Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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I’m old enough to remember Charlie Murphey’s tales on Chapelle. Cocaine is a hell’uv a drug. Courtesy of Rick James.
Talk about tangential. Party all the time reminds me of..
I. Want to rock and roll all night! And part of every day!
I only want to rock ‘n’ roll one weekend a month and two weeks every year. That’s why I joined the KISS Army reserve.
Rio Bravo is completely stupid in some ways but it is also a great movie! Anyone who hasn’t seen it should do so right away. Best part is how the good guys have only nicknames – Chance, Stumpy, Colorado (or “Colluhraduh” in John Wayne-speak) while the bad guys have normal names.
When I remember the band Nelson all I can think of is Beavis and Butthead making fun of them because they suck
As long as we’re talking about David Soul, here’s my story about him from 1983. So David Soul’s real name is David Solberg, and his father was a leader in the Lutheran Church. My senior year one of my classmates in my suburban Pittsburgh high school wins a Lutheran scholarship, and winds up having dinner at the Reverend Solberg’s home.
They said not a word about their actor son, but talked extensively about his younger brother, the Reverend Daniel Solberg, who was leading a group of ministers protesting Mellon Bank and US Steel amidst the collapse of the Mon Valley. For which he was later defrocked, and then reinstated after he agreed to leave Pittsburgh.
Was not Fred Rogers also an ordained Lutheran Minister?
Dean Buttler? Little house on the prairie
Bruce Davidson?
Really young Christopher Walken?
https://youtu.be/0xuDmxYJ1AM
Mark Hamill?
Heath Ledger?
Ryan O’Neal?
Those blond guys all look the same, I have no idea.
“Wait ‘Til Your Father Gets Home. This is a deep, deeeep pull that almost no one ever gets”
Oh I do! That theme song has been a random earworm of mine for over 40 years!
I remember that theme song as well. There’s got to be a way to isolate the responsible neurons and destroy them with focused radiation or something like that.
I remember that coming on during the week, early in the morning, on cartoon network when they played the old cartoons and my brother and I absolutely hated hearing that theme song come on lmao.
I come from a time when dad coming home wasn’t a happy thing so yeah, I wasn’t a big fan of the theme song either. Unfortunately that time also had far fewer viewing options so you took what they gave you or you made do with hose water and neglect.
we just thought it was a bad theme song, not from any trauma.
it was very early in the morning getting ready to get dropped off to our grandparents, who then took us to school because both of our parents had to work and their schedule was earlier than we could get dropped off at school.
That Nelson song bugged me when I was a kid and it bugs me until this day. It’s the “and affection” that does it. It’s just… creepy. Like “not only do you have to love me, you need to scritch my ears and call me a good boy” creepy. Yuck.
I’d heard of James at 15 before and looked it up. It’s hard to imagine anything being more before-its’-time and deeply outdated all at once; in retrospect, yeah, the world wasn’t ready for a prime-time teen drama in the three channels/one TV set per household era, but when you find it on YouTube and literally the first thing he does in the first episode after the lengthy ballad of a theme song is take pictures of girls without their knowledge let alone consent…
The slackest of Slacks! More, more…
This was GOLD, and I remember James At 15; he got laid and my parents forbade me to watch it. Ah the ’70s, good times!
He was deflowered by an absolutely smoking blonde Swedish exchange student, a tale as old as time. https://www.bionicdisco.com/2011/06/21/people-magazine-jan-30-1978-james-at-15-loses-his-virginity/
I am pretty sure David would not have gotten a single reference in this thread – do you have a translator for him or just assign him some homework watching old video?
I want a Rio Bravo-themed trio with John Wayne, Deano, and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick.
Surprised someone didn’t wrap the Bronson Pinochet reference back to Beverly Hills Cop, which would have completed the Eddie Murphy circle.
And Radar Love is Golen Earring…
White Lion also did a cover of it in the 80’s. Perhaps they are confusing them with Nelson?
“Seh-uuurge. Sounds like a laundry deh-tuuurgent.”
Reading this stuff is like peeling the layers of an onion.
A rather sad yellow onion that has been sitting in the bowl on the kitchen counter for way too long…
And soaked in LSD.
This is what I feel like when Family Guy makes a reference to a long gone sitcom or their cast. I understand virtually none of this, both the references and the jokes that are (maybe?) being turned on those references, and I’m pretty close in age to SWG.
Diff’rent Strokes, I guess.
I think you need to be 10 years older.
Quite a bit of it was before our time. I was only familiar with bits and pieces, yet I have found that the tastes and stylings of thel slightly-older crew here (Peter and Co.) are pretty awesome. Most everything they share makes me glad they did/glad I clicked!
It sure is a good thing you can use slack for content. So much time and effort.
Mine can only get me in trouble as it’s subject to public records request rules (if anyone ever wonders why I use a nom de plume…)
1) Now I have ‘Nelson Philips’ stuck in my head
2) To tie the room together like a fine rug, Bronson Pinchot acted alongside Eddie Murphy in one of the Beverly Hills Cop movies. Mark Linn-Baker was not present.
This really made me think of the ultimate 80s horror/comedy movie Bubba Ho-Tep. An elderly Elvis Presley living in a retirement home who has to fight a mummy come back to life when the delivery truck is in an accident and loses the mummy.
Salem’s Lot, aka Nosfewrongtu
So that’s what Adrian and Neil Rayment were doing before Matrix.
I don’t think lowly, non-member me, was supposed to have access
I feel….dirty…not a first.
I forgot to hit the MEMBERS ONLY button!
and thank you for that 🙂
What a Jason move
Consider it a sneak preview.
The first hit is always free.
Hey, pop music is popular for a reason. No reason not to admit to loving some of it.
Huh, you’re right, there isn’t any guitars in Party All the Time. Was there supposed to be a guitar backing track that was ultimately cut out?
Dunno, but there’s a guy in the background behind Eddie, allegedly playing a guitar while Eddie allegedly sings
How did I miss this entire conversation? I don’t recall any of this happening! lol
Oh my! I can relate to most all of the comments here, but I’ll deny it! 🙂