Michael's Musings

Red, White & Black
Michael Shinafelt

This has been a weird week. How weird has it been Michael??? Well for starters...let me tell you about this glass of Chardonnay minus the black fly...

The heatwave, the heatwave, the heatwave

Yoga, it's a thing

How about those Crazy Rich Asians???

If you don't have something nice to say, come sit next to me and I'll write it up

Officially I am now a Vampire, the more you know

Pregnancy, that's not what tequila shots are for

Kelly Clarkson's daughter wants to marry Chris Martin - "Yes" this is a byline

I am really enjoying Very Cavallari - Kristin Cavallari is now one of my spirit animals 

What Meg?
Jason Statham

Jason Statham, Jason Stahtam, Jason Statham

Earth is the loneliest planet

Tackiest byline of the week - "Pink gets discharged from the hospital" think about it, but not too much

"I restore myself when I am alone" - Marilyn Monroe

Wine & Sleaze 

There's nothing better than ________ in the morning. I know my answer, what's yours?

The best things in life are naked

On that note, here I am, the one that you love at:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/
https://twitter.com/MShinafelt

Hump Day & Chill

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Holy Sharon Tate!

Margot, Sharon, Margot, Sharon
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Margot Robbie & Sharon Tate

As all of you know I am a Margot Robbie fan - and as one can imagine this image of her as Sharon Tate from Quentin Tarantino's upcoming flick Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has me over the moon!

Here is the synopsis for the tale....

"A faded TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Helter Skelter reign of terror in 1969 Los Angeles."

While it is set during the time when Tate was tragically slaughtered by the Manson Family, the above description is vague and doesn't really give any sort of a hint, or theory even as  how this fits in the film.

Ya know what? That's OK by me, all I know is Robbie eerily evokes Tate in the above image, they are doppelgangers. 

"Yep" sign me up, I am so down with going to see this, I'm ready!

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood on IMDB -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7131622/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3  

Monday Motivation

Cheers It's Monday!
Henry Golding

"Tell me why, I don't like, I don't like, (tell me why) I don't like Mondays" - I Don't Like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats

"Yes" it's that time again for the most maligned day of the week to happen...Monday.

Today I felt a different approach to the dreaded day was in order. One that took our collective attitude toward said day and turned it on it's butt.

Thus I bring you cheer in the form of raising a glass and saying "cheers" and taking on Monday straight with a smile no chaser.

Let's hit it like Henry Golding who stars in Crazy Rich Asians (say that three times fast) - here he is at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, CA with an adult beverage smiling like the sun will come out tomorrow.

So smiles everyone, smiles and bend it like Henry, learn to love your inner Monday!

Henry on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/henrygolding/?hl=en 

Just Because...Amber Heard

Cool For The Summer
Amber Heard

Just Because she's giving off cooler than us vibes, Just Because she's gone completely black & Just Because she caught my eye while surfing the WWW - Ladies & Gentlemen it's Amber Heard!

I honestly don't know too much about Heard other than the domestic abuse incident between herself and her then partner Johnny Depp. 

That I believe is about to change with the upcoming release of her movie London Fields in which she plays Nicola Six who happens to be clairvoyant.

What's that? OK, here's the synopsis:

"Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer."

Sounds intense, no? 

Most likely not as intense as the heat Amber was enduring when this photo op happened, since it was snapped in NYC and it's, well like summer and it's New York and stuff....

Mic Drop!

Amber on the IG -
https://www.instagram.com/amberheard/?hl=en

"Suck It" Saturday

It's Saturday, Tell Someone To "Suck It"... SUPERSUCKERS to release new album "Suck It" on September 21st 30th anniversary tour confirmed for the Fall

