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Joan Jett recorded a popular version of you don’t own me for her 1981 album Bad Reputation.   Jett certainly had the credentials to record this rebellious anthem she was a part of the all-female Punk Rock group The Runaways before moving to solo success.   Other artists to record this song include The Blue Monkey [who recorded the version used in Dirty Dancing [, Percy Faith, Bette Middler and Dusty Springfield.    This information is available on Songfacts.com      Drew Galloway reminds me of Barry Windham when he was The NWA World Champion when he was The Lone Wolfe circa 1993.     Billy Idol recorded an excellent version of The Doors classic LA Woman which is on Idolize Yourself the Very Best of Billy Idol on June 23, 2008.      Sammy Hagar’s Red is on All Night Long released in 1978 which is one of my favorite tunes from The Red Rocker.   Tonight Sunday October 2 2016.     TNA’s biggest event of the year Bound For Glory LIVE from The Impact Zone in Orlando Florida!   Eddie Edwards VS Aron Rex to determine the first ever Impact Grand Champion! I have really loved this tournament format because it really showcases the differences in styles.   The Impact Grand Championship is very innovate!   Gail Kim will be inducted into The TNA Hall Of Fame well deserved!   The Impact debut of Cody will also take place tonight at Bound For Glory.   I have never seen him preform!   Cody is the son of The American Dream Dusty Rhodes.   EC3 will challenge The TNA World Champion The Destroyer Bobby Lashley in a No Hold Barred match.   The match of the night was Eddie Edwards VS. Aron Rex to crown the first ever Impact Grand Champion.   This was an excellent back and forth match I have not seen much Of Aron Rex’s work he proved himself to me.   Aron Rex became the first ever Impact Grand Champion by decision.   The most unique match that took place at Bound For Glory was The Great War between Decay The Monster Abyss Crazzy Steve and Rosemary VS. The Broken Hardys Broken Matt and Brother Nero AKA Jeff Hardy The Hardys for The TNA World Tag Team Titles.   This match was downright crazy but very innovate and a memorable match.   Bound For Glory was excellent worth every penny!     The Hardys Broken Matt and Brother Nero AKA Jeff Hardy I think it is very cool what Impact is doing right now at Bound For Glory before The Great War with Reby Hardy on the piano playing their theme and Broken Matt comes out with Brother Nero and sings I’ll fade away and classify myself as obsolete that is what took place this past Sunday at Bound For Glory before The Great War between The Hardys Decay Crazzy Steve The Monster Abyss and RoseMary.   The Hardys won The Great War and became The TNA World Tag Team Champions again but what a bizarre and unique concept at one point one of the many alter egos of Brother Nero AKA Jeff Hardy Willow shows up.    They battled all through Universal Studios in Orlando and at one point a guy got out of his car to take a look.   From now on I am going to refer to the hard rock era of the 1980s as 80s rock.   There were so many excellent bands and musicans from the era that were and still are marginalized by fans apparently everyone looked ridiculous in the 1980s.   Bands such as: Ratt and Dokken and many others were excellent bands from that era and I would like to preserve music that I love and that means so much to me and many others.   There were probably many musicans from the 1980s that were placed in a certain category that marginalized their talent that is why many from the era are trying to escape that image.   For example: Kip Winger is an extremely talented and well-versed musican but most mainstream classic rock stations will not play anything from that era.   Now Grunge/Alternative Rock and bands from the 1990s are now considered to be classic rock bands such as: Pearl Jam Nirvana and Alice In Chains are considered classic rock but musicans from the previous era are not even acknowledged.   Classic rock stations may only play 80s rock on a special with hair in the title but hair bands or hair metal were pejoratives used in the 1990s when these musicans and bands were waning in popularity and unfortunaly much of this music is still made fun of but it was an entire generation’s classic rock.    So whatever your preference is people can do what they want I personally do not want to use the term.   I am not a casual fan of professional wrestling so it is difficult for me to interpret how casual fans view the product.   I do not care about name recognition I care more about those who I feel are the best workers and talkers.    I know that the best workers usually do not sell tickets.   So it is very difficult for me to think about how to attract casual fans to the product.   But those casual fans are extremely important when trying to get not just the niche of fans who will always be there.   Because I know that not everyone is as fanatic a fan of professional wrestling as I am and a certain group of fans.   I think I am more of a fan of things that would be considered to be more hard rock and not heavy metal.   I am not really sure if I really know what would be considered heavy metal and what is not.   I am a fan of some 1980s hard rock more specifically 80s powerballads.   One of my favorite countdown shows on VH1 was VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists Of Hard Rock which is hosted by Carmen Electra.   Ruby Tuesday an excellent song originally done by The Rolling Stones Katey Sagal who played Gemma Teller on Sons Of Anarchy performs my favorite version of Ruby Tuesday for Sons Of Anarchy I guess the band is called The Forest Rangers.   Katey Sagal and The Forest Rangers is the best version of Ruby Tuesday in my opinion.   Liz Phair in the 1990s was known as: The Indie Queen she released an excellent song one of my favorites rocket boy for a movie called Stealing Beauty.   Lizzy Hale is one of the true new bad asses of hard rock.   My favorite song from Madonna is bad girl from her 1992 album Erotica.   You know the music video where Christopher Wallken plays a Guardian Angel.   The main reason I like this song the darkness to it.   Are Bluegrass and Country music the same thing? Or are they two different genres but have similarities to them?   I think I just answered my own question because they are two different genres but they both seem very familiar to me which is cool.   I know that trends change and everything else but I think formulas that worked in the past should always work.    An example: professional wrestling psychology.     I do not understand why people that I respect in the business say that they are old and that the style has changed.   I am sorry but I think if something worked in the past it should work any time.   There are trends that are going on that I really am not a fan.   I wonder if the reason for this is that fans are more demanding than they were in the past.     There are fans who take it upon themselves to highjack the events.   I am a huge fan of the 1^st amendment but I think in many cases it is fans wanting to be a part of the show or even bigger than the show.   I am not a fan of this trend because I really do not like fans taunting the talent if you are not happy get up and leave.   I know that fans pay a fortune in some instances for tickets but when a group of fans highjack live events they are ruining it for fans who are trying to enjoy it.   People can have their cellphones and cameras out but in most cases I think all that is being accomplished is blocking someone else’s view.   I am really not trying to sound like buzz kill but I think many fans need to stop being such narcissists that is what this all bowls down to I think.   I would rather listen to music in the physical form instead of listening to it on youtube but going on youtube is how I have discovered music over the years so youtube is great for a junkie like me but I still prefer the radio or an album.   It is truly sad what has happened to rock music over the last couple of years and for that matter the music industry in general.   What this all comes down for me is fans have to be aware of new music by their favorite musicans and bands.   In most cases they are not.   I am usually not aware of new music unless I hear about it which is rare.   I wish I had some type of gig where I got to keep up with new music from my favorite musicans because it is more difficult for me to keep up with new music from my favorite musicans.   That is why in a lot of cases unfortunaly many of my and many others favorite musicans struggle.   But it would not be the case if fans were just aware.   I try to do so because hard rock and music in general is my passion.     I know things change but old habits are hard to get rid.   The lighter song at a concert should never go away the most famous example of the lighter song free bird by: Lynyrd Skynyrd.     Most of them done by Bon Jovi.   Most of those bands had the lighter song which is the power ballad or the monster ballad.   I just do not want the lighter song to go away.   There are some myths about the lighter song that it is just an excuse for some jackass to yell out free bird.   That is just a serotype that is out there.   But you can rock out to a lighter song in most cases for me those have been the most fun to rock out.    I have to enjoy the little things.   RoseMary of the faction Decay won the vacant TNA Knockouts Championship by defending Jade inside a Six Sides Of Steel cage on Impact On Pop December 1^st 2016.   An excellent match it is rare for females to main event an Impact.   It is also rare to have a steel cage that involves females.   But WWE and TNA have had main event steel cage matches of some kind with female participants.   Which I think is cool because that means a company puts stock in that females can main event a show.   I hope it is a taste of things to come.   These are notes just so people can be aware of what used to be.   A Video Jockey also known as: a VJ was a person who would introduce music videos and have a party.   A Disc Jockey was a person on the radio who would introduce musicans and songs.   There used to be compact disks I remember cassette tapes this was before downloading music that is what I mean by the physical form.   The reason I am mentioning all of this I have been told that these jobs and the physical forms are going away.   I am really not sure what is going to happen if radio and radio hosts are going away it makes no sense to me.   How is that going to work?   I am not trying to be conceding what I am trying to do is make of the point that the great things I had growing up but are now it seems are going away.   There is a generation growing up that will only know music that is downloaded.   There is nothing wrong with that but I think they are missing part of what makes listening to music special.   Which to me is having an album not only listening to the album but looking at the art work and studying it the whole experience.   I wonder because I can not be the only one to have this thought when people hit my age what is hip and new is not geared towards people my age.   What I find odd is that older people think that people my age know what is cool and hip today but in my case and I am going to guess other people my age and older are not hip to what is going on.   I really just think it is important to know I think people stop being with it whatever it is when they are sixteen years old.   Sometimes with this awesome platform I want to make a small note of celebrities that I like Cindy Margolious I salute you rock on Cindy!   This is for me more than anything else which is keeping up with my favorite musicans and bands it is extremely important to stay engaged.   There is a parallel to professional wrestling because when people leave the WWE mainstream fans think that person is retired which is not true in many cases.   That is why it is extremely important to stay engaged.   I am talking to myself more than anyone else!   I realize that people live busy lives which takes away time to keep up with their hobbies but this is extremely important because that is why many musicans and professional wrestlers you name it that is the main reason they struggle sometimes.    This past year 2016 VH1 Classic became MTV Classic I am more of rock guy than a rap guy I went through my own rap faze fifteen years ago.   MTV Classic focuses on the 1990s supposedly.   There was some excellent music and fashion trends in the 1990s.   Alternative Rock and Grunge but also Rap and Hip-Hop.   So I enjoy some of the rock and they play some good classic movies but I do miss VJS or hosts if you will.   I hate to keep harping on this but I think MTV getting away from music as it’s identity as hurt the music industry.   But overall for what I have seen from MTV Classic it is good so far.   But I do miss That Metal Show.    Beau Hill is an excellent record producer he produced albums for Winger Ratt and Fiona Flanagan.   Beau Hill also CO wrote a song with Fiona Flanagan called Hearts Of Fire for a movie of the same name. In my opinion Ratt’s best work was with Beau Hill.   He just knows how to get a crisp sound and to make the individuals he is working the best they can be.   There were musicans and bands once they stopped working with Beau they were never quite the same.   Saraya is a band that I wish would reunite one more time.   They do not have to do anything new Saraya was just magic.   I have rediscovered Saraya through the internet youtube to be exact.     If Saraya reunited that would be a concert I would get up and go see.   Sandi Saraya was not just gorgeous she was an excellent singer and frontwoman.    I still prefer having the psychical but youtube is a wonderful tool to rediscover music for a junkie like me.   Saraya’s self-titled debut album Saraya was released in 1989.   Saraya’s second album When The Blackbird Sings was released in 1991.   If House Of Hardcore HOH ever came to my hometown I would definitely go.   I love the founder and promoter of HOH Tommy Dreamer.   I love the hardcore philosophy.   I would want to see Franchine and Beulah Mcgillicutty.   Franchine is retired from professional wrestling but it would cool to see her backstage at an event.   I know Beulah will never accompany Tommy Dreamer to the ring again but I would like to see her backstage.   I believe that climate changes I just do not believe that human beings contribute to it.   It is arrogances on our part to believe that we have that much power!      I make a diffraction between manmade climate change and climate change that we have no control over.   Universal Solider is one of my favorite movies which stars Jean Claude Van Damme.   When I was growing up another favorite movie of mine was and still is Street Fighter.   My favorite action heroes are: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme.   Both The Terminator and Universal Solider are both about cyborgs but to me that is where the similarities end.   In someway I prefer and like Universal Solider better than The Terminator.   Universal Solider has great action it is really well done.   Universal Solider in my opinion seems to be overlooked and underappreciated by many.   I think Universal Solider is an underappreciated gem.   Total Non-Stop Delectation was an excellent event.   Matt Hardy should be commended for taking a chance.   Matt could have just played it safe instead he took a chance with becoming Broken Matt Hardy.   With everything not everyone is going to like a presentation this must be an extension or a part of Matt’s own personality.   Jeff Hardy has always been a fan favorite.   But I do not feel that Matt has been given or taken the chance to do the same.     Impact Wrestling should also be commended they took many chances this past year to give the fans something different.   There are many trends going on particularity on the independent scene in professional wrestling that I am bothered.   But this change and chance that Broken Matt Hardy and Impact Wrestling has taken is extremely entertaining and something really positive for both Broken Matt Hardy and Impact Wrestling and for the business in general.   Laura Branigan sprit of love from her 1987 album Touch.   Sprit of love is already an excellent song but I think it is much better to see her perform the song.   One of the great aspects of Laura’s music each album goes in a different direction.   I do not understand the phenomenon of guys who have man caves.   I understand having your own stuff but I do not understand the reason to have a man cave.   Cowboy Bill Watts was the promoter of The Universal Wrestling Federation also known as: The UWF.   The Cowboy was extremely strict on how he wanted his business conducted.   One of his funniest guidelines if a performer ever got into a fight with a civilian The Cowboy mandated they had to win the fight or they were fired.   The Cowboy thought if guys were dumb enough and were going to make asses out of themselves they better win!   The advantage human beings have over any other animal we have the ability to change.   Yes we are animals but most people squandered it!    