1. What is the most controversial album cover?
The original cover for The Beatles “Yesterday and Today.”
2. What are some things you do that help you sleep better?
My white noise app and a Bluetooth speaker under my pillow. Sleepy time bliss.
3. What’s the perfect pet to add to the household?
I am getting a hankering for a dog and am looking around for a Great Dane to be ensconced on the couch – snoring and drooling all the day on.
4. What was your favorite gadget from the 90’s?
My Handspring PDA (a palm pilot wanna be)
5. What’s your biggest childhood wish?
To be a helicopter pilot. Didn’t all the cop/adventure shows in the 1970s have a helicopter? I was led to believe that by the time I became an adult everyone would be flying around in helicopters.
1) The original cover of Jane’s Addiction, “Nothing’ Shocking” . I can’t upload the cover, but 2 naked siamese twins with the hair on fire was the visual.
2) Exercise and don’t drink alcohol. If I don’t do one and do the other, sleep disruption ensues.
3) I do love our little dog, but cats are so much easier and you can actually leave for the weekend without taking them with you or having someone check in on them.
4) I did love my VHS rewinder machine. It felt so good to rewind the tapes at mach 5 speeds.
5) To live in a small little riverside cabin by myself (as a preteen), so I could fish and do all the things I liked to do,.
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What is the most controversial album cover?
It’s gotta be this one. To save your job, I won’t post the pic, but here is the link. Note, this isn’t the worst thing out there. But, this band is a multi platinum HUGE rock band. Blind Faith. That is Clapton and Stevie Winwood. No one is sure how this got through, its about 50 years old. You might say: it was a different aesthetic time back then. Or… they are English, who cares? No excuse. It’s still a topless little girl, man. Can’t disagree with Tony Mo about that Jane’s cover. God they were great. and scary. Truly I had both those two guys on my 27 list first time I saw them. Seen Jane’s a bunch.
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What are some things you do that help you sleep better
Melatonin, cbd, and flipping your alarm clock upside down. Too many sleepless nights I peer over – damn, it’s only midnight? Well, I still have plenty of time to sleep. 2am . damn. At least I can still get another few hours in. 4 am – should i just get up? Is last night a wash? 5 am, or 6 am, the room is getting light. You think ‘should the alarm have gone off by now?
You get the idea. Here is why I do NOT allow that clock to be seen when I go to bed. I don’t wanna know what time it is. If you just trust in the alarm going off, no matter when you get up or stay up to, you know you can go back to sleep.
I still believe in an actual separate alarm clock. I know your cell phone does it. But maybe sleep is so insanely hugely important you can spare $30 on yourself. I use an Emerson that sets itself, from the grid (or whatever sciency way they do it). In case the power goes out, and it often does where we live… when the power comes back, it resets itself to the time… AND still remembers your alarm settings. Also love love love that it has like 4 different dim-mable settings. I also love the form factor about it. This is not a paid endorsement, I assure you. I just think its a great product!
I have a great one across the room. It should be apparent why that is important.
What’s the perfect pet to add to the household?
If you are new to all of this? A cat. They are WAY more self sufficient than a dog. Know how you got anxious to get home and see your dog? Cat’s don’t give a shit about us. In that lies their value. If I have a clean litter box, lots of food and water…you can take off for days! Just try that with a human! ***
(editors note to self: please do not do that, people)
If you have pets and want more, this is my personal golden ratio. Wifey and I have learned this through trial and error. And about 6 dogs and prolly 3 cats. The magic number is 2 dogs, and 1 cat. Cat’s are solitary and don’t care about us. But they are great. Especially to cuddle. 2 dogs? Yes, because they are a pack animal. They need each other for safety security, fun, and play. Don’t think you can teach your dog any of that. They learn it from he senior dog/s in the house. All you did was teach them to shake.
Go to your shelter. Heck, these days they are all online. the one I volunteered for – incoming humblebrag in 3,2,1…TEN YEARS – is so online you can set the values to boy/girl, weight, age, purebred/mutt. You can see a pic and story right there at home. This is where about 75% of our pets come from, the rest are just circumstance. If you go to a shelter, the animals are cheaper. For about $100 to $200 bucks, you get a dog a already looked over and released by a vet. they are also spade and neutered, and lastly they are micro-chipped. That is a monster value.and I am sorry but your ferret doesn’t count, except to show everyone how misunderstood you are.
What was your favorite gadget from the 90’s?
Gotta be cell phones, right? Well, I had one then… but they didn’t do much. Internet didn’t come along until about 2001. That is when phones got really exciting and began to become indispensable to every waking human on earth. I was on the inside, and I could NEVER have predicted their ubiquity. It sure was fun to be on that ride for 20 years.
What’s your biggest childhood wish?
Grow up, live in the woods, have a beard and a truck, play guitar. This was, and is, 100% my archetype of what being a man is. Well, there are lots of those adult hood image standards. Like, my dad was the business man. Full stereotype there: left everyday in suit and tie, had briefcase, bitchin’ mustache, had an office and a secretary. This is circa 1970s, and he LOVED that life.
I wasn’t against that life, it just wasn’t my bag. No sir, i saw another path. It was the older renegade brother from 70s/80s tv show ‘Eight is Enough’. Think his name was.. Chuck? Around 18, David left the suburban life to be a man of the woods. I think he was mentioned in maybe 1 or 2 episodes in the series run. When we meet him, he is course in the woods chopping trees, in a flannel, had long hair and a beard. Oh baby, the die was cast. I’ll be a mountain man type. I did pretty good on that, I think.
1) “Smell the Glove” by Spinal Tap. I mean they say it’s sexist but there’s nothing wrong with being sexy.
2) A loud fan.
3) I am a dig fan. But if it were up to me I’d have a stuffed animal. Cats no way if I want a box of shit in the corner I will do it myself.
4) Video games. They were great and have only gotten better.
5) That when I grew up I could be happy.