I am working on creating some cards for the Journey-opoly game.....I thought you might like to see a few...these are some of my favorites so far...(and they are ACTUAL QUOTES taken from various sources, which I cite at the top of each one)...truth is very MUCH stranger than fiction.
May 2008, Idolator.com article includes a
Neal Schon quote: “Oh, y’know, there’s no
legal issue. We just try not to (talk about him).
I mean, I didn’t say anything inflammatory. I
didn’t talk about how he still gets paid like a
mother fucker even though he shouldn’t be.
It’s stuff like that I’m not allowed to talk about.
He just sorta bitches and moans and whines
about everything. And he just assumes that
every time we bring up his name, that we’re sayin’
bad things.” Hey Neal: That’s NOT inflammatory?
That’s NOT “a bad thing?” Shut up and go
straight to Journey Fan Hell for 2 turns.
Without your guitar.
(Note: Journey Fan Hell = JAIL...it's a place you wait in line for 2 turns while you hope to buy tickets to a sold out show).
How about this one:
March 2010 Starpulse article states, “Former Journey
star Steve Perry has taken aim at comedienne Sarah
star Steve Perry has taken aim at comedienne Sarah
Silverman for suggesting he used the racist “N” word
slur to describe her humor. Perry tells Rolling Stone
magazine, “I’m really shocked. She was so friendly
and nice. I don’t understand why she would go there,
it’s so bizarre. I don’t use that word, are you kidding?
That’s so derogatory. I walked up to her after the show
and I said, “I can’t believe that somehow you seem to be
getting away with all these slurs and the n-word, I
just can’t believe how you’re doing this,” and I looked at
my friend and I said, “I can’t believe how she’s getting
away with this,” and she looked at me and kind of smiled.
It wasn’t like I was condemning her or condoning her.”
Create a Sarah Silverman dart board, but lose a turn.
Now, having spent many years hanging out with Jewish people, I'm going to make a huge sweeping generalization here....you wondered why she just smiled at your flabbergasted observation....well, I think I can tell you why. In fact, I had a similar conversation once with my Virginia roommate, David, who often took me with him to synagogue on Saturday evenings. You see, both Jews and black people (African Americans) have been SCAPEGOATS in our society; therefore, they have this unwritten "agreement" of sorts, that they can pick on each other without foul. It's like a black man can call another the "N" word, but that's "okay" because they have both dealt with being called that nasty name in their lives at some point.
So, sometimes-----NOT always---sometimes it's "okay" (i.e. somewhat socially acceptable in this particular audience) for a Jew to make a joke about a black person, AND, in reciprocation, sometimes a black comedian can also make a Jewish joke. Now, they have to be VERY careful when doing so, to gauge the audience FIRST before they go there. But, they do it. She is not the FIRST Jewish comedienne to do this, check out old video footage of Joan Rivers. Check out Roseanne Barr. It is disguised as being "edgy," but it's really blatant racism. And, for some inane reason, people seem to laugh at the things they are most embarrassed about, and racism is one of those things. "How silly that we call people names like that...it's just stupid and wrong..." but the name itself, you see, IS the JOKE. It is now politically incorrect to say the "N" word, for any reason, when describing ANYBODY, no matter the shape, size, or color of a person's skin. But BECAUSE of that taboo, it is "edgy."
Does that make any sense? I'm kinda going out on a limb here, but that's my take on what I discussed with David once...."how come Jewish people don't like blacks, and vice-versa?" His answer, "Because we compete at how terrible the world treated us, and MY PAIN is worse than YOURS..." (that is the condensed version of our conversation). So there seems to be a kind of scapegoat jealousy, in some twisted way, between the two groups of people. "Slavery? Bah, that's nothin'. You had a nice house to live in, food, shelter, clothes, and sometimes you were taught how to read...and ALLOWED to read...you were allowed to stay with your families for the most part too....so let me tell you about the horrible concentration camps." "What do you mean, those camps were halfway decent--at least you had a real JOB...you didn't get told to do disgusting things like clean outhouses...you weren't SOLD to others and whipped daily, you have no clue how slavery really was for my ancestors...and you only had 12 years of scapegoating, we had entire LIFETIMES of slavery. We got you beat!" (These are tongue-in-cheek, made up, arguments). But, that's an illustration of the type of "competition" I'm alluding to.
