2024 ENTERTAINMENT- DVDS

This will be out of order as I have not caught up with what I have seen. 

Fleabag 1 & 2 were perfect and quirky

Fleabag

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Broadchurch was mind blowing and so suspenseful

Broadchurch

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Fleabag soundtrack

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I ran out of things I wanted to watch and picked up a series at the library. I think it was Mid Sommers mysterie. A crap ton of them to wade through. One night I was ready to start and the dvd player in the lap top would not work. So 2 weeks went by before I found a replacement on amazon that used the laptop for power.

not going to doin youtube links anymore since I never view them LOL

but recently watched The Sixth Sense. Before bed- bad idea. I rehashed the movie in my many wakeful moments!

Then Clarissa a British series of 2. too confusing and uninteresting like a Jane Austen thing.

Then The Haunting in venice with Kenntehr Branaugh. Decent story of Agatha Christies but the usual camp style of acting. And even when I am told "who did it" I still do not understand.

So the morning my brother was to drive with his wife to Florida he dropped by a hug bag of DVDs I could have to watch and dispose of as I wished. Went through them and a good bag full will be donated to the library if they will take them. I doi not want the hassle of selling them. Many were ones I saw when I worked at Lelo's in the 80s and 90s.

Keeping 24, and The Sopranos and will give those a shot. Not sure I can handle violence Ilike I did back when I was in my 30s & 40s. we will see.

so the list of those to keep are

The Sopranos

24

Night of the Iguana

Cinma Paradiso

Big Bang Theory first season

A Death in Venice

A Man & A Woman

pix of bags full snd ones drefinitely not wanted LOL

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2024: ENTERTAINMENT- MUSIC

 books,music,films

love this I wanna get him back

January 31

What's Going on

What's up

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April 9

Tartini-Devils Trill

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May 18

Airplane wish right now

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Billy Joel

Turn the lights back on

Hoozier Too Sweet    

Hozier Too Sweet

Teddy Swim Lose Control

Teddy Swim Lose Control

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June 11 nice instrumental lead in

Love Lies

Eminem Houdid

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2023: DVD MOVIES

 Trying to get back into watching DVDs more often. Back in the 80s and 90s when I worked in a video store I went to the movies at least once a week. Loved foreign films at the small Cape Cinema theatre. Loved everything but sappy disease movies like Beaches.

So I bought Dr Strangelove and it has taken repeated tries to get into it. I saw it in the theatres when it was released and loved it.

but still have not finished it.

Dr Strangelove

I recently watch Ammonite which was fabulous! Deadpan acting.That must have been painful for the actress.

Ammonite

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Garden State recommended by a facebook friend. I had my doubts as she is a fan of Hallmark channel. :) Loved it!

Garden State

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Cafe Society 2 DVDS in one week so far. library automatically renewed. ha ha. I love Woody Allen. Music was great and the story simple. Likely did not receive any awards for acting but.... loved it anyhow. Recognized Steve Carrell from the Office. and Jeanie Berlin.

Cafe Society-Woody Allen

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only trouble with these- they keep me up to 11pm and I am exhausted the next day by 8am

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Attempted Matrix- could not make it  through more than 10 minutes the graphics were too flashy and it was dark. triggered vertigo in 10 minutes. So hope to get John Wick next but need a rest anyhow.

Matrix trailer

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April 13

finally finished Dr Strangelove. Peter Sellers was fascinating in all of his parts.

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April 23

Secondhand Lions. wonderful film with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine.

A couple of years ago I was looking on amazon for a Calvin & Hobbes collection. BUT I could not remember the name! ha ha ha. I searched Pogo thinking that was it but the search answer came up with Opus. Brain in a rush and I did not investigate further so I ordered 25 years of Sunday Opus comics. A used copy and arrived quickly. As soon as I ordered it I remembered the name Calvin and Hobbes and searched for that- they were all too expensive! LOL So Opus sat on different tables here as something to read in the future. Finally one day when my Kindles needed charging I picked it up and started reading. Found that the artist was asked to illustrate cartoons for a film called "Secondhand Lions". Now all I needed was time when I felt I could watch a DVD LOL

So I searched for it at the library and The Staircase. Both were in . The Staircase is 3 DVDs! I better get cracking.

