Gilligan's Island, The Musical....Facebook & Forgiveness.

Yes, Stephen, you read that blog title correctly...Gilligan's Island has become a MUSICAL.

Marvin Hamlisch weeps silently over this.

Anyway, Pete is in the center, playing The Skipper.  We saw the play today, with his mom (Florence) along, and she loved it.  She had a fun time watching the 1960's t.v. commercials too, which they played during scene changes and prop movements.  It was very cute.  The writing really sucked though, in my humble-but-opinionated-opinion.  But the songs were cute, and it was fun.

I took a short video of one of the songs...

...................but the damned link won't work when I try to copy it from my Facebook page. GRRR.  I'll try something different tomorrow, and add it then....sorry about that....I promise it's cute though.

Ah well, anyway, it was a long day but Florence enjoyed it very much, and we all had a nice time seeing Pete perform.  He really loves this play, and you can see it in his performance.  His voice is totally roached from it, though, but tonight he lamented that "it's already halfway over! I only have 3 more performances...and then it's done..." and he looked sad.  So cute...

We are having the cast party here at our house on Sunday next week, so it will be interesting. I told Pete I'm going to decorate the whole house like a hut!!   hehehehe  (I wasn't kidding but I'll let Pete think I am). Mmmmuuuuhahahahaha.

Apparently YOU, my dear Stephen, have annoyed many females on the Faithful Ones' Facebook page, with that "lame interview" you gave.  Now, I haven't listened to it myself.  Haven't been home most of the day, and too tired to deal with it tonight.  But, I'll give it a listen tomorrow and give you my thoughts, for what they are worth.  But wow, the thing that tickles me most, is that these women, this GAGGLE OF CHICKS (a barnyard term actually, from my Michigan childhood), are all peeved that----and yes, they actually SAID this----YOU, DEAR SIR, ARE A TEASE!!!

Yep. You're a tease.  Damn you to hell for making them WANT YOU MORE.  How COULD you?!  That's just MEAN!!  And AWFUL!!  Oh woe is me!!  Yes, they are actually COMPLAINING that you gave a BRAND NEW RADIO INTERVIEW, but you really didn't SAY MUCH about NEW MATERIAL, and WOW, that just caused a massive ruckus among the herd.

*I reach to shake your hand.*

You are shrewd businessman, and I admire that very much.  It's all about the marketing. Whip that silly crowd into a frenzy of lust, make them WANT you, ACHE so much they can't stand it, and then out of nowhere, when NOBODY expects it, TAH DAHHHH, you'll suddenly appear with a new CD!!! That is marketing brilliance, in my opinion.  And I laugh, because that's probably what EVERY performer has to do nowadays in order to compete.  It's nothing new, and it's nothing that will ever go away.  You'd think most people would be used to that strategy by now.

It's all around us, all the time, in every t.v. and radio commercial, with every band's new tour, or CD, or appearance at some festival.  "FOR TOO MANY YEARS YOU HAVE MISSED HEARING THOSE INCREDIBLY ENTERTAINING MONKEES SING SUCH CLASSIC SONGS AS DAYDREAM BELIEVER!  NOW, FINALLY, YOU CAN ONCE AGAIN RELIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD CRUSH AND HEAR THEM LIVE, IN CONCERT! YOU CAN EVEN BUY A V.I.P. PASS AND MEET THEM ALL IN PERSON!  A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE TO SEE YOUR FAVORITE DAVEY JONES, MICKEY DOLANS, (etc. etc. etc)....yadda yadda yadda.

The risk of being "damned if you do, damned if you don't" is null and void when the profits are calculated, ain't it?!  If you DON'T give an interview, people bitch and moan about it, "he's deserted his fans, oh what a selfish man, he's so horrible, and mean, and just IGNORING his public..." but then, when you DO give a new interview, people bitch and moan about it, "he didn't say ANYTHING about a new CD, he's just stringing us along, he's such a TEASE."  You just cannot WIN sometimes, no matter what you do, or don't do, say or don't say.  And that part of being a celebrity must totally SUCK.  But again, I say, it's all made up for when the bank statement rolls in.  And that, is how business IS.

You could stand on a stage and BURP THE ALPHABET, and I would buy 10 copies of the damned CD, that's how sick I am.  (And I wrote that on the Facebook page too). I also wrote that "he owes us nothing."  I offer a different perspective sometimes, and risk getting beat up for it, but that's the honest way I feel about it, so I share my honest opinions, regardless of the popularity level it may, or probably won't, create among the masses.  I just say it like it is, even if I get smacked upside the head for it.

