I am subscribed to their channel and they are a really bad influence. I don’t need to gain more weight, damn it!

This is one of the Grammys I consider to be the best. It was 1987 and the Academy took a bold chance to allow some comedian be the host of the show: Billy Crystal. He was magnificent and came back twice more before being kidnapped to the Oscars.

There were many magnificent performances that year, but I think for what we have been talking about, this is the example I wanted to leave: Pure music played with heart my masters of their craft.

Crank it up, it is well worth it.

What I did not know at the time was that I was watching the last days of the award. In 1990,  Milli Vanilli won an award for Best New Artist and even gave a fake performance right before the truth about lip-synching exploded to the masses but it had been known in the business since the year before.

I don’t think they ever recovered from that one. Mistrust is an awfully hard stain to remove.

Did not watch it. I have not watched it for many moons because it stopped representing the musicians and the people working in the industry long ago and it became a long video clip to sell music.

I did keep an eye on Twitter and as expected, it was all a political fest with huge loads of hypocrisy. You would swear that no sexual harassment ever happened or happens in the music industry and that Left Wing Ideals are the best creative inspiration in the world.

And this was piss cherry on top of the turd:

Hillary won a Grammy – Best Spoken Word Recording in 1,997 for her book “It takes a Village.”  It is my opinion that year began the downfall of that category into an almost purely political award. Other winners after her were Obama (twice), Al Franken, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter with Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert nominated for awards. You still think I am joking? In 2006, Obama beat George Carlin, in what normal universe that happens?

The Music Industry is not doing well. Piracy did hit deep and things have literally flipped. When back in the dinosaur ages, a band or artist would tour to sell a record, now they hope that the record would attract people to come see the show and pay good money for the tickets and merchandise. Those who still hold to the old method will not survive, specially if the meddle with politics of any side.

Oh well, it is their funeral. It is not like I am listening much to anything produced after Dire Straits.

Answer: Because soccer has a bigger worldwide TV following than tennis. He plays for the Real Madrid of Spain and the games are transmitted across the globe to hundred of millions of fans a year. And when in July 15, the 2018 World Cup ends and Cristiano Ronaldo played with his national team of Portugal, more three and a half billion people would have watched the games or an average of 116,000,000 people every day. The income in TV ads alone will be amazing.

Tennis? Not even in their wettest dream they can achieve that. But Equal Pay is the buzz term lately because “Feminism.”

I know, not the usual fare here for Sundays, but it is to accompany Peter’s posts about immigrant songs.

I may have told the story before, but here it goes anywhere: Three idiots with barely a command of an English Spanish dictionary decided to spend a couple of weeks in New York City. It was my first trip as adult to the US (Another one at 11 years and less than 48 hours in DisneyWorld does it count) and one of the reasons for the trip was to check on possibly coming to college.

I was nervous, won’t deny it. Many things happened that day that would have served as warning to others, but in my “ignorance” I chose to ignore them, including the fact that 5 planes were hijacked that day my a Left Wing guerrilla group, ours was to be the sixth, but the hijackers did not make it in time to board the plane. It was December and we were dressed tropically, we found out that we had been swindled by our travel agency with the van rental and so on.

Anyway, after we taken of, reached cruise altitude and breakfast was served, they showed a movie and one that I had not seen: “The Jazz Singer” Neil Diamond’s version. The movie starts with his song “America” which I never heard before and it struck me across the chess as good omen: You are doing the right thing and you will make it.

Thirty six years later, I am happy to say the omen was right.

America
Neil Diamond
Far,
We’ve been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star
Free,
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream
On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again,
They’re coming to America
Home
Don’t it seem so far away
Oh, we’re traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm
Home
To a new and a shiny place
Make our bed and we’ll say our grace
Freedom’s light burning warm
Freedom’s light burning warm
Everywhere around the world
They’re coming to America
Every time that flag’s unfurled
They’re coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They’re coming to America
Got a dream they’ve come to share
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
Today, Today,Today,
Today, Today
My country ’tis of thee (today)
Sweet land of liberty (today)
Of thee I sing (today)
Of thee I sing.

he song was from a time when becoming an American was enough prize and living in this country meant freedom, meant watching the Stars and Stripes fly and feel a knot in your chest. Today coming to America is about EBT benefits and free medical care. And God forbid you unfurl the flag because that makes you a racist.

An appliance has decided to screw up a little but just enough to make SWMBO upset and I have been trying to get it fixed. Not “that is good enough” fixed but fixed-fixed.

Also, I have been doing some reading. I can’t go into details, but I am enjoying the hell out of it and trying to do so as fast as possible … for reasons.

But at least allow me to share this video: