rock'n'roll radio

since joey, dee dee, and now johnny have all died within the past three years, i can't get this song out'ta my head. thank goodness it's a great song. so it's not an ear worm, more like an ear anthem. much better than the star spangled banner ever could hope to be.

i thought maybe if i reprint it here that will help me exorcise it from my itching, pulsing, swelling teenage-labotomized ddt'd brain.

Artist Lyrics: The Ramones
Song Lyrics: Do You Remember Rock'N'Roll Radio? Album Lyrics: End Of The Century

"Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?"

Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go

Do you remember Hullabaloo,
Upbeat, Shinding and Ed Sullivan too?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?

Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go

Do you remember Murray the K,
Alan Freed, and high energy?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century

Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go

Do you remember lying in bed
With your covers pulled up over your head?
Radio playin' so no one can see
We need change, we need it fast
Before rock's just part of the past
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh

Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go

Will you remember Jerry Lee,
John Lennon, T. Rex and OI Moulty?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century

Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go

Album: End Of The Century (1980)

biden on imus

quote of the day

"I am more worried about President Bush right now. Things are getting out of control again.

The President keeps saying stay the course in Iraq and you and I have had this conversation over a year ago, he has got to change the course in Iraq because I want to win in Iraq and his strategy is absolutely a disaster.

They have miscalculated. They have misled. They are incompetent in the administration in the effort over there. The only thing that works over there is the kids we have over there getting shot at. It is absolutely mind blowing to me that these guys continue to spin. I don't mind them spinning this stuff about the economy or spinning stuff about rich folks really aren't getting richer, this is really about the middle class, I get that. But I sure as hell mind the way they spin this effort in Iraq when our kids are getting put in the meat grinder. It didn't have to be that way and there is still one last chance of getting it right and I don' t see any indication, none. If I sound like I am getting angry, I am, any indication that they understand the sense of urgency, the sense of immediacy and all we talk about is Kerry and the swift boat and whether or not he voted for 87 billion dollars. These guys told me that they needed that 87 billion dollars immediately. They told me that they needed 18.4 billion dollars immediately to begin projects, to get them underway in Sadr City and other places so these kids over there wouldn't shoot and kill our guys. So we went ahead and did it.

I took a lot of heat from other people saying we should make it free and not have any claim on their oil to get it done immediately. Guess what? As of 10 months ago these guys have only spent 500 million dollars out of over 18.4 billion dollars..they are incompetent, they are incompetent. Our folks over there are really getting whacked because of their incompetence."

Senator Joe Biden

msnbc.com

gabba gabba hey

another one bites the dust.

joey, dee dee and now johnny, the score is three down and one to go. that's not good for us Ramones fans.

johhny was too cool for this dimension. hopefully the next one will fare him as well as the Ramones did in fame and a tour much longer than this short hop, skip and jump.

voting suggestion

if you can't find someone to vote for,
find someone to vote against -- anon.

presentpast

excerpt from a note to a friend,-- aka.betty --

hey betty,

i started my college career at OU. Norman was my home and haunt for about four years. as a senior i dropped out and moved to new orleans. then i transferred about a year after that to tampa where i finished my first degree.
anyway, back to norman. it's a great town. my hangout was campus corner. on the corner of campus corner is a restaurant called the "town tavern" i think (it's been a long time). anyway, that's where we started every day with plenty of coffee and breakfast, then off to classes, or whereever.... if it still exists, you must go there at least once.

i saw lots of punk bands around the corner from town tavern at the Boomer theatre. it was about 1980, so there was lots happenin'. we saw "talking heads," "iggy pop," "the buzzcocks," "the cramps," and many more punk bands for cheap (about $6 per show) at the Boomer on campus corner. is it still there?

norman also had a big middle-eastern student population at that time. it was the time of the iran hostage crisis, etc. i made many arab friends and began my education on the palestinian problems, terrorism, etc. -- first-hand -- from talking with many arab friends and classmates (mostly iranian and palestinian, at the time) at OU. all of them were great people. it seemed they all majored in engineering.

however i did attend art school film-making classes with an Iranian guy named Magid. we always joked with him about his secret wish after finishing school. we'd say he would go directly back home to Iran, not pass go, not collect $200, and at just the right time, become a martyr for allah.

he always laughingly agreed. i wonder if we ever met osama and i've just forgotten about it over all those years?

i could go on and on with memories of norman and OU but i will spare you for now.

