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Well, my Terrapins have made a fine mess of things. Barring remarkable favoritism on behalf of the selection committee, I expect this to be the first Maryland team to miss the NCAAs in 12 seasons.
Context: the last time Maryland failed to make the NCAA Tournament, I was a junior in high school. Exree Hipp was a college freshman. Not only that, Exree Hipp was a legitimate NBA prospect. Exree, who was about a foot taller than me, and weighed less than I did at the time.
Granted, Maryland could still qualify. With an impressive run... if they beat UNC. But they won't. Maryland won't even beat Clemson in the first round. Because they only play well against Duke and UVa.
So I'll reminsce instead. Yeah. About pop music.
Ultimately, I'm a Classic Rock/Motown person. But I got into popoular music in the late 80s early 90s when I was in Middle School and HS, and there's a big chunk of me that will always be stuck on music of that era. Rather than whatever's current. The sort of junk that played on the radio when I was working the closing shift at the pizza place.
I'm not sure if I can name a single song on this year or last year's Top 20. However, I can still recite "Jump Around" and "The Humpty Dance" from memory. I miss New Jack Swing. Seriously. Bell Biv Devoe's Poison. Tony Toni Tone. But not Ralph Tresvant because Sensitivity blew - does he even count?
And the hair metal. Yeah, okay. Cinderella, and bands of their ilk sucked big donkey balls. I listened to so much of that shit. And not just GNR and the Crue. Oh, no. Not just Winger, Warrant, Poison, and the LA Guns. Further down... Faster Pussycat. Bang Tango. Danger Danger. Enuff Z'nuff. WTF was I thinking? I have no idea, but, damn if that crap doesn't still amuse me on some level. Even though, yeah, it's a lot of crap.
My final words go towards "The Divinyls". I'm not sure if any music group or performed ever hit the sweet spot with one song/video like they did on that. Because I've seen them in other contexts. I've heard other songs. And in that one song, and that one video, Christina Amphlette is fucking sexy as hell. And in everything else I've ever seen outside of that video, she looks haggard and gross. And her voice just sounds all kind of wrong. For the whiskey and cigarettes - they giveth and they taketh away. But in that one song and that one video. It is the fucking shit. It still is.
Context: the last time Maryland failed to make the NCAA Tournament, I was a junior in high school. Exree Hipp was a college freshman. Not only that, Exree Hipp was a legitimate NBA prospect. Exree, who was about a foot taller than me, and weighed less than I did at the time.
Granted, Maryland could still qualify. With an impressive run... if they beat UNC. But they won't. Maryland won't even beat Clemson in the first round. Because they only play well against Duke and UVa.
So I'll reminsce instead. Yeah. About pop music.
Ultimately, I'm a Classic Rock/Motown person. But I got into popoular music in the late 80s early 90s when I was in Middle School and HS, and there's a big chunk of me that will always be stuck on music of that era. Rather than whatever's current. The sort of junk that played on the radio when I was working the closing shift at the pizza place.
I'm not sure if I can name a single song on this year or last year's Top 20. However, I can still recite "Jump Around" and "The Humpty Dance" from memory. I miss New Jack Swing. Seriously. Bell Biv Devoe's Poison. Tony Toni Tone. But not Ralph Tresvant because Sensitivity blew - does he even count?
And the hair metal. Yeah, okay. Cinderella, and bands of their ilk sucked big donkey balls. I listened to so much of that shit. And not just GNR and the Crue. Oh, no. Not just Winger, Warrant, Poison, and the LA Guns. Further down... Faster Pussycat. Bang Tango. Danger Danger. Enuff Z'nuff. WTF was I thinking? I have no idea, but, damn if that crap doesn't still amuse me on some level. Even though, yeah, it's a lot of crap.
My final words go towards "The Divinyls". I'm not sure if any music group or performed ever hit the sweet spot with one song/video like they did on that. Because I've seen them in other contexts. I've heard other songs. And in that one song, and that one video, Christina Amphlette is fucking sexy as hell. And in everything else I've ever seen outside of that video, she looks haggard and gross. And her voice just sounds all kind of wrong. For the whiskey and cigarettes - they giveth and they taketh away. But in that one song and that one video. It is the fucking shit. It still is.
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Use Your Illusion could be condensed into one fairly good album. I got Izzy Stradlin & The JuJu Hounds, and that was pretty decent. But Appetite is the shit. I can't believe that album is nearly twenty years old.