Love in the 80's

Ok, I couldn't resist. This was going around a few years ago and I recently found it again. It is in keeping with the theme from my last post. I hope you enjoy this piece by Eric Perrson.

I was working part time in a five and dime. My boss was Mr. Magee. He was six foot four and full of muscles and walked like an Egyptian, but I was happy to be stuck with him. One Manic Monday, while I was busy working for the weekend, I overheard him make a careless whisper. He told two of my co-workers, Jack and Diane, that I gave love a bad name. Well, I got so emotional, baby. I told him to say say say what he wants, but don't play games with my affection. He told me it was hard for him to say he's sorry and not to worry, to be happy. Then he blamed it on the rain. He was so out of touch. It just took my breath away. I couldn't fight this feeling any longer. I asked him "What's love got to do with it?" He told me to get outta his store and his dreams and into my car. So I figured I might as well jump. I cut footloose, went home and called my girl, Jenny. (You already know the number) She was on the other line with Amanda. They were talking about Mickey and how he was so fine. That blew my mind! Was she really going out with him? I told her that I had just called to say I love her.She told me she had been saving all her love for me, but now she was looking for a new love - asta la vista, baby. I thought "I can't go for that - no can do! Bring me a higher love!" I called up some of my old west end girls, hoping that one of them would want to get physical all night long (all night). First I called Billie Jean - she told me to beat it. I called Rosanna - her sister Christian blessed the rains down in Africa and then hung up on me. Come on, Eileen! ... no answer. Nobody told me there'd be days like these! I was feeling like the owner of a lonely heart. Then, out of the blue, my best friend's girlfriend (she used to be mine) Roxanne calls. Yes, the real Roxanne. She told me she still hadn't found what she's looking for and that she wanted to take on me. I said "I thought you were Jessie's girl." She said "Don't you want me? You don't have to put on the red light - I'm on my own." What a feeling! I had the eye of the tiger. Who was I f-f-f-foolin? Roxanne drove me crazy like no one else. She's a beauty!She blinded me with science, and weird science at that. There was always something there to remind me of her and I just knew that I'd have the time of my life. I wasn't about to la-di-da-di. I jumped in my little red Corvette and rocked down to Electric Avenue. I got my mind set on her. When I got to her house (in the middle of her street) I ran. I rapped on her front door and to this rapper's delight, I heard a voice say "Who can it be now?" "Here I am, the one that you love," I replied. I let my love open the door and was immediately lost in her eyes. I felt like a virgin touched for the very first time. She loosened her blouse and said "Rock me Amadeus!" Well, I felt it was my prerogative to bust a move. I told her "I'll tumble for ya!" as I pinned her on the stairs, hungry like the wolf. Just then I felt an invisible touch on my shoulder. "Turn around bright eyes!" said a familiar voice. As I did, Jessie hit me with a sledgehammer of an uppercut that spun me right round like a record. He was hangin' tough and continued to roll with it, knocking the wind from beneath my wings - broken wings by this time. He rocked me tonight, for old time's sake, beating me from head to toe, until my true colors were black and blue and blood was spilling from my mouth like red, red wine. "You don't owe me money for nothing!" he snarled. At this point I was livin' on a prayer. I crawled back to my little red Corvette and drove home thinking about how my tainted love had cut like a knife - how it seems that every rose, truly, has its thorn. No longer do I want to know what love is. Love stinks.

Wasn't that good?

The Best Music of 1985

A friend let me know about this website, musicoutfitters.com. Enter a year into the search box to pull up the top 100 songs from that year. 1985 was the year that I graduated from high school. Reading through this list brought backs lots of memories, most of them relating to the videos back when M-TV and VH-1 actually showed music videos. I have added comments where appropriate. What do YOU remember when you think of these songs?