i worked in the on-campus library, another one of my favorite places to hang out. we practically lived there as well. many things have changed i'm sure. it was, after all, 25 years ago.
let me know how things go, i'm getting homesick already. those were the beginning years of my life out on my own. many adventures....

xoxo
jezebel

--- In adultswithoi@yahoogroups.com [aka.betty] wrote:

I am right now trying to get into
the Oklahoma University and also find a job. If you or someone you know is in the Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas
area and want to talk or hang out ...

thanks,
betty

curses

ever since hearing about bill clinton's upcoming heart surgery i've been having urges for a mcdonald's cheeseburger. i wonder if bill has had any since finding out about it.

but even more i'm wondering if the severe right wing whipped up a big bad voodoo curse and whopped it on poor old bill, just for ole' times' sake. after watching the republican convention this past week i wouldn't be surprised.

bill will be fine. he still has some teflon spots left for the curses to bounce off of. if that doesn't work there's always plenty more time for roto-rooter.

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enough already ... poke it with a fork it's done

Don't send more kids to die
By Michael Moore

NEW YORK -- Tonight, it's show time for George W. Bush, and I can't wait to hear what he has to tell the Republican convention.
It has been a pretty thrilling week so far, my favorite moment by far being the rebellious Bush twins who, in just a few short minutes, delivered on their promise to issue "payback" to their parents and all authority in general. (Related stories: Moore index page)
They revealed their parents' pet name for each other: "Bushie" or "Bushy" � no spelling was provided. They seemed to have embarrassed their grandmother with a joke about the TV show Sex and the City as a place to have sex. And they claimed to have seen their boogieing parents "shake it like a Polaroid picture." That's one picture that took the rest of the night for me to shake out of my head.
Nonetheless, I loved the Bush daughters: They were funny, sassy and free spirits. Back in 1999, they told their father in no uncertain terms that they did not want him to run for president. They wanted their dad at home, they wanted their privacy, and they wanted to go to college in peace. He chose to ignore their pleas -- and I guess Tuesday night was their way of saying, "Thanks, Dad."
And thank him they should. He and Laura have obviously done a good job raising two bright, independent women. He made their privacy a top priority and did what he could to protect them. They clearly love their parents and, when you see that happen, you know the Bushes did something right in their home. For that, they should be commended.
Other fathers and mothers who loved their daughters and sons across America can no longer celebrate with them. That's because their children are dead on the streets and roads of Iraq, sent there by Mr. Bush to "defend" America.
This week, in an appearance leading up to his arrival here Wednesday night, Bush acknowledged he had miscalculated what would happen in Iraq after he invaded it. He had thought it was going to be much easier. It turned out to be much, much worse.
That must be some comfort to the parents of nearly 1,000 brave soldiers now dead because of his "miscalculation." If I made a miscalculation and ran over a child on the street, what do you think would happen to me? Do you think the cops would simply say, "Hey, Mr. Moore, you did your best driving down this street, you made a miscalculation, the kid is dead, but you are trying to save the world, so be on your way?" Something tells me this is not what would happen. What I don't get is that Mr. Bush makes his mistake and thinks he has a right to continue in his job.
Let's hope he isn't getting his inspiration from Richard Nixon, the same man Arnold Schwarzenegger hailed Tuesday night as his reason for becoming a Republican. You have to give Arnold an award for guts. He must be the first Republican convention speaker to mention Nixon since he resigned. Nixon snuck into office in 1968 with his secret plan to end the Vietnam War. Another miscalculation: The war continued for years, and thousands more died.
I would love to hear Bush apologize tonight to the parents and loved ones of those who have died in Iraq. I would like to hear him say he knows what it means to love your children and that he, in good conscience, cannot send any more children to their deaths.
I would like to hear him say tonight, "I'm sorry. There never were weapons of mass destruction and there never was a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. There was no imminent threat, our lives were not in danger, no missiles were going to hit Cleveland. Because of our desire to get our hands on the second largest supply of oil in the world, we sacrificed a thousand of your sons and daughters. For this, we are greatly sorry."
I guess a boy can dream.
The other thing I would like to hear tonight is: Why haven't you caught Osama bin Laden? You've had three years to find him. The man killed nearly 3,000 people here on our soil.
Maybe Bush has no worse explanation than he just hasn't been able to do it. Well, if your town's dogcatcher couldn't catch a wild dog that has been on the loose biting people for three years, what would be the dogcatcher's chances for re-election? Not good.
And so it should be for Bush.
Unless he has the answers tonight. Perhaps he has a reason or can accept responsibility for his actions and promise to send no one else's child off to die for a cause that has nothing to do with the defense of this country.
If he takes a moment to look into his daughters' eyes tonight, he will know the answer and give the greatest speech of his life.
Political conventions have become predictable rituals, four-day cheerleading sessions for both parties. So USA TODAY is offering readers an alternative perspective. Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, is writing daily from the Republican convention in New York. A month ago, conservative National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg weighed in from the Democratic convention.