"We've finally become the band that we've always threatened to be," says singer-bassist Eddie Spaghetti, calling, as ever, from the road. With the Supersucker odometer clicking on three decades this very year, the self-proclaimed Greatest Rock n' Roll Band in the World is marking the occasion with a loud, resounding Suck It. Off the blocks, this 12th studio album from the band showcases a ruthless, get-it-done trio that sounds rebuilt from Motorhead parts, with a singer-bassist transmuting Lemmy's mojo to rasp "You said to grab it / Just hook or stab it / And now I gotta have it - All of the time."  "Once we tapped into that vibe, we really ran with it," Eddie says of All the Time, which opens an album he and core 'Suckers Marty Chandler (guitar) and drummer Chris Von Streicher (drums) recorded early this year at Bismeaux Studio in Austin, TX, cutting all ten tracks in four days. "And it sounds great," says Eddie. "There's not a lick I wish we could have back." One upside to putting 30 years of work in: You get better. One downside: Few around you do. The History of Rock n' Roll begins by lamenting a key knowledge gap among youngsters: "The difference between what sucks and what's good" - going on to illustrate the latter with an exuberant chorus: "Like Rocket From The Crypt / And the New Bomb Turks / Let's hear it for the Hangmen / Yeah they know how it works..." The list goes on: "How 'bout Zen Guerrilla man / They were fucking killer / And I am just amazed / Every time I see the Bell Rays." In the tradition of "Dancing in the Streets" or "Land of 1,000 Dances," the rhyming list song flips a crank's tirade into a roll call of fallen heroes: "Don't forget Danko and the Didjits / And the motherfucking Dwarves man / Yeah the Dwarves!" Eddie Spaghetti says it's all from the heart. "I had the line in my head for a long time - 'a footnote to an anecdote in the history of Rock n' Roll,'" he recalls. "I'm happy it came off snarky and crotchety but at the same time, celebratory about all these great bands that I really love, wish everybody else loved, and get bent out of shape that they don't." By rights, Eddie Spaghetti should be way more than bent out of shape. Three years ago, he packed his wife Jessica, their sons Quattro and Zeke, and daughter Elvis into an SUV pulling a 29-foot Argosy Airstream, setting out from Seattle to spend a year as a family on the road - a year that was ended eight days later by a patch of black ice in Oklahoma. "That turned everything upside down," Eddie says of the crash, which was swiftly followed by a diagnosis of throat cancer and put the uninsured sometime country singer on a blue-collar trajectory from trailer to ICU room in just under six months. With his family living out of a minivan, Eddie got treated at City of Hope in Los Angeles, spending four days intubated and another six months fed by a tube before clawing his way back to Rock n' Roll. "I'm back, for sure," he says now. "It was a rough one though." Since this is the first batch of Supersuckers released since then, some come from genuine darkness. "Everything happens for a reason" begins the track Dead Inside. "What a stupid thing to say." Four-on-the-floor cowbell and singsong chorus turn this telegram from the abyss into what Eddie rightly calls "a pop song. Back when bands used to have hits, this one could totally be a hit." The Worst Thing Ever describes the bottom in these same straight-shooting terms, the kind you hear throughout the Supersuckers oeuvre-giddily trashy paeans to hooch, Satan, or deviant sex in offhandedly-witty light verse. This has been more or less their métier since the group of high school buddies from Tucson first moved to Seattle in 1990, signing with Sub Pop and becoming grunge's sole country-music dabblers, going so far as to back up Willie Nelson on the Tonight Show. On Suck It, Eddie's forays into country are reflected solely in the bluesy nod of Cold, Wet Wind. Otherwise, their expansive hardcore-band aesthetic came through time-tested Supersucker methodology: "writing songs in hotel rooms, dirty back stages, and all the shitholes we're always play at," says Eddie, whose fleet pen and nimble wit aren't to be overlooked-the gifts of a NSFW James Thurber or an inhalant-abusing Dorothy Parker. "If somebody is a carpenter for 30 years, they're gonna be a fucking good carpenter, you know?" says Eddie. "So it shouldn't be such a surprise that a band just gets better over time and I really genuinely believe that we have," he says. And near-death experiences aside, Eddie says "It's really sort of a miracle. I mean, who does anything for 30 years anymore?" On this summer's 30th-anniversary tour, the band will play songs from Suck It, some country faves, and two of their Sub Pop records in its entirety. As a whole, Suck It brings to mind that old friend who's awesome to hang out with even if his life is in the shitter. "I tend to do my best work when I'm feeling good," Eddie says. "I don't tend to channel dark stuff into my Rock n' Roll, but it makes for a more interesting record. I've come to realize what we do is not for everyone, but I still feel like we have hit songs. This one sounds like it's coming from dudes in their 50s who've been doing it for a long time and have this stupid hope that someday somebody will hear our song and make it popular like it oughta be. Because that is the truth."

