10:48pmDave
dude, you totally have the DVDs of the Midnight Special, don't you?
10:50pmCraig
no - but i want to order the set
10:51pmDave
both Neil Sedaka and Blackfoot are featured on that show (this is in response to Craig's use of both of those acts in his bio for a phony MySpace character he has created and maintains.)
I feel like it's the same disc
maybe you saw an ad for it
ha
it got in your sub
Sedaka is a total dork trying to be hip in this white suit and red fedora
and Blackfoot is all in warpaint and paramilitary-native american type clothes
10:53pmCraig
that's smart dressing
10:54pmDave
the guitarist dances onto stage to heavy drums before strapping on his axe, er, tomahawk
and he has a full feather bustle and shit
I love it
but f*%# Sedaka
hahah
10:55pmCraig
i remember my mom went to see sedaka when i was a kid
my mom has always been 65
10:55pmDave
yuck
I think my mom story might just blow all others away
In 1980, my family somehow ended up appearing on "Family Fued".
So my Mom, Dad, aunt and uncle, and my Grandmother went on the show
and Richard Dawson was all creepy and shit, and we got free tootsie pops in the live studio audience
10:58pmCraig
wow
10:59pmDave
(incidently, we almost didn't make it, because my older brother Dan was in the record shop instead of the arcade, where he was supposed to be picked up on the way to the taping).
so, my family beats the other family by a hair and goes on to the $10,000 round
11:00pmCraig
good so far
11:01pmDave
my dad goes first, and he does pretty well. When asked, "Name a famous drummer," my dad says, "Ringo Starr". Turns out to be the number one answer in a survey of 100.
"Survey Says!" I can still hear it.
11:01pmCraig
awesome
11:02pmDave
So Joan, my Mom, comes out. She's doing okay, but she needs to do well on this drummer question.
11:02pmCraig
buddy rich
11:03pmDave
Richard, flirtatious and soft, asks my mother, "Name a famous drummer."
*beat*
"Cubby!"
11:03pmCraig
from the mickey mouse club?
11:04pmDave
Cubby, the f#%*ing drummer from the g*#%amn Mickey Mouse Club.
Richard Dawson is perplexed.
"Who?"
Hahaha!
11:04pmCraig
awesome
11:05pmDave
They split twelve-hundred dollars between three families.
But hey, that was $400 in 1980
11:05pmCraig
not quite bass boat money, but still pretty good
a house payment
11:06pmDave
(I say that like I'm some sort of expert on the financial climate of 1980 America)
yeah, house payment
a week's supply of crystal meth
11:07pmCraig
on a slow week
like easter
11:12pmDave
man, I had something profound to tell you, and then *poof* it went away
11:12pmCraig
that'll happen
it will come back around
11:13pmDave
yeah, I guess.After we failed to win the big prize, someone shoved my brother and sister and me to the stage and we ran down and hugged our family, which was typically a celebration reserved strictly for the victorious team. I felt like such a dipshit.
