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Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Nerve Of Some People...

This morning, I decided that I was going to start going through the mountains of CDs that I've acquired over the years so I can add them to my iTunes and start figuring out what goes and what stays as I'm on Operation DeClutter (and I didn't want to figure out what 5 pairs of shoes I was going to relinquish custody of yet)

I grabbed an ice coffee and sat my behind in front of the CD rack and would go through each and every one of them. I would open them up, those that were still unwrapped (I had a lot of promo cds sent to me back in the day) would go on eBay, those that were destroyed would go in a pile and I'd make a note if I really wanted the CD to check the 'net/eBay/etc. to find it.

Well, as I'm going through my CDs, I noticed that many were either missing from the case (which a birdie was famous for borrowing and just leaving loose on top) or, even worse, in the wrong case or doubles in the case. i.e. Billy Idol was in my Rockell case, Brownstone in Brenda K. Starr. Seriously, it was unnerving. What's worse is that I noticed that a good portion of my clients' cds were empty but the cases were left. And we're talking some rare CDs from the 80s that you can't get without paying a pretty penny on eBay. Sure, I get annoyed and all but still - those CDs were mine. All of JoeZ.'s compilation cds that he was on in the 90s, empty or seriously damaged. My client's work on a Mary J. Blige CD - CD missing, and he won a Grammy for that work. Basically, my client portfolio has been raided, severely.

What really really irks me is a cache of one album that I busted my BUTT promoting - all those are gone, just the cases remain. What. The. @*@*#*#!@*@* Seriously? I mean, I have the CD on my iTunes but dammit, my name is in the liner notes and I want the full CD for my portfolio. (MB - you know exactly what CD I'm talking about). So I'll be buying a couple new copies from Amazon but boy am I fuming at the audacity of someone. Trust me when I say, should I ever see that person again, it's not going to be pretty...

Labels: Arrruuuuu, Blog 365, Random Mess

Posted by Lys :: 1:14 PM :: 3 comments

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Too Funny NOT to Post...

[and, in the interest of full disclosure - due to the nature of this post, it could, perhaps, be deleted depending on my mood - so read quick kiddies.]

OK, as you all know, some of my crew are in Philadelphia and we all met when we danced on this *ahem* tv show a bizillion years ago.

I have a core group of people that I hang with and we often get together and chill out whenever I'm home and not a trip goes by where I don't hear something that makes me go "ARRRUUUUU?" Couple that with copious amounts of cocktails and incessant laughter and we're a pretty rowdy bunch. So, you can imagine that when we get together, often one subject comes up to "What about ***? Whatever happened to ***?" and we have another cocktail, laugh and go eeehhh.

Keep in mind that The Show Rumor Mill is a character all of its own. The Rumor Mill had Ty driving off a cliff, had me married WITH kids, and so many different rumors floating that when I would hear things I'd think: "Eeehhhhh," laugh it off and forget about it.

One popular rumor was about *** who we'll call XYZ so I won't have to keep typing *** because typing *** can be pretty damn annoying to do, let alone read.

XYZ was rumored to be an actor - pretty successful supposedly. Now *I* had not seen him in anything major but whatever. I had seen some of the former show peeps in movies and tv so I didn't think the rumor was total b.s. However, when the Rumor Mill divulged that XYZ was really an "actor", turns out that it was an "actor" of the *ahem* "adult" variety.

That rumor was met with some laughter, another round of drinks and "Really. Seriously?? C'mon now." It came up a couple more times and again was met with skepticism... until two weeks ago.

Both Reese and I run one of the chat sites for The Show and we got a disturbing email - WITH Pictures. I figured that, perhaps, XYZ got caught on an off day or it was an ex-girlfriend scorned and we dismissed it. Then, a week ago, I was watching tv and all anyone could hear was me going "EEEEWWWW EEEWWWWW EEEEWWWW! I *DON'T* Need to see XYZ like this. I'm scarred. I'm scarred" (Yeah I had a total drama queen moment but if you understand this XYZ character you'd understand my utter revulsion. While everyone was crushing on him, I called him a frog and a few other *ahem* choice words. Forget the fact that at 14 I crushed on him for a hot second. I like to pretend THAT never happened.)

You know my theory if things keep crossing your path, pay attention? My friends - I can say with full authority that we not only paid attention - but we have full blown confirmation of said rumor with a bonus.

Not only was XYZ an "actor", but apparently he's an "Adult Media Czar." Again, more emails last night. Again I did the "I'm ALREADY SCARRED! I do NOT need to see [XYZ] like that" and had nightmares and early morning calls while Reese played detective (and let me tell ya - NOTHING gets past her) and solved a mystery (with 98% certainty).

What I've learned from all this, well, besides seeing a few birthday suits inadvertently, - sometimes you *really* do have to believe what you hear.

Labels: Arrruuuuu, Blog 365, Random Mess

Posted by Lys :: 7:39 PM :: 4 comments

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