Now, I have never been a fan of Sarah Silverman, simply because I don't like her personality. I don't like that she is also dating Adam Corolla, who is a HUGE anti-Semitic, sexist pig. I don't even like Jimmy Kimmel because (though he's also Jewish), he hangs out with such a jerk. "The Man Show" was ludicrous and offensive to women, but it was considered a huge hit, despite the offensiveness to more than half the population. It's one of those, "in your FACE you white, conservative, Christians...you treated US like shit with your Hitler-esque prejudice, now we'll see how YOU like it." And, though my momma taught me that two wrongs do not make a right. But, that's why this sort of twisted "humor" exists.
Here's another observation about The Man Show, they treated women like sex objects, because in a Jewish household, (the majority of them) are MATRIARCHAL, rather than PATRIARCHAL, meaning they allude mostly to the MOTHER as the head of the household, instead of the father, like most Christian households do. And, because they grow up as "mama's boys," in a lot of cases, they grow up resenting women, and treating them crappy. They tend to gravitate more towards men, as another "victim" society almost, "your mom was a crazy Jewish mom too? Well let's be friends, I feel your pain." That's why the show "worked" as well as it did...the two men often agreed, or at least provided a united front.
Now, in my relationship with Pete, for example, he was adopted at the ripe old age of 3 months, into a Christian, overly religious family, and though he loves his mom, he was much more inclined to gravitate towards his dad most of the time. He does have 2 very best guy friends that he still keeps in touch with, but as he grew up, and even now, he has many more female friends than male. Why? I think because his dad was a teacher, and often gave other kids more attention than to his own, which created a rift---just a minor one, but a rift just the same---and forced Pete to spend more time with his mom, who was bipolar and not exactly easy to deal with most of the time. (Kinda like now). I think he psychologically seeks out other women, who are either more sane, or less, than his mom, to prove to himself over and over that he is able to handle them no matter what, even though deep down, he doesn't believe it.
But hey, what do I know. I'm not a psychologist. His first wife was mental, she just sat all day long in the house, quilting, and never once SOLD any of her quilts...she just kept them all, in piles, in plastic bags, in her basement, along with thousands of dollars of fabric in bolts all lined up on shelves in her basement---Pete said it looked like they had their own fabric store. To this day, she still sits and quilts, watches t.v., and does little else. I don't know if she had some kind of autism, or if it's some kind of sickness, but that's just plain WEIRD if you ask me.
Then, his second wife was batshit crazy, just plain insane, from the stories he's told me about her. She didn't accept HIS kids, or like them at all, but she demanded that he spoil HERS rotten all the time, and when Pete's son started collecting swords, she accused him of being some kind of mass murderer type, and was afraid of him. She put the swords up in the attic where most of them rusted. She thought SHE was a psychologist, because she had taken a class once in college...so she over-analyzed everybody EXCEPT herself, and all the people in her life, all around her, were the ones with problems, they were WRONG and she was always RIGHT, and she knew everything, she considered herself elite among peasants, with an attitude of "I am better than all of you."
BUT....for Pete, these two women were not as difficult to deal with as his mother was while growing up. They didn't know what "bipolar" even WAS back then, so it was just another "normal" day in the household when his mom had severe mood swings. She wasn't diagnosed, nor did she take any medication for it, until later on in her life when the scientists and doctors finally figured out that it's some kind of mental illness. For Pete, those two wives had "quirks," that's all, and they weren't as bad as the "quirkiness" of his mom.
Now, he's married to ME....whether that's a good thing or not, remains to be seen. Maybe I'm not crazy enough for him, or, maybe I'm way BEYOND crazy and he has no clue what to do with me, other than smother me with kisses all the damned time. I don't know. I'd like to think I am a bit LESS crazy, and a bit MORE intelligent than the other two, but that's just my opinion. Pete still flirts, he still has female friends, (most of whom are flakey in one way or another), but he's now stuck with me, and there are days when I wonder why I chose to marry HIM. (I've been proposed to 4 times in my lifetime, none of whom seemed to be "Mr. Right.")
Did I choose Pete because he reminded me of my grandpa, a big guy, tall and stout, with a jovial attitude, a loving and generous heart....easy going, musically inclined, sensitive, etc., or was it because my dad was a putz, and most boyfriends I had before Pete were jerks, and treated me crappy, but that's how I thought I DESERVED to be treated so it didn't seem out of sorts? It seemed normal to me at the time to be with men who treated me crappy like my dad did, so it became a pattern in my love life.
