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I love how all those records sound, all that warm bass and rhodes and great-sounding drums.

OTM! In fact, one of my childhood memories of the GWJr record is its being used in a TV commercial for a local stereo shop, with slow pans across lcd meters and unnecessary knobs and faux-mahogany speakers. Mmmm. Smooth.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I worked with a woman who didn't know that Rick Astley was white until she saw him in concert (she was a radio and not an MTV/VH-1 person). She's the same one who gave me a Toni Braxton CD (the one with 'Unchain My Heart') because she ordered it and then couldn't wait to have it so went out and bought another copy.

Who is GoWest?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I just posted a record on the blog that I was sending to a friend. I've mentioned it here before, but figured some of you all might be interested... it's that 120 Days album.

Also, since when do you have to enter a Google password when signing into blogger? I hope I didn't reset the blog login/pwd...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Bill Withers. Looooooove.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Deniece Williams' first record falls squarely into this sound too, I love it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I just posted a record on the blog that I was sending to a friend. I've mentioned it here before, but figured some of you all might be interested... it's that 120 Days album.

Did you just time-travel from December?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is GoWest?

Smooth-jazz staple of the late 80s/early 90s. Most famous for "King of Wishful Thinking," from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, which went top 10 in 1990.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you just time-travel from December?

I mean November.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I know, I know.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought maybe someone would like it, and I hate to put a good YSI to waste!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay! I just know because I downloaded it back then and really like it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

JT has a very Bobby Caldwell look to him, or at least he seems to move around the same way. Am I crazy or AMIRITE?

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(Where by JT I mean Justin Timberlake)

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I will download 120 Days when I get home. Will it be good for the gym?

I love "King of Wishful Thinking"!

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

It should be decent for the gym. Most of the songs are pretty upbeat.

I confess to liking "King of Wishful Thinking" too. I was obsessed with it for a period of time right when it came out.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you guys remember this song, from around the same time as "King of Wishful Thinking"? It would've been played on NBC's Saturday Morning Videos alongside Nelson's "After the Rain" and Poison's "Unskinny Bop."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Sheaintworthit.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Rown! Obby Brown!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I confess to liking "King of Wishful Thinking" too. I was obsessed with it for a period of time right when it came out.

ha! me, too. it's heartening that that was common.

xpost omg of course I remember "She Ain't Worth It" and the video. furthermore, it's now in my head. also: "Unskinny Bop"!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1990 was the first year that I paid attention to pop music. Suddenly getting flashbacks to all those Wilson Phillips song and "Close to You" by Maxi Priest and Phil Collins's "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember "She Ain't Worth It." But I do remember being too scared to ask Amy Gunnett to dance to "Back to Life" by Soul II Soul at a school dance and being really sad after I got home, probably circa 1990.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Enh, she wasn't worth it, Nick.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably not. She moved to another school and some kids from my school went to a track meet or something there and said she turned into a real beeotch.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT THAT SONG IS SUCH A CLASSIC! Any missed opportunity to dance to it is sad.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I will dance to it at my wedding and cry sweet tears of revenge.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Though not really deserved revenge, since she didn't turn me down or anything, since I just wussed out.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It really is pissing me off that YouTube is removing copyrighted material! That was where I would go when I wanted to listen to music!!

Also, they deleted Rich/FourFour's account permanently -- without warning -- for putting up copyrighted material. And he had some fun stuff on there.

A picture of Rich, because he's adorable.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/rj_fade.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Read all about it here.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I opened Juzwiak's blog, and my computer didn't freeze.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would it?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.02.04/gifs/sloths-0423.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://hello.typepad.com/hello/sloth.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OMFG!

http://www.cultofdegan.com/images/costarica/sloths/r.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slothmud.org/themes/SlothIII/images/slothIII_header980.jpg

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It used to always freeze because he put up tons of images that took forever to load.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

happy lundi gras btw

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Backatcha.

I'm sooooo sleeepppy right now.

Must. Not. Fall. Asleep. At. Desk.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm having tv dinner for lunch. it is not that bad, even while i know it's bad food. IT'S SO CHEAP.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

how else can you get 820 calories for 2 dollars?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

What are the contents of the tv lunch?

It's nappytime in Jordanland too. Good thing I get to leave in 2.5 hours.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

swedish meatballs, mystery meat patty, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans

HOORAY! SOMEONE JUST HANDED ME A CONTAINER OF FRUIT!

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to Whole Foods for salad bar and it ended up costing $10! Mainly because it was a lot of heavy things like tofu and olives and whatnot. So then I said I was going to save half of it for tomorrow, but then I ate all of it today. :(

Have any of you ever used the Peapod grocery delivery thingy? We might try it out. I think Jewel has raised its prices and Dominicks ends up being pricy too. I miss Cub.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss Cub.

2000x

I haven't tried Peapod. I don't like the concept of not being able to pick out my produce...

Also, there is a rumor that the Dominick's at Belmont/Kimball is closing down. Which, if true, will severely piss me off, though not as much as the loss of Cub.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss Texas grocery prices, period.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I mostly shop at Trader Joe's and Harvestime and then stop at Whole Foods every once in a while for a few things I can't get elsewhere (Roastaroma tea, tea-tree-oil face soap).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

My groceries are cheap as hell, dudes (Woodman's). Still haven't been to the Trader Joe's that opened up here.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xp As a consequence, Jewel and Dominick's always seem really huge and weird and Middle American to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone else tried the little asian grocery that's on broadway right by my place? Golden Palace, I think? It's really cool. They have good fruit.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I last went to Trader Joe's two weeks ago. It was full to the rafters with yuppies who were moving soooooo sloooooowly, mouths agape, through the place. Then there were the employees stocking shelves with huge boxes of stuff blocking the aisles (or rather, not stocking, but standing around bulshitting). I made it through the first aisle, put my few items back on the shelf, turned around, and got the hell out of there. I cannot deal with an IKEA/Target/Water Tower Place department store on Christmas Eve environment when I'm trying to get my food on.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus, I've said it before and I will say it again, their produce is shitty and overpriced in my experience. Go to one Stanley's/Belmont Produce for orgo stuff, it's cheaper, faster, better all 'round.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, totally with you. Trader Joe's here, at least, specializes in "value-added" foods, which are semi-prepared so they can be taxed (unlike "raw" groceries). Favorite example: they had over a dozen kinds of fancy pasta sauce and zero kinds of canned tomatoes. So you can, like, MAKE YOUR OWN. Pre-prep stuff is good for tired nights and dinner parties when you need 10 hand-stuffed fish fillets, I guess? But way too expensive for all the time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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