How are you? I hope your week is going well so far. Today, for me, life is finally starting to quiet down around here, thankfully. I am ready for some peace & quiet!
I've spent most of the day working on the Journey-opoly game that I want to create. I don't know if it will ever really happen, but what the heck, I might as well give it a shot. I have nothing really to lose. I had previously added a photo of the beginning stage of the game, awhile back for you to see, but now it's all changed and updated. With help from Pete and his daughter and son-in-law, I think it's coming along great! Here is how it looks so far....
I have to create some "Journey cards," that have stuff about various band members on them, like trivia about the guys, and interesting things like that, as well as "Die Hard Fan Cards" that will have cool info about the whole band, and/or albums, songs, tours, etc., that most of us SHOULD already know.
I drew all the squares freehand, and mimicked the real Monopoly board, and the colors of each "property" that they have, which will be "Album singles, rare promo's" for sale, and then the money will have a face of each band member....you will be happy to know that your face will be on the $500 bill! And Deen's will be on the $1...hehehehe...just cause I don't know much about him.
I think miniature album covers will be the playing pieces, and for "houses" and "hotels," there will be gold and platinum albums...the person who gets the most money, collects the most album singles, along with the most gold and platinum albums, will win the game and get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Or, something like that. Haven't quite worked it all out as of yet, but it'll eventually make sense and have a purpose of some kind along those lines.
Anyway, we did some research on the KISS-opoly game, on the internet....did you know that they created their OWN game, without going to Parker Brothers to ask permission or anything? Kinda cool. So, that's how you guys should do it, too, in my humble opinion. Why pay royalties to them? Screw it. Get around that whole copyright thing, somehow, and you can do whatever you want with it. I'm not sure how KISS did it, but the game turned out really awesome from what I can tell by looking at it.
I have one square that, on the real Monopoly board, is "Utilities," but on THIS game, it's "GROUPIE ALERT! Run to the tour bus! Pay $150 to the bus driver to get the heck outta there!" (As if you guys would really RUN AWAY from sexy women who want some nooky...) It's one of those "tongue-in-cheek" homages to the old Atari Journey game, where you ran from groupies...remember that silly thing?! (Yeah, I own it). Just don't tell anybody. Promise?!
GAWD, if I could get my hands on one of those arcade Journey games, I would totally FREAK...those were silly too, but oh so FUN! Your real faces were pasted onto tiny computer character bodies...jumping from drum to drum...running away from groupies too, I think....well, I don't remember much else about it, but what a hoot...I used to play that as often as I could, whenever I found one.
Anyway, so this Journey-opoly game is just a prototype, obviously, but it's coming along. What do you think? I found a Discography, that had album titles, with 3 of the top selling songs from each one listed, so on the properties, I listed those as ALBUM SINGLES, which are PROMO's, and worth a lot of money. I skipped the first 2 or 3 albums, then I went to Infinity, Departure, Evolution, then I skipped Captured, (even though that is my all-time FAVORITE album, mainly because most of it was recorded in Detroit, and I am from Michigan!)...and I had room for Frontiers, (skipped Raised on Radio), then Trial By Fire, and then for the newer albums without you on them, I only had room for Revelation. (I skipped Generation, Arrival, and Eclipse).
Most likely, I will create an even NICER version for YOU...that I will send to Lora at Fan Asylum. That way, you can take a look at it, while the other guys are also taking a look when I meet them soon. This one is all hand-written, but yours will have computer-neatness and writing and pictures, etc., on it. Change whatever you want to change, do whatever you want to do with it, just give me SOME credit for creating the damned thing. I am NOT looking for any money for doing it, though. I don't give a crap about money. But, if you'd give me another in-person hug, that would suit me just fine.
*SMOOCH*
Okay, so onward to other photos for you to peruse...I hope you are somewhat entertained by all my silly blog entries that I write. Part of me actually hopes you don't really READ this stuff at all, but if you do, maybe you'll get a chuckle at the CONCEPT of the whole blog, to have conversations with you. Sure, they are one-sided conversations, but what the hell. Until you start writing BACK to me, it's the best I can do.
I am a writer, what can I say? It's the only thing in this world that keeps me grounded. That, playing my flute, and studying the Holocaust. Those three things keep me (mostly) sane, serene inside, and somewhat somber and serious too. That is my usual daily personality. I also love alliteration.
I smell bbq chicken, be right back....my dinner is nearly ready...
Okay, I'm back and just ate dinner, so my belly is happy. That leads me to wonder, though...who cooks for YOU? I kinda like imagining that you're the one who does the cooking, in a huge, fancy, gourmet kitchen full of all sorts of tools and pans and other things that I probably couldn't even name if I wanted to...I think I read somewhere (a long time ago), that you prefer eating vegetarian. That's cool, but I am sorry to admit, to your disapproval, that I am a carnivore. (Sorry...midwestern...meat & potatoes y'know).
Ah well, now the family is happy, the food is gone, and I can now retreat to the computer for a little while.
Here's another photo.....Pete took us all on a cruise of the 3 rivers here in the 'burgh last night, on the Gateway Clipper boat. It was a very nice evening, and we all enjoyed it very much. Here is a photo of my mom and I together on the boat...with the skyline behind us....(my hair was up and flat all over)...
I took more photos, but that was one of my favorites.
It kinda reminds me of this photo, of YOU...
with some chick named Susan, at the Giants game recently...
(cool backgrounds, close-up, side-by-side, smiling)...
I found that and a few other photos that she put on Twitter last week, and great GOOGA MOOGA,
my friend, you look HAPPY!! You look well rested, relaxed, healthy and gorgeous as ever!
And for that, I am very glad.
I do admit, I like getting a peek at recent photos of you from time to time. We're breathing the same air, on this same dang planet, and yet you're way the heck over THERE and I'm stuck way over HERE. There's just something wrong with that, dammit. Wouldn't you like to visit Pittsburgh? And me?!
Ah well, a girl can dream.
Whomever this Susan chick is, she's very pretty, and lucky! Whatever happened to your telling me (years ago when I met you), that you didn't want to have photos taken with female fans because "they might be sold to tabloids, claiming to be my girlfriend." I still don't quite get that, because to my knowledge, it never happened to you, or any other member of Journey. So, what gives?!
You, my fine feathered friend,
are full of crap.
But I still love ya. (Silly poop of a man that you are).
*WINK*
Bye for now.
Love, Rebecca
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