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11 September 2009 @ 07:44 am

It's been a very long time since I logged into this account, but if anyone is interested in reading my newsletter, it's at:
www.peartreeenterprises.com

It's been one year since I started my business, Pear Tree Enterprises and I have grown so much, I hired my first assistant (who will be featured in my newsletter next month).

Cheers!

xoxo

Current Mood:

ecstatic

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08 June 2009 @ 08:37 am

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For those who keep adding me as a friend to share your SPAM "get rich quick" schemes ... you're wasting your time, I am not biting.

Is anyone else getting these crazy adds?

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How's everyone else?

I'm in a very good place. Still running my home-based entertainment business; also working for a fantastic non-profit a few hours per week and now WRITING again too!

Super busy!

Life is good!

Dennis is great, the cats are great, everything is good.

Weather in NJ is perfect this time of year!

xoxo

Current Mood:

cheerful

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23 January 2009 @ 02:47 pm

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My article for the Jersey City Independent:
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/01/23/nations-change-is-felt-in-jersey-city/

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21 January 2009 @ 07:35 am

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LOL! I had this email in my spam box that said, "How Morons Make Millions"

I was soooooooooo tempted to open it.

I can be pretty darn moronic and I could use some millions ... why not?

Current Mood:

silly

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21 January 2009 @ 06:41 am

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In my advanced yoga class we tried something new ... I think it's a new fad, I never heard of it before ... it's called IRON YOGA!

You perform the standard yoga positions, using light hand-held weights, making the poses that much more intense.

My body feels like a millions bucks! I'm looking forward to more of this.

Current Mood:

excited

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20 January 2009 @ 06:49 am

Ding dong the witch is dead!

GWB, your tour ends here.

I just wanna celebrate
CELEBRATE!

Current Mood:

ecstatic

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10 January 2009 @ 02:47 pm

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And now for some joy my snuggle bunny Billy!

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10 January 2009 @ 11:24 am

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Good god almighty!!

I can't believe a person (not a friend, a mere acquaintance who got ahold of my email somehow) would get so offended because I say I don't want emails regarding petitions and "urgent " issues.

I think in order for all of us to learn to know and love each other, it's best to know what a person does and doesn't like. I have highest respect for someone to speak their minds on issues of what they don't want to read.

Recently I found out a new friend doesn't like email jokes. I respect that and won't send her any.

In the past I've received male bashing emails; Obama bashing emails; emails with those horrific Anne Geedes baby faces in flowers; and an email joke that gave my computer a virus and I had to do a day's work at the library until we had a professional come to our place and fix the computer.

If I don't tell someone I dislike that stuff, they'll think I do like it and I'll keep getting it.

What is the big deal about me being honest??????

It's my email box. I should have some say over what I want in it.

Current Mood:

confused

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10 January 2009 @ 07:18 am

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Here's the latest "duh of the day"

Yes, we are all busy.

I know that.

But if you are so busy, please do not respond to an email until you DO have time to read it.

Or don't respond at all.

I can't say this is the dumbest email exchange I've ever had, because there have been so many like this before, it's just pathetic.

I wanted to cast a vote for vegetarian school lunches at Change.org

Not that I'll be popping out a kid anytime soon, or at all, but I talk to a lot of parents and more and more children are making the choice to be vegetarians. Looking back, I still want to puke when I think of being forced to drink milk in school. So if I can vote for a better option for kids, so be it.

However, when I got to the site, I tried to press the "Vote" button and it wasn't working.

I sent an email to Change.org:

This set up you have isn't the greatest. I wanted to vote for the vegetarian lunches, there's a button that says "vote" and it doesn't take me anywhere, I just see a bunch of comments, nothing I don't know or haven't heard before and really don't care to read.

How do I vote "yes"?

This is the response I got:

There is a big blue VOTE NOW button to the left of the idea title. You just have to click on that.

DUH!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that what I just wrote to you?

How do you respond to such idiocy? I just told them to take me off their email list, I don't have time for this, I do enough.

An answer that would have satisfied me would be something like, "I'll check into the software. Or maybe it's your software, so I'll add your name to the list if you'd like. "

There are solutions to everything. But people are so self-absorbed, all they care about is how busy they are and the EASY WAY OUT.

