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Contrary Mary

Just because you can doesn't mean you should...

About Me



Todd Rundgren - Mated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvirx2JRJEg

One of my favorite songs, by my favorite artist.

My Interests

Music - singing, listening, playing, performing, performers, portray-ors, purveyors, platitudes, attitudes, jokers, pranksters, angsters, anything is possible. Music has many facets. Lovers, liars, leavers, livers... (not liver for to eat) People who choose to live life !!! Pro-Choice, Pro-Active, Pro-Cat, Pro Animal Rights Protective, pretender, protagonist, prehistoric. : )

Throw The Roses Away (1997) - Hall & Oates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar25xwNgJUk

I'd like to meet:

Daryl Hall, (the proposal counts, but we didn't get to have a conversation so he didn't see that I'm not the stalker he thinks I am.. well maybe ...) Scott seems to think T-Bone is my man !!!Todd Rundgren, we've had brief moments..and I can claim the "alien doll" or Onionhead in the photograph that is inside his Back To The Bars album wrapped around the microphone that is solely mine !!! It had my phone number and address, but got dunked into his water glass.Kasim Sulton Mission accomplished on this one !! We are email buddies and have our one brief moment captured on camera. Amazing the things your forget to ask or say in the presence of greatness and in 80 miles an hour winds. Oh well next time... Ed Peterson Our Todd show awaits. T.C. The time will come..

The New Cars-Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKILXi8bPAg

Summerfest, 7-7-07

Kasim does a really great job on this classic song.



Music:

Is there room for all the music I love ? Todd Rundgren w/Utopia, music before and after it's time. Daryl Hall and John Oates .. listen to the rest of the albums not just the top 40 hits.. you'll be surprised. War Babies is my personal favorite. Kasim Sulton: Up and coming into his own, yet established in the rock community for a long time.. toured with Ritchie Sambora, Meatloaf, and Todd Rundgren as a vital part of Utopia. Currently touring with The New Cars,and recording with Meatloaf. Elvis Costello and his wife Diana Krall.. two extraordinary talents come together. His music is sublime..her voice is butter. Newer Music: Scott Goldstone (beyond immensely talented) Rocky Votolato, Patrick McKeone (easily my favorite singer), Ben Kweller, Ben Lee. (masterful(!) Keane, Damien Rice, Aqualung (inspired) The Next,(Darin, You're a rockin human being!!) Snow Patrol, Linkin Park, World Without Sundays, MUSE, Gavin DeGraw, Switchfoot, Head Automatica, Weezer,Radiohead, Thom Yorke,The Anix, Greedy Bastards: Jesse the singer is gorgeous !! Dashboard Confessional, The Mars Volta, Bright Eyes,Missy Higgins The Latest O.C./Whittier Sensation "Murder On Gretna" featuring Kasim Somers !! Sarah McClachlan, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde w/The Pretenders, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Aimee Mann,Tori Amos, Beth Hart, Rachel Yamagata, She will reach into your soul, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, U2, John Doe, X, XTC, INXS,REM, David Bowie, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Tonic,World Party, Eric Johnson, Steely Dan, Colin Blunstone, Jeff Buckley: gone too soon.. Nirvana, Foo Fighters~ Dave Grohl is the hottest drummer/singer ever !!! Ed Collins..The Original F**k Face Bare Naked Ladies,My Morning Jacket, Better Than Ezra, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, Beck, Roxy Music, King Crimson, Gypsy Kings, Peter Gabriel w/Genesis, Yes, Brian Eno, The Smiths and Morrisey, 20/20, Squeeze..most notably Glenn Tilbrook. What a fantastic songwriter !! Eric Clapton, then there's ....

Movies:

Favorites: David and Lisa " David David look at me, who do you see? who do you see? I see a girl, a pearl of a girl." Not what you think at all. This is a classic.Valley Girl: "He's just like totally tripendicular y'know" Cool music, live performance by The Plimsouls. Nicholas Cage with a beautiful mouth full of bad teeth !!!The Quiet Man: John Wayne big and sexy in a trench coat. Makes me want to go live in Ireland. Top Secret !! Val Kilmer sings and dances his way through Germany.. Something for everyone . Roxanne w/ Steve Martin, Garden State w/ Zach Braff, Harvey w/Jimmy Stewart, Super Troopers, Kentucky Fried Movie, All the Monty Pythons, Singles, (mostly for the appearance of Eddie Vedder) Anything that will make me laugh is good..I cry alone.. and I'm all about biographies. Newest addition to my limited movie appreciation section is "40 Year Old Virgin" I know every one of those guys have passed through my life..it's crazy funny !!
Duets-Paul Giamatti-Hello It's Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqB187RT6s

Television:

Prometheus and Bob on Kablam... there is nothing funnier on Earth and nothing that can make me laugh so hard. Scrubs, ER on my down time. I don't commit TV unless it's the last resort. Or Xm Radio I'm a The Loft Addict !!

Books:

Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, by Frank McCourt The Angel of Darkness and The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck KlostermanI know I've read more books than that ...

Heroes:



My Blog

Air Conditioners !!!

Ya know. there are things in life that you just WANT !!!! Peace, money, time, new music, friends, lovers, a particular food like PIZZA or guacamole,  a dog, a cat, a new house, a new car, a ...
Posted by Contrary Mary on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:38:00 PST

Rocky Votolato’s The Secrets Of Salesman

The Secrets of a Salesman these baby secrets have grown into children / through dirty adolescence and now into manhood / I locked the basement door and br...
Posted by Contrary Mary on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:56:00 PST

Love, Reign O’er Me

One of my all time favorite The Who songs performed with the same intensity as Roger by Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.REMARKABLE Love Reign O'er Me Lyrics   Only love Can make it rain The w...
Posted by Contrary Mary on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:07:00 PST

Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust

I'd love to get the inside story about this song..I think it's brilliant. It one of many created and I over looked in the 80's, wrote them off as dance pop. Somebody opened my eyes..Fragile Like ...
Posted by Contrary Mary on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:32:00 PST

The Pretenders - Chill Factor

SHE'S GETTING OLDER YEAH, SHE'S GETTING WISE BUT A CHANGE HAS CHANGED THE GIRL GONE'S THE SPARKLE FROM HER EYES SHE WANTS TO BE A GOOD MOTHER SO SHE'LL DO THE BEST SHE CAN BUT WHAT ABOUT T...
Posted by Contrary Mary on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:15:00 PST