First Christmas special watched: Rise of the Guardians. I love this movie. It's so visually beautiful. Plus, Hugh Jackman as the Bunny Rabbit, and then there's Sandy, my favorite character. Also, it can be a Christmas or Easter movie.
Y'all, I bitch so much and God just keeps blessing us.
First, my very awesome cousin Rachel brought me ice, charcoal and drinks for J. And not just me. She's helping her neighbors as well.
We finally got added to the FEMA list, so I applied there.
I have the yard looking better. I moved the limbs J cut up for me, raked all the leaves, and picked up all the limbs out of the pathway we've made from front yard to back, and from the back yard to the back door.
I cleaned out the freezer, which thanks to the Hello Fresh ice packs, was still cool-ish. I gave everything that was still cool to the cats, threw the rest away, sprayed and dried the ice packs and cleaned the freezer.
I filled the truck up with gas, and it will NEVER get that low again.
In the spirit of Vanessa Williams. I saved the best for last. My street got electricity back, and y'all, our neighbors - - the nice ones - - came over and told us to hook up an extension cord so we can have some power. We are so blessed. Fan! Light!
We're alive. But between 2am and 4am Friday morning is the most scared I've evef been.i went back and forth between fervently praying and squeezing J's arm every time the wind gusted and destroyed something else.
We lost tin off the roof, but the worst part was our power feed was ripped off the wall and has to be fixed before the power company will hook up the electricity.
There are more limbs on the ground than in the trees. We finally cleared what was in front of the house.
We have water, we have hurricane food and cat food. All our babies are safe. I was worried about Tiger, but he came home yesterday!
Our water came back, albeit not at full force, but I have never been so glad to have a shower!
There is so much devastation. We went out Saturday to get a chain saw, solar thingy to charge phones, more food and water and cat food and toilet paper. Ice has been nearly impossible to find. Everywhere we went was in awful shape. Our bad neighbors had a tree fall on their car, and the nice neighbors had a tree fall in the middle of their house.
So, overall we're very lucky, just miserable because we're spoiled and have no fan or ac(me) and no video games(J).
No generator, so we're doing our best to cope. I've already had one meltdown.
Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of Hair Metal
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This part was sad in many ways, as you'll see.
Skid Row - - Dave Sabo and Rachel Bolan commented. Sebastian Bach did not. They played part so "Youth Gone Wild" and "I Remember You." I thought Sebastian was gorgeous, but Rachel always appealed to me with his face chains. He did not have them in this interview. Some chick, a DJ, said, about Sebastian, "Dudes wanted to be him, girls wanted to hang out with him... or whatever." Whatever, indeed.
Turns out Sebastian was a bit of a dick. Nuno Bettancourt of Extreme(he still looks good, BTW) told a story about Extreme being on the same plane as Skid Row. Sebastian was drinking and singing and when the flight attendant wouldn't let him have more alcohol, he went and got it himself. She told the pilot, he came out and Sebastian attacked him. The Extreme guys helped pull him off the guy, but the Skid Row guys just sat there. In these stories, they show it as a cartoon, and cartoon Rachel did have his face chains.
They played some of "More Than Words," which I loved.
They showed the infamous Chris Holmes(WASP) pool interview from The Decline of Western Civilization:The Metal Years, by Penelope Spheeris. It is literally the only thing I remember from that documentary. It is so sad, and his mom was right there.
There was a segment about Trixter and I literally do not remember them at all.
Apparently, Winger's career was ended by Beavis and Butthead. I didn't watch B&B.
Mike Tramp from White Lion spoke, but they didn't include White Lion in this. Mike does not even look like the same person.
There was a band member conflict part:
I don't remember this, either, but Bret Michaels and CC DeVille got in a fight at the VMAs. CC was under the influence, Bret announced on stage they were going to do "Nothin' But a Good Time, " but CC started playing "Talk Dirty to Me." They fought backstage, with Arsenio Hall and Cindy Crawford looking on.
They showed Kurt Loder interviewing Axl Rose. Kurt said Steven "left" GnR. Axl corrected him and said Steven was fired.
Steven was interviewed and it still makes me sad to hear him speak. He has a speech impediment from when he did the speedball and had a stroke.
And the two saddest parts:
Jani Lane's death. I remember how shocked and saddened I was when I heard this.
Robbin Crosby's death. This one was sad, too. He could not get clean, and something happened with his metabolism and he gained weight. He was always a big guy(like over 6 feet tall), but he ballooned up to 400 lbs and was unrecognizable. He got AIDS from using dirty needles because of his heroin addiction. People assumed he died of AIDS, but it was a heroin OD. Warren DiMartini was very reluctant to speak about any of it on here.
They talked about how the rise of grunge destroyed metal. Kix was recording a new record and were stopped and kicked out of the studio.
Seeing Jack Russell, with his weakened voice and a slight hand tremor was sad, too.