Change does not feel good but it is the greatest gift we have as human beings.   The Majority of individuals do not need to change everything about themselves but I think everyone has aspects about their personality that they need to change or refine.   It will be a more satisfying life.   The Headpins and Darby Mills maybe considered classic rock in their hometown of Canada but The Headpins are one of my favorite bands from the 1980s.   Darby Mills is still touring.   It is extremely important that these musicans are still out there because newer fans can rediscover and enjoy this music.   I have become a huge fan of John Hitait.      John Hitait I would say his musical style is country rock with a mixture of the blues.   An example: would be his version of riding with the king.   Which is a great version from someone I call The Real Deal!   John also did an excellent version of have a little faith in me.   John Hitait is underappreciated in my opinion.   Once again I have to thank comedian Adam Carolla for introducing me and letting me know about John Hiatt.   Drew Galloway became the new Impact Grand Champion by defending Moose on Impact on Pop on January 19^th 2017.   In my opinion Drew Galloway’s style is Taylor made for The Impact Grand Championship.    Drew Galloway should be an excellent Impact Grand Champion!   I am a huge fan of The Impact Grand Championship format.   Kip Winger is nominated for a Grammy in the category of classical music.   Yes I am talking about the same Kip Winger that is known for seventeen.   Congregations Kip I have always known you to be a well-versed musican.   When 80s hard rock was waning in popularity Winger was the band that got hurt the most from the backlash against 1980s rock.   I am really tired of hearing about the image associated with this music. The image associated with 1980s rock has hurt these musicans and bands.   But I think looking back at the era it had some of the best musicans and bands but until people stop thinking about the image  of the era it will continue to hurt these great musicans and bands.   I really wish the majority of people would focus on whether 1980s rock was good or bad.   Congratulations MR. Winger!   Angels Never Die is an album by: The Metal Queen Of The World Doro Pesch which was released in 1993.   Angels Never Die has one of my favorite hard rock songs from Doro you ain’t lived till you’re loved to death.   Angels Never Die also features bad blood a song with a very powerful message!   Doro is still going strong after 25 years of rocking around the world!    Doro also has performed some of the most beautiful ballads such as: even angels cry and children of the night.   The Boss Bruce Springsteen did my favorite version of Jersey Girl this song has been covered by many.   Jersey Girl was originally written and performed by Tom Waits.   Tom Waits also originally wrote and performed downtown train.   Which was made famous by Rod Stewart.   Kimberly Caldwell is one of my favorite musicans her voice sounds similar to another favorite musican that I enjoy Pink but it is different.   I like Pink because she is dominate.     What I enjoy most about Kimberly’s music her voice is raspy but it changes from her softer material such as: if you’re gonna fall and mess of you or a more upbeat party song such as: desperate girls and stupid boys but Kimberly’s voice always seems to have the same edge.   The fact that her voice is raspy is why I believe she never loses her edge.   The raspiness  of her voice makes her ballads that much more sweet.   She also did my favorite version of sleep while I drive originally written and performed by: Melissa Etheridge.       Kimberly Caldwell certainly does have a punk rock feel to her which is a part of the edge.   Kimberly also seems to have a fun personality and is a one of a kind musican!   I am going to give a salute to a great musican Holly Beth Vincent who was in a band called Holly and The Italians.   Holly Beth Vincent is probably best known for her version of for what it’s worth by: Buffalo Springfield.   The song is often misinterpreted as being called what’s that sound?   Holly Beth has an extremely raw voice with songs such as: you can love her and Hey Christine which are really great songs from Holly Beth’s solo album Demos Federico.   Demos Federico is really the only album that I am familiar.   It just catches my ear.   I am sure Holly Beth Vincent has other great albums I am just familiar with one unfortunately.   Forever Hardcore is my favorite documentary on professional wrestling more specifically on Extreme Championship Wrestling ECW.   Forever Hardcore is presented by: Blue Horizon Pictures and was done by Jeremy Borash.   ECW was a promotion based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.   Critics of ECW will conclude that ECW was just the blood and guts promotion.   But ECW was a hybrid of styles of professional wrestling.   Forever Hardcore goes in depth about The ECW Revolution.   The documentary includes interviews with hardcore icons such as: The Franchise Shane Douglas Sabu Terry Funk and New Jack etc.   There are many pros and cons when it comes to ECW I choose to think of the positive impact because The ECW Revolution had both a positive and negative impact on the professional wrestling business.   The passion and respect that the fans had was just incredible and infectious.   ECW completely changed the professional wrestling business in The United States at the time.    ECW provided a platform to talent that would not have had opportunities elsewhere.   That was the most positive aspect of ECW and having more than just one company to work.   Rob Van Dam was really proficient in all styles of professional wrestling RVD came from ECW.  As I mentioned earlier  the impact that Extreme Championship Wrestling had on the professional wrestling industry were both positive and negative but ECW was my favorite era being a fan of professional wrestling   These icons became forever hardcore!   It is the 25^th anniversary of one of my favorite movie Wayne’s World!   Wayne’s World has been not just an influence on this project but my life in general.       I got the idea to do a salute to people who have influenced me but I do not really have much to say about them.   But I can’t say swing.   I watched Wayne’s World 2 one night with my dad when I have never felt that bad ever I did not think I would get past it.   That is why I kept telling people I loved them.    But thank God I got through it.   It made me appreciate the small things in life.       Watching it that night gave me the impetus to finally start this project!   A dream match that I have always wanted to see is Diamond Dallas Page VS. The Rock.   People’s Champion VS. People’s Champion!   Bret The Hitman Hart and The Rocket Owen Hart were a pretty great tag team.   The Hitman had the technical wrestling skills and mat technique that was truly mind blowing.   The Rocket had the technical wrestling skills and prowess as well combined with an aerial arsenal.   That was poetic!    My favorite match in The Bret Owen program took place on the premiere of the Action Zone on 9/29/94.     Supposedly Stu Hart who is the dad of the two brothers had a sense of humor much like Owen did.   Which I did not realize because when I think of Stu I think of his stretching and putting individuals in submission holds.   I guess you never know about people.   But it is cool!   It seems to me most of my favorite Simpsons episodes have one thing in common they were written or produced by: Conan O’Brien.   I am not really sure what that says about my sense of humor but Conan must be a genius in some kind of way.   I do enjoy Conan’s Clueless Gamer reviews.   Alberto El Parton made his Impact Wrestling debut on March 9^th 2017.    He defended the Impact World Heavyweight Champion Lashley by using the world heavyweight championship by hitting him with the championship.   Lashley did bring the title into the ring but I think Impact officials made the correct decision by giving the championship back to Lashley.   It was a Dusty finish Dusty Rhodes was probably thrilled that Impact used his finish.   Impact has been revamped as Impact Wrestling.   The one thing in life that remains constant is change I think it has been excellent so far making Impact great.   The challenge that Impact Wrestling has is name recognition.    I really do not care about who is on the Impact roster at any giving time because I realize talent in a company come and go.         But the casual fans do not care about the best workers they care about talent they recognize and that is the challenge.   The WWE understands this fact and to their credit they have mastered it.   The niche fans will always be there but the casual fans may not be.   It is difficult for me to ignore moves holds and submissions because that is one of the main parts of what I love about the art form that is professional wrestling.   Whatever anyone’s preference is they can do what they want.    Knowing the moves holds and submissions is one of my hobbies.   The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels has finally become a world heavyweight champion by winning The Ring Of Honor World Heavyweight Championship on ROH’s 15^th anniversary show.     I have always viewed The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels being up there with some of the all time great mat technicians such as: Chris Benoit Bret Hart Eddie Guerreo and Dean Malenko etc.   Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian who were known as: The Bad Influence in Impact Wrestling are now known as: The Addiction in Ring Of Honor etc.      I am thrilled that The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels is The Ring Of Honor World Heavyweight Champion after a 24 year career.   I am not of the opinion that if The Sandman in ECW did not come out to the ring drinking beer that Stone Cold Steve Austin would not have happened in the WWE.   Steve Austin always had the stone cold persona in him he just needed the right people to recognize that in the WWE and that is exactly what happened.    Stone Cold drank beer and would give middle fingers to the audience.      Sandman in ECW on the other hand did not just drink beer while going to the ring he carried a Singapore Cane to the ring with him.     Both Sandman and Stone Cold’s personas were their very own.   It was not until the right people in ECW in Sandman’s words “let him be Hack”.   Not just anyone could have done those gimmicks and made them successful.   It is not comparable to an actor playing a role in a movie or a television show because both Sandman and Steve Austin created their own personas.    In professional wrestling what makes a persona or gimmick unique is not everyone can make a persona or gimmick connect with fans.      They must make a gimmick or persona somewhat their own that is what gives any talent longevity.   ECW created something called Pulp Fiction passages with the opening music of the movie Pulp Fiction playing.   Those video passages are one of the reasons ECW’s owner Paul Heyman is credited for having such an impact in changing the professional wrestling business in The United States at the time.         Just because something is similar to something else that does not mean it is a copy of it.   When something is popular there is usually someone who will do something similar to it without having what is similar in mind.   That is why for example:  I do not think about copying writing a musical melody.   Because there is only so many melodies to use without sounding alike.     I realize that the 1980s all female band The GOs GOs were a pop band but the guitarist for the band Jane Weldin was influenced mostly by punk rock.   All that needs to be done is look back at Jane’s hairstyles through the years.   Jane’s solo albums are still mostly pop but her punk influence cannot be denied.    My favorite song on Jane’s solo album Tangled is guardian angel.   The song is reassuring and loving.   But Jane Weldin still remains punk.   An example: of Jane’s punk influence call me crazy with her band frosTED from their 1996 album Cold.    The song has an alternative rock sound and feel to it which was popular at the time but Jane makes it her own.   This maybe confusing to some because The Gos GOS were a pop band but I think I could prove that the guitarist for that band is punk not but what she has done with The Gos Gos but by what she has done outside of the band.   Jane Weldin has a greatest hits record called The Very Best Of Jane Weldin from cool places to world on fire.   My favorite episode of The Simpsons is The Last Temptation Of Krust.      It is my favorite episode because I love Krusty because he is this hard living clown that does everything to excess.   He gambles too much he smokes too much and drinks too much etc.   It is worth noting to me that Krusty is a kids show host but he lives this on the edge sort of life.   Also Krusty has this raspy cynical voice.   Krusty forms a raunchy comic persona he rants about how he hates seeing on television commercials of dead celebrities hawking products.   The only reason for this in krusty’s mind is corporations will do anything to get people to buy their crap.        In the episode Krusty finally realizes that he has not being working on his act but selling out.   The best part is I do not think he realizes this until he is in his biggest fan Bart’s room.   I do not think Krusty updated his act since he was named the most promising newcomer of 1959.   So Bart asks comedian Jay Leno to help him with his act.   Krusty changes his whole persona and becomes a raunchy comedic.   He is wearing a black leather jacket and a ponytail.    Krusty starts to get a little traction then two suits give Krusty an offer to endorse their brand new car The Canyonero.   Krusty tells the two suits that he does not sell out for nobody no more.   Then they tell him that it is free again.   Krusty says my favorite line in the episode he fanatically says stop saying that!   While pushing them out the door.     Krusty says in his stand up that he threw them out on their ass.    Then they follow him home then he tries The Canyonero and he realizes how roomy the vehicle is.   The audience turns on him throwing beer bottles etc at him.   Everyone in the audience leaves while Jay Leno is standing at the exit and says I knew I should’ve gone on first.   Krusty leaves out the backdoor with Bart.   He tells him that he learned something about himself it is not comedy that is in his blood it is selling out.   Krusty drives off in his Canyonero with Bart then a Canyonero commercial plays.   It is the only car endorsed by a clown.   The funniest aspect of the episode Krusty tries to not sell out but he just cannot help himself in the end he sells out.   Jay Leno said about The Last Temptation Of Krust he could not tell whether the writers of The Simpsons were making fun or complementing him.   ECW original Tommy Dreamer I think said it best that without ECW owner Paul Heyman taking a chance on  himself Taz Sabu etc they would have had to stay working for independent promotions or they would have never gotten a chance  at all without the ECW platform.     There are many things said about promoters and I would put WWE CEO Triple H and WWE owner Vince Mcmahon in this category as well there are things that are said that are just conjecture or lies that are said that a group of individuals believe to be the truth.   The point is they were given an opportunity that they may not have gotten elsewhere.     They were not forced to do anything they did not want to do.   These individuals made their own choices I am tired of hearing people in the media say that individuals who make their living in the business are forced to do things they do not want to do.    I am not saying that people in the media do not have a right to their own opinions but I wish for most of them they would educate themselves on a topic before they chirp then form an opinion.   It is never wise to form an opinion on emotion.      I am glad to make note that Tony Schiavone is doing a professional wrestling podcast called What Happened When with Conrad Thompson Conrad was the CO host of The Wooo Nation which was a podcast hosted by: The Nature Boy Ric Flair.   I have grown to appreciate Tony Schiavone as:  a commentator and as: a human being.   Tony has been announcing his other passion Major League Baseball.   I am happy that Tony was able to get a job following another one of his passions.   Tony has always loved professional wrestling growing up as: a fan of Mid Atlantic.   What I have decided to do is discuss my favorite partners that Tony has worked.   Jim Ross they have both said that nether one of them were doing play by play and other doing color they were just calling wrestling and having fun.  I enjoyed Tony’s work with Bobby The Brain Heenan The Professor Mike Tenay was also a part of The Monday Nitro team.    What Happened When is a podcast where Conrad and Tony discuss a topic from Tony’s time in both World Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions who owned The National Wrestling Alliance also known as: NWA before Ted Turner brought the company and changed the name to World Championship Wrestling WCW.    