Showing posts with label Twyla. Show all posts
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Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, November 27, 2007 23 Of Your Sparks



Man this is getting big...

TIME TO DONATE SOME RICE TODAY!
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People all over the world are getting into it...go check out the updated count of grains donated over at Anndi's.



Thanks to Roger for giving me his balls...the two you see above...
Christmas Balls you silly people!



OK, so Mimi, Queen of the Memes was tagged by Lee . This meme originally comes from The Blue Tea person.

Then Mimi tagged The Lady Of The Luggage, Anndi, who tagged The Voice Of The Tapes, Bud, who has then tagged us...

Rules: Devise a list of 5-10 courses you would take to fix your life. It's more fun to be in classes with friends, so include one class from the person who tagged you that you'd also like to take. Tag five.

Traffic Building 505- (this one from Bud) - Maybe if I take it we can understand why our hits are going up, but our rankings are plummeting. That 'value of your blog' thing...we are now worth half what we used to be, we are so confused....

Winning Lottery Numbers 101 - What? There are no courses like this ...anywhere??????
Now come on....if you could take this course tell me you wouldn't...and do it with a straight face...

How To Speak Like A S'thna - Well, all my friends say we sound silly when we try it and well hell, it might be nice to smooth out da Nu Yawka accent wit a bit of the drawl...

Time Management - Bottom line, we never seem to have enough time to do everything that needs to be done...OK, so this is not a funny one...but hell we have always needed this course.

Holidays without your son 101 - Not sure this is a course anyone can teach, but it is a hard lesson plan, we can tell you that. First year ever...and we are sad, but we also know it is for the best this year and it will never happen again...

OK, so it might not be the best syllabus in the world, but it is mine mine mine,...I tell you mine mine mine....

We are supposed to tag people...so
Dana
Coco
Twyla
Tiggerlane

rock on ladies...




Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN'S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday November 27th at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)

Dr. Blogstein and Dangerous Lee will try to connect with NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry after the Radio Happy Hour staff screwed up when trying to get the basketball legend on the line last week.

Also, R&B artist Troy "Breeze" Larkin wants to put the "love" back into music. Breeze is on a mission to change the way our entertainment industry treats women but can he sell a record without referring to "bitches" and "hos"? We'll find out.

Plus, Cheril Vendetti is "The Mistress of the Mob Cuisine." She's an Italian stand up comedian with a passion for food. Jokes and pasta--what's not to love?

All that and SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE CYBERWAVES Vinny Bond drags his Big Leather Couch into the Radio Happy Hour Lounge and chats live with the listeners, your calls at 646-652-4804, we'll FINALLY play a rousing game of "NAME OR DRUG" and we'll talk more about the OVEN BAG HOLIDAY SPECIAL.

Join us live every Tuesday night at 9PM ET. The Radio Happy Hour Lounge--a live chat room during show time--is a whole new reason to make sure you listen live! It’s the show within the show!




Speaking of rocking on...


"BROWN SUGAR"
THE ROLLING STONES
Composers: M. Jagger/K. Richards
1971

"Brown Sugar" is the opening track and first single from the band THE ROLLING STONES' 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #490 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Album Personnel:
  • Mick Jagger – vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, guitar, percussion
  • Keith Richards – backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, guitar
  • Mick Taylor – electric guitar, guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar
  • Charlie Watts – drums
  • Bill Wyman – bass, electric piano
  • Paul Buckmaster – string arrangement
  • Ry Cooder – slide guitar
  • Jim Dickinson – piano
  • Rocky Dijon – congas
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano
  • Bobby Keys – saxophone
  • Jimmy Miller – percussion
  • Jack Nitzsche – piano
  • Billy Preston – organ
  • Jim Price – trumpet, piano
  • Ian Stewart – piano




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Twyla's Meme

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, August 02, 2007 22 Of Your Sparks


The beautiful and enticing Twyla has conceived a new Meme and tagged me with it.

It is a simple Meme from a subject standpoint, but certainly not so easy in application.

The rules are to name the 4 best nights of your life. Then tag 4 people.

Well being as we have had somewhere in the realm of 19,389 nights in our life, we have more to choose from then others......



Off we go...

1) April 3, 1987 (the only one we will date) - this is simply the easiest. Matthew came into the world on this evening and my life has never been the same. My son is my everything...We miss him so very much...miss being able to just knock knuckles or hug or just laugh about something stupid. And we really miss watching him play baseball. We have written about this night before, but the short version was it was getting late and my A-Type personality brain had been told he would be born that day...and it was almost the next day...and then we were in the delivery room and then he was screaming his brains out...NIRVANA

OK, this wasn't so much about that night as it was about the results. We had to add it Twyla...



2) See, we are breaking the rules already, and this meme is not even 24 hours old...it was a day/night thing...just spending it with a special friend. We were out and about all day laughing and smiling, holding hands and hooking our thumbs into the back pocket of the other's jeans, and just enjoying each other's company, and then back for dinner at my apartment.
Made some pasta and my gravy for her as promised...