They mentioned Bulletboys, and even showed a clip of Marq Torien, but didn't devote any time to him. Cinderella and Bon Jovi were glaring omissions.
This did inspire me to listen to some good 80s metal, my beloved Great White("Once Bitten Twice Shy), Guns n Roses("Sweet Child of Mine"), Cinderella("Gypsy Road"), Warrant("Heaven," "Down Boys," "Sometimes She Cries"), Blue Murder("Jelly Roll"), and Motley Crue("Home Sweet Home" and "Girls Girls Girls"). It also made me miss that time so intensely. Such good times.
Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal
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Rikki Rachtman looks... different.
Poison ushered in the pretty boy, lighter side of hair metal. They mentioned "Talk Dirty to Me," but the ballads... "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "I Won't Forget You," "Something to Believe In," those were my favorites. Bret Michaels still looks pretty good.
White Lion - - this brings back memories. "Wait," "Little Fighter," and "When the Children Cry" were my favorites.
Warrant - - they talked about "Cherry Pie" being sexist. Once again, not my favorite by any means. "Heaven," "Down Boys," "Sometimes She Cries," and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were my favorites.
Dug Pinnick from King's X! I loved "Over my Head" so much.
Hanoi Rocks - - the lead singer talked about Razzle's death.
Did anyone know Guns n Roses is called that because Tracii Guns(LA Guns) and Axle Rose were in a band together?
Tracii Guns is in this a lot. I only really love one LA Guns song... "Ballad of Jayne."
Only mentioned in passing, but... White Lion! "House of Pain"
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The beginning had some footage of Randy Rhoads with Quiet Riot.
Motley Crue was apparently the first band of the heavy metal era.
Don Dokken helped a lot of up and coming bands... something I didn't know.
Stephen Pearcy is not as pretty as he used to be.
Rudy Sarzo, who had left Quiet Riot to play with Ozzy Osbourne, was a good friend of Randy Rhoads, and he told the story about the plane crash that killed Randy, Rachel Youngblood and the pilot. I remember how devastating this was.
And... Great White. A clip of "Once Bitten Twice Shy," one of my favorite songs ever. They were originally called Dante Fox. When Alan Niven became their manager, it was changed to Great White.
Alan didn't think too much of Jack, who, it turns out, was a bit of a dick. He drove their tour bus high on Xanax and hit the median, and he and a friend used to steal coke from drug dealers. Like, walk in with guns and ski masks and steal it. It's also how he ended up in jail. He got high on PCP before he went to the drug dealer's house, shot through a door and wounded the maid. He only did 11 months, though.
Despite how disappointed I was in our productivity level today, yesterday afternoon was awesome. I sat with the babies, I did laundry, I did dishes, I crushed cans(all our barrels are full, so I'm freeing up space), then I came inside, had a much needed shower and relaxed. J went to bed super early. I fixed coffee and had a walnut pistachio muffin and watched The World According to Garp, which remains one of my favorite book-to-movie translations. The cast is amazing. I know it's shocking, but I've never been a huge fan of Robin Williams in comedic roles... he's always so manic and over the top. But in Garp and Dead Poets Society, he was so good. So, that's how I ended up staying up until after 11, and didn't get back up(despite Bucky's protests) until 9:30 this morning. J got up before me!
Thank goodness my vacation is next week. I am stressed the fuck out and I'm being weird, even for me.
Work, as always, is super stressful. As long as Nick is our manager, we are going to keep losing good employees, because he is the worst manager I have ever worked for, and I cannot stress this enough, I worked for Thomas and Sharon. He overworks the good employees, but the sorry ones keep right on being sorry.
I'm trying to do well, for my team and for Billie, but between Nick and Helena, I don't give a fuck. And it's affecting my home life.
I love James and the babies, but y'all, yesterday afternoon, I absolutely could not deal with the neediness.
Today, J woke up with a headache. He does, frequently. He gets migraine level sinus-related headaches. I had gone out to get breakfast. I didn't get up until after 9 - - unheard of! and went to pick up breakfast instead of cooking. J was sitting here with a headache, but hadn't taken anything - - sinus meds, migraine meds, nose spray - -to help get rid of it.
Sunday is our only day off together. I had tons of stuff I needed his help with. While he recovered, I got the garbage together, changed the bed linens, put on a load of laundry, brought in dry clothes, did a thousand other little things so I could stop doing what I needed to do and do what I wanted to do... and the simplest thing, I opened the refrigerator to put in a 12 pack of soda and a plastic container of pears had leaked juice all over the fridge shelf. I started crying hysterically. I am just so tired and stressed.
And yes, I already have a long, long list of stuff I need to do next week. But at least I won't be doing it and dealing with Walmart.
And yes, I do feel better. J helped me do everything I needed him to and I finished all my tasks and sat with the babies.