That said, I don't care to sign anything for any cause unless it's about those who can't defend themselves ANIMALS. Let parents worry about their own kids and their own lunches. You don't need my vote to get them a healthy lunch.

Unless the email is about someone killing wolves or deer, or sending someone to the electric chair for setting kittens on fire COUNT ME OUT!

Current Mood:

annoyed

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09 January 2009 @ 07:10 am

Better late than never

Yesterday was the birthday of two extraordinary men in rock 'n' roll: David Bowie and Elvis Presley!

Share your stories (or comment on mine or both!)

ELVIS

I think everyone in my generation remembers where they were when Elvis died.

I was in Florida with my grandmother and 13-years-old. I heard it on the radio and couldn't believe it. I didn't know enough about him to cry, but I was very sad. He was a permanent fixture in our household. Elvis records were always playing and I memorized the lyrics to every song. In my teenage year, me and all my punk friends embraced the rockabilly Elvis, who made great recordings on the old Sun label. But I've also embraced the cheezy, overweight, Las Vegas Elvis of later years. How can you deny that voice, that emotion? I'd probably be more of a fan if my mom WASN'T a fan, because it was Elvis overload in our home.

Two years after his death, I took a trip with my family to Graceland. I met and had my picture taken with Vester Presley, the uncle of Elvis.

I never had the sweet pleasure of seeing the legend perform live, but I live for Elvis impersonators and see them often.

BOWIE

I don't quite remember when I first became aware of Bowie or heard his music. All I know was he was in every rock magazine. By the early 1980s I was very much into his work, not just as a musician, but as an artist and actor too. There is not one thing that man can't do. My favorite films he was in included, "The Hunger" and "Merry Xmas Mr. Lawrence" (that also featured the music of Sakamota, who I am also a great fan of).

I had 10th row at Madison Square Garden during his "Serious Moonlight Tour" in 1984. I still have one of the half moon balloons that flew over the stadium during the show.

In 1987, I saw Bowie again at Giant's Stadium in NJ for his "Glass Spider Tour."

And I think it was 1982, Bowie walked right past me at The Ritz in NYC, with some body guards. I heard a loud, strong male voice say, "Everyone move to your left, everyone move to your left!" And there was Bowie, right in front of me. I saw his two different colored eyes, up close.

In 1998 I had tickets again to see Bowie. Unfortunately that night he had layringitis and cancelled his show. Instead, I took a cab down to Irving Plaza and saw Shane MacGowen.

Bowie and Elvis, two beautiful legends who gave the world so much happiness from their music and movies. Bless their souls!

Current Mood:

peaceful

Current Music: "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" Elvis

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06 January 2009 @ 06:02 pm

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So I hear LJ may be going down the tubes.

Write my email down so we can all keep in touch: superduper_nova@yahoo.com

Well, I hope it's not the end... I have quite a few journals since 2001. I've always changed them over the years so it could be old pictures with old comments. I hate changing to new default pictures and then they change on every comment you've ever made using the default picture.

I didn't want someone to look back at their journal in 2001, in say 2048, with a sexy/sassy comment from me and my user photo being 85 years old or something, ha-ha... that's just so wrong! LOL!

I'm probably the only one who thinks of these crazy ass things!

But if it's true -- back to the old paper diaries, with my horrific handwriting that I can't even read myself. What a nightmare!

***
So today was productive. I met the copyeditor I hired for the first time today. Her name is Lisa. What a doll! Smart, friendly, personable, talented. I had a great time chatting with her and having a tea.

I had so much work I missed yoga class again. But I did some at home this morning. Stretches and back bending stuff. Feeling goooood!!!

Current Mood:

busy

Current Music: "Roxanne" The Police

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05 January 2009 @ 06:56 am

Listen up!

In a bizarre and apparent contradiction to Senator Obama's announcement that he wants an organic garden at the White House, Senator Obama has chosen Tom Vilsack, a strong bio-tech proponent supporting genetically engineered crops, cloned animals, etc., to run the Department of Agriculture.

As you will see below, Vilsack is truly Monsanto's boy. He pre-empted the local votes of towns and counties who had voted to disallow GE seeds!

It's still possible to block Vilsack's confirmation with a massive support of the petition drafted by the Organic Consumer Association. It's easy to sign on at this link: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783

or from the Organic Consumer Association website http://www.organicconsumers.org/

Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect's office.