Tony Schiavone is one of my top favorite announcers.   Conrad Thompson also does a podcast with Bruce Prichard called Something To Wrestling with which is also on The MLW Radio Network.   I am really happy that Anthem Sports and Entertainment the new owners of Impact Wrestling have rehired The Founder Of Impact Wrestling Jeff Jarrett Dirty Dutch Mantell and Bruce Prichard.    That is a pretty excellent group of legends.   I am really pulling for Impact Wrestling I think Anthem is off to a great start.   It will take some time for Anthem to get everything in place and patience on the fans part.     The only criticism I have and this is only speculation on my part Anthem should not sue their talent over their gimmicks. I guess I can understand copywriting a name but I do not think gimmicks can be copy written.   The reason why not just anyone can perform a gimmick because a gimmick that is successful is based on characteristics that talents want to use and this is key to being successful characteristics from their own personalities.   I do not even know what is true or not but that is why a gimmick or persona should not be tried to be copy written by a company.   A song that I think is worthy of note: silent partners by: Laura Brangian from her 1984 release self-control.   It is a great great song it is much in the same vain as: I wish we could be alone.   I may have made a mistake somewhere by writing in an earlier section that I wish we could be alone was released in 1984.   The song is available on Laura’s debut album Brangian and was released in 1982.   Laura was once asked  a  question by a fan about I wish we could alone she said she had to keep somethings  secret but it was obviously about someone very special and that she leaves a little part of herself on every song.   Comedian Don Rickles was before my time and I do mean that to be an insult but the influence that Don Rickles had on so many not comedians but entertainers in general cannot be denied.      He was known as: an insult comedic but he was a very sweet man and extremely influential.   I am glad that both ODB and Rebel are back in Impact Wrestling.   It looks as if ODB will challenge The Knockouts Champion RoseMary ODB refers to the title as: The Knocked Up Championship.   Rebel is my favorite Impact Wrestling Knockout.   She has been my favorite knockout since Rebel was Knox’s girlfriend and was a part of The Menagerie with Crazzy Steve.   The Menagerie was a faction that consisted of Knox Crazzy Steve and Rebel.   Knox’s family supposedly owned a circus that falls on hard times.   Knox relationship with his dad becomes strained because tornados have caused severe damage to where they live.   Knox makes up with his dad and with much help from Rebel The Menagerie is formed.      Rebel was also a member of The Doll House.   I love Rebel she has the greatest entrance in the game besides Melina and The Undertaker etc.      Rebel has that stair flexibility and looks great in a cowgirl hat.   Christy Hemme is another one of my favorite knockouts whatever she does I think it is going to be good.   She is the front woman of her own rock band Hemme.   Christy’s singing voice reminds me of Gwen Stefani when she was with No Doubt I do not know circa 1996.   The point is it was good.   The Cowboy James Storm has always been The Cowboy James Storm but he has had to reinvent himself in order to keep himself from becoming stale.   Which happens to everyone eventually.   Then they go away for a period of time.   After a period of time talents can comeback or go elsewhere.   The point is there is no time frame.   In the professional wrestling business wrestlers have to leave or stay on their own terms.   In order to do that and I could be wrong here but make themselves valuable.   Which is easier said than done.   The most important point being leaving or staying on their own terms.   The Cowboy James Storm reintroduced himself this past Thursday night on Impact On Pop as: The Cowboy James Storm.    He said in the same promo that for past fifteen years he has always been The Cowboy James Storm.   I did not see this match but this past Sunday The Undertaker had his final match at Wrestlemina 33 against Roman Reigns.   The Undertaker in my opinion is the most well diverse in terms of both his in ring style and his personas.   The Undertaker always understood that he had to keep reinventing himself.   I know that I am in minority but my favorite version of Undertaker is The American Bad Ass.   There were aspects of The Phenom that I loved in terms of his entrance.   That entrance is one that I regret not being there and experiencing live.   The Undertaker is arguably the greatest attraction in the history of the business up there with Andre The Giant.   I do not understand the comment by fans who say well we have seen that before in professional wrestling.   I do not understand that mindset because I do not think that there is much that fans have not seen in professional wrestling.   The problem with having that mindset that certain fans may have the talent will feel they have to do more high risk moves.    Matches will not make sense if all that talent is doing in matches are high spots many fans have become immune to high spots.   It just does not make any sense.   Professional wrestlers have to maximize their minutes. In my opinion if talent choose to use high spots they should save them for a big show or on a special occasion.   I am truly at a point well I have been at this point for a while but it just keeps getting worse.   There are a group of individuals who want or try to get prominent public figures fired.   I know social media is part of the problem.   I am not really sure what can be done.   I am just wondering what effect it has on indviuals psychology    Older individuals do not think about it.   But the younger generations that is all they will know.   I can keep talking about it which I have done in earlier sections.   Individuals can keep saying this prominent public figure needs to be fired.   That person needs to go it just will never end.   Once this starts it will result in unintended consequences which is already happening.   A word that is often used is backlash there is always backlash over comments that are made.    Anytime anyone expresses an opinion someone will not like it.   Again I do not know how to stop this because it seems like everyone has a platform of some kind to express their displeasure about everything!       I am not saying that individuals should not express their opinions but prominent public figures for the most part did not earn a position of influence just by luck.   They usually come from nothing and busted their tails to get where they are.   If this continues to happen where a group of individuals get their joy and self-worth by trying to get public figures and people of influence to fall eventually no one will be able to express any type of opinion.     For the people who are doing this I have one question for them do they not realize that once this starts it will eventually affect them?   Because society will just be conditioned to keep going after people and it will never end.   It is truly a shame.   Older generations for the most part probably do not see these problems but it will eventually affect time.   Which is not their fault.   I am not singling out older generations but if they are unaware of the influence social media has it will eventually affect them as well.   I am not really aware of what is happen on social media but I know that certain people are using it to get people they do not like in trouble.   What I find to be the most troubling I do not think they really care.     It seems like now all it takes is one complaint by people who feel empowered and corporations cave.  I want corporations to make money but if that is the only thing corporations are concerned that means they will cave everytime a sponsor does not approve of an opinion expressed by any public figure.   I think there needs to be a sense of loyalty.   This also is effecting what is happening on college campuses college students are being taught that if they disagree with a point of view speakers should not be allowed on campus.   Juliana Hateflied’s new album Pussycat was released on April 28^th 2017.   I have enjoyed what I have heard so far.   I am not really sure what I am going to do if I am going to listen to it on youtube or iTunes or by another way.   I do not like the idea of listening to music on youtube when the songs seem like they were leaked.   I do feel that musicans should be compensated for their work.   I will admit to discover many musicans that have become my favorite musicans on youtube but I still think they should be compensated in some way.     This interview can be found on: Performers the Musician Resource an Impossible Song: An Interview with Juliana Hatfield By Vincent Scarpa on April 27^th 2017.   I could have misunderstood Juliana in the interview where the interviewer said that he thought all of her music is political in someway.   I am not sure I could be wrong.   It does not bother me what Juliana’s politics are.   I appreciate her honest feelings that is why alternative rock connected with me.   Pussycat has been called an anti-Trump record but Juliana said she is trying to control that narrative.    She said it is a pro American and anti-hatred.   That seems like a universal message to me.  Also an anti-sexism record I hope that sexism is not rooted into our culture and maybe men as: Juliana questioned in an interview: Best Song Ever:”Spin The Bottle” By Juliana Hatfield.    An oral history of 1995’s classic teen crush.   By Estelle Tang April 28, 2017. Which is available on ELLE.com’s   Best Song Ever column   I do not know it could be human nature for me because truth be told I am not sure if I know what sexism is anymore.   I would love to guess that I make an effort to treat people fairly regardless of their gender.   I have been very confused   as of late.   I am not really sure what it is but I am trying to get where it does not become some sort of depression.   I have been here before so I am trying to just be aware of it.   In the past I have not.   I am trying to get through it by praying which all prayer is talking to God.   I do not know I think many people just make it to hard they make it more than it is.   I think being aware of my confusion it is easier for me to communicate with bullet points in my prayers.    If I was not aware of my confusion I would not be.   But that is one of the many reasons God is there.   We may not know what we are going through at any given time but God does.   When getting into complicated issues such these there will always be naysayers people who will say I do not poses anything that they do not have.   Which is true.   I know the need for the Holy Sprit the need is in everyone.   The reason Christans use the term born again it is used in the bible.   The Bible says individuals must be born again and that is a need that comes from the Holy Spirit.   The Holy Sprit changes an Indvidual’s heart inside and out the bible says they become a new creation.   If that comes off as: condescending or disingenuous to the naysayers that is tough.   People are skeptical and they should be.   No one is chosen the Holy Spirit is not excusive to one person.   I was irate and bothered when Nora O’Donnell interviewed: Bill O’reilly for his book Killing Jesus when he said he got his inspiration for writing the book from the Holy Spirit.   Nora O’Donnell questioned that Bill O’reilly was suggesting that he was the chosen one man that really bothers me.    All he was saying is where he got the inspiration for the book.   So I think people have to be careful.   But I think if people are being genuine it will connect with them.   This growing up it never ends the same mistakes come back again.   Lyrics: that make perfect sense from if I wanted trouble by: Minor Alps this band includes: Matthew Caws and Juliana Hatfield.   If I wanted trouble is available on Get There which was released in 2013.       Juliana also has performed an unplugged version of if I wanted trouble.   Back in the 1990s MTV had this philosophy in order to get back to the root of the music that if a musican did not unplug they were not real artists.   This probably started with 1980s hard rock when musicans and bands would release a power ballad that is how musicans and bands would sell a million records.   This unplugged trend did not seem to last that long I remember it for a short time.   For example:    I love Layla by Derek and The Dominos but when Eric Clapton performs Layla acoustically I do not really care for it.   It is not the same song.   I think when the post Nirvana wave happened it gave rise to the popularity of alternative rock for the first time ever.   When I was growing up the popularity of Grudge rock had reached it’s peek.    I was not even aware of Nirvana until I watched A VH1 Behind The Music on Weird Al Yankovic. There was a short blimp where alternative rock reached mainstream popularity.   A year after in 1997 Gangster Rap and boy bands started to become popular and the whole industry seemed to change.   There were still alternative musicans and bands but it was in smaller numbers.   Billy Squire is the most sampled musican in hip-hop history I am just trying to find a silver lining.   I do find it odd that when trends occur the whole industry changes.   What seems too happened is that once the industry changes musicans or bands will either try to capitalize on the change or they will go away for a while.   In most cases the musicans and bands that try to reinvent themselves fail.   I think there is a prominent reason for this if the music is genuine it will successful because the public realizes when musicans and bands are just trying to capitalize on trends.   I realize that musicians and bands have to do what they feel they have to do to survive but if it is not genuine it will not connect.   I recently purchased When I Grow Up which is a memoir by Juliana Hatfield.    I may if I am able take notes from the book when I find something worthy of note.   It could be one of the main aspects of Juliana in which I relate.       The main reason I decided to finally buy the book one of the reasons I love Juliana’s music.   But I hesitated for a long time because I knew it would be depressing because her music and interviews are kind of depressing.   But it connects with me.   The truth is that was what was so intriguing about her music to me in the first place was the darkness of it!    But I just had to prepare myself for it.      I read a comment on youtube that said reading the memoir would change your life.   It was not a comment directed at me obviously but I do feel that I have a connection with Juliana thorough her music.   I could not prepared myself for how depressing Juliana’s memoir would be.   But I found myself identifying with the memoir.   In regards to coming off as aloof or dealing with depression.   Thank you Juliana for your openness.   It had to be very difficult.   I know that Juliana does not feel comfortable with praise.    I am the same way.      But it gave me reassurance that I am not so alone.       The book that Juliana said she thinks inspired her book is Hallucinations Of Grandeur by: Henry Rollins.   How many times did The Undertaker reinvent himself?   About 10 or 15 but here is the key he was still relevant.   Technically Juliana Hateflied’s first solo album Hey Babe was released in 1991.   Which was a take-off on her first band The Blake Babies.   I mentioned in an earlier section that Hey Babe was released in 1999 but it was just reissued.  “I respect my audience enough to always present myself as a real flawed person telling her version of the truth, and not some windup doll that can be positioned in front of the camera any way the photographer wants.   I want a sensitive thoughtful audience who can see their own imperfect lives in my songs, so they don’t feel as alone as they think they are, and so I don’t have feel as alone as I think I am.   This is from Juliana Hateflied’s memoir:  When I Grow Up from Chapter 13 August 8 Columbus on page 96.   While reading the memoir I find myself connecting and identifying with Juliana.    I am concerned I am not sure if that is good or bad.   I am not being emo I do not appreciate such a derogatory term.   I will say this: I will keep on exploring.   Emo might be a term but it is a derogatory term to me and probably too many others.   Richard’s playlist by alternative rock band Sonic Youth are: drunken butterfly I love you: I love you Golden Blue and sweet shine.   Alanis Morrisette’s album Jagged Little Pill was produced by Russ Ballard who performed voices.   The Cranberries were considered an alternative rock band they were played on MTV’s Alternative Nation which was hosted by Kenndey.   I am sure The Cranberries were also played on MTV’s 120 Minutes which was hosted by: Matt Pinflied   etc.       120 Minutes was also dedicated to alternative rock.   Which included: My Sister from The Juliana Hateflied Three.   The song My Sister is featured on Become What You Are.   