Random stuff from the first weekend of 2023

 Top 20 Favorite Duets (not necessarily in order):

 

1-Night Crawling by Miley Cyrus and Billy Idol

2-Separate Ways by Daughtry and Lzzy Hale

3-Dub Love by Tara Platt and Yuri Lowenthal

4-Great is Thy Faithfulness by Carrie Underwood and CeCe Winans

5-Hope (Let It Find You) by Billy Ray Cyrus and Glenn Hughes

6-Every Beginning Ends by Noah Cyrus and Ben Gibbard

7-Easy by Demi Lovato and Noah Cyrus

8-Naturally Wild by Ray Wylie Hubbard and Lzzy Hale

9-Mama Kin/Train Kept A-Rollin’ by Axl Rose (with Guns N Roses) and Steven Tyler

10-Simple Things by Elton John and Brandi Carlile

11-I got so High I saw Jesus by Noah and Miley Cyrus

12-Noah (Stand Still) by Billy Ray and Noah Cyrus

13-E-Ticket by Elton John and Eddie Vedder

14-Stand by Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus

15-Ready, Set, Don’t Go by Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus

16-The Chase by Geoff Tate (then part of Queensryche) and Ronnie James Dio

17-Love of my Life by Ann Wilson and Vince Gill

18-The Boxer by Nancy Wilson and Sammy Hagar

19-Close My Eyes Forever by Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne

20-Hunger Strike by Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder (Temple of the Dog)

 

When asked for music recommendations by someone into pop music:

 

Musicians:

Queen, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, The Beatles, Ringo Starr, Bon Jovi and Carrie Underwood

 

Specific albums/songs:

Queen: Jazz, Hot Space, A Kind of Magic

Demi: Confident, Party, Dancing with the Devil...the art of Starting Over, HOLY FVCK

Miley: Meet Miley Cyrus, Breakout, Bangerz, Younger Now, SHE IS COMING, Don't Call Me Angel, The Thrill Is Gone/Django, I got so High I saw Jesus, Plastic Hearts, Nothing Else Matters, ATTENTION LIVE

Noah: Make Me (Cry), I'm Stuck, Almost Famous, Good Cry, July, This is Us, For Once In My Life, I got so High I saw Jesus, The Hardest Part

Beatles: Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road, 1, Let it Be, Let it Be...Naked, Yellow Submarine Songtrack

Ringo Starr: Ringo, Photograph (The Best of), Vertical Man

Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep the Faith, 2020

Carrie: Some Hearts, Storyteller, Cry Pretty, My Gift, My Savior, Denim and Rhinestones, Apple Music Sessions.

 

 

I don’t know if I should’ve done that.  I feel like I just gutted all the energy remaining in my body.  I honestly want to die.  Twitter is exhausting and I can’t take the constant stream of people babbling nonsense at me, insisting I’m defective and that I need to be fixed for their God of choice, rock music, video games, politics, control of the masses by manipulating Scripture…there are a few who do not judge me, do not condemn my mistakes or over-eager enthusiasm, yet despite how numerous they are I can only remember 4.  I think I’ve lost all trust in mankind from seeing how evil we can be in the name of Donald Trump or Johnny Depp.  “Art” depicting Trump murdering Biden and Harris is online, and I’ve seen Depp skin Amber Heard and wear her remains like a human suit in someone’s photoshop renderings.  These aren’t on Twitter, but they’re on a website I used to deal with the loneliness of lacking a partner for physical intimacy.  I never thought what would be considered porn would get political, much less side with misogyny and homophobia.  But, ultimately, too many of these people see it as “product,” not “art,” meaning they are detached from the human being they are photoshopping or recreating in their own, twisted image, not caring if they depict them in character, only caring about personal popularity.  It’s why the website descended into being run by memelords and AI art has become popular there, wiping out variety of styles.  I can’t even bring myself to find it erotic in the slightest.  So, I have to turn to following 5 artists from that website with no political art and more concern about their craft on Twitter to carry through my internal desires.  I often wish I didn’t have them, because so many appear sexless in the real world.  But I have these desires and I do not know what to do with them as the old guard wanes to the dark ways of misogyny and homophobia.

 

The best songs of the first week of 2023 for me were Daughtry with Lzzy Hale covering Journey’s “Separate Ways” and “Need Each Other” by Revolution Saints.  Iggy Pop had 5 good tracks on his album, I’m going to get them later to see if they grow on me throughout the year, they lacked the immediate MAN THIS IS GREAT the other two did, but Duff McKagan, Stone Gossard and Taylor Hawkins did good jobs on their tracks.