The article below gives further details.

PLEASE POST THIS TO YOUR E-MAIL LISTS!

Thanks!

Gerhard Beddin

OpEdNews

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Vilsack-is-not-just-totall-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-081218-394.html

December 18, 2008

Vilsack is not just totally pro-biotech, he is committedly anti-democracy

By Linn Cohen-Cole

Excerpts from this article, chosen by Gerhard Bedding:

Vilsack, according to The Organic Consumer's Association, was named Governor of the Year by Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the biggest pro-genetic engineering lobby in existence. Why? Not for nothing. Because he'd championed local transgenic R&D corporations like Trans Ova, which clones cows. Vilsack was also the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership. Vilsack speaks for biotech. He is the man who helped wipe out the local votes of many towns and counties who had voted not to allow genetically engineered seeds

haphazardgourmet.blogspot.com/2008/11/tom-vilsack-emerges-as-frontrunner-for.html

OCA names six reasons Vilsack was a terrible choice:

* Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack's support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn:

http://www.gene.ch/genet/2002/Oct/msg00057.html

http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/drugsincorn102302.cfm

* The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership.

http://www.bio.org/news/pressreleases/newsitem.asp?id=200...

* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows.

* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government's possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address.

* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a shill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto. Sustainable ag advocated across the country were spreading the word of Vilsack's history as he was attempting to appeal to voters in his presidential bid. An activist from the west coast even made this youtube animation about Vilsack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmoc4Qgcm4s

The airplane in this animation is a referral to the controversy that Vilsack often traveled in Monsanto's jet.

*Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy based biofuels, which use as much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving up world food prices and literally starving the poor.

"Vilsack lobbied hard to get seed pre-emption bills into state legislative bodies, beginning in 2005. These bills seek to control the use of seeds on the state level, and thus deny local communities (and small farmers, and even backyard farmers) the power to establish their own regulations for protection from genetically engineered seeds. If seed pre-emption bills become law, citizens will not be able to regulate where genetically engineered crops are grown, the creation of GE buffer zones, or the banning of pharmaceutical crops, among other things. The use of seeds becomes entirely regulated by government, and opens the door to human and plant exposure to every adverse effect of genetically engineered crops. --And simultaneously ruins biodiversity, because once transgenic seeds prevail, there's no going back. Seed pre-emption bills have been introduced in sixteen states, and the battle is ongoing. But Vilsack has been one of the chief architects of looming biodiversity disaster, and there's no reason to believe he'd halt his love affair with genetic engineering and Big Ag just because he's working for Obama."

haphazardgourmet.blogspot.com/2008/11/tom-vilsack-emerges-as-frontrunner-for.html

Philip F. Incao, MD
Steiner Holistic Medicine
P.O. Box 894
276 North Spruce St.
Crestone, CO 81131-0894
Phone/Fax: 719-256-5647
philip@drincao.com

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03 January 2009 @ 08:09 am

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Here's a cool thing that's going around on Live Journal:

Writer's Block

Many people believe that what you do on New Year's Day sets the tone for your entire year. How did you spend the first day of 2009? Do you think it will influence the rest of the year?

I wrote about this already, that I spent the day with good friends, good food and totally in love with my boyfriend, ending looking at the sunset over the ocean.

I could do without the over-indulgence though. Goodness gracious, of all the bad things I ate, -- pasteurized orange juice in the mimosas -- that's sacriledge!

Do not pasteurize or homogenize me!!!!!

Two days later and I'm almost back to my healthy self. ALMOST! Except for potato chips, today will be raw, raw, raw!

Sashimi and kombucha here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Current Mood:

excited

Current Music: "Angel" Aerosmith

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01 January 2009 @ 12:25 pm

Happy 2009!

I love that number!! Anything with a 9 -- such a hearty, sexy number, long and lean with a nice bust!

My new years resolution is a very hard one: not to complain!

I've been practicing that one and off, and it's such a good feeling to not let a complaint fester, but rather change it to a positive. Hard, yes, but it can be done and eventually it becomes less effortless. So that is my goal.