Secondhand Lions

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The Staircase

Finally finished The Staircase. Glad I did not give up. It was never boring or tedious. It was hard to follow when they jumped around in years out of sequence but the acting was excellent.

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May 20

rented 2 dvds at the library

Full Metal Jacket was excellent. I had seen it back in the 80s but remembered little of it.

Full Metal Jacket trailer

then I had finished reading East of Eden finally. long book but fascinating. Unlike any of the others I have read of Steinbeck's.

The movie is another matter. 2 dvds and the casting is off and the acting is horrible. It will be a struggle to finish.

East of Eden

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Idiocracy was recommended by many youtube creators that I follow.I started out thinking it was dumb and was ready to give up. Glad I didn't . Glad I watched the entire movie. It was good.

Idiocracy

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Florence Foster Jenkins was recommended by my cousin Paula. I had totally forgotten about it. Had it on a list to see for a while then lost the list. Sad story but so glad I watched it the 3 main characters and actors were perfect

Florence

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June

I wanted Fantastic Beasts online it said they had 2 copies- one in Young Adult section and other in Children's They had none so I got Inglorious Bastards it was excellent

Inglorious Bastards

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somehow I missed mentioning  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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July

Finally caught up with Fantastic Beasts and where to find them at the library. Glad I saw it but felt it was poorly edited. Love Eddie Redmayne.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

July 25

finally borrowed Knives out! Greatly entertaining and good to see old actors put to good use.

Knives Out

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August 5

pulled into the library parking lot hoping to pick up Murder on the Orient Express and Imitation Game. An SUV was parked in the middle of the parking lot making it uimpossible for me to pass and leave. I sat there a few minutes then got out of the truck and walked up to the driver's side window and talked to the glass- "please move aside so I can leave" she rolled down her window and said she was waiting for her son. and she did not see me. my reply- please do not hit me or my truck. she moved and I left. Hope to try again next Saturday.

August 19

finally got Murder on the Orient Express and Imitation Game- they were on the top shelf though and I had to ask for assistance :)

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August

my cousin watched The Draughtsman's Contract with her son and described it to me saying she could NOT recommend it. I read the synopsis and watched the trailer and agreed I would not recommend it either. And besides the library does not have it.

The Draughtsman's Comtract

But last week I did get to watch Murder on the Orient Express- very clever and loved it! later in the week I watched Imitation Game. Loved it in spite  of it jumping around in time frames. Clever little trick the film did with him giving apples to all his co workers.

Murder on the Orient Express

Imitation Game

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October 8

finally found a parking space at town offices and walked up the front stairs only to be met by an obstacle to holding onto the railing- an Autumn display to the left. I hobbled over to the right cautiously the stairs are granite and steep and wide. The door is so heavy. Got in there and could not find Cave of Forgotten Dreams but did get Joker and Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Men tell no tales

Deadmen...

Joker- joachim Phoenix

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November 7

Finished watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Almost gave up on it 2 nights ago at 15 minutes - dark imagery because of filming restrictions. Today I decided to watch it while ironing. My go to method when I am in a pinch. The laser imaging got me hooked. It is much more than about cave paintings. Though fascinating to see horses with 8 legs depicting movement etc. At the end it shows the nuclear power plant nearby. They use the hot water to create a tropical setting and introduced crocodiles- some albino crocodiles!. Well worth the struggle!

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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2 more on tap Wolf of Wall Street and World of Pi.

