What I am about to post may have been the most creepy/disturbing part of my chilhood. For anyone who has seen the clay animation movie ‘The Adventures of Mark Twain’, you would know that there is a part in this movie that has the devil with a theatrical mask as a head.
Ordinarilly you would pass this off as nothing… It was the 80’s, they did a lot of crazy stuff. This unfortunately gave me nightmares for months! I’m not kidding…
Parents? Did you know that they took this off the air? Did you know that this one small part in the movie would give your fragile and impressionable baby girl nightmares for months? I’m just wondering….
For those of you who have never seen ‘Xanadu’ Let me give you a little synopsis from the IMDb.com
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira (Olivia Newton John), encounters an artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), a man Kira had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink.
My Dad has had a massive crush on Olivia Newton John since she first appeared in Grease (Which explains why I have seen a lot of her movies). Although Miss John had appeared in numerous amounts of horrible films, no other tops the charts like Xanadu. Here is a very interesting clip involving Olivia, Gene Kelly and an 80’s Roller Rink. It’s not creepy but disturbing none the less.
Since I am preparing to move, I’m not going to have a whole lot of time to blog.
Since I don’t want to deprive my sanity or my readers, I have decided (In the spirit of Halloween and being inspired by my last 2 posts) that I am going to post Crazy Clips from years past that will no doubt make your skin crawl as well as give you nightmares!
Keep in mind that it may not even be ‘Halloween Related’ but it will no doubt still have the same effects. I’m just going to surprise you… For Day 1, I have chosen something that had a profound impact on just about every child and teenager from my generation. This particular movie brought us the ‘Bog of Eternal Stench’, Cracked out muppets, and of course David Bowie’s wicked sweet dance moves. Ladies and Gentlemen, ‘Dance Magic Dance’ from ‘The Labyrinth!’
Apparently I am all about the videos lately… After posting Bonnie Tyler yesterday, I have decided that next week I’m going to do ‘Crazy Music Video’ week. You’ll just have to wait and see what I come up with…. mwuahahaha!
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the the ‘Time Warp’ from the Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Who doesn’t love Bonnie Tyler? Who doesn’t love ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’?
With Halloween right around the corner I thought I would share this little gem with you all. Be sure to stay tuned for the football players and the possessed choir boys. As you watch, try to keep in mind that the director of ’said’ music video was no doubt doing blow on the back of a urinal to continue the ‘vision’ and ‘inspiration’ for what has literally given me nightmares upon viewing…. With no further ado I give you Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’.
I find myself in utter dismay as I blog at 3:30 in the morning. So the saga continues! As most of you have either read or know first hand, my friend Katy and I have been searching for housing since early August (even separate from each other) but to no avail.
We have received excuses ranging from ‘we are turning this into guys housing this year’. ‘I’m sorry, we want to sell the place with the market being so unpredictable so we aren’t going to be renting to tenants this year’ to ‘sorry, we decided to turn this into married housing’… whatever.
The weird thing about that is (and I love Provo for this) because the vast majority of my friends are guys; I can’t even sleep on my guy friend’s couches when I have nowhere to go. My friend Katy having mostly guy friends as well has been met with the same problem. We have had place after place after place fall through until now. One of my friends (who was living in girls housing mind you) decided to give up his place so that the two of us could have somewhere to live. Nice guy right? He told me he already had somewhere to go and that everything was ok and ironed out, or else Katy and I would never have even presumed to take this apartment, but we did. Everything was ok until 2:45 this morning when I get not only a call from his mom (that owns ‘said’ apartment) letting us know very bluntly that we were violating BYU housing rules (???? I know BYU housing rules inside and out and there is and or was no violation) but that we had until 9:30 (approx 5 hours from now) to get out and find something else!!
Up until now I have been trying to cry but my tear ducts seem to be too proud. Luckily laughter won out so Katy and I have just spent the last hour or so laughing our butts off about the situation. So the saga continues….
