Comments on: MTV, The Early Years

By: Sharon Cobb

Sharon Cobb — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:29:33 +0000

I finally get the last word.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:35:19 +0000

Billy, it lived a long a fulfilling life. See you at annika’s later.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:09:50 +0000

Looks like this string has died…but wait! Victor over at Annika’s Journal has started another 80′s Tubing thread (whether he knows it or not)…

http://annika.mu.nu/archives/213447.html

By: michele

michele — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:36:50 +0000

Sure!

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:56:56 +0000

You need to use your armpit? I can make that sound using only my hands…

Freaks and Geeks is special to me because I was also a high school freshman in 1980 and my school’s mascot just happened to be a Norseman. I’ll bet F&G’s McKinley High and my high school were the only two schools with that mascot.

I was sold after the first episode…which ended with Styx’s Come Sail Away. Try dancing to that:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0eyRqdOJwt8

Check out all of the dresses…talk about serious high school flashback.

By: Cranky

Cranky — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:06:07 +0000

Sorry Billy. I’m one of those rare people who think there were plenty of good TV shows on which I don’t have time for.

F & G would have been right up my alley, but alas, I never saw it.

Michele the musician and Sharon the screenwriter. We have some talent here!

I have talents too! Wanna see me make a farting noise with my armpit?

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:52:28 +0000

I never tried to seranade a girl or write a song. I was guilty of the infamous “mix tape”…where I’d give a girl a tape with music I would claim made me think of her.

Kind of like the John Cusack character in Hi Fidelity (a great movie!).

Still looking for the Freaks and Geeks feedback. I think perhaps I might be the only one here who found that show brilliant. I own the entire 1st and only season of that show.

The show’s soundtrack helped make it great. I also believe a soundtrack can take an ordinary movie (like Dazed and Confused) and make it great.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNXKS6E8SaA

I remember going to that movie and not caring that the storyline sucked…because I spent the entire movie groovin’ to the tunes.

By: michele

michele — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:34:58 +0000

Had a few songs out on MP3 a few years back. Instant music, instant criticism, and without a band I couldn’t blame it on the fact that I was surrounded by idiots. I’m also a perfectionist who’s almost a good guitarist, almost a good singer, almost a good lyricist. And now more than ever good songs are needed, like you said.

By: Sharon Cobb

Sharon Cobb — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:43:13 +0000

Now I HAVE had guys sing me songs like that!
That was hysterical! A little to close to home, but hysterical.
Michele, why “recovering” songwriter? Now more than even good songs are needed. Maybe not with major artists since they the record companies have monopolies with publishing and everything else, but now a good song can actually get out on these here tubes.

By: michele

michele — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:22:59 +0000

“what if a guy did THIS?”

As a recovering delusional songwriter who has since decided that young people should have a license to own and operate a guitar, I would be such a hypocrite to say that I would probably hide under the lawn chair until it was over. That said, I would definitely help him find a good tuner.