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Wolf on Wall Street

intense but worth it

World of Pi

great graphics  but too much "religion" and mind games

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Life if Pi NOT world LOL

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December 30

after cashing Cjristmas check I went over to the library and got 3 movies. One on my list they did not have Gatsby

but got

Woody Allen Match Point

and 

Broadchurch season 1

and 

Corpse Bride

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Great Gatsby if I ever find it locally

Great Gatsby Leonardo-

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:2023: YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTIONS

 2022 blog

January 15

a hint after watching something else- this was fascinating about Anne of Cleves

Royalty Now Studios

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February 16

not sure if these guys are in my original list or not, they dare to go and trespass many strange places

Ezurbex

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May

unsubscribed to many of the above. No longer enjoyable LOL

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2023:MUSIC

So yesterday I deleted 106 WCOD from my preset on the radio. I had listened to that station for years. Dan & Stephanie in the morning. They got "fired" a couple of years ago. She is on Lemonadio. Dan is on Y 101 rumor has it in the afternoon I have yet to catch him. So they made a new team of Kevin and Nina. Kevin is the tireless DJ who does everything. He is loud but not obnoxious. ah just tuned in and Dan is on the radio. So back to Nina and Kevin. They disappeared as a team and Kevin is on drive at 5 commercial free. I try to catch him but I am usually fixing supper. They replaced Nina and Kevin with canned radio team of Doug and Jenn. They are horrible. If WCOD ran the promo for their show one more time.... It was a banana eating joke. They had other funny stuff but that one over and over. They got the boot. So now it is 99.9 the Q- the old radio station WQRC they play new pop and older music. Pleasant mix. If  something annoying comes on I switch to Y101.

So this morning I heard a tune and wrote down the lyrics I caught. Turns out it is an old song from 13 years ago by Dido LOL

Dido-It's not so bad  love the purple house they demolish

some more tunes that cheer me up

Doja cat- Vegas

Sam Smith-Unholy

Opera Singer does Creep

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Radiohead

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Bruno Marrs Lazy Song with cats

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Tyler Chulders- racial song

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Promiscuous

Killers-Caution

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February 16

just found a note on my exercise routine notes Set my bar real low and remembered another ... not as sad . Now let's see if they are the same song or even if I can find them

ah same song and a favorite group AJR!

Way Less Sad LOL

Way Less Sad

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Danse Macabre

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February 22

Heard this faintly on the radio through my left ear while on the computer. I thought first it was part of the sound track to a movie from the  80s-90s Natural Born Killers. Went to youtube and nope it is a recent release so now I am curious what the soundtrack to the film was!

Natural Born Killer-Highly Suspect

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added 106 back to my presets just so I can listen to Kevin in the afternoon once in a while.

Finally got my radio antenna wire from amazon and reception is much bbetter.

February 27

heard this tune on the radio early today wrote down the words so I could look it up later. I had hoped I would remember later in the day. Nope. so after supper I googled it. Men at Work! I was thinking Huey Lewis and the News maybe.

Now to find out if they also did Beds are  Burning. If not who did! nope that was Midnight Oil.

Who can it be now

Beds are burning

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I hear this mostly on Y101 and finally found out what it is

Freaky Girl

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The Way I Am- Puth-acoustic

The Way I Am- official

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Finally got around to googling these lyrics to find the artist of course it is Ed Sheeran. All I could remember was him breaking his leg at 6 years old.

Castle on the Hill Ed Sheeran

Then this newer song grabbed my ear and I love the instrumental lead in to Bloody Marty Lady Gaga.

This is someone else doing a video with Lady Gaga's voice.

Not as rewarding as the "plain" Lady Gaga video where we use our own imaginings.

Not Lady Gaga

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Lady Gaga's version with out video

what the fuck this is all 11 years old. How did I miss it???

Lady Gaga Bloody Mary official video

then there IS a video.

video Bloody Mary

okay enough is enough!

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okay I do chi gung breathing exercises every morning for 15 minutes- 3 separate sets. I turn on CDs for this. About every 5 years I listen to Madame Butterfly. Him singing out Butterfly brings me to tears every time. I had actually forgotten the story and googled that. Two links in the wikipedia entry were worth following. 

Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan.[1]

It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll .

I had to google why she killed herself!

Madame Butterfyl wikipedia

so imagine the strangeness of when I listened to the rest of the CD while ironing. I heard the humming chorus but missed Pinkerton singing out Butterfly.