One lesson I learned in college, in Journalism 101, is that DEAD PEOPLE SELL MORE MAGAZINES THAN ALIVE PEOPLE DO.  The same can be said for musicians.  Seriously.  Think about it.  Whitney Houston.  Michael Jackson.  Amy Winehouse.  Janis Joplin.  Jimmy Hendrix.  Jim Morrison.  Bob Marley.  Otis Redding.  Sam Cooke.  Buddy Holly.  Roy Orbison.  Etta James.  The list is ENDLESS.  So, I wrote one final message on this long thread, which is a philosophy I learned from my Holocaust Survivor friends...."it could be worse."  You could kick off tomorrow, and all that "music on your laptop" that you TEASED everybody with, will SKYROCKET into the TOP 10 HITS list the very next day.  Guaranteed.  And your grandchildren will live happily ever after forever.

One person on this fan page made a video for YouTube...here is the link....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRfo2N-2bg&feature=share


One other conversation that I found interesting on Facebook was with a friend of mine's new husband, who often posts "God" stuff, and religious scripture verses----while at the same time, sending ME dirty naughty pictures and sexy things in email every day.  He likes that I am into kinky stuff, so he sends me anything he finds that he thinks might make me happy....he's kinda like the submissive, trying to please me, and it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable...but at the same time, I understand he's also enjoying it, so of course, I want to please the man---being submissive myself----and if it makes him happy, I let him do it.  I don't know if my friend who just married him KNOWS that he's doing that or not, but that's not my problem.  I don't encourage it, I don't ask for it, and I just delete them anyway.

Anyway the conversation topic was, FORGIVENESS.  Now, that's a sticky wicket subject, to say the least.  I will just copy and paste it here...my friend's husband wrote the top paragraph regarding the link to the ministry lecture.....
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I know exactly what you're saying....there are people I want to forgive for what they have done, how they have effected my life and those that I care deeply for, but as i think of it, I just can't bring myself to forgive them, which hurts even more, because then I'm made at myself, for not being able to forgive.

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Pray for the people who have hurt you. (Matthew 5:44)

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    Sandy --- It's hard!

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    Rebecca ---The thing you need to remind yourself is, they are really and truly hurting THEMSELVES, but disguising it as meanness towards you. It's not about you. It's about the pain and the hurt and anger they carry around every day inside themselves. They truly NEED those prayers, and that forgiveness, more than you will ever know. That is the screwiness of the whole ball of wax that is "forgiveness."

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    Sandy ---some people are just plain evil though.....

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    Rebecca ---And those are the ones who hurt the most inside. The more evil they are, the more pain they feel. That leader of Iran, I hate his guts, he should be assassinated. But, when you take a moment to inquire about how he was raised, was he abused by his parents? Maybe. What has made him so horribly angry and prejudiced all his life? Is he a victim of his environment, or has he been taught to hate by those around him? Is he really the "evil ogre" (giving him WAY too much power, by the way), or is he a lost and scared little boy inside, who has been in pain most of his life? Evil people are the ones we should pray for the most, and try our best to forgive. If he blows up Israel, he will have to deal with ME, and believe me, I will fuck him up GOOD for even SAYING he wants to blow up Israel. But, there is more to an evil person than meets the eye. You just have to dig a little bit into who the person is, to better understand WHERE THE EVIL COMES FROM, which is the first step to learning how to forgive.

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    Rebecca ---Now, I only ask that you don't go there with the whole "Hitler" argument, it's just not worth arguing over, and it gets me all riled up. That man needed psychological help all his life since he was a child, his childhood was horrible, and his young adulthood was worse. THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR HIS EVIL BEHAVIOR, however, and I am NOT defending him for what he did. What I am echoing here is what I have talked with HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS about on a daily basis, how they have tackled this forgiveness thing, in their own hearts, NOT because they approve of what he did, but because to live in PEACE themselves, that is what they felt had to be done. It's a sticky wicket, this whole forgiveness thing, not every Survivor can reach that point. But, every day they live, and procreate, and have weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs, and celebrate LIFE, they move closer to that same forgiveness to free their OWN hearts from the horrible burden of hatred that STARTED the whole Holocaust in the first place. They don't WANT to have that hatred inside of them. They want PEACE. And some of them realized they could only achieve that peace by learning to forgive Hitler. It's a heart rendering truth, and the reason I so loved working at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum every day. I miss them a lot.

Well anyway, those are just some things knocking around in my head today.  Hope you had a great weekend, thank you for the interview (in advance) and I'll let you know what I think after I hear it.

I also wrote to Arnel Pineda's page, telling him that he's awesome, and among all those men on that stage that he shares, HE is the one who loves you MOST, and it shows.  Then I thanked him for doing you honor and sharing his talent with the world just like you did.  Now, it seems my post has been deleted, probably because I also wrote that I wished Neal would reunite with you as friends again, and stop making stupid women decisions...LOL...like I said, I speak the truth, even if it isn't welcome.

Bye for now.  Love you lots....xoxox

----Rebecca   ps. I could write better stuff than the Gilligan's Island Musical...so I might just start something soon.  How's THAT for a TEASE?!!! hehehe