1. Careless Whisper, Wham! (How could this possibly be #1?)
2. Like A Virgin, Madonna (This was SUCH a forbidden song in my house)
3. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham! (My vote for #1 - Tracy, a HS friend. A-boom-boom-boom-boom...)
4. I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner
5. I Feel For You, Chaka Khan (David, a HS friend)
6. Out Of Touch, Daryl Hall and John Oates
7. Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears
8. Money For Nothing, Dire Straits (Me playing air guitar in the intro when Tracy and Holly - now my wife - came to visit me in college)
9. Crazy For You, Madonna (Slow dancing with Holly at prom, although we were not together)
10. Take On Me, A-Ha
11. Everytime You Go Away, Paul Young
12. Easy Lover, Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
13. Can't Fight This Feeling, REO Speedwagon
14. We Built This City, Starship (The CHS Volleyball team)
15. The Power Of Love, Huey Lewis and The News
16. Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds (The Breakfast Club)
17. Cherish, Kool and The Gang (Rebecca, a summer fling that all my HS friends thought was anorexic)
18. St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion), John Parr (watching St. Elmo's Fire like a thousand times)
19. The Heat Is On, Glenn Frey
20. We Are The World, U.S.A. For Africa (Michael Jackson and lots of people holding hands. Hmmm...)
21. Shout, Tears For Fears
22. Part-Time Lover, Stevie Wonder
23. Saving All My Love For You, Whitney Houston
24. Heaven, Bryan Adams
25. Everything She Wants, Wham!
26. Cool It Now, New Edition
27. Miami Vice Theme, Jan Hammer
28. Lover Boy, Billy Ocean
29. Lover Girl, Teena Marie
30. You Belong To The City, Glenn Frey
31. Oh Sheila, Ready For The World
32. Rhythm Of The Night, Debarge
33. One More Night, Phil Collins
34. Sea Of Love, Honeydrippers
35. A View To A Kill, Duran Duran (Anything by Duran Duran was great)
36. The Wild Boys, Duran Duran
37. You're The Inspiration, Chicago
38. Neutron Dance, Pointer Sisters
39. We Belong, Pat Benatar
40. Nightshift, Commodores
41. Things Can Only Get Better, Howard Jones
42. All I Need, Jack Wagner
43. Freeway Of Love, Aretha Franklin (The pink Cadillac)
44. Never Surrender, Corey Hart
45. Sussudio, Phil Collins (Thinking, "What the h@** is Su-su-ssudio?"
46. Strut, Sheena Easton (Our cheerleaders doing a routine to this telling the sponsor it said "what you want from winnin'" when it really said "...from women." She knew better, and thought they really didn't know.)
47. You Give Good Love, Whitney Houston
48. The Search Is Over, Survivor (Holly - my wife, this was really OUR song. When she told me that, I knew that I would end up with her one day.)
49. Missing You, Diana Ross
50. Separate Lives, Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
51. Raspberry Beret, Prince and The Revolution (Brett - a HS friend)
52. Suddenly, Billy Ocean
53. The Boys Of Summer, Don Henley
54. One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head
55. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Sting
56. Obsession, Animotion (This is the best style of music for dancing)
57. We Don't Need Another Hero, Tina Turner
58. Material Girl, Madonna (The beginning of the Marilyn Monroe wannabe, and I loved it)
59. Better Be Good To Me, Tina Turner (Tina, bobbing her head, demanding that I be good to her)
60. Head Over Heels, Tears For Fears
61. Axel F, Harold Faltermeyer (Todd B. - friend from college who could play this on his keyboard)
62. Smooth Operator, Sade (Thinking, "Where does she get "Sharday" out of "Sade?")
63. In My House, Mary Jane Girls
64. Don't Lose My Number, Phil Collins
65. All Through The Night, Cyndi Lauper
66. Run To You, Bryan Adams
67. Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen
68. Voices Carry, 'Til Tuesday
69. Misled, Kool and The Gang
70. Would I Lie To You?, Eurythmics (Short hair, wondering if she was a lesbian.)
71. Be Near Me, ABC (See #56)
72. No More Lonely Nights, Paul McCartney
73. I Can't Hold Back, Survivor
74. Summer Of '69, Bryan Adams
75. Walking On Sunshine, Katrina and The Waves
76. Freedom, Wham!
77. Too Late For Goodbyes, Julian Lennon
78. Valotte, Julian Lennon
79. Some Like It Hot, Power Station
80. Solid, Ashford and Simpson
81. Angel, Madonna
82. I'm On Fire, Bruce Springsteen
83. Method Of Modern Love, Daryl Hall and John Oates
84. Lay Your Hands On Me, Thompson Twins
85. Who's Holding Donna Now, Debarge
86. Lonely Ol' Night, John Cougar Mellencamp
87. What About Love, Heart
88. California Girls, David Lee Roth (The KVIL version, "Dallas Fort Worth Girls.")
89. Fresh, Kool and The Gang
90. Do What You Do, Jermaine Jackson
91. Jungle Of Love, The Time
92. Born In The USA, Bruce Springsteen
93. Private Dancer, Tina Turner (Tina dancing just for me, just prior to demanding that I be good to her)
94. Who's Zoomin' Who, Aretha Franklin (What does this mean???)
95. Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting
96. Penny Lover, Lionel Richie
97. All She Wants To Do Is Dance, Don Henley
98. Dress You Up, Madonna
99. Sentimental Street, Night Ranger
100. Sugar Walls, Sheena Easton (Tracy, a HS friend, who educated me about this song)

Adoption Update 9/7/05

We finally got all of the letters from doctors that we needed yesterday and Holly faxed them to the agency. We received a telephone call tonight that we had been approved, and that an email would follow detailing the next steps. The email attachment was 12 pages long, 6 of which are the Fee and Service Agreements. We will complete those tomorrow, have them notarized, and send them on to the agency. We will then begin the process of having a home study completed by a Licensed Social Worker. We will then begin the process of preparing our dossier - a comprehensive collection of documents that will go to the Chinese government for final approval for us to adopt. This part alone takes 3-5 months. Whew!

Please continue to pray for all of us during this time, and check back for more updates.

For those of you who have no idea as to what I am talking about here, please check out my post, "Following God's Call."