My Sister was Juliana’s most commercially successful single.   Which I learned in Juliana’s memoir: When I grow up.    Many of   Liz Phair’s videos were probably played on 120 Minutes.       Angelfish’s video for suffocate me was played only once at 2: O’clock in the morning by MTV on 120 Minutes.    The hosts were known as: VJS.   A term that is often used for alternative rock is indie rock or underground.      MTV is and always has been generational and a blank canvas that every new generation paints what they want on to it.   Milla Jovovich simply known as: Milla got rotation on MTV’s Alternative Nation with her video gentleman who fell.   It seems to me just by my research that Late Night With Conan O’Brien featured many alternative acts such as: Milla and The Juliana Hateflied Three.   Maybe during this era alternative rock was more mainstream then I realize.   Tori Amos seems like her music was featured more prominently at certain points.  X Motel Room[In My Bed was Juliana Hateflied’s first female empowerment anthem.   Which is featured in her memoir When I Grow Up chapter 14 The Story of My “Sister”.     Aimmee Mann has been asked in interviews: why her songs are so depressing?   Here is what I got from an interview:   Aimee’s songs are not depressing to her.   Also that happy songs are not always that happy.   That with happy songs there are no conflicts.   Aimmee feels that everyone has something valuable to offer even if their “something of an idiot they still have wisdom of some kind and she looks for moments of that in people”.   I think she was disusing her album The Forgotten Arm.   I read a review of Juliana Hateflied’s album called How To Walk Away where the reviewer compared the album to The Forgotten Arm.    When I hear people say I hope a person is happy.   I am really not sure what they mean if happiness is an action and not a feeling.   I envy happy people I am not sure if they really exist but if they do I truly envy them.   I need time for reflection I must have time to slow down.   For some people peace and quiet drives them crazy for me I need it!    There is an old country song by: Keith Whitley called when you say nothing at all.   Alison Krauss and The Union Station I would say probably made this song famous.   Sara Evans preforms my favorite version of when you say nothing at all.   I think for me most of the time in my life it is better to listen then speak.   Listening and really absorbing conversation is an invaluable skill much like music.   There is a huge difference in just listening to music and absorbing it and taking it all in and being truly transported.    People often exalt the people who make the music they love.   Juliana said in her memoir that the success of My Sister showed her that the feelings that she had were not so different and that she was not as alone as she thought.      I respect musicans that are who they are here are two surprising examples:  Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.   Cher would be another example: but maybe in a different way.   Now Katy Perry maybe perceived to be manufactured by many but she has changed or reinvent herself.   Reinvention to me is never about changing with the times.   Reinvention has to do with growth whether it is spiritual or emotional growth it has to be coming from within.   Alternative rock band Garbage lead singer Shairly Mansion pays tribute to Chrissy Hynde of The Pretenders with the lyrics we’re the talk of the town from special which is on Garbage’s second album Garbage 2.0.   Early albums from The Pretenders 1979 to 1980 etc for example there is much punk rock influence.   When I am referring to punk rock I am not talking about musicans that cannot sing or play their instruments very well that could be a perception that is out there.   I do not believe it had to do with bondage or anything like that it had to do with a group or many individuals who felt that they had to claw and climb and break through walls to have their voices heard.   Counterculture if you will.      I would put Joan Jett into this category.  Punk rock had nothing to do with riots and anarchy in some cases that is what it became.   To me that is not revolutionary all that is it destruction for the sake of destruction.   Whatever the point that is trying to be expressed that is never the direction to go.   A perception that is out there is that if a band was punk that meant the musicans were not really musicans they just had this need to be in a band but did not really have a knack for it.   I mentioned in an earlier section that The Juliana Hateflied Three released an LP entitled For The Birds.   It was released as an LP but For The Birds is a single on The Juliana Hateflied Three’s album Become What You Are.   The For The Birds LP features the single Hello My Name Is Baby.   The video for For The Birds is really a great video very memorable it was featured on MTV’s Alternative Nation.     Ben Stiller and Jeannie Garofalo gave rise to an alternative comic scene.    Ben Stiller also directed the video for spin the bottle by The Juliana Hateflied Three which is featured in the movie Reality Bites and on the soundtrack.   Dennis Prager wrote a book on happiness called Happiness Is A Serious Problem.   MR. Prager will not provide a definition on happiness he compares it to what a judge said about pornography I know it when I see it.   Happiness maybe like hate speech no one can define it.   Hate speech is in the eye of the beholder.   50% of college students say that they believe in free speech but not hate speech.   They are missing the whole point of free speech.   I have a problem figuring out what is narcissistic and what is not.   Narcissism is a huge problem in society.   People are constantly saying that my generation or this generation is the me generation.   I will say that this generation coming up is not the greatest generation.   I do not understand this generation.   All I really see is constantly being bombarded negativity.   I think I am barley a so called millennial.   I do not get it!   I do not want to be a narcissist.   It is one of the worst things anyone can be called.   Being called a racist is fine with me.   There are many disorders that people have.   I wonder if it has gotten worse because of social media and the internet?   I know it has exasperated the problem.   But I know society cannot fix this issue.   The only thing that can be done is parental supervision.   I think most of the people who use social media are probably adults.   But as time goes on younger children will get involved with this.   One of the main issues that I have and this is how I guess society has progressed I really try to stay away from the negativity on the internet but I do not think it can be escaped.   My dad told me and he is right unfortunately he said to me “if it bleeds it leads”.   I get it!   I will admit to being extremely sensitive when it comes to any kind of media.   One of the main issues I have with most media I try and respect people’s wishes and their privacy even if you are talking about public figures.   I understand that if individuals are public figures everything is somewhat fair game.   But public figures are also human beings.   I think most of the time people in general forget or do not care about their humanity.   Which is one of my main criticism of the media in the first place.   People hold celebrities up on a pedestal and forget that they are just human beings like everyone else I do it for musicans.   It is not a great thing but I do exalt them.   I just think about what it has been like for me when I first hear a song by a musican or a band the feeling and emotions that I have the connect that is why I exalt them.   I am glad for me this is not my generation.   But I do have an extreme concern for the next generation coming up.   The main concern that I have because the next generation is growing up with all this new technology around them that means and I could be wrong that they will use social media and other different forums of commutation.   One of the dangers with this new technologies people will say things to anyone that they would not say in person in other words they hide behind their keyboards.   Younger people who use this technology will not be able to comprehend what is occurring or they will make grave mistakes with the power they have.   I guess there is an age restriction for using this technology so that is something positive but I see younger and younger children posting videos of some kind.   I am just trust truly concerned.   When I am exposed to the negativity I see on the internet it has an effect on me.   It could be that all of this negativity is a result of where society is to some extend because that is what gets the clicks or what makes the headlines I guess.   But bigger picture I have been asked why am I such an optimist?   The truth is I am not really I feel I do not have much of a choice no one else really does either if they are going to continue living.   The song Beautiful Creature is featured on The Juliana Hateflied Three’s album Whatever My Love which is available on vinyl.   I got confused because Juliana released an album in 2000 called Beautiful Creature I just figured the single Beautiful Creature would have been on the album Beautiful Creature which is not the case.   I do not see the song Beautiful Creature listed on the album Whatever My Love but on youtube where I discovered the song the information indicates that Beautiful Creature is on the album Beautiful Creature so if I find in additional information I will discuss it.   It is an interesting topic for people who are not music lovers or most probably are not that picky when it comes to how they consume music well I am.   When I listen to music on a boom box or even a radio I can hear stuff that I have never heard before.   Youtube is an excellent tool to discover or rediscover music.   But I do not think you are really getting the whole experience by just listening or seeing a musican or band on YouTube.   For example:   I can really hear the base of a song on a boom box or even I-Heart Radio.   I can understand why some musicans and bands do not like youtube because they do not get paid or it is footage from a concert.   I do not understand how someone can enjoy a concert while recording on their phone but that is just me.   I got to absorb it and take it all in.   In conclusion human beings are born narcissistic and if it is not beaten out of us at an early age it will stay there for the rest of our lives.   Narcissism is a huge issue.   I am going to probably make some Talking Heads fans mad but before I do that I will say I am a huge fan of The Talking Heads.   The Talking Heads in my opinion do not get the recognition that they deserve.   My bionic eyes from The Indie Queen Liz Phair is very reminiscent of The Talking Heads.   If one of my favorite musicans or bands come to town for a concert I hope to go.   One of the main reasons there may not be a next time.   I do not think I would enjoy a concert because I probably would not be able to hear it or it will be too loud.    But there is something special about sharing an experience with random strangers absorbing and feeding over the positive energy that the performer is giving away to the audience.   The most important aspect to all of this do not take these musicans and bands for granted!   I am some sort of a fanatic.   When I was growing up discovering this stuff it was for me like discovering a new world.   I have heard the phrase once a drummer always a drummer.   Again do not take these people granted because what will happen is one day you will regret it.   In most cases it will be a musican or a band that no one in your family or even your friends will have heard of but take the chance!   I guess I am being narcisstic again do not let that thought get into your mind because all that thought is it is a doubt to try and make you feel guilty.   Here is my thinking about this most people do not get a chance to do things that they would like to do.   So when the opportunity presents itself take it there may not be a second opportunity.   I am not saying do not care about others feelings and opinions but do not deny yourself any pleasure especially when there may not be a next time!   God bless the American housewives.   It is a great song by the all-female country pop group SheDasiey.   I am a rocker at heart but I am also from Tennessee and from the south.   I will say it again God bless the American housewives.   God bless The American housewives is a take-off on the television series Desperate Housewives.   Juliana Hateflied has a song on her album Beautiful Creature and a chapter in her excellent memoir called Cool Rock Boys now people probably think that being a Cool Rock Boy would be cool but it is not.   I would probably think a Cool Rock Girl would be a great thing.   But Cool Rock Boys for Juliana are immature and are a mess.   But and I could be wrong this is my own interpretation Juliana says she is in love with the idea of the eternal boy.   I guess it sounds cool until I delve into the meaning then it is not so cool.   I will try not to take these people for granted I can’t guarantee anything life gets in the way sometimes.    I tend to forget about certain musicans and a couple years go by and I think what happen to that musican?   That is the main reason why musicans struggle selling new music because fans have to be aware of it.   It is tough because fans now have to seek out new music from their favorite musicans.   Sonjay Dutt finally after a 14 year journey became The X-Division Champion on the Thursday June 15^th 2017 edition of Impact On Pop by defending Low-KI with a splash from the top in his hometown of India.   In The past Sonjay has been called The Greatest X-Division Wrestler to never hold the title well not anymore!   Congregations Sonjay good things happen to those who wait!   I am really enjoying Impact right now with the return of Joseph Park.   Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner will return to the 15 year anniversary event Slammiversary LIVE Sunday July 2^nd 2017 on Pay-Per-View!    One of my favorite people Don West will return to the announce desk to call Slammiversary!   Don is an Impact Original dating back 15 years ago.   If I did need another reason to order the Pay-Per-View I do now!   In my book Don West is great!   Juliana Hateflied released a gorgeous song called candy wrappers from her album There Is Always Another Girl.   Well the song is not gorgeous in the traditional sense of the word it is extremely dark and I agree with Aimee Mann when she said that so called happy songs are not  always so happy.   When she has been asked by people why her songs are so depressing.   I am not really familiar with Juliana’s album There’s Always Another Girl but I love the darkness of it and it is loveable as well in some kind of way.   I know by reading her memoir she is not comfortable with idol worship by her fans but when I call her an Alternative Rock Goddess I am giving Juliana her props in my own special way.   I would not want her to feel uncomfortable.   I just dig the flannel T-shirts and the dark neckless with camouflage boots.      The aspect that I admire most about Juliana is she is who she is.   Juliana does not change her image based on what she thinks her fans want her to be.   In others words she is authentic maybe she does not smile enough for some people’s taste that is what I admire most about her.   I really do not understand Gene Simmons mindset this guy is threating to copy write the rock devil horns.   The   horns that are synonymous with hard rock and heavy metal music.    Just because MR. Simmons used it on the cover of the Kiss album Love Gun does not make it so.     Ronnie James Dio never wanted credit for the symbol he never claimed to have invented the horns.   Ronnie was just satisfied that fans used the symbol.   I do not get it just be content that the symbol has had such longevity.   But again I have to remind myself that I am a just a fan.   Meredith Brooks once said in an interview that she congratulates people who have a nervous breakdown.   The reason why in her words you need breakdown for breakthrough and that she does not think that we are ever willing to change because of our human nature until it gets so bad that we have to breakdown for breakthrough for that change.   Meredith said in the same interview with The Associated Press that she knows there have been times in her life where she has not cared at all and been numb.   When she sings the lyrics from her #1 hit song bitch that I’m numb I’m revived you can’t say that I am not alive she means it!   I can’t convince anyone in my family of this so I have stopped trying.   Nina Persson who is the front woman of the Swedish alternative rock band The Cardigans is one of my favorite musicans.  The Cardigans are probably best known for their 1990s hit single lovefool which I have to admit is not one of my favorites.   It has to be a positive and a detriment for Nina because she is extremely hot but also is a very well-rounded musican.   One of my favorite ballads from The Cardigans is called for what it’s worth which is a beautiful written song with a harmonica thrown in there.   