And anyone here can feel free to call me on it if I start complaining :)

***
I did a little New Year's clean-up on my friends list. I just took some people off that I don't hear from (meaning no comments in my journal or no response to me when I post in your journal)

It doesn't mean I do not like you, or you're not cool or anything bad, it just means I don't hear from you and then I feel awkward if I want to say something in your journal, whether you think what I'm writing is stupid or not ... and I don't like that weirdness. That can ch-ch-chhhange if you eva feel like talking to me again :)

So my new year's LJ recommendation to all of you: SPEAK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's called "LIVE journal" because you have to be aLIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :)

And now I am going to the BEACH!

Have a supercalifragilistic day!

xoxxoxox

Current Mood:

cheerful

Current Music: "Same Old Song & Dance" Aerosmith

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31 December 2008 @ 08:04 am

2008 in review

I do so much throughout the year, in both work and play, but let's see if I can capture the essence of what 2008 was to me in just a few paragraphs. Well ... maybe more than a few :)

I was high as all hell when 2008 rang in! I had just reviewed and interviewed The Fab Faux for an article, as well as Jackie the Jokeman (formerly from The Howard Stern Show). The Fab Faux show was fantastic and being with the press, I got to see all three sets for free.

Afterwards had a late night dinner with my amazing boyfriend Dennis, my friend Vin, musician Mark Walsh (brother of Joe Walsh) and the owner of Church Street (the best restaurant in Montclair, NJ).

Fireworks went off. Good friends called. I knew 2008 was going to be something special.

This was the year I decided to take a break from the world of in-house publishing, after doing so for magazines and newspapers since 1995 (with a break for most of 2001 when I couldn't find work).

I quit my job as a journalist, yet continued to write and edit for NJ Health & Fitness magazine.

I also decided I wanted to work for myself. However, it took some time to make that happen and I took a gig working at a health food store. That had its ups and downs, but the owners, June and Kevin were very cool and turned me on to one fabulous musician: Ben Kweller!! (who I had the honor to see later in the year).

I can't think of Summer of 2008 without thinking of Ben Kweller!

By fall I left the health food store and took a chance flying on my own as a writer, editor, copyeditor, booking agent and publicist.

I had two steady clients: a new age author and a Mark Twain impersonator.

Now 2008 comes to the end and my clients continue to grow, as does my work. I've added to the list: two health authors, another musician, a restaurant owner, a self-help author and a children's author.

I'm also trying out dog grooming for a couple hours on Saturdays, just to keep it real. The energy I get from washing and blow-drying these adorable "babies" (as I call all animals) is sky-high. I LOVE IT! I don't know how much longer that will fit into my ever-growing schedule, but I'm going to keep doing it as much as I could, as it's sweet and therapeutic for me.

My days go fast, working on my porch office, looking out the window, daydreaming while doing a kick-ass job. I work with such amazing people. I am very happy. I love planning my days and making my own schedule. And best of all, I love being my own boss!

2008 brought so many amazing people into my life and a really special friend, named Bridget, who is my yoga teacher.

One downfall was learning of the murder of Mistress Kriss of the Nuns, who I performed onstage with October 2002. May her soul rest in peace.

I had some minor back issues in the spring, said a prayer to the animals and decided to no longer be vegan. I NEED animal protein (soy and nuts do not cut it for me). So back to raw eggs, raw dairy and fish (although no red meat or pork since 1986). I'm feeling 100 percent! But I also much thank my killer chiropractor god!

My dreams for 2009 are more of the same!

I love the number 2009!

I weigh 117 today and that's a good thing too! Ringing in the new year lean and mean!

Current Mood:

accomplished

Current Music: "Magic" Ben Kweller

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30 December 2008 @ 04:02 pm

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So for the first time a very long time, I ate 95 percent raw!

And if you think eating bad food makes you feel yucky, eating healthy food AFTER eating bad food makes it worse.

I'm so light-headed and dizzy, but that's just the detox until my body gets used to eating good again. I've been through this before!

Breakfast
4 raw organic eggs blended w/banana

Snack
Dried golden berries

Lunch
3 pieces raw salmon wrapped in non-toasted seaweed w/wasabi (non-raw, but organic and natural -- no bullshit coloring!)
3 carrots dipped in wasabi
Strawberry kombucha tea (99 percent raw)

Dinner
Non-homogenized yogurt w/banana and raw coconut butter (THIS is so amazing, it melts in your mouth!! One jar cost $15 -- money very well spent!)
Organic mango

If I can start eating this way every day after the holiday, I'll be so happy with myself. I feel so euphoric!