Beautiful graphics with this video

Madame Butterfly humming chorus

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April 9

so I hear this song every morning on the radio. Wanted to listen to it on youtube but could not remember the artist or title. so google to the rescue. Finally found the title and a clever little video but not before learning a new sex position at my age. LOL

snow angel in bed article

The snow angel is a sex position where the penetrating partner lies on top with their head down by the bottom partner’s legs. The bottom partner then lifts their legs around their partner’s lower back to elevate their pelvis for easy entry. “It’s a playful position that offers new angles and a whole lot of stimulation for both partners,” explains Isabelle Uren,(opens in new tab) a certified master sexpert with degrees in psychology and cognitive semiotics.

the video

I feel like dancing

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April 11

a tune that google confuses with castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran.Whwn I search using certain words. It took me a while but I finally found 7 Years!

7 Years

April 19

I hear this on 99.9 the Q once in a while I guess it is an "oldie" LOL I like the rhythm and the lyrics. But the visuals and the food in the video I can do without

Fancy Like

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too even things out

Doll Dances

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June Tchaikovsky 

June

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Mambo 5

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Calm Down

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tHE gRASS IS gREENER

oh caps lock LOL

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June 5

I was in the mood for some Rolling Stones and this came up.

Stray Cat Blues

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I could have sworn this is new- never heard it before but they play it on the "Q" a lot. 13 years ago

Cry me a river- Justin Timberlake

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I kept hearing this song and liked the rhythm of it so googled thinking it was a male voalist. The search kept coming up Shania Twain and I thought it has to be maybe someone new doing a cover of it. Nope it is Shania Twain

Waking up dreaming

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So this morning finally heard a song I have wondered about for a long time. For some reason it sounded like a holiday tune- These are a few of my favorite things. But I actually heard the lyrics more clearly this morning- I want it- I got it- now to see if I can find it!

Ariande Grande- 7 Rings

7 Rings

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All My Life-J Cole

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12 years old!!!???

Killing me softly - Fugees

Original Killing me softly Roberta Flack

so many versions on youtube!

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August 3

Love this song

Vampire

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funny back when Bad Liar was popular I thought it was "Vampire"

Bad Liar

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August 9 

heard this a lot recently and love the lyric- "invited to the lunatic ball"

Official video- Symptom of being human

August 13

Snack That - clean

ha ha snack back

Smack Back-official

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New favorite a cover of Billy Joel's We didn't Start the Fire

Joel

lyrics- Joel-

Lyrics

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law

Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

But when we are gone

It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

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Fall Out Boy

We didn't

Lyrics

Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King

Deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano

Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon

Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto, GMOs

Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies

Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan

Crimean Peninsula, Cambridge Analytica

Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again

Obama, Spielberg, explosion, Lebanon

Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, bombing Boston Marathon

Balloon Boy, War on Terror, QAnon

Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice

Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K

Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift

Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Sandy Hook, Columbine, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice

ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away

Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid

Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena

Oh-oh-oh, Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV

SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught

Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99

Keaton, Batman, Bush v. Gore, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid

Jeff Bezos, climate change, white rhino goes extinct

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens

Mars rover, Avatar, self-driving electric cars

SSRI's, Prince and The Queen die

World trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)

It was always burning since the world's been turning (oh)

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)

But when we are gone, it will still go on (oh-yeah)

And on, and on, and on, an on

And on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire (fire)

It was always burning since the world's been turning

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ooh the beat!

August 29 2023

ooo weee

Jain Makeba

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She's so High

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She's so high above me

* September

Hey Mr DJ- really needed this early this morning.

Hey Mr DJ

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September 4

Doja Cat- Paint the Town Red

Paint the town red  

Dionne Warwick- Walk on by

walk on by

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September 8

Scheherazade

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September 14

Fool's Garden - Lemon tree

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September 26

Olivia- bad idea right

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September 27 

my oh my

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October 23 2023

Bad Idea right?

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December 1

like this and had no clue who was sining ing it!

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow

I put your picture away

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December 8 
while doing trivia i an email this morning ran across a reference to "Black or White" How is it that at age 75 I am seeing this masterpiece for the first time?

Black or White

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December 13 

She only comes when she's on top

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December 22

Crazy Train

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R.E.M. Man on the Moon

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December 25

Lose Control Teddy Swims

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December 30

Turn Down for What DJ Snake

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