I am a sucker for the harmonica.   My all-time favorite Cardigans song is my favorite game from their album Grand Turismo.   Nina released her first solo album called Animal Heart in 2014.   I did not know what to expect but it is great.      I will admit that Nina has an intriguing and sexy singing voice which adds to the enjoyment but that should not take away from The Cardigans or Nina Persson’s talent.   I think if it does for some people they are missing out.   I have not heard of many musicans who stage drive during concerts Jeff Buckley and Iggy Pop come to mind immediately.    Iggy would have the audience sort of pass him around and he would have his arms out like he was Moses.   Jeff Buckley drove off the stage at a concert one night in Boston and while he was sort of doing his thing a fan stole his wallet.   Jeff just trusted his fans and had such a bound with them that he knew that the audience would not let him go.   I really admire that sprit of living in the moment.   I have seen footage of Joan Jett in Iraqi or Afghanistan where she sort of does a back reverse dive and the troops in audience sort of pass her around.   I guess there are some benefits to stage driving.   I would think all I would want to do is make the audience feel good and also to have them feed off the energy that the performer is giving to them.   I respect and appreciate Dave Grohl but there are other rock acts other than Dave Grohl.   Rival Sons is a great hard rock they remind of a 1970s throwback musican or band in terms of their sound.   The Pretty Reckless is an excellent hard rock band.   Halestorm is another band that I do not think gets enough play.   Dorothy I am not sure if they are really a new band but they are great.   The point is there are other rock musicans and bands other than Dave Grohl.   Every time there is an award show and they need to fill a category for rock the people involved always say Dave Grohl they do not give it a second thought.   It is not Dave’s fault I like Dave and because he is so prominent he has been able to play with many of his heroes such as: Tony Iommi who was the guitarist for Black Sabbath and Joan Jett etc.   Joan has been a huge influence on me.      Dave Grohl plays the drums on any weather from Joan Jett and The Blackhearts album Unvarnished.   I am  not trying to knock Dave Grohl Eddie Trunk said that in all the years he worked at VH1 Classic everytime he was at a meeting the name Dave Grohl came up at least 15 times during a conversation.   Eddie said that executives act as if there is no one else in the world of rock besides Dave Grohl and that is one of the many reasons the rock industry is struggling.   Laura Brangian did well this to me is only one of her many great songs entitled reverse psychology this song is reminiscent of Paula Abdul in terms of the dance vibe.   Reverse psychology is on Laura self-titled album Laura Branigan.   Laura was extremely playful during interviews I think because she was an introvert music was an outlet for her to try and overcome some of that.   Ted Nugent is probably best known for his political views and I admire people who speak their version of the truth in some cases I may not agree but I respect it.   An example: on the other side one of my favorite alternative rockers Juliana Hateflied I respect that she is open and honest about her political views and about life in general.   But Uncle Ted is a fine picker a picker is a blues term that is used to describe a guitar player.   Uncle Ted says that he is just a guitar player and if the rest of the world does not like it they have country western to rely on.   Ted does refer to himself as: Uncle Ted and also refers to himself in the third person as: Uncle Ted.   If you can’t lick lick em is an album and song that I would put up there as one of my favorites.   Free for all is one that I would put on my list.   The last one on my list when it comes to both album and song from Uncle Ted Little miss dangerous.   All of these albums on my list have crisp guitar riffs and really heavy drum beats.   I hope that I have made it obvious that I really do not care what a person’s religious or political views are expect if they are trying to force their beliefs on to others other than that  I do not care.   I guess that is part of my artistic side.     People have asked me how you get someone who is not a Christan to maybe become a Christan I say lead by example and maybe they will notice something different about you.   That all comes from in my opinion from The Holy Spirit.   That does not mean that you change and become condescending and speak Christianizes.   Some Christans get into this mindset of I have to save this person’s soul.   That to me is the wrong way to go about it.   Just act like you normally would act and they will notice that there is something different about that person and maybe The Holy Sprit will work inside of them and help them make that choose.   No one can make anyone confuses and accept Jesus Christ has their Lord and savior ultimately that is a personal decision.   But I do believe that human beings were made to help others make the decision to make Jesus Christ their lord and savior but that does not mean a person has to be conceding about it.   It should always be done with the intent of helping others.   During the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards Fiona Apple won for Best New Artist.   A lot has been made of this speech and I do not really know why.   I think all Fiona was expressing is do not take your advice from them and do not look at them as role models.   In other words be yourself was the message I think Fiona was trying convey.   Fiona did say in her acceptance speech at least that the audience was cool.   Again in 1999 people made a big deal about the name of her album instead of whether it was good or not.   I do not get it.   I think people were missing out by just complaining.   I am a huge fan of Fiona Apple she is very talented.   Fiona was a part of that alternative rock mix in the late 1990s.   In the film True Lies where Jamie Lee Curtis is during her thing the song that is played in the background is called alone in the dark by John Hitait.   I think alone in the dark is a prime example of why I refer to John as: The Real Deal.   John Hitait is a cross between country rock with a mixture of the blues.   I think True Lies is one of Bill Paxton’s best roles True Lies and Twister are the two at least for me.    There is also Aliens etc.     I love Bill Paxton playing the sleazy con man/used car salesman.   There are so many wonderful lines that MR. Paxton uses in the film especially during the test car riding scene.   Bill said that he loved con men in movies in his words they are as American as Apple-pie.   Tom Arnold is extremely funny in the movie as well.   I also enjoyed Tom Arnold on The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Net.   I am not even really a sports fanatic but I did love the show.   I find it ironic how many times Donald Trump was a guest on the program.   Now President Trump was loved by the media but the second he ran for President it was game on.   I just it find ironic that’s all!   Jillian Barberie Carmen Electra and Pamela Anderson were frequent guests as well on Best Damn.   I think the media is a huge problem in this country.   The reason I admired Andrew Breitbart so much pretty much his objective was to destroy the mainstream media in its current form Andrew did not mind that the mainstream was biased and colluded with each other it was that they lied about it.   I think that is what drives most people crazy about the media.   Andrew’s goal was to try and make the media more fair and to admit that they have a bias.   His goal was to make the media much like in Britain and The United Kingdom newspapers they admit that they have bias in other words readers know what they are getting.   I agree with that goal I despise the media for a different reason I do not know why everything has to be out there for the public to see.   There needs to be some level of decency out there and some privacy.   There are just many things the public does not need to know.   Knowing all of this stuff I do not think by just my using my own God given common sense it can’t be good for us  psychologically to be exposed to all of the everything is out there about everything all of the time.   I want to respect other human beings and to respect their humanity.     Andrew Breitbart also hated bullies he hated people who tried to immediate those with whom they disagreed and to Andrew’s credit he took on the bullies.   I do not understand let’s say people who want to suppress speech I think being exposed and seeking out different points of view causes emotional growth.   Emotional growth is not discussed enough but it is extremely important.   No one can measure emotional growth to put it another way when people lose weight people wonder how they did it but no one can measure emotional growth.   One of the points I am trying to make being exposed to different points of view is a good thing.   The problem is there are some people and they know who they are they have to be right.   There are people who will do anything to win an argument.   There is nothing good about that.   What it turns into most of the time is name calling.    Not everyone thinks like you but being exposed to different points of view may help people grow emotionally and spiritually.   I think if you are growing person you should seek out voices and opinions that you may agree or disagree.   There is not much growth in hearing the same opinions over and over again.   There is growth in seeking out opinions and points of view that you have not heard.   There may be opinions that change your mind or at least get you to think in a different way.   One of the problems especially on college campuses college students are being taught that if they disagree with an opinion or point of view that they are personally being attacked.   Until that mindset changes I do not know what can be done.   Many adults are the same exact way.   Adults are wondering what is going on not recognizing that they are part of the problem.   I learned this the hard way that the majority of people do not care how you feel they care how you act.   Which I have to admit sucks!   But that is unfortunately how life is.   But college students are being taught the exact opposite that their feelings are the only thing that matters and they must be protected at all times.     In the song my sister by: The Juliana Hateflied Three    Juliana does not have a sister some of the lyrics are about Juliana she is signing about some of her own insecurities.   This factitious sister that Juliana has construed in the story is someone she feels she can not measure up.   When Juliana sings she’s built a wall around her that nobody can climb that is what she is referring.   When Juliana signs the lyrics she would have been the one who took me to my first all-ages show Juliana is paying tribute to a friend that she had when she was growing up that in her own words treated her better than a sister.      When I said in an earlier part of this section that when I was growing up discovering music was like discovering a new world in that respect that is one of the many aspects of Juliana’s music I can relate.   The success of my sister I think surprised Juliana but it gave her hope that she was not as alone as she thought.   Become What You Are and The For The Birds EP by The Juliana Hateflied Three have to be essential albums for me. After reading Juliana’s memoir I discovered that Juliana Hateflied and Aimmee Mann are truly both creatures of the night.      I love a lot of MS. Hateflied’s so called harder stuff which can found on some of Juliana’s LPs and EPs.   Examples:   nobles oblige and my protégé from one of Juliana’s LPs or it may been an EP   I am not quite sure that is entitled Total System Failure.  [Juliana’s Pony}: This EP has been compared to Chrissy Hynde.   I would hope that would make Juliana’s smile!     In the business of radio they call many of these songs deep cuts or deep tracks.   I found  someone is a song that was made famous by Cher but and I like both versions but I think I prefer Laura Brangian’s  version of I found someone which can be found on Laura’s album Hold Me.    I found someone was written by Michael Bolton.   I have to give the dude his props he is a craftsman when it comes to sure songwriting.   While I am on this role of giving compliments this probably the one that is surprises me the most Sonny Bono wrote for Cher bang bang my baby shot me down for her.   This song is probably featured on one of Cher’s early albums from the late 1960s.   I give Sonny Bono a lot of grief but in this case he gets my props.   Bang bang my baby shot me down was probably made famous by Nancy Sinatra which is featured on one of the Kill Bill soundtracks.   Which is where I discovered the song.   If Cher was ever to do a duet with anyone I prefer Greg Allman.   I am not sure especially people who are my age and who are maybe a little younger realize what a pioneer Greg Allman and maybe more specifically The Allman Brothers were in brining country rock into the mainstream The Eagles are in that category as well.     But for someone like me who has such an appreciation for this music it is an extremely important distinction.   Greg Allman left an extremely influential legacy when it comes to country rock.   This brings up for me another extremely important point do not take these musicans for granted because one day you will regret it!      Robin Beck recorded a version of tears in the rain for her debut album Trouble Or Nothing.   Cher recorded a version of save all your tears Robin Beck also recorded a version of save all your tears while I like both version I prefer Robin Beck’s version of save all your tears.     Robin Beck and her husband James Christan of the 1980s hard rock band House Of Lords are two of my favorite musicans.   Speaking of pioneers but in a completely different genre of electronic dance music or EDM Jade Starling and Pretty Poison do not get enough play in my opinion.     I do not really keep up with popular music of today but it seems to me that this is a great time for dance music Lady Gaga etc.    Jade Starling has released some excellent electronic dance music or EDM in recent years that I have to admit is wonderful.   I am not really much of fan of much of this music but I really love and enjoy much of Jade’s music.   I like some of Lady Gaga’s music the reason she took her sound and style in a completely different direction an example: diamond heart from her album Joanne.      This album is really a nice work of art.      Lady Gaga obviously is a hybrid when it comes to her musical style.    Which means that she was influenced by many different musicans and musical styles.   I love what her message seems to be at least for me is a message of love.   That is only one of the unique aspects of music it is a universal language.   Anytime there is a moment of just making follow human beings feel better or feel not so alone or whatever emotion a musican or any other artist is trying to get a person to feel it is a positive thing.   Even sadness I realize no one wants to be sad or depressed but it is part of life the sooner everyone accepts that this is part of human nature and one of the unfortunate aspects of life I think the more connected we will be as human beings.   Music is just one way for that connection.   I think in Lady Gaga’s small way but believe me it is not small for those fans that feel connected to her through her music that maybe the only glimmer of hope that they have especially when you are growing up and you do not have prospective.   That connection maybe at a certain point one of the important connections a young person or anyone can have I am just using young people as an example but anyone at any time can have that connection and it may only happen for some people through music.   I admire Lady Gaga’s objective which to me seems to me is all about trying to bring people together through her music.   I am not sure The Terminator was wrong in the movie Terminator 2 Judgment Day when John Connor asks The Terminator we’re not going to make it are we?   The Terminator says “it is in your nature to destroy yourselves.”   I think there is more wisdom in that statement then I care to admit.   I think there are many individuals who would like for us to come together as a country but unfortunaly having a country that is divided in so many ways is how individuals keep their power.   I enjoy the cure it is beautifully written and is a song from Lady Gaga’s album Joanie.      In this world in which there are a minority at least I choose to believe it is a minority of individuals who make a decision to just tear everyone and everything down I admit that there was a time when I used social media where I became confused and started to believe that what I saw was how everyone behaved.   The main reason I was beginning to feel this way I was exposed to it everytime I used social media.   