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A hit for George Harrison in early 1981. Its lyrics were rewritten shortly after fellow Beatle John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980. It has fellow Beatles Paul McCartney on bass and Ringo Starr on drums. Technically, it's a 'Threetles' song since it has the three surviving Beatles on it. But since George wrote it, it's on his solo album 'Somewhere in England' and he sang lead on it and played guitar - it's considered to be a George Harrison solo song. Collaborations between the fellow Beatles on each others' solo albums are pretty common and continue to this very day. The video shows clips from Beatles movies.
'All Those Years Ago' is a tribute to the late John Lennon. It went to #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart and it scored significantly elsewhere. At the same time there were other tributes to John and the Beatles. The Dutch studio group STARS ON 45 had a Number One hit all over the world with a dance medley of mostly Beatles covers (it even made it in Communist East Germany, imagine that!). The influential Roxy Music scored their only Number One with their cover of Lennon's 'Jealous Guy'. Lennon's 'Imagine' hit the top in the UK. Lennon himself hit Number One posthumously. There would be other 'tribute' songs by Elton John, fellow Beatle Paul, Pink Floyd, and others during the next few years.
a hilarious comedy TV show about "nothing". It ran from 1990 to 1998. The main star was comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who is good at his profession. However Michael Richards, who starred as across-the-hall neighbor Cosmo Kramer was getting the lion's share of the applause and laughs until the show producers de-emphasized him in the 1996 - 1997 season, when the show's quality dropped and it just wasn't funny anymore. The series finale was sadistic and unfunny. Still, the first six seasons were great. TV hasn't been as much fun since that time.
Seinfeld comes on twice an evening on the local CW channel on week nights. Usually it's a major hoot.
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The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sence in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment, politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media (esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.
1. 1999 turns into 1984 (the novel). Fanatics attack on 9/11 and a great panic ensues. Armchair warriors see war on TV 24/7. Fundie fanaticism (Christian and Muslim) flowers. Meanwhile the economy tanks and the U.S. Constitution is used as toilet paper. Talking heads on TV toss in trashy celebrity stories to distract viewers. This turns America into a Masturbation Nation.
2. Reality TV becomes the opiate of the masses.
3. Anybody who stands near a flag, pretends to pray in public, holds up a cross, talks of "family values" or boasts of kickin' ass is venerated by the masses.
NBC reporter: Mr. Bush, who is your favorite philosopher?
W: Uhhhh - Jesus Christ!
*BING*BING*BING*BING*BING*
4. Rock'n'roll is long dead by 2000. However, some newer bands that recently released albums like *Stella, Spinerette, the Plasticines, Datarock and the Ravionettes hint that rock may be coming back to life as this ugly decade ends. Lord I hope so.
5. Let's be honest. How many females have become famous for their intelligence or talents in anything during the past 10 years? Cross your legs, shake your ass, put on a seductive "fuck-me-honey" air about you. Then you're a star. It's the Decade of Dumb Ditzy Dolls. The Season of the Bitch. Whatever happened to gender equality and respect?
6.This nightmarish decade of lying, corruption, hate, arrogance, neglect and stupidity - the 00s - I AIN'T GONNA MISS IT. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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1. child, descendent
2. a poser band that thinks they're punk but are not. Punk is more than a music style and the Offspring just ain't got it.
1. Drew Barrymore is an offspring of the famous Barrymore acting family.
2. Geek: I'm really punk. I like the Offspring and fucking Green Day.
Punk: Good Lord!
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the home state of one of the greatest troubadours of rock'n'roll - Bruce Springsteen!
Also the state name is the name of a 1988 Bon Jovi album.
The first time I ever saw the Atlantic Ocean (and waded in it) was at Seaside Heights, New Jersey. I was 15 years old at the time.
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a phrase in the Japanese language that means "thank you very much". Made popular in Western culture by the 1983 hit "Mr. Roberto" (also known as "Kilroy Was Here", "The Modern Man" and "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto") by the band Styx. This is how many Americans learned the phrase.
after the Japanese man took a picture of me (sitting in two countries at the same time!) at the U.S. - Canada border mark on the Niagara Falls Peace Bridge I thanked him by saying "Domo arigato". He smiled and shook my hand.
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Real name Tom Cruz. An egotistical cocky self-absorbed shitbrat who plays himself in every single movie he's been in. His career really started taking off when he made that now iconic scene of scooting on the floor, flopping on a couch and lip-synching to an old Bob Seger song. After all this time, it's not funny anymore. He hit the big time with 'Top Gun', a 'classic' for armchair generals who would cheer future wars on TV and who get boners from flipping people off.
But there's more. Several marriages, and he's a zealous advocate for the proto-New Age dumbshit cult of Scientology. He believes that humanity is from Venus and migrated to Earth and it's time to contact the 'Thetans' by placing thr hands on a couple of tin cans. He thinks diet and exercise cures post-birth depression in new mothers and says that meds are psychiatry are bunk.
Not only that, when he dated and plugged the young starfucker Katie Holmes, he made a total ass of himself by jumping and stepping on a couch during an OPRAH episode like a little kid. He and Katie wed) (shotgun) and daughter Suri arrived. Now divorced, Katie keeps on chasing movie stars and Tom has shit all over his face, and he's older too. And everyone by now knows about his arrogance.
1. I was in the Navy during the time 'Top gun' came out. Part of that film was made on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise. The next year I was stationed in San Francisco Bay where the Enterprise was docked and every sailor I met from that ship told me that Tom Cruise was an egotistical haughty sack o' douche who treated everyone there as his servants.
2. Tom Cruise acted his cocky self in the film 'The Color of Money' in 1987 but he wasn't the major star, Paul Newman was. That's what saved the movie from the trash heap, Paul Newman has CLASS.
3. During the 2003-2011 Iraq War Tom Cruise sassed off about protestors 'not being American' yet HE never served. FUCK HIM!!!!
4. Supposedly a Top Gun sequel is coming out 'soon', 36 years after the original. As a veteran, I can tell you already not only is it unrealistic but it's guaranteed to be shit. After all these wars during the past 20-30 years fucking up the social and economic fabric of America, we don't need it. I hope it bombs. Tom Cruise is no hot-shot, he's a washed out dum-dum boy. For the record, I DON'T think he's gay.
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