Website: http://supersuckers.com/  Pre-order: https://mvdshop.com/products/supersuckers-suck-it-cd  Tracklisting: All Of the Time (5:14) The History of Rock 'n' Roll (5:37) Dead Inside (3.33) Breaking My Balls (3:10) The Worst Thing Ever (3:46) What's Up (With This Motherfucking Thing?) (1:46) Cold Wet Wind (3:16) (Im Gonna Choke Myself and Masturbate) 'Til I Die )2:52) Private Parking Lot (3:12) Beerdrinkers and Hellraisers  (w/ Jesse Dayton)(3:37) US Tour Dates 2018: 07/26/18 - Bend, OR @ Volcanic Theatre Pub 07/27/18 - Reno, NV @ July Jam / Greater Nevada Field 07/28/18 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of the Hill 07/29/18 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe's Alley 07/31/18 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge 08/01/18 - Tustin, CA @ Marty's on Newport 08/02/18 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah 08/03/18 - West Hollywood, CA @ Viper Room 08/04/18 - Mount Baldy, CA @ Mt Baldy Ski Resort 08/05/18 - Long Beach, CA @ Alex's Bar 09/01/18 - Milwaukee, WI @ Harley-Davidson Museum 09/07/18 - Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco 09/08/18 - Huntsville, AL @ Sidetracks Music Hall 09/09/18 - Knoxville, TN @ The Concourse 09/11/18 - Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug 09/12/18 - Orlando, FL @ Soundbar 09/13/18 - Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits 09/14/18 - Savannah, GA @ The Jinx 09/15/18 - Charleston, SC @ The Royal American 09/16/18 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl 09/18/18 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle Music Hall 09/19/18 - Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House Music Hall 09/21/18 - Wilmington, NC @ Reggie's 09/22/18 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel 09/23/18 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Shaka's Live 09/24/18 - Washington, DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse 09/26/18 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge 09/27/18 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs 09/28/18 - Worcester, MA @ The Cove Music Hall 09/29/18 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine 09/30/18 - Troy, NY @ Hangar on the Hudson 10/02/18 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place 10/03/18 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom 10/05/18 - Erie, PA @ Kings Rook Club 10/07/18 - Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar 10/09/18 - Minneapolis, MN @ Uptown VFW 10/10/18 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews 10/11/18 - Waterloo, IA @ Spicoli's 10/12/18 - Lombard, IL @ Brauerhouse 10/13/18 - Pekin, IL @ Twisted Spoke 10/14/18 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In

Freaky Friday

Next Time Use More Red
Lady Gaga & Ryan Seacrest

"When I wake up in my makeup, It's too early for that dress. Wilted and faded somewhere in Hollywood. I'm glad I came here With your pound of flesh" - "Celebrity Skin" Hole

It's that time again. Time to let your hair down and put on some make-up and a turban - "Yes" minions it's Freaky Friday! 

Remember that time Lady Gaga & Ryan Seacrest donned fifty shades of WTF make-up? No, neither do I, but it happened. I have brought you proof.

Wonder if they woke up this way after hitting the town in Hollywood? The actual explanation is probably far more freaky than we could ever venture to guess...

This being stated, Gaga must have some major mojo going on to get Seacrest to join her in something this off the cuff. He is so white bread bland for the most part. This is the edgiest thing I have ever seen from him. 

Given the right partner in crime I'm sure ever the stiffest of individuals will let their freak flag fly from time to time.

That Gaga is such an instigator, there should be a law against her! Not!

It's time to wave your hands in the air like you don't care  Happy Freaky Friday!

Go Gaga at -
https://www.instagram.com/ladygaga/?hl=en