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Red Days And Green Flowers

Uptown
It’s murder
Out in the street

So I’m talking to Allamagoosa while Pandora Radio is playing and this song comes on. “Oh, there’s a cheerful Valentine’s Day song… especially if you consider the massacre.”

Since she’s a fan of anime and many things Japanese, does that make her my Mandarin Plum?

 

Nothing Changes On New Year’s Day

…so you go back, Jack, and do it again

The Faithful’re Not Gonna Take It

Someone is going to Hell for this –

Better quality here but it crops out the intro.

I can picture him cleaned up with a haircut in a cathedral and belting out a traditional version of this song.

For you know-nuthin’ kids who were unfortunate enough to have not lived through the 80s, watch this first.

Rocktober – The One

[Or: “My UnLife With The Thriller Kill Kult”]

I seriously thought about leaving this one out, it’s so obvious by now. But the dancing zombies are awesome, and it’s just not Halloween without Vincent Price.

Happy Halloween

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Intermission

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Rocktober – After Five

Who’s watching you after the work day is done?

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Intermission

Rocktober – Intermission

First a public service announcement from two legendary rockers…

Ozzy begins a new dietary plan

Ozzy begins a new dietary plan

And now a promotional consideration for a Rock Legend without peer – Billy And The Boingers!

The band Deathtongue languished in remainder bins until a Senate Committee on Rock Music forced a name change to Billy And The Boingers. Their next song "I'm A Boinger" rocketed them to superstardom

The metal band Deathtongue languished in remainder bins until a Senate Committee on Rock Music forced a name change to Billy And The Boingers. Their next song “I’m A Boinger” rocketed them to superstardom

Music will resume after a brief word from our sponsor –

And now back to our most irregular Halloween programming.

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Rocktober – The Seventh Deadly Song

Halloween is seven days a week when you dress that way just to keep them at bay.

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Rocktober – Eight Up

Halloween nears softer than shadow and quicker than flies.

Every time I hear this, I picture a cannibalistic Spider-Man.

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Dream Into Action

The four stages of technological progress –

Phase 1 – Origination and dissemination of idea, often through Science Fiction

Lila, The Build-A-Friend from OMAC

Lila, The Build-A-Friend from OMAC

Phase 2 – Ideas hrönired into reality engineered by Science!

Phase 3 – Refinement, mass production and Integration into lifestyle [Hat tip to Wdydfae]

Phase 4 – Ordinary everyday horseshit drama

And you thought "Friends" was bad with mere humans

And you thought “Friends” was bad with mere humans

All 4 stages neatly summed up

Do not ride the hoverboard. BE the hoverboard!

Do not ride the hoverboard. BE the hoverboard!

Bonus round for anyone who caught the title reference

The Apocalypse of Exuberant Hairstylings was narrowly avoided when the 1980s, in a surprise move, ended.

Why It’s Here

No real reason, actually, just a place for me to write about whatever random stuff that pops into my head, the occasional look back at stupid things from my life, and music. So I might as well kick off my new hangout hitting all three with a forward looking song from my past.