VENUS ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP

photo by Bob Doran

Before there was Bananarama, there was Shocking Blue.  I may not be speaking your language.  No matter.  Great music, either.  Venus.  Girl Power.



                                       

Principle in the type:  "The errand of angels is given to women..."    Hymn

                                                                                       Happy Weekend Peeps!

GEORGIE LOVE

photo by Bambrette

Wham, and George Michael's music were straight up Pop magic.    Wake Me Up equals 80s personified.  This is for real how we looked and how we danced, all night in da'club.


George Michael once said, "I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really."   Kind of fascinating because, who can't relate?   article      




                                       
 

Principle in the type:  "Sometimes ... we find ourselves repeatedly struggling with the same difficulties.  As if we were climbing a tree-covered mountain, at times we don't see our progress until we get closer to the top and look back from the high ridges.  Don't be discouraged."   Neil L. Andersen

                                                                                                  Happy Weekend, Peeps

WORTH

photo/mosiac by QThomas Bower

How about some 80s flashback weekend.  This was in the beginning for Whitney.  Before all the fuss and worry, and sad ending.  Talented girl. 



                                      

Principle in the type:  Never forget that you are one of a kind.  Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this Earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place."    R. Buckminster Fuller 

                                                                                                Happy Weekend Peeps!

REAL INTUITION

photo by Banalities

I suppose in honor of June 5th (the day Ferris Bueller cut class), or June 11th (the day 30 years ago this year Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released) --- but completely unaware of the significance (randomality, or kismet?) I'd changed into sweatpants and my trusty 'Save Ferris' t-shirt yesterday afternoon.   How's that for giving you the news ... or the chills?    story            

Principle in the type:  "To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents."        Winston S. Churchill        

THE ARTIST FORMERLY AND STILL KNOWN AS PRINCE

photo by PeterTea

The talented Prince.  (His best song per me was Cream.)   57 is too young. 

Besides his own music, "Prince was famous for having writing, instrumental, or production credits on other artists' albums."  Looking at deep cuts, BuzzFeed found a winner.   Maybe this will be in the news everywhere by tomorrow, but Prince wrote Donald Trump (Black Version) performed on a 1990 album by R&B/funk group, The Time.   (Called Morris Day and The Time by the time they were in the Prince film, Purple Rain.)    I mean, good stuff, right?     

R.I.P. Prince Nelson.  Thanks for sharing your talent.



                               

Principle in the type:  "Creative work is not a selfish act on the part of the actor.  It's a gift to the world and every being in it.  Don't cheat us out of your contribution.  Give us what you've got."         Steven Pressfield                     

 

                                                                                         blessed weekend, peeps!

SAVED FOR LATER

photo by Humor Blog

65-year-old Dennis Haskins, the actor who played school principal Mr. Belding on popular 80s sitcom 'Saved by the Bell' just  "graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's theater and speech department--decades after"  he first started school there.   " 'And it's not honorary,' he added. 'I earned it.' "      story         

Principle in the type:  "It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready.  I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything.  There is almost no such thing as ready.  There is only now.  And you may as well do it now.  Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any."         Hugh Laurie