Michael's Musings

Michael Shinafelt

Happy Star Wars Day Minions! May the 4th be with you and yours. "Yes" today is Star Wars Day as everyone knows by now and the 4th is strong within me. I remember being completely obsessed with Star Wars when it first came out, yep I was 100% that guy.

Now? I've gotten older and moved on from it. I didn't even see the latest round of sequels. That being said my memories of being a huge Star Wars fan are happy ones, now brandish your light saber and let's slay some Stormtroopers shall we? Of course we shall!!!

Watching Vanderpump Rules today. Did I miss anything juicy?!?!

Therapy Geckos are totally different head

Remember the time when you gave her an Ibuprofen and a tampon?

Dear autocorrect. It's never duck, thank you

Perhaps the reason you haven't found your soul mate is you don't have a soul

In honor of Star Wars day I'll let you in on a secret. I used to have the biggest crush on Luke Skywalker

Headline I'd Love To See: "Goofy Beats Ron DeSantis To Death With A Crowbar" now that's entertainment! 

That's so mental 

Woman Crush of the Week - how could it not be Carrie Fisher who is receiving a posthumous star today (naturally) on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

Together they are unstoppable: The Bottom Rangers

Find yourself a daily dose of cuteness elsewhere 

"Meatloaf" is the best "Safe Word" it means "I would do anything for love but I won't do that"

The Writer's Guild is on strike and I stand with them

BTW there seems to be a pattern here...

Wanna what the pattern is? Follow me, so there!

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Hump Day & Chill

Lil Nas X

Behold the glory that is Lil Nas X attending the this past Monday's 2023 Met Gala. He is here today for your Hump Day & Chill pleasure. Nothing more needs to be said.

"Call me when you want, call me when you need

Call me in the morning, I'll be on the way

Call me when you want, call me when you need
Call me out by your name, I'll be on the way like

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

Ayy, ayy
I wanna sell what you're buying
I wanna feel on your ass in Hawaii
I want that jet lag from f#cking and flying
Shoot a child in your mouth while I'm riding" - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X

Lil Nas X on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/lilnasx/?hl=en

Paging Traci Lords For Law & Order: SVU

Traci Lords

As all you Law & Order: SVU fans out there, like me, know it has been renewed for season 25, WOW!!! Making it's longest running TV Drama reign ever even longer...

When a show is on this long needless to say just about everyone has guest starred on it. Except for one notable exception, I would love to see Traci Lords appear on the show. 

Traci has done many TV guest starring roles of note such as a great turn as Sharon Lescher on the Profiler, not to leave out also appearing on Will & Grace, Roseanne and Melrose Place.

She also gives an great performance in the psychological horror film Excision, not to mention her terrific stage debut in Women Behind Bars at The Montalban in Hollywood, CA just prior to the pandemic. 

How great would she be on SVU? Amazing! That's how great she would be.

My thought would be for her to portray someone from Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) past. There's a loaded scenario just waiting to explode. 

To those out there responsible for casting decisions consider this great idea my gift to you and do it! 

Traci on IMDB -

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000183/   

Happy May Day!

Heading Into May Like...
Carrie White

It's May the first Minions, typically known as May Day. It also happens to be Monday, May Day Monday is what I'm calling it, so there!

As I emerge from a chaotic April I'm grateful to see the things settling in, some, "Yes" I am a big fan of low vibe energy, it's the best kind. 

Thus I'm making like Carrie White and emerging from the wreckage into, well who knows, but I'm sure it's better than the fate that Carrie met.

Time for a pole dance!

May Day on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day 

Sunday Funday

Dance!

Well here we go the last Sunday of April 2023, while the year is whizzing by we need to celebrate today in true Sunday Funday style!

Thus I hereby bequeath you a gaggle of dancing aliens. You know the ones made famous straight outta Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien that spawned many a sequel? Most notably James Cameron's Aliens, yeah those multiple creatures just keep giving us chills that multiply, never divide. 

So let's make like these aliens today and shake our groove thang, shall we?

Magic Eight ball says: "Yes"

Alien on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)  

What Bonnie Raitt Says...

TEAM BONNIE!!!

Bonnie on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/bonnieraittofficial/?hl=en 

"Leslie's Dream"

Leslie Medford

Independent Project Records (IPR) is set to release their first ever digital-only single which will be out on 28th April. Special occasions require special songs, and what you’re about to hear is a slice of moody, brooding psych with a motorik heart and a throbbing political conscience. “Leslie’s Dream” is a rare new recording from Leslie Medford, the maverick leader of 80s San Francisco psychedelic journeymen The Ophelias. According to David Fricke (Rolling Stone, MOJO), The Ophelias were “modernists steeped in the vintage, local ethos of a late set at the Fillmore Auditorium - a potent tab of futurist acid-pop…laced with post-punk menace”.

 

In 2022 Independent Project Records released a well-received retrospective titled Bare Bodkin, charting The Ophelias’ genre-defying journey (“a stunning summation of The Ophelias’ offbeat oeuvre”, said Shindig! Magazine awarding the album 5/5 stars). Almost 40 years later, Medford is still busy conjuring spacey image-rich reveries, so get ready for “Leslie’s Dream”! Check it out here.

 

If the USA was eligible for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest “Leslie’s Dream” would likely win the thing. Then again, in a perfect world Leslie Medford’s latest song wouldn’t be necessary like it is. We at Independent Project Records believe Medford hit the vein of the zeitgeist whilst asleep, and the track might just snowball onto summer dancefloors around the continent and beyond given the weather these days and this current atmosphere of impending chaos. Medford led The Ophelias (research them!) in the 1980s, and like that band Leslie still dreams big. Infectious and memorable, “Leslie’s Dream” aims to mobilize thought, booty-shaking, and an ecstatic, whooping, mosh pit of change.

 

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