Current Mood:

pleased

Current Music: "I Need More" Iggy Pop

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29 December 2008 @ 08:23 am

Supercalafragilisticextealdoscious! (spelling?)

Yesterday was simply amazing. It was 68 degrees in NYC! Warm and windy!

Dennis and I went in to see Mary Poppins matinee at the New Amsterdam theatre, which was breathtaking. It's been around since the 1800s. Prior to Mary Poppins, the Lion King was shown in that theatre (I'm not sure if I would like it or not ... probably though, since it's animals).

We took so many photos in the theatre. There was so much to look at. It was almost cathedral like.

It was the place were the Ziegfield Follies danced in the early 1900s. One of the girls is still alive and she's about 100 years old! (She was the most beautiful one of them all too!)

It's always an added bonus having Dennis with me because he knows so much about old history and architecture. He'll tell the whole story of how the theatre came about. He has books on it, which I should read, but I prefer hearing someone tell me the story :)

Mary Poppins was beyond magical. No matter how much theatre I see over the years, I'm still impressed by the tricks: Mary Poppins gliding up the staircase, flying over the audience, how fast they change the stage sets.

In this live theatre version, they replaced the little cartoon animals with living nude statues (of course, it's theatre!) At first I was like, "how can they have naked people running around when there are children in the audience?" Then I realized they had on cat suits.

I don't know what my favorite part of the show was. It was all so spectacular, charming, sweet, and even metaphysical. I love all the songs too. (Reminds me of babysitting Claire and all the cute dances we made up together). Also the fact that I took four years tap and jazz, I always appreciate good dance numbers.

Afterwards we had dinner at a little coffee shop, Andrew's, which has been around for years. I wanted something old skool. I can't stand all these new panini places and cafeteria style eating places popping up all over NYC. I wanted to be served! I wanted some cooked eggs and a tea. And French Fries.

We had a really nice waitress, who brought me a Band-Aid because I cut up my feet wearing my gorgeous shoes without tights because it was so warm.

The Band-Aid came to the rescue because afterwards we walked all around Macy's looking at the Christmas display windows. We even went inside. It was too overwhelming. Too many people. People kept bumping into me.
Dennis said, "You're the smallest target in NYC. How do they keep bumping into you?!"

Yeah, really!

One woman actually had the balls to push me out of her way to get to take a picture of a display window. I simply walked up to her and screamed in her ear, "YOU COULD HAVE SAID EXCUSE ME!" She was dumbfounded. HA!!

Walking so much this entire holiday season helped keep my weight at 118. (YES!) We even walked with Diane to the Weird NJ party on Saturday night. Walking is just sooo good! My metabolism is in high gear again because I'm eating practically everything.

Finally we drove up to Westerly, my FAVORITE health food store in the world, on 54th Street. Dennis just dropped me off and double parked. I headed straight for the back freezer for some raw food gourmet delights: A tiramusi cake (all raw and healthy); raw mock crabmeat salad; a strawberry raw kombucha drink; a cucumber and apple.

I also got a Paul Newman milk chocolate bar for Dennis.

Today I'm meeting with another potential new client. I'm so happy to have this entire week off (for the most part). It's a perfect time to gather new clients and just CHILL!

I'm very happy!

Current Mood:

ecstatic

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27 December 2008 @ 08:05 am

Meow-la-la!

If you squeeze Derick's butt, he meows!

So I want to dress him up like Marilyn Monroe and play "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" and squeeze his butt at appropriate moments.

Once we have this performance down pat, I'm taking him on Pet Star to receive $25,000 for our efforts.

Current Mood:

impressed

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25 December 2008 @ 08:15 am

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I almost forgot about this. Heh-heh!!

Last August I got my hair cut and they put my picture up on their site:
http://www.enigmashairstudio.com/portfolio/page2/default.asp

(I'm the one all the way to the right!)

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24 December 2008 @ 11:00 am

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Who the fuck are Ludo?

THIS is the greatest song I've heard in a very long time!

http://www.metrolyrics.com/love-me-dead-lyrics-ludo.html

Any band who sounds like they were inspired by Queen (especially the guitar) gets major points in my book!

I almost peed in my pants, sitting in the car waiting until the song ended.

And I don't do that for just any 'ole song!!

Current Mood:

impressed

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