back. The Tampa station is now Sixties/Seventies/Eighties oldies rather than baseline Top 40, but they haven't lost the style that made us fans for so long.

* I decided to not be the Lipinski Proxy this time. Dana's fantasy baseball league is down to five participants so their draft today will probably run a lot quicker even without my assistance.

* Atlanta's highways are bedlam. Both ways we had trouble with crowds and volume slowdowns. Dunno what route I'll take next time tho'.
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Though Perhaps I Should Have! )
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Acid Comes Out The Other Side of Glam, Disco and Heavy Metal )

It sounds like Def Leppard because it was produced by Def Leppard's producer.
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--Friday's on the phone to me!

My friend Paul gave me the MP3 files to the remastered Beatles catalog this week, all 16 albums and collections. So I've been playing some of the songs every so often and will probably do so all season till I get to all of them.

I suppose I have a rather skewed view of the band compared to most people. You see, I was a baby in their heyday (I was born around the time Revolver came out) but they had already broken up by the time I was allowed to listen to the radio in the early Seventies. So I knew all four of them as solo artists FIRST. It wasn't till much later in life that I got the message that these guys were THESE GUYS and so on.

The media establishment was so quick to move on that their songs as a group were largely out of circulation for some years. Besides, Paul kept on making hit records with Wings. There was no point to look back at that time...unless you were looking back to the Fifties in the wake of American Grafitti and Happy Days. It took the Disco backlash, Elvis' death, the Beatlemania Broadway show (anybody remember that?) and the Sgt. Pepper's movie/soundtrack to start a Beatles nostalgia trend in earnest.

Anyway, I come from a time warp with regards to that realm of pop culture. I'm like a baseball fan who has to remember that the Dodgers once played in Brooklyn, or a car nut who must be prompted that GM used to have a brand of cars called LaSalle. Well, I'm not THAT bad. After all, I can ask my brother (who played a role in his High School's Beatles-based revue).

FP
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Thirty years ago this month, the Bierce Family moved to "Peachtree", a plot of land that previously belonged to Dad's half-brother Patrick and his family. The town to which it belonged changed in the times since we got there. First it was "El Pico North", allegedly an outskirt of Brooksville. But then the Postal Service decided that Spring Hill was big enough to become a de facto municipality (even if the place didn't formally establish self-governance itself) and Peachtree was counted as Spring Hill some years later.

We arrived from Pennsylvania after two days of driving to an almost completely empty house. Our household items took a few days to catch up with us. So us kids slept on the floor, and danced to a tape of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in the wide-open living room much of the day. It was way too hot outside for us to do much outside. That and the grass was long and we noticed something new: sandspurs. Our habits were going to change...just about ALL of them.

MORE TO COME.
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LINKED because nobody wants to be EMBED with those mean-looking doggies.

The Pet Shop Boys, "Suburbia"
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And I owe her one as well...she got an oil change today.

From Here To Outer Space )
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R.E.M. "Fall On Me". Hmm...Perhaps that needs to be in a separate "Vending Machine Of Awesome" entry (it was in my Amateur Hour set way back when I started VMoA).

How Glam

Mar. 25th, 2009 02:28 pm
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Continuing The Vending Machine's Theme For The Week )

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