Banjo Kazooie!!

Wasn’t that a popular video game awhile back?? Maybe it still is?? I seem to remember playing it, but I also seem to remember when Woolworth’s sold spider monkeys…

For younger readers, Woolworth’s was a forerunner to Wal-Mart, but in older, smaller buildings. And they really did sell monkeys. Or maybe they were just mutant hamsters with really long legs…and a fondness for bananas.

Yesterday I held the most pointless contest ever, in this here blog space. I mentioned that I had tickets to see a really embarrassing 80’s group, and within moments several readers hit the nail on the head. We are going to see Air Supply, famous mainly for high-pitched vocals, and cheesy love ballads. I like cheese, my wife enjoys love ballads, so this could work. I was sort-of drunk with the power of my charge card at the time, and those tickets climbed into my wallet with the other shows I was purchasing at the time.

Yeah, the guys in Air Supply make James Blunt sound almost masculine by comparison. Even Jessica Simpson has more testosterone than these guys. We’re both looking forward to the show…

Unlike Linda Ronstadt, I don’t think I’ll be wishing I had brought along a banjo, like I did at that show. Well, I may be quietly wishing, but not as desperately as I did at her concert.

As the weekend is fast approaching, we now have only three long days until the next episode of Rockstar: Supernova. I’d like to offer the producers of that show a few songs that the contestants might tackle, to prove their mettle to the judges:

1) Anything by INXS. The irony would be cool.
2) More John Lennon. One song just wasn’t enough.
3) Some early Springsteen.
4) “This Diamond Ring”, by Gary Lewis & The Playboys.
5) “Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy”.
6) The long version of Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn”.

Of course, I have no pull with the producers, but any of the above songs would add a bit of sparkle to the show.

Chow for now!!