I wonder if it is just time to get out of Utah and never look back. After searching Craigslist, KSL, BYU housing website, the WILK board, UVU housing, the ads in the paper and even walking up and down streets in the greater Provo, Orem, Springville, Lindon, and Pleasant Grove area only to come up with nothing. It’s time to start thinking of other options.
Great News Everybody! I am officially homeless no more!!! YAY!!!
It was a crazy weekend! One of my Best friends (Mel) from High School came into town on Friday and it was really great to see her. She’s been working as a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines for the last 2 years or so and her last day is the 31st of this month. There are a lot of things I’m going to miss like hanging out and going to dinner, the view of unwashed miscreants urinating on the walls of the gas station next door. Oh what a 6 floor view from a hotel will give you.
The only unfortunate part about Mel quitting Southwest is now I have 2 weeks to use up 4 plane tickets. Where would I go? What shall I do? Maybe I’ll go home but then where? I have to think of where my other 3 destinations will be… If only Hawaii were an option.
Meanwhile as I imagine myself in exotic destinations like Iowa and Kansas I am brought back down to earth by the fact that I’m supposed to be working. Luckily the office is pretty calm today which means 1 thing! I get to play with this new ‘genius’ feature on my iTunes. At first I was a little leery. How can a computer program feature exactly what I want to hear? The thing I fear most when I pull up the ‘party shuffle’ mode on my iTunes is that it is going to play the crappy songs that I haven’t gotten around to deleting off of my computer. The genius so far hasn’t disappointed me one bit. All it does is takes the information about the song and puts other ‘like’ songs together. So far I’m a fan. A very big fan!
So as I sit listening to the awesome playlist that the ‘Genuis’ has set up for me, I will continue folding, stuffing and sealing mailers while basking in the comfort that I am no longer a transient, and think of the far off places that I’ll get to see really soon.
I normally don’t do this but my Cousin Anna has been living abroad with her family.
Being the history buff that I am, I can’t wait until she posts pictures of her adventures to places like Scotland, Paris and Wales… I am pretty jealous actually. Go to her Blog and check out the sights and be sure to scroll down and when you’re done, be sure to leave her plenty of comments!
Her kids are really cute too!
There is also a giveaway over at Jillene’s Blog… Go over and win a Bracelet! Or a Necklace…
Also, I am an author on the Steve Colbert Blog… Basically my friend Nate is raising money to name a room in the library of UVU after Steve Colbert because well… Why not?
It was like any other normal Sunday. I had gone to church, came home, went to break the fast, and finally ward prayer…More like ward stare in my ward’s case.
So there I was, going over to give my friend a hug when all of a sudden there was a huge *POP* *RIP* AHHHHHHHH! Oh, my knee! The good one! My only chance at getting through the winter relatively unscathed! It finally gave out on me! BAAAAAA!
Oh the searing pain! Was this karma for not being able to make it to Kristina’s ‘Meet and Greet?’ Was this payback for finding the last Argyle cardigan sweater in the entire store on Friday? I finally realized that it was merely from years and years of putting extra strain on my knee because my other knee bit the dust years ago… Oh well. At least it’s fixable right?! Right!
Count your many blessings name them one by one…..
Any-hoo… Did you know that Applebee’s has ‘Karaoke Night’ on Tuesday nights? Holy awesome! My friend and I went last night so see another mutual friend off (she’s leaving today). The funny thing is this. Karaoking, like many other things in Utah i.e. bowling, sporting events etc. are much much different.
In any other place in this great nation, there are certain things you expect; like walking into a bowling alley filled with cigarette smoke, drunken people while Karaoking. This is not really the case in Utah Valley. Not that I don’t appreciate this fact, but in a weird way it’s odd and un-natural.
Sometimes the best thing about karaoke is when highly inebriated people get up to sing ballads like ‘Total eclipse of the heart’ and ‘baby got back’ totally off key while stumbling around on the stage. This was not the case last night but it was still unbelievably fun… even if songs weren’t being massively butchered.
There was a remarkably ‘on key’ rendition of ‘Nothing but a good time’ by poison… Rocked my world! There was also a little ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ that had me rolling in the isle… Heaven Bless Karaoke!!!