It is like all of the trash headlines from the mainstream media once you go down that rabbit hole it gets harder to come back to reality.   I made a decision to not live my life that way.   The reason is simple I only have so much time and energy and human beings are only on the planet for only a number of hours when I boil it down.   That brings me to an important point when I hear people say I’ll sleep when I’m dead I think how do you know you will be able to sleep when you’re dead?    The point is any opportunity you have to get some rest take it!    Robin Beck is a great singer and songwriter there are many great songs and albums that Robin has done.   She recorded a version of a song called a prayer for Jane which is an intense and a heartfelt version of a prayer for Jane.   A prayer for Jane is available on Robin’s album Can’t Get Off.   Robin Beck is a musician that I think if you have an appreciation for 1980s hard rock or are a music fan in general I think Robin Beck is someone you should at least be familiar.   Robin Beck’s husband was the front man of the 1980s hard rock band House Of Lords and he has also made some great solo albums and written some excellent songs.   James is also a great record producer.   Juliana Hateflied in her memoir is constantly referring to herself as a bitch or being a bitch.   She says at one point in the memoir that when she listens to her records she wonders who the stranger she is listening and that she does not recognize who this person is.    It is almost as if Juliana feels that the best qualities of her personality are left on her songs and never seen again.   I am sure if not most artists feel that way Bruce Springsteen for example seems to feel that way.   Just watch Bruce’s VH1’s Storytellers or most of his songs for example.   Many artists seems to be extremely hard on themselves.    When it comes to performances but I am sure the fans the people who they admire and have a connection do not care or notice.   Well that’s not true because of social media everybody can be really brave.   Here is the thing about those folks they are probably not even fans so if you have a following you probably have to sort through a lot of bull shit to get to the real fans.   That is what matters but importunely that does not seem to be at least to me what is seen on the majority of social media which is unfortunate.   Juliana Hateflied seems to be really hard on herself I am not sure if that has to do with being artist but I’m sure that is part of it.   I think maybe that is what some people are attracted to art.   It is why I watch maybe only a handful of movies and listen to the same songs and albums because there is a comfort there it is something familiar.   That is why human beings need art in their lives for comfort joy etc.    It is why hobbies and just having a passion is so important.   Juliana Hateflied has written some dark angry songs but she has also written some of the most beautiful songs about loneliness alienation and just being compassionate towards follow human beings.    An example: at least for me my baby from Juliana’s album How to Walk Away.   No one who wrote a song with such a level of emotion and just love can be that bad of a person.   This is just my own interruption.   Juliana seems to just put every emotion that she has into this song.   It is quite something.   Doro Pesch has a song called don’t you mistake it for love it is wonderful the darkness and heaviness of don’t you mistake it for love make it all worth it.   It may be considered a deep cut but it is really hard and heavy.   I got the term stay hard stay heavy from Doro Pesch.   I also got the metal horns or devil horns from Doro Pesch.   I am glad that Doro and Lemmy never tried to copy write the term stay hard stay heavy.   They are probably just satisfied that I am just using it.   Doro sings a version of the Ronnie James Dio classic the chains are on beautifully. I know referring to a hard rock song as beautiful is odd but Doro just makes this song her own and it is gorgeous.   I have heard so many different versions of the same stories about Ronnie James Dio from so many different people about how giving Ronnie was with his time.   Ronnie was always about giving people their moment.   Some people who have some level of success sort of loose touch with fans or feel they do not have time for them I think they are hurting themselves by doing that.    I know certain fans can be impulsive to meet people they admire or they can also be downright rude but I think giving people their moment in Dio’s words is extremely important because you are acknowledging back to the fans you mean something to me!      The artist will probably never remember meeting all of the people they meet but the fans will remember it for the rest of their lives!     I always think about the gesture of giving a person their moment.   It can probably be overwhelming at times because most artists don’t want to disappoint their fans but here is the thing to remember you are not going to please everyone it can’t be done.   Juliana Hateflied says in her memoir that she knows that there are times where she has disappointed fans because she was not what they expected her to be.   But she respects her audience enough to present herself as who she is.   I read a review of the memoir that said it does not seem like Juliana likes to spend time with her fans.   I have not gotten that at all from reading the memoir I think she does appreciate her fans I think Juliana may not know how to express her appreciation and that may come off as not caring or not wanting to be somewhere.   Or just aloof.     I will never understand the quest or pursuit of fame.   Doro Pesch released another classic from the album Machine 2 Machine called are they coming for me?   This is the same album that has don’t you mistake it for love on it.    I say it is another excellent work from The Metal Queen Of The World!    My favorite Pat Benatar song is called shadows of the night from her album Get Nervous.   I have always been a huge fan of Pat Benatar.   I also love the song all fried up from her album Wide Awake In Dreamland.   I have alright mentioned treat me right and the album Crimes Of Passion.   I have used Crimes Of Passion for examples in terms of sound for many different musicians that I have discussed.   For Wayne’s World I hope those characters are somewhat the way I am or the approach I have to life.   No I am not kidding!   I love rock’n roll and I try to be pretty laid back.   But I am sure the people who know me do not think so but I can dream.   I am a work in progress just like anybody else.   I do not hold myself to that of high of a standard.    One of the characters from Wayne’s World or The Dude from Lebowski either one I will take it.   I keep hearing that The Dude was lazy in The Big Lebowski well he was in some kind of way.   But he did care about other people maybe to a fault.   The Dude is someone who if you do not bother him he will not bother you.   The Dude is someone who is just content even if what he has accomplished is very little.   But I think it would be good for some of us to just take that advice.   Just be content every day you wake and stay the hell away from the mainstream media and social media.   I wish more people could just be content with accomplishing very little.   Some people have this I have to accomplish this and then it is on to the next thing.   But if you are living your life that way there is no one way you can have any level of satisfaction.   There can’t be any.     Human beings are the only animals who are aware of their own mortality they know they are going to die.   But here is some wonderful advice: Life is going to happen whether you want it to or not.   It is comforting to me to know that I am not really in control in the big scheme of life so I say just take life as it comes and do not worry about the rest.   The bad times in life are going to happen whether you want them or not so in  the meantime try and have a little fun!   One of my favorite Heart songs is called never.   I love the heaviness of this song in terms of the tempo and base.   Ann and Nancy Willison put their sweetness and sexiness into this song as well.   Nancy Willison is a hell of a guitar player!     Ann and Nancy Willison are magic every time they play together.   I hope they do play together again!      Even with Wynona Judd they are great together.   Wynona said that she had a dream that she was the third Willison sister.   Dune is a non-album track from Juliana Hateflied.   I love the darkness of this song.   I read somewhere that said in Dune Juliana’s got the blues.   I am not sure about that.   But the darkness and heaviness of the guitar riff is what I love about this non album track.   It seems to me just as a fan of MS. Hateflied that she can do almost anything musically.   Juliana performed a great acoustic version of the ultra-feminist classic you don’t own me.   I have a theory on why I love rock’n roll from Joan Jett and The Blackhearts was such a big hit particularly with the ladies.   The song is about a young woman who notices a guy standing next to a record machine who must be about 17 years old.   He smiles at her and she asks the guy if she can take him home with her so they can be alone and have sex?    It is about a young girl who violently pursues this guy and wants him as her own.   In the song she will stop at nothing until this dude becomes her baby!    Or as Suzi Quatro:  would put it cans the can! That is why I love rock’n roll was such a big hit for Joan Jett and The Blackhearts it is a female empowerment anthem!   But it was not so much a hit for the British rock band The Arrows who wrote and first recorded it.      I love rock’n roll is a prime example to me of the cruse of being known for one hit.   But there is much better Joan Jett and The Blackheart songs and albums out there!  For example: The Runaways even MS. Jett’s stuff with Miley Cyrus is worth at least checking out.   I thought when Joan Jett referred to Miley as a rocker at heart during Joan Jett and The Blackhearts 2015 Rock’n Roll Hall Of Fame Induction afterword speech I think that was MS. Jett’s way of giving Miley her props and showed at a lot of class and humility on her part.      Joan Jett’s stuff with Dave Grohl is pretty good as well.   Juliana Hateflied wrote a great song called just lust what makes this song unique and wonderful at the same time Juliana sounds tired when she recorded it.   Which makes it sound more authentic.   I mean that in the most positive way possible.   Just lust is on Juliana’s album How To Walk Away.   There is nothing wrong with a man crying it may make Charles Barkley uncomfortable but there is nothing wrong with it.   Life happens and everyone has to deal with loss and sadness.   There is nothing wrong with it.   Pat Benatar would say you can cry tough in the night.   I am not talking about crying at the drop of a hat.   I am talking about real sadness.   Don Dokken once said in an interview: that life is not an up perfect thing.   But people come to concerts and think I wish I had that guy life.    It is not reality even if you have the fame and the money and the women we are all human and sometimes we all wake up moppy.   Which does not make anyone a bad person it makes us all human.   If a girlfriend cannot take you’re crying break up with her.   Ask her I thought you want the whole package?   Guys seem to need a lot of mothering at least some guys do just know that going in rock on!   I saw something where someone made a comment that said that Kim Gordon who is one of the lead singers of the influential alternative rock Sonic Youth that Kim Gordon would sing you a lullaby and then shoot up your house with a machine gun and set your house on fire and laugh about it.   I think that pretty much sums it up about Kim Gordon.  She is intense interring and can sing a sweet lullaby to get what she wants.   Sonic Youth has always been one of one of my favorite alternative rock bands.   Sonic Youth has been called one of the most influential bands in history by some so called music experts.   I think one of the reasons for this Sonic Youth has such a unique and interring sound.   There really is not a musician or band that I can compare the sound of Sonic Youth.   They really are a band that has their own sound and they own it!   I can give many different examples but the song I think of is called Dude Ranch Nurse from their album Sonic Nurse.   I can understand why some would not like Sonic Youth because they have such a different sound. They are an acquired taste.     That is one reasons it is called alternative rock it is a choice.   I think Tori Amos summed it up best when she said her music is like anchovies.   Tori summed it up perfectly.       For the record I love Shairly Manson’s lullabies I love Tori Amos’s lullabies and Belly singer Tanya Donnelly’s lullabies.   It is that quit intensity or lull in which I have discussed.      Kim Gordon is also very much in favor of the Pussy Riots which is a term that is used in Russia to describe a female uprising in Russia.   I am not making up the term “Pussy Riots” that is what Vladimir Putin refers to a female uprising as.   I found a live performance on youtube of Sonic Youth with Kim Gordon on vocals of a song called Sonic Nurse from their album of the same name on The Late Late Show with Greg Killborn.   The reason Sonic Youth is so important their sound is just so different and Sonic Youth is an alternative rock band but they first got together back in 1981.   So this was before Nirvana and the post Nirvana wave that happened in the late 1990s.   Which gave rise to the popularity of alternative rock which only lasted for a short blimp.   Well it was around in the 1980s and the early 1990s but alternative rock has never been in the mainstream like it was in the late 1990s and lot of that happened because of the exposure by MTV.   Because very few radio stations wanted to take a chance.   Because this music did not appeal to the mainstream corporations were hesitant to play and promote a lot of alternative rock.   That is why so many alternative rock acts were on MTV one day and the next they were gone.   Sonic Youth was able to whether that storm.   I think because Sonic Youth has always had such a different approach to their music even though they were classified has an alternative rock they were never hurt like many other alternative acts were.   I think maybe Radiohead and Sonic Youth were always okay.   I think because Radiohead is a band that owns their own content that is why they were always going to survive.   I think because Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon’s vocals and guitar playing style is so unique at first listen a causal listener probably thinks what is this?   But the more I stick with Sonic Youth the more I grow to appreciate them.   Sonic Youth probably influenced more musicans and band then I realize.   I am probably I am in the Aimmee Mann camp I think there is some truth in that happy songs do not create the best the music.    Because music allows the musicians or band to create their own personas and to express emotions that otherwise society would shun them much like professional wrestling.   It is not right but that is how most people are.   Because society teaches that every other emotion that human beings have expect happiness is unacceptable.      Music allows for that freedom that otherwise individuals come off as aloof.    I know a little bit from my own experience unfortunately.   I am not proud of it.     I was listening to an interview with Kim Gordon where she said that without her musical persona she may otherwise come off as aloof.   It is wonderful to know that I am not alone!      But I am a work in progress and I am always trying to work on myself.   I am always willing to try and evolve which I think can only be a good thing.   My being self-aware can only be a positive thing because if I am not evolving I am dying.   That goes for everybody on some level.   Juliana Hateflied wrote a beautiful and heartfelt ballad called let’s go home from Juliana’s album Peace and Love.   I think this whole album is done acoustically.  Juliana sings this song with such conviction and it seems like in this song Juliana is seeking forgiveness.   I can really hear the sadness in Juliana’s voice it is so sweet.     The first song I ever heard from Juliana Hateflied was I picked you.    I am probably considered one of Juliana’s newer fans but at least I finally discover her music through the power of youtube.   I downloaded it on my Kindle.   Joan Jett has a punk rock song called gotcha this song was not released on an album it was recorded for a movie with Linda Fiorentino.   I need more cowbell!   Gotcha is a song that has the unappreciated cowbell in it.      Gotcha from Joan Jett reminds me of a song by the alternative rock band from the 1980s called X.   Fiona Apple performs a haunted and gorgeous and bizarre version of I want you which was originally written and performed by Elvis Costello.   MR. Costello accompanies on guitar with Fiona Apple on vocals.    I have listened to both versions of the song I prefer Fiona’s version of the song.   