Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[greatwhitenorthchick]

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Do I get pro-Canada points for liking "Life Is a Highway"?

No. He is up there with Bryan Adams on the embarrasment scale.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Due to the rage I am feeling bc of Tell Her About It taking over my brain, I think I will go up to the next goateed suburbanite and say that 1999 called and told me to tell you that 1996 called and wants its goatee back.

2001 called and told me to tell you it wanted its "[insert year here] called to tell you it wants its [insert year's fad here] back" joke back.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by evenodds
Clearly, "We Didn't Start the Fire" because it was a boomer song, and therefore, automatically annoying.

(Sorry, Wonk and Bilmore.)

On bad regional songs . . .

One of my uncles married a hoosier. At family gatherings, we sing "House of the Rising Sun" and "Margaritaville." She sings "Jack & Diane." Ick.

Correct artist, wrong song... Actually Small Town is the preferred hoosier anthem.

n(from a long line of hoosiers)cs

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Due to the rage I am feeling bc of Tell Her About It taking over my brain, I think I will go up to the next goateed suburbanite and say that 1999 called and told me to tell you that 1996 called and wants its goatee back.

The suburbs called. They say all is forgiven, Muffy. Come on home and we'll mix up a pitcher of bloodys and watch Mummy and Daddy ossify.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
2001 called and told me to tell you it wanted its "[insert year here] called to tell you it wants its [insert year's fad here] back" joke back.

I love you to death but that was the whole point of my saying 1999 called, bc that joke is from Friends, 1999 I believe. By 2001, it was just the goateed people and Prima Facie saying it. And apparently you.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Do I get pro-Canada points for liking "Life Is a Highway"?

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No. He is up there with Bryan Adams on the embarrasment scale.

I don't know, Lunatic Fringe is pretty good song. It reminds of Vision Quest. And of course Vision Quest reminds me of that scene where we see the silhouette of Linda Fiorentino raising her hips so that Matt Modine can remove her underwear more easily. Nothing's sexier to a fifteen year old boy than the "hip raise".

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Thats funny- my ex and I used to play the "whats the worst song ever game" and nobody was able to top We Built This City which is a song that has no redeeming qualities. I think that some strata of the population can dance to the Cher song, but We built this city is just the worst song ever. Do you know us?

How about "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band? And I have many, many more.

[purse junkie]

from MSN:
Speaking of Weddings...
For those of you who are sick and tired of hearing about lovey-dovey celebs walking down the aisle in pure bliss, this should cheer you up. Freddie Prinze Jr. claims the magic of matrimony was nowhere to be found prior to his nuptials.

The star told NW magazine that he was so ill before his wedding to Sarah Michelle Gellar, he was surprised he made it down the aisle at all. "I don't remember the details, because I was drunk most of the time," he admits. "The night before I ate something and I got so sick I started hallucinating. I was literally shaking on the floor. My best man comes in and I'm butt naked on the floor in a cold sweat looking for my mom. He was like, 'You're getting married in five minutes, your mom and everyone is sitting down waiting for you.' He was dressing me and I had like drool on my cheek. His hand was on the small of my back, holding me up straight so I didn't fall over. But I survived."

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We took mushrooms together once and he made me listen to a whole slew of Rush cds while he kept the television on a NASCAR race.

No. No no no no no no no.

This is hurting my brain. I cannot take this image. I am freaking out here. Think good thoughts, think good thoughts, think good thoughts. Rush and mushrooms. Rushrooms and NASCAR. NO! NONONONONONONONONONO. Think about clouds. Pretty things. Nice music. Like Tom Sawyer. NASCAR cars melting into a Rushy rainbow of Geddy Lee faces. No, god no, help me . . .

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No. He is up there with Bryan Adams on the embarrasment scale.

Life is a Highway. 1992. I know this because I took a road trip across country that year and that song was either playing on the radio or stuck in my head for the vast majority of the 2 week trip.

Ah, memories. Now it will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. At least it got Tell Her About It out.

Moving on to Canadian singers who don't totally suck (possibly a short list), I fondly recall my Bruce Cockburn phase. If I had a rocket launcher... At least I think he is Canadian. If not, my list is even shorter...

n(can't drive thru Tennessee without getting Walking In Memphis stuck in my head - luckily not much of a problem, as I don't typically drive thru TN now)cs

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by taxwonk
How about "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band? And I have many, many more.

I'm a Long Island girl and I have enough Billy Joel shame to fill the virtual room. But how can Billy Joel be a face card in a world that permitted REO Speedwagon to happen? A true assault on the senses. I feel nauseated just thinking about it. I'd rather listen to Journey for a week than hear "Snake in the Grass" once.

Now if Sebby wants to argue that Billy Joel is a demon because his ouevre is so much larger and his sing-along potential is that much greater, I understand.

r(unabashedly nostalgic about U2)p

[SlaveNoMore]

purse junkie
wait, you didn't listen to all those talentless shrieking hair-metal bands in the 80s, did you?

At the time, I was into speed metal a la [early] Metallica, Exciter, [early] Anthrax and Exodus, until listening to Slayer's "Hell Awaits" while drinking cheap Gallo port caused me to branch out into death/black Metal like Celtic Frost, Venom and Possessed - until I looked around me at concerts I realized that these buffoons actually believed that carving up a Perdue chicken on the LIRR tracks might cause 'old Scratch to actually appear - so I bought a skateboard, painted a NYHC on the back of my cutoff denim vest and became a skate punk listening to Agnostic Front, Leeway, Cro-Mags, Black Flag, All, etc. - some point around 1987, still not sure how, trading in said vest and my "Crippled Children Suck" LP for a TieDye, a scratched copy of "Blues for Allah" and a hash brownie, but I digress.

But to go back to hair metal, I recently burned a CD for a friend comprised of Tesla, Poison, Zebra, Warrant, White Lion, Sister, the Crue, Great White, Skid Row and - last but not least - Kix. And trust me, all who hear it want a copy.

not7y(Don't close your e-e-e-e-ey-ye-yes)S

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I love you to death but that was the whole point of my saying 1999 called, bc that joke is from Friends, 1999 I believe. By 2001, it was just the goateed people and Prima Facie saying it. And apparently you.

You admit to watching "Friends"?

And I've never seen an episode of "Melrose Place"...

She is getting worse looking by the photo. I dont get it. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stor...stanceid=57672

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
She is getting worse looking by the photo. I dont get it. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stor...stanceid=57672

And when did she lose her arm?