Saturday, April 27, 2019

Late night open thread

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Now you know.

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THOMPSON TWINS!

What a great way to get things going in an upbeat toe-tapping way. Almost like a musical bouncy castle if you think about it. 'In the Name of Love' starting us off tonight. Short intros tonight as it's late and you have musical expectations...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with VELVET UNDERGROUND!

A little of that 70's New York City sound shortly before the birth of the CBGB's bands. If you listen real close to this gem, 'Sweet Jane' you can almost hear punk down the street on it's way.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MAZZY STAR!

Johnny has long described Hope Sandoval's voice as that of passionate indifference and that holds true here. This acoustic version of the song 'Bells Ring' is just exceptional. Sit back, pop the headphones on and enjoy!

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Late night open thread

Since Johnny is Warden of the North he'll be heading to Winterfell this week, and if you want to go fight with him to fight for the living, drop him a line in comments.

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Sending Happy Easter wishes to all our readers

Here's hoping you have a fantastic day today!

Late night open thread

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BILLY PRESTON!

Well, when Johnny moved the Music Series to tonight he honestly wasn't thinking about any kind of 4/20 tie-in. But, being an enthusiast he's never one to pass on a free themed show. We'll start tonight's fun with a classic and we mean classic instrumental from Billy Preston that hit #1 in 1972, 'Outa Space' and just look at those dancers ;)

Get your smoke and your groove on people, here comes a great Music Series!

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE CARS!

Because 'Moving in Stereo' duh. Now, Johnny's a 4/20 veteran and he knows when you have a good buzz going, and you're grooving on a tune, you want a seamless segue to the next one. You can't do better than 'All Mixed Up' since it was MADE to play behind 'Moving in Stereo' and we're running both tonight.

Johnny knows...

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE MOODY BLUES!

Well, anything worth doing on 4/20 is worth doing right. Johnny will play us out tonight with one of his absolute favorite songs to listen to after enjoying combustible refreshments. They base 'Legend of a Mind' on Timothy Leary for god's sake. You should have a pretty good idea where this one's headed.

Late night open thread

Johnny has been hemming and hawing for the last half hour about whether or not to kick the Music Series to Saturday this week. He has decided to do so as he'll have more time and effort to put into it on Saturday night.

Y'all come back now, hear?

Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Late night open thread

Johnny loves trains. The train through town is really starting to irritate.

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Friday, April 12, 2019

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PAUL SIMON!

Back in the day you could add artwork to your music in iTunes. The pictures were actually large and visible unlike today. Your favorite artists either live or in posed pictures popping up with songs was good stuff. Johnny well remembers the artwork for this song. Apologies to Reese Witherspoon.

'50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' getting the party started tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS!

Such a classic. The hours Johnny spent listening to Elvis Costello albums in high school certainly outweighed and hours he spent doing actual homework.

Johnny won that bet.

'(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea' with the original video no less.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE FLAMINGOS!

Anytime someone mentions it or Johnny reads an era piece or sees an ad on teevee for an old Doo-Wop greatest hits album he knows this song will be front and center. To Johnny this IS the Doo-Wop era's greatest song. The Flamingos taking us out tonight with the beautiful 'I Only Have Eyes for You'

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Late night open thread

Of course everyone is familiar with Olivia Newton-John as a singer, actress and cancer fighter. Johnny read an article where she spoke openly about her 27 year long fight and she mentioned along with all the positive thinking and fighting, she did smoke weed, copious amounts of weed to fight her pain and help her sleep. She also made a very salient point some of the early adopter states like Washington and Colorado and finding:

Finally, Newton-John notes, she is a cannabis advocate when it comes to health and wellness. “I use a lot of cannabis in my healing. It helped me incredibly with pain and sleep,” she says. “Opiates are killing people and cannabis doesn’t.”

Oh why not, the goddamned Andromeda Galaxy is going to plow through the Milky Way like Georgia Tech roared through Cumberland 222-0 in 1916 in about 3.75 billion years. Nobody will care if Johnny played this one or not. He also thinks it's great Vinnie Barbarino found work after Welcome Back, Kotter. No, that's Vinnie Barbarino in this video. Don't even.
Time for Oscoda, After Dark

Friday, April 5, 2019

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BOB DYLAN!

This song here, 'Tangled Up in Blue' would turn up on Johnny's 20 favorite songs ever.

Verily.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BONNIE HAYES!

No fucking way.

No, fucking way. Johnny has dug deep for this gem, 'Girls Like Me' by Bonnie Hayes. If you know Johnny you know he has an amazing affinity for the Valley Girl soundtrack. He's always been in love with the very Pete Townsend in your face sounding line, "They've got a word for girls like me, they've got a name but they don't want to use it." Good stuff.

Wicked good organ.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with EDWYN COLLINS!

Johnny just made the drive up tonight from scenic East Tawas and heard this one on the old CD player. Perfect song for a drive tonight so why not let it take us out? 'A Girl Like You' is the song you'll be singing all night.