Then the BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE PART ---we just laid on the couch together so close, under a soft blanket we have...watching TV for a while before ....well...before.... Silly me had put together a few hours of music we knew she loved and appreciated and it played in the background...with the candles...and ...well.....That night everything in the world just felt so right, like it had never felt before....like the black clouds had been vanquished forever...there were visions of a lifetime of similar days...wonderfully happy days...a night that will live in my brain and my heart forever.


3) The night we were made a member of TKE Fraternity. Without going into details (NO, there was no puking, eating of disgusting things, animals or breaking the law involved in our initiations), it began as a stressful night with the impression we would be asked to leave, until they asked us to be their Brother. It was the night that we gained friends that we still have to this day. men who we would drop everything for to assist (well, my closest friends know we would do that for them also...anytime, anywhere, anything...) and they would do the same if we needed. Yes, it ended up in drunken debauchery that lasted two days and a freakin' killer hang-over the next day (do you know how drunk you have to be at 19 to have a hang-over...very freakin' drunk, let me tell you!)


4) One evening at work, back in 1977...got a call from a business associate. Would we like tickets to see the opening night of the Knicks, or go with him to the 6th game of the World Series...Dodgers/Yankees....
Silly question, we headed for Da Bronx, and that night witnessed history as Reginald Martinez Jackson - in three at bats, on the first pitch of each at bat, off of three different pitchers, hit three home runs and the Yankees won the World Series...Thrilling night.


Now, I am to tag 4 people.....and the wheel goes round and round and the first place it stops is....

our most favorite SugarBaby friend DIXIE

and around and round she goes and next up is...
Ms. Julie from Philly

big spin on the wheel now.....flying round and round so fast...
Ms. Songbird, our friend from the Desert you are a winnnnnnnnnnnnner

and finally..........
OK, dear Tug.....wonderful Yankee fan...all around cool Grandmother...your name came up on the spin...

Please let us know when you post so we can link it here...



Our song of the day is one that has been playing on the soundtrack in our brain for a few days now....so it was time to break it out...Written by Mr. Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend. From the album of the same name which was released on August 28, 1973 on the TAMLA RECORDS (a division of the MOTOWN label).

The album took longer than usual to record as Mr. Gaye had a case of writers block after finishing off his previous album "WHAT'S GOING ON" in 1971.

After a discussion with old friend and former singer Ed Townsend of "FOR YOUR LOVE" fame, Mr. Gaye agreed to record the rough draft of a song Townsend had worked on: "LET'S GET IT ON".

Originally the song was a religious ode to life and was later re-written by Gaye confidant Kenneth Stover. Upon hearing Gaye's demo of the political version of the song, Townsend protested that the song was about "making sweet love".

Marvin and Ed then rewrote the lyrics with the arrangements and musical accompaniment of the demo intact.

The song reached #1 on both the US Pop and R&B singles charts and got to #31 on the UK singles charts.

Mr. Townsend was so so correct in his assessment of this song...





I've been really tryin', baby
Tryin' to hold back this feelin' for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then come on, oh, come on
Woo, let's get it on
Ah, babe, let's get it on
Let's love, baby
Let's get it on, sugar
Let's get it on
Woo-ooh-ooh


We're all sensitive people
With so much to give
Understand me, sugar
Since we got to be
Let's live
I love you


There's nothin' wrong
With me lovin' you
Baby, no, no
And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true
Oh, babe, ooh, ooh


Don't you know
How sweet and wonderful life can be?
Woo-ooh
I'm askin' you, baby
To get it on with me
Ooh, ooh, ooh


I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna push
Won't push you, baby
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, baby
Stop beatin' 'round the bush, hey


Let's get it on, ooh, ooh
Let's get it on
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Come on, baby, hey, hey
Let your love come out
If you believe in love
Let's get it on, ooh, ooh
Let's get it on, baby
This minute, oh yeah
Let's get it on
Please, please, get it on
Hey, hey


I know you know
What I've been dreamin' of
Don't you, baby?
My whole body is in love
Woo


I ain't gonna worry, no, I ain't gonna push
I won't push you, baby, woo
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, darlin'
Stop beatin' 'round the bush, hey


Gonna get it on
Beggin' you, baby, I want to get it on
You don't have to worry that it's wrong
If the spirit moves you, let me groove you good
Let your love come down
Oh, get it on, come on, baby


Do you know I mean it?
I've been sanctified
Hey, hey
Girl, you give me good feelings, so good


Nothin' wrong with love
If you want to love me
Just let yourself go
Oh, baby
Let's get it on



...HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR STAY TODAY




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Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Friday, January 12, 2007 12 Of Your Sparks

how many words are needed for this to work. ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twentyOK, so now THE COUCH feels like Barb over at Skittles Place with multiple posts (pause for a thought) in one day.

We found this over at Twyla's and had to share...you can do one of your own and as Twyla asked her readers, if you do create one, please leave the link in the comments section ...
SCISSOR SISTERS - DANCE SISTER DANCE

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