She is just so wackily talented.   In Fiona Apple’s version of I want you it starts off so sweetly and then it just becomes a completely different song.   It starts off so sweetly lovingly and towards the end of the song she becomes extremely angry.   Elvis Costello adds a little too it with his blues sounding guitar.   Fiona Apple is so good she has a sound that is sort of a strange musical style that I will admit that it is not for everyone but once you are addicted to Fiona Apple’s sound and I am for one am addicted.    To put it another way Fiona Apple has pampered me.    Another song that I think is worthy of note at least for me is called on the bound from Fiona’s album that people made such a big fuss about the title of her album When The Pawn…    Or maybe paper bag which is also from Fiona’s album The Pawn.... I like that Fiona Apple does things on her terms.  One of the reasons I am attracted to Fiona Apple’s music is the darkness of it.      I hope that listening and finding so much different music has mellowed me out a lot.   Some people meditate I pray and read The Bible and listen to a ton of music I also watch great professional wrestling matches as well.    I am really trying to make some kind of an effort for me to mellow out and be laid back.   People who do not really know me will tell me how easy going I am.   But sometimes I get the sense that the people that I am really close are scared of me well they are scared of offending me.     I will admit to having strong opinions I think because I am passionate about my opinions the people who are the closest to me think I am mad at them like they do not have a right to disagree with me or to have their own differing opinion.   It is not the vibe I want to give off to anyone.    I am trying to work on this within myself.   In this respect I am much like Mandy Moore.   Mandy has gone on record expressing that she hates her first couple albums.   I do not think in my pocket is a bad song.   I have in my pocket downloaded on Kindle from Mandy Moore Greatest Hits.   I like MS. Moore version of the classic John Hitait have a little faith in me which is also from her Greatest Hits.   I think Mandy is being a little too hard on herself.   I do not know how most would be if like Mandy that they got a record deal at only 15 years old.      But for Mandy think about all the times you appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live you were like me a part of the TRL Generation which will never happen again!   I know Mandy has gotten into acting and she has developed a more mature sound musically.   There are some props from me to Mandy Moore like she needs it from me.   So for me I am always trying to evolve and mature.   There are quirks that I have that I am trying to get rid.   There are other quirks that I know I have that I will not be getting rid of because those quirks are the ones that make me who I am the quirks that me unique.      This sort of stuff probably keeps me from going into a deep depression many times during the course   of my life   that is one of the reasons art is so important.   But   I do agree with Adam Carolla that if you are a musician you will play music.   But I do think music should be available in public school so children can at least be exposed to music.   I know that people who are not music aficionados will say what is the big deal about music education?   Well I look at it like anything else in education you may not use everything you are exposed to in school but at least you are exposed to it just to see if you have a knack for it.   There have been many times in life where I have been obsessed with music.   It means that much to me.   I gotta rock!   For the people in your life who think you are a bit odd if they are you’re really friends and family they will get it.   My natural demeanor when I wake up every day is to be depressed.   But I have to fight my own human nature because my mood has an effect on others.   The one aspect about happiness it is not a selfish desire.   Most people probably think being happy is a selfish desire because they think I want to be happy for me.   When in reality I want to be happy for the benefit of others who are around me.   Listening and playing music is the best way I know how to do that to help me battle my own human nature.   Others may have a different approach and whatever works for them stick with it.   Even if your friends and family think you are a bit odd.   If they are really true friends and family they will get.   There is only one era I like from Bonnie Raitt it is her music from circa 1977 or maybe just Bonnie’s music from the 1970s.   Bonnie Raitt collaborated with country rock band Little Feat on my favorite Bonnie Raitt tune runaway.   She did her own solo version of runaway on her 1977 LP entitled Sweet Forgiveness.   Bonnie Raitt has also collaborated with John Hitait.   Juliana Hateflied’s song I picked you up there are lyrics in which I relate let’s make some music and talk everything through I picked you you didn’t know it but you were saving me to.   Let’s make some music and talk everything through I picked up because I needed you.   Those lyrics I just can really relate.   There are people who will tell you emotions like that are selfish.   But I love what Evanescence front woman acclaimed singer songwriter Amy Lee said on this very subject Amy expressed it this way: “My darlings, if I can’t write dark epic, dramatic dark epic music I can’t live”!   It is comforting to know again that I am not so alone and not so different from everyone else.    That is another reason why this music is so important to me.   Tonight Sunday July 2, 2017 Impact Wrestling celebrates their 15 year anniversary with Slammiversary 15 LIVE from The Impact Zone in Orlando Florida.   This is always an emotional time for me every year Impact celebrates their anniversary because I have a fan and supporter of Impact Wrestling since the very beginning.    There will be an announcement of who will be the next inductee into The Impact Hall Of Fame!   Don West returns to his rightfully place back at the announce table to raise hell like only Don West can!   Don West and Jim Ross do the best hard sells.   Tony Schiavone did an excellent hard sell when Hulk Hogan joined The NWO Kevin and Scott Hall   during WCW’s Bash At The Beach 1996.   Also Lance Russell could do an excellent hard sell.  The match I am most looking forward is for The X-Division Championship Sonjay Dutt defends The X-Division Title against Low KI in a 2 out of three falls match.   Sonjay deafened Low KI in his home country of India.   Before that time Sonjay was considered The Greatest X-Division competitor to never hold The X-Division Championship.   Sonjay has been on a 14 year journey to accomplish his goal he never gave up.   Sonjay and Low KI for The X-Division Title 2 out 3 falls is the match I am most looking forward.   Joseph Parkk has returned and will be at Slammiversary to team up with Jeremy Borash take on the team of Josh Matthews and Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner.   I love that Big Poppa Pump is back in Impact Wrestling.   I love Joseph Parkk and more specifically Chris Parkk also known as: Abyss.   The reason I have such an admiration for Abyss he has such an appreciation for others.   The Main Event will feature The Global Force Wrestling Champion Alberto EL Parton taking on Walking Armageddon The Impact World Champion Lashley the winner takes it all!   Don West will do the hard sell like only he can at Slammiversary 15 tonight on Pay-Per-View!   The reason I still watch Impact Wrestling or professional wrestling in general is I love it.   I hope others love it as well.   I am going to clear this up there is no such thing as a smart mark in professional wrestling.   The term smart mark is a term that was coined by people who publish professional wrestling newsletters and the internet.   So for all those fans who are smart to the business of professional wresting you are not smart  to the business I am not smart to the professional wrestling business the only individuals who are so called smart are the individuals who  participate in it and the individuals who make their living in the professional wrestling business.   So I am sorry to break this to the professional wrestling newsletters the internet and fans who think they are “smart” you are just like everyone else you are a fan.   For the fans who choose to watch professional wrestling as being “smart” to the business I think you are not enjoying it the best way possible.   In other words you are taking the fun out of it.    But that is only my view whatever choice certain fans make it is up to them.   But being a smart mark is a real misnomer.      Last night at Slammiversary 15 Joseph Parkk rediscovered his inner monster with the help and return of Father James Mitchell.   When Joseph Parkk hastened on finding his inner monster there was Father James Mitchell to present Joseph Parkk his Abyss mask Father Mitchell gave encouragement to Joseph Parkk by saying Rise up Happy Slammiversary and then he did his sinister signature laugh!      With that The Monster Abyss made his return last night at Impact Wrestling’s Slammiversary 15.    Don West did not miss a beat last night calling Slammiversary 15 last night.   No one can do the hard sell quite like Don West!   The Founder of both Impact and Global Force Wrestling gave an emotional heartfelt speech.   I love the humility of MR. Jarett I would just like to say thank you to him.   I will never realize the passion the tireless work and dedication that professional wrestlers put into their craft.   But I do respect it and I am grateful to be a part of it.   At the end of the day I am just a fan who still has an appreciation and respect for the art form that is professional wrestling.   I am never angry with anyone for leaving a company and going elsewhere.   There is no off season in professional wrestling and it is a business relationship and not an employee relationship.   Professional wrestlers can’t be hired or fired by a promoter.   Well they can be let go and with being professional wrestlers they are basically working for themselves.   So if they are not in a position they want to be they can leave and go somewhere else in order to reinvent and reintroduce themselves to a different audience.   Or they can come back when they are ready in other words when they are ready to be in a position they want to be and where a promoter can help get them to the next level.   Professional wrestlers only have so many miles in them and once they are gone they are gone.   That is why I think professional wrestlers have to do what is best for themselves and their families.   Because only they know how long they will be continually dedicated to the profession.    I was a fan of Stevie Ryan when she appeared on her own show Stevie TV on VH1.   My favorite sketch from Stevie TV was The Abstinence Gang.   I remember when Stevie hosted VH1’s 100 Sexist Artists.   Stevie was not afraid to talk about the subject of sex which I admire.   Stevie was a frequent guest on Alison Rosen’s podcast Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend.   Alison said that Stevie Ryan was funny kind and the most real human being she has ever met.   The first time I was aware of Stevie Ryan was when she hosted VH1’s Sexists Artists I am not aware of everything Stevie did but she was extremely hot and very interring.   I am going to really miss her!      I am like Tommy Lee the drummer of 1980s hard rock band Motely Cure when I say I love this music I have been discussing .   I realize how blessed I am to be able to listen to the music that I am an absolute fanatic.   Most people are not as fortunate as I am.   They are unable to do what they want to do.   I am able to do what I want to do for the most part.    I am going to try and not take that for granted.   My favorite version of the song Hallelujah is from Canadian singer songwriter Allison Crowe with accompaniment of a piano.   I also dig Allison’s noise ring that is just a bonus for me which adds to the enjoyment! Hallelujah was originally written and performed by Leonard Cohen.   Hallelujah has been performed by a variety of different musicans including:    The Great Jeff Buckley and Jon Bon Jovi etc.   Many perceive hallelujah has a hymn or a religious song but I think of it has pretty secular.   It has religious imagery to it.       But for those who perceive it has a religious song or who are comforted by the song I say more power to you.   My two favorite Laura Brangian songs are moonlight on water and never in a million years.   Both are from Laura’s self-titled album Laura Brangian.   It was hard for me to narrow it down to two.   But those are my absolute favorites.   Leonard Cohen originally wrote and performed the single “Everybody Knows” which was covered by Don Henley.   “Everybody Knows” is available on Don Henley’s Actual Miles Don Henley’s Greatest Hits.   Sarah Mclachlan reached popularity in the late 1990s and she was a part of the alternative rock package of the late 1990s.   The cool think about Sarah Mclachlan is she created a music festival called The Lilith Fair which was kind of the equivalent of Lollapalooza but with females.   Supposedly this festival came about in part and I remember Madison Michele vividly saying this when she hosted a show on VH1 called Women First that in the 1997 female artists out sold male artists by a large percentage.   I can’t remember important things that matter in life but I remember this vividly!   The female artist who set the president for this is Shania Twain.   Shania was able to accomplish this by crossing over from just being a country artist into being a pop artist.   She did it with the massive success of the song and music video you’re still the one.   Shania’s success also came about with the popularity of her album Come On Over.   The Lilith Fair featured many great female artists such as: Meredith Books Pat Benatar The Indigo Girls and Liz Phair etc.    Sarah Mclachlan is probably one of several musicans that many people misconstrue the lyrics of her songs.   In my opinion some of Sarah McLachlan's best work are her more haunting and darker sounding songs.     An example: her mega hit building a mystery.   But if you dig into the lyrics of this song it is not so beautiful.   Building a mystery does not sound so sweet to me.   I am just going by the sound of the music.   Another example of a Sarah Mclachlan song that is often misinterpreted is called angel.   I do not even really care for this song but there is another example.   My favorite Sarah Mclachlan song is called possession.   What I notice right away about possession is the darkness of it and how downright haunting it is.   But I have noticed a lot of people like me love and have some kind of connection to this song.   So I feel better that it is one of my favorites.       Possession is another example to me of a disturbing song but it is gorgeous at the same time.   Which really seems to be a pattern with me when I discuss the connection I have to a lot of this music dark and haunting but beautiful in some way at the same time.   Most of the songs that provide me the most comfort are the ones that are dark or haunting but are beautifully written and well-crafted musically which I find bizarre.   Because I do not have a morbid curiosity of any kind.   In fact I am pretty much against having one.   I love Rebel’s Oklahoma accent her accent it makes her more intriguing.   Since Christy Hemme is no longer with Impact Rebel has been my favorite Impact Knockout since she debuted as Knox’s girlfriend.   But before Rebel my favorite Impact Knockout was The Voodoo Queen Roxxi Laveaux.   But for Rebel I hope she comes back to Impact Wrestling soon if it works out.   Also if it is the best place for her to be.   I was really glad to see Rebel join The Dollhouse unfortunaly I do not think they got the run they could have.   I love Rebel’s cowgirl boots and her cowgirl hats.   Rebel’s got that country sass which makes her awesome.   My favorite Femme Fatale song is called Rebel from Femme Fatale’s 1988 self-titled album Femme Fatale.   I wish Rebel could use Rebel from Femme Fatale for her entrance music one time that would be cool!   Lorraine Lewis was the front woman of the 1980s hard rock band Femme Fatale.   A couple years back Lorraine reformed Femme Fatale with chicks.   Lorraine is still the front woman of the band.   They perform during The Monsters Of Rock tour.   Which takes place every year.   Lorraine formed a band called Blondie Jovi.   Which was take off of Bon Jovi.   I remember seeing a message on youtube from Lorraine Lewis about her new band.   It was a kind message she thanked the fans.   Lorraine said that she was glad that the fans enjoyed the music.   Which I appreciate that she would take the time to personally reach out to a fan.   I know that Loraine Lewis is old enough to be my mother but I do not care!     A lot of the musicans I have discussed are.    Dr@am was one of my favorite I know this is a derogatory term I do not mean it to be bubble gum pop.     Dr@am was an all-female pop/R@B band.   