Sure, a Navy boyfriend, why not, he was a skirt-chasing, flirtatious womanizer, a sex addict even, but hey, he thought of me as a "hottie," and so I played along thinking he'd NEVER cheat on ME....(learned the hard way that I was wrong about that). Okay, a married guy, sure, he'll be SAFE to be in a relationship with, why not, we work together, that's gotta be a GOOD thing, right? (Nope, it wasn't...though I was with him nearly 10 years. He's divorced now.)...and hey, here comes ANOTHER married guy, with DOM SKILLS even, hmmm, that seems like a smart idea, I think I need a Dominant man in my life, why not....(I am alluding to Peter, the guy I was with when I met Pete). I was with Peter 2.5 years, and felt thankful for every scrap of attention he gave me, though it wasn't enough.
When Pete came along, it was ODD...HE was ODD...and it felt uncomfortable. And then I heard echoes of my mom many years ago, saying, "If you find a man who feels COMFORTABLE then RUN as fast as you can away from him---he'll be just like your daddy. But if you find a man who makes you feel UNcomfortable, and treats you better than you THINK you should be treated, then hold on to that one...he will be nothing like your daddy."
And ya know what? That was probably some of the best advice my mom ever gave me.
............But I digress...........ahem......where was I?? Oh yeah, the Journey-opoly game....
September 2008 Starpulse.com article states,
“Lucky rocker Arnel Pineda’s dream of fronting
rock supergroup Journey has turned into a night-
mare--he’s struggling to cope with the band’s
touring demands...it appears the pressure has
got to him. He tells Rolling Stone magazine,
“There are days I just break down and cry. This
is a job I’m doing for my family. That’s all the
consolation I’m getting.” POOR GUY! Lose $300.
(Yes, these are actual quotes from actual articles that I found on the internet).
But these two, are from actual EXPERIENCE that I once had with these two idiots...
(Yes, these are actual quotes from actual articles that I found on the internet).
But these two, are from actual EXPERIENCE that I once had with these two idiots...
Tour Manager John Toomey grabs you by the arm,
escorts you to his office backstage, and yells at you
for bringing a camera to the concert, and asking for
a press pass, even though you cleared it with the PR
firm first. Lose a turn and take the camera back to
your car, but enjoy the show anyway.
Mention former sound engineer Allen Craft to Tour
Manager John Toomey, and how he crashed your
computer a few years ago, and suddenly he becomes
Mr. Nice Guy! He gives you backstage passes, his card
with his home phone, asks you to write a review for the
band’s web site, AND gives you a press pass! Smile
sweetly, take $100, then write a scathing negative
review about HIM and Allen Craft for your OWN web
site instead.
hehehehehe.....yes, that really happened.....what a schmuck. Both of 'em.
This is also from my own experience....
A ticket to the October 8, 1986 show in Detroit
Michigan, at Joe Lewis Arena during the
Raised on Radio tour costs you $50 bucks
for floor seats. You wear the t-shirt you
bought for 7 straight days afterwards,
until your friends tell you that you stink.
You are TRULY a DIE HARD FAN!
This one just got my blood boiling when I read it....
June 2008 Starpulse.com article by Kris King
states, “Can someone please explain to me the
merit of seeing Journey when Steve Perry hasn’t
been in the band for almost 10 years? I mean
honestly, when your band’s defining quality becomes
your vocalist and you ditch him because he has a
degenerative bone disease something just doesn’t
add up. The best part about Journey’s current line-up
is that they don’t even try to cope with losing Perry or
go in a new direction--they just try to find vocalist who
kind of sounds like him. What’s the goddamned point?”
Go to jail, and lose $100 for being a negative poop.
Well, those are just some of the examples...maybe longwinded, sure, but real and actual quotes, not something I made up at all....but as you may be able to tell from these examples, they are MOSTLY pro-Steve Perry...not in a mean way, BUT, to give the guys "food for thought," if they really do ever sit down and look at this game I'm gonna make and give 'em.
Maybe, if a faceless, nameless fan (namely ME), slaps them across the head for being jerks with a board game, MAYBE they'll finally realize what a terrible ending to such a wonderful group of guys it was, that they created. You all created your own monster with this band, you know. Even you.
But I still love ya.
Anyway, I guess I'd better get going.
Rest in Peace, Elvis Presley. I wasn't even born yet when he sang this concert, but after watching it over and over for many years, I wish I had been born a few decades earlier. He was THE sexiest beast on the planet.
Black leather sit-down show #2 (June 27, 1968). Elvis tries to sing "Heartbreak Hotel", as he jokes, smiles and forgets the lyrics... very funny!!
Love, Rebecca
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