Find this article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/2004-09-01-moore_x.htm

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Why Democrats shouldn't be scared
By Michael Moore

Find this article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/2004-09-02-moore_x.htm

moore hilarity -- convent report #2

The Ebert and McCain show
By Michael Moore

NEW YORK -- Poor John McCain.
Here's a guy I've always sort of liked, a courageous war hero reduced to carrying water for the Bush campaign. So it was Monday night, as I sat in the press section � unbeknownst to Sen. McCain � when he switched from pro-war convention speaker to film critic. Out of nowhere, he began to attack my movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, calling me a "disingenuous filmmaker." The problem is, he hasn't seen the movie, a fact he later admitted to Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
I know Republicans are mad that my film may have convinced just enough people to tip the balance in this election. Yet with all the serious issues facing our country, and right smack in the middle of an important speech about the need to catch the terrorists and continue the war in Iraq, McCain decided to turn the convention into the Ebert and McCain Show. He claimed that I portrayed Saddam's Iraq as an "oasis of peace."
Some of the 20 million who have seen the film must have wondered, "Did I miss that scene? I knew I shouldn't have gone out for those Goobers." All I can imagine McCain was referring to was a brief cutaway just as President Bush announces the commencement of the bombing of Baghdad on March 19, 2003.
Human-rights groups say thousands of civilians were killed because of our bombing. I thought it would be worthwhile to show some of the faces of Iraqi people who might soon meet their death.
I felt really bad for McCain standing there on the stage. The man wanted to be president. That dream was snuffed out during the 2000 primaries, when George W. Bush's supporters spread nasty rumors about what five and a half years in a North Vietnamese POW camp might have done to McCain's sanity.
Then there were the calls to potential white voters in South Carolina to inform them that McCain had a "black baby." (He and his wife adopted a child from Bangladesh.) The Bush supporters also spread other rumors that questioned McCain's patriotism, even though the man was a decorated war hero while W. chose to oh, let's not get into that again.
Still, McCain has offered to soldier on for Bush. So how does Bush's campaign treat him? It doesn't tell him I might be in the press section, officially credentialed.
It has him say some gibberish about my movie. Everyone then sees me, I start laughing my ball cap off, the crowd goes bananas, and poor McCain must think he said something funny or cool, so he says, "That line was so good, I'll use it again."
Agghh!
Thousands of Republicans turned to me chanting "Four more years." I thought, "That's strange, Republicans are usually good at math, but they're off by a few dozen months. Bush only has two months left." So I held up two fingers to correct their miscalculation. But that just drove them into more of a frenzy.
If you have never had this happen to you, I insist you try it at least once in your life. It is better than an angry mosh pit at a Slayer concert. As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L" � the international sign for loser � which is what I hope their candidate is about to become.
As for McCain, he had to beg the mob to be silent and listen to the rest of his speech. He must have wondered why a party that promises to protect us from terrorists booed my name more loudly than Saddam's or Osama's. Actually, no one mentioned the "O" name Monday night because, well, that would acknowledge that they have failed to find him.
Perhaps that is why Bush told Today anchor Matt Lauer that we can't win the war against terrorism. Perhaps that is why they were more mad at me than the bad guys. I'm much easier to remove.
Maybe I'll call up McCain and treat him to a movie down the block, one I know he will enjoy, considering he agreed that I was right when Chris Matthews said a main point of my movie is that "war is often fought by people without power."
If he will join me at the movies, he'll see brave soldiers like himself face the camera and tell the truth to the American people about what is going on in a place called Iraq.
Political conventions have become predictable rituals, four-day cheerleading sessions for both parties. So USA TODAY is offering readers an alternative perspective. Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, is writing daily from the Republican convention in New York. A month ago, conservative National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg weighed in from the Democratic convention.

Find this article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-08-31-moore_x.htm