Dr@am was compared by many to The Spice Girls.   The Spice Girls by this time in 2001 had broken up years earlier.   Dr@am became popular do to their exposure on MTV’s Total Request Live or TRL.   With the success of their music video he loves U not which I enjoyed.   Dr@am frequently hosted TRL during their rise to popularity.   I also like their music video and song this is me.   I like all of the girls in the group but my favorite member of Dr@am was Holly.   But and I liked all of the girls in the group.   But Holly was the girl in the group that I first noticed.   I do not want to leave anyone out because I liked Ashley Diana and Melissa.     Holly was interring and sexy to me because she had red hair and looked very hot.   I know that sounds shallow but I am a guy.   The beauty just adds to the enjoyment of the music for me.   Joan Jett covered up to the skies from Joan Jett’s Hit List album. Which is a cover of hit songs.   Up to the skies was originally performed by Jimi Hendrix.   Which I can’t find.   But I found a version of up to the skies from Ricki Lee Jones.   The same Ricki Lee Jones who performed and had a hit song with Chuck E’s in love.   But I dig Joanie Jett’s version of up to the skies.   I wonder if I am allowed to refer to Joan Jett as Joanie. I am not really friends with her but I do admire her.      So I mean it as a term of endearment I love disscuing  music I hope that I have not taken the fun out of this music.   I am extremely passionate about the music that I have discussed and the music I hope to discuss in the future.   But as I have discussed earlier I hope that listening and discovering music that I love I hope I have become more mellow.   I do not want to be so uptight.   Any depression I may deal I use listening to music for that remedy.   But as I have said earlier I am unafraid to evolve and to change.   I think for people who are unwilling to evolve or to change in some kind of way I think they are making a mistake.   Or not living a more satisfying life.      When I have said in the past that discovering and listening to music recreationally saved my life I mean it!     I am not exaggerating or embellishing.   It may sound sad to people who do not know me.   But I am probably not the only way who has claimed that music saved their live.    In that respect I know I am not so alone.   Music is not a temporary fix for me.   I think if it is for some people it will not work at least for not that long.   Or as Liz Phair would say music is not a primitive fix.    Belinda Carlisle released a song called lay down your arms.   Lay down your arms is on Belinda’s album Real.   One of the reasons this song is one of my favorites I love the crisp drum section.   I am not really a fan of the music video for lay down your arms.   In the video Belinda is in the old west and she is a cowgirl and she finds a cowboy that she thinks is cute.     So she lassoes the cowboy to be her own.    But then she asks the cowboy where the money is?   Lay down your arms is another favorite of mine from Belinda Carlisle.  The sound has been compared to a song called Malibu from the alternative rock band Hole.   The same Hole fronted by: Courtney Love.   People can say whatever they want about Courtney Love but to me there is no denying her talent as a musican.   If Dave Grohl can forgive her after all their back and forth that they have had since the end of Nirvana then I can admit that Courtney Love is a great front woman.   Malibu is a prime example for me of a great song from Hole.   Another excellent song from Hole is called doll parts.   I first discovered this song when a faction in Impact Wrestling called The Doll House used it as their entrances music.   Which was the perfect entrance music for The Doll House.  The perfect entrance music in professional wrestling can really enhance a talent.   I remember one time just mentioning Courtney Love’s name to someone and this induvial immediately dismissed her.   I love doll parts but my favorite Hole song is Malibu.   My favorite Divinyls song is called I’m jealous.   I’m jealous was featured on soundtrack to the television show called Melrose Place The Music Soundtrack.  I’m jealous is also on The Divinyls album Underworld.     The Divinyls became a one hit wonder with the success of I touch myself.   Even though The Divinyls had been around since the 1980s but the band did not really reach mainstream popularity until the late 1990s.   The frontwoman of The Divinyls was named Christina Amphlett.   She went by Chrissy.   I’m jealous was featured on alternative rock radio stations of the era.   The Divinyls were not even an alternative rock band.   But they received some rotation from alternative rock stations.   I love Chrissy’s voice it was very unique and alluring.   I love the beat of the song.   I’m jealous also features an excellent heavy guitar riff and a nice heavy drum section.   The Divinyls were considered to be a new wave band.   They were from Australia.   I think they were maybe more popular in their native land of Sidney but they did reach mainstream popularity in United States for a short time with the success of I touch myself.      I touch myself was featured in the first Austin Powers film.   Austin Powers International Man Of Mystery.   Jon Bon Jovi took his band in a completely different direction from what the band started as.   Jon did this consciously after the success of Bon Jovi’s album Keep The Faith.   He just looked around and saw that the popularity of his genre of music was going away.   So Jon Bon Jovi thought I need to take this band into a completely different direction or I am not going to have a band.   So Jon changed his image and the sound of the band.   I have to give Jon Bon Jovi credit I have always thought that Bon Jovi was always Jon’s band.   I do not mean to disrespect anyone else who has been in that band or who is in Bon Jovi currently.   But I think of Bon Jovi as Jon’s band.   I have to give Jon Bon Jovi credit because even though he has completely transformed his band into something completely different Bon Jovi is the only band from their era that is still massively successful.   No other band from the era can claim this.   There is a lot of stuff from Jon Bon Jovi’s solo album 7800 I really enjoy! Destination Anywhere is another excellent solo album from Jon Bon Jovi.   I realize I have disused this in a previous section but I went a little more in depth about why the transformation with Bon Jovi occurred.   The alternative rock band that started this whole journey for me Garbage has released some excellent new material.   The only reason I know about Garbage’s new material I signed up for Garbage’s newsletter.   I think signing up for newsletters is a way for fans to keep up their favorite musicans and bands.   Because it is very difficult to keep up with musicans and bands signing up for newsletters is one way to do that.   Magnetized is really a great song and from my prospective does not really sound like their earlier work but I am still very much a fan of it.   Shairly Mansion is rocking a new pink hairdo extremely well.   Empty is another great song and music video from Garbage.   One of the aspects that made Garbage different they used hip hop beats and dance beats.   Much like Jade Starling and Pretty Poison did in the 1980s Garbage did in the late 1990s.   Garbage is going on tour with Blondie this summer.   Garbage also released a coffee table book called The Noise That Keeps Me Awake.   Which is a take-off of a Garbage song called push it.   I asked Jade Staring a question on Facebook about how she would classify her band?   To Jade’s credit she responded to my question.   The fact that she would take the time to answer my question was an extremely sweet gesture to me.   I became more of a fan of her’s after that!      Ronnie James Dio always talked about giving people their moment.   In my mind that was an example of Jade giving me my moment.   There really was nothing like Debbie Harry of Blondie before Debbie Harry.   There have been musicans who tried to copy Debbie Harry’s image sound and style but they failed.   I think the main reason for this Blondie and more specifically Debbie Harry was an original.   I am sure if you ask a majority of white guys what is the first rap song they ever heard?   They would probably tell you rapture from Blondie.   That is just one example of what made Debbie Harry and Blondie original.   I really love the taste of cherry coke.   I love actual cherries.   I also love strawberry ice cream and strawberry milkshakes.   But I will digress.   The French song is a wonderful song from Joan Jett and The Blackhearts.   Some of the lyrics are in French and most are in English.   The French song starts with the lyrics don’t you be nervous baby I didn’t come to bring you harm.      It really is an excellent song.   The French song is available on Joan Jett and The Blackhearts greatest hits.   This greatest hits album features you drive me wild.   Which was the first song Joan Jett ever wrote.   I love that the greatest hits featured classics such as: Cherry Bomb.   The greatest hits features Joan Jett’s version with The Blackhearts.   Cherrie Cherie originally performed Cherry Bomb on vocals with The Runaways.    But I like Joan Jett and The Blackhearts version.   Have ya crab till you’re sore.   Miley Cyrus recorded a version of Cherry Bomb.   Which is pretty good.   I know that because I am a fan of professional wrestling when I am watching the show and I am in the moment I am just reacting I tend to overact.   I do this because I am a fan and I am in the moment and reacting to what I am seeing.   So to other people I may sound a little nuts.   I am just a fan who is reacting accordingly.   Announcers are fans as well so they are in the moment reacting to what they are seeing.   So it may seem to some fans that many announcers over sell a lot or cry wolf way to many times to be taken seriously.     But they are just fans announcers are trying to react accordingly.     I am a true believer when it comes to professional wrestling.   Everything I see is 100% real to me.   One of my big pet peeves are how certain fans all want to be “experts” instead of just enjoying it.   I can understand where Al Snow is coming from when he discussed his opinion on certain wrestling fans.   Al got a lot of grief from many fans for his opinion.   But all he was expressing is there are a group of fans who think because they have access to information they think they have some kind of knowledge.   So these fans eventually become contentious of the product.   I do not know how anyone could disagree with what he said.   I could not hang around with a bunch of so called “experts”.   I cannot stand them on the internet I can’t imagine being around “smart fans” in person.   As I said earlier they can do what they want.  But I agree with Al Snow that fans need to stop trying to be experts and just enjoy the product.   I do not know if I mentioned this in an earlier section or not but just in case I did not.   One of my favorite Pretenders songs is called night in my veins.   From The Pretenders album Last Of The Independents.   Night in my veins is kind of a return back to an earlier Pretenders sound.   I like that it is a rocking sound.   But night in my veins could pass as a pop song.   Nina Persson performed a live version of the Led Zeppelin classic whole lotta love.   I know that Zeppelin purest will probably dismiss this version I do not know maybe because I am a fan of Nina’s is probably one of the reasons I do not mind it.   Robert Plant and Jimmy Page seemed to be enjoying themselves in the audience.   I loved this performance because Nina did not try to imitate Robert Plant.   She made it her own.   Nina changed some of the lyrics in whole lotta love to give it a female prospective.   I love Led Zeppelin I have the up most respect for them.   Because Led Zeppelin laid the ground work for so many different musicans and bands.   The music seemed to be the same.   I have had a ton of fun drumming to a whole lotta love.   I just crank it on up!         Whole lotta love was Led Zeppelin’s first #1 hit.   Whole lotta love was written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.   Whole lotta love was released in 1969.   Whole lotta love is a favorite of Christy Hemme.   Who fronts her own band called Hemme.   I tried to do the Joan Jett scream is the only way I know how to describe it.   I hurt my voice I could not do it.   I really would like to learn how to do that scream.   I would also love to learn how to do the rock devil horns or the malochio.    I remember telling someone that I like The Bangles.   This person thought the football team?   Which are The Bengals.   But eventually he got it.   He enthusiastically said to me oh that girl is hot!   I have heard Drake from Drake in the morning radio show talk about how football announcers refer to The Bengals as: The Bangles.   Everybody starts dancing and singing manic Monday.   Which was written by Prince.   We didn’t start the fire by: Billy Joel is about all the events that he feels his generation is not responsible.    I think anyone could write that today and I think the lyrics still apply.   I think some of lyrics should be updated.   That is about it.   One of my favorite alternative rock bands from the early 1990s are The Breeders.   The Breeders consisted of identical twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal.   Now this band was a little bit before my time.   But I still love this band.   This was in the early 1990s so this was still during the popularity of flannel T-shirts.   With the help from exposure by MTV The Breeders had their first #1 hit with the success of their music video and song cannonball.   From The Breeders album Last Splash.   Kim and Kelley both play guitar.   Kim played guitar and also handled lead vocals.   Jon Stewart must be some kind of alternative rock fanatic.   Because before he hosted The Daily Show on Comedy Central he was a VJ on MTV.   Jon hosted his own talk show on MTV called The Jon Stewart Show on MTV.   The Jon Stewart Show featured many alternative rock acts of the era such as: The Juliana Hateflied Three and The Breeders.   I know I say this a lot but The Breeders had a sound that differentiate them from other musicans and bands of the era.      I love Kim Deal voice.   It can sound really sweet.   But also can be extremely aggressive.     She can change her voice accordingly.   Kim and Kelley Deal can harmonize together.     They can also play guitar at the same time.   Both Kim and Kelley can a have guitar off if you will.   The Breeders also released an EP called Safari.   One of my favorite song from The Breeders is called Iris.   Not Iris by: The Goo Goo Dolls.   I think Kim Gordon may have produced an album for The Breeders.   Or was involved in some way with the formation of The Breeders.   Kim Deal released a single as a solo artist called Are you mine?   The Breeders are still performing and are still together in some capacity with Kim and Kelley Deal very much still at the helm. Kelley also played drums at one point.     I am not really sure who else is still in the band or who has left the band.   But I love The Breeders Kim and Kelley Deal they are one of my many favorite alternative rock bands.   I just hope that they are not a band that most people have forgotten.   Because The Breeders are just as one of kind now as they were during the height of their popularity.   I think this band has maintained their niche fan base.    I know that I discovered this band a little late but I am still a fan.   Kim Deal is a great songwriter.   I can understand why her sister Kelley feels the best working with her sister Kim.   That is where Kelley feels she does her best work.   Because she is a fan of her sister’s music.   Both Kim and Kelley Deal are one of a kind musicans in their own right.   Kim Deal is the songwriter of The Breeders songs.   It is an excellent combination!   Another one of my favorite ballads from Heart is called alone.   This song has been covered by: country artist Carrie Underwood.   Alone has also been covered by Canadian hard rocker Chrissy Steele.   Which is my favorite version of alone.   It sort of difficult to find.   But it is still great.    The only solo album I find is called Magnet To Steele.   I agree with Ann Willison that the 1980s were not Heart’s best decade in terms of their music.   But alone is really a beautiful song.   Alone is one of my favorite Heart songs.   Carrie Underwood performed alone on American Idol.   She also did a performance of alone with Ann Willison.   I dig Carrie Underwood’s banana.   It is sort of reminiscent of Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac.   Might be in love is a beautifully written song from Juliana Hateflied.   This song is from Juliana’s album Beautiful Creature.   To me might be in love expresses the best qualities of Juliana’s music.      That same year Beautiful Creature was released Juliana released an EP called Total System Failure.   Which from my own perceptive goes in a completely different direction.    The EP has been compared to the sound of Chrissie Hynde.