Prayers?

This is purely a retorical question (which means I DO NOT want anyone to comment on it, it is just there for you to think about) but why is it that if I express an emotion and a feeling, the first thing I am met with recently is "I will keep you in my prayers" or "I will pray for you"?  I don't get it.  I didn't say that I need a new liver or that I have a brain hemorriod or that, gawd forbid, a family member is ill!!  Jeez o pete people, save your prayers for people and situations that REALLY need them!!!!!!!!  The very simple, basic truth is that life is hard, sometimes it really sucks and sh*t happens. AND sometimes we all need to vent.  Trust me, I will ask you for your prayers and support when I need them.  If you have some new found faith, LIVE it, do not push it on people.  I live in a town where everyone hides behind their faith and throws around "religious" words and their concepts of what they think that means. Tell me you can sympathize or that you have been there or the best advice you can give me is..."yeh, sh*t happens get the f*ck over it!"  Don't waste your prayers on it. THANK YOU!

I am really missing a good friend these days. Just saying.  Now, if you really are my friend and you care, what you will say is in response to this is......."there isn't anything you can do about it until they talk to you".  Followed immediately by "Whah whah.  Get the f*ck over it!"  Did you see you any praying in there? Didn't think so. If you did however, please give me the name and address of your church, cause that's a church I will go to!

Ahhhh!  Ok, I think I have gotten that out of my system.  Now, because I have run out of things to clean AND I am wide awake AND I don't know what else to do with myself, I am going to post another 10 songs.

Here is round 2 of Today's 10 Tunes......(Please note that Red Robot has gotten into my private stash of comfort items)

(click here to listen to clips of these songs)

1.  Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight - The McGuire Sisters 2:50 (Coral Records)  I love this song and I love the McGuire Sisters.  A very sweet person gave me this 45 from her collection and I treasure it.  Listen to those harmonies folks!!!!  As I said earlier today, this is music!  Pure, simple and magical.  I wish had I had been around during the 50s!  This is a highly repetitive song but so wonderful! I love the horns!!!

2.  I Found Someone - Laura Branigan 4:00 (Atlantic Records)  Yes, this is the same song that Cher recorded and had a huge hit with. This came first folks.  I love Laura's voice and her interpretation of a song.  She is greatly missed in the music world.  This version is just as powerful as Cher's but in a completely different way.  Laura chose different words and emotions to play on.  SOOOOO great to have both versions out there!

3.  If This Is It - Huey Lewis and the News 3:46 (Chrysalis Records)  What a cool song!!!  I forgot how much I really love Huey's voice...gravely, sexy and just plain honest!  He always sounds like he is having a great time when he sings!!  So rare to hear these days! 

4.  All Through The Night - Cyndi Lauper 4:29 (Portrait Records)  You all know I love Cyndi!  This has to be one of my favorite songs of hers.  I actually like what she does with it in concert now better than on the original single but, hey a great song is a great song.  Especially in the hands of someone so outrageously talented!  Of all of my favorite performers, Cyndi is the number one person I want to take my nieces to see live in concert!  They NEED to experience her genious! (Barry is second with Pat a very, very close third!)

5.  Walk Of Life - Dire Straights 4:07 (Warner Brothers Records) This is the coolest pseudo organ sound I have ever heard in a song!!  Such a happy song, it just knocked me out of my funk!!!!  Love it!!  I have no idea what this song is about but who cares.  Hell, even RR is dancing with WTP right now.  They are doing the Walk Of Life!!!

6.  Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson 3:43 (A&M Records)  This is definitely in my list of top 100 Coolest Songs Of All-Time!  Oh man, this song has such an amazing sound.  I love the driving synths and piano.  I also love how Joe Jackson has the chorus of the song written into the melody long before he actually sings it. (Listen to the clip if you are not sure what I mean by that.) I was in college when this song came out and it just brings back such GREAT memories of the one year I did of Brooklyn College. Detrice and Della, I know you will never read this but...thank you and I hope you both went on to have THE greatest lives!!!!

7.  Too Late To Turn Back - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose 3:22 (Liberty/United Records)  I am pretty sure that Steven would agree with me on this one....this song has got to be in the top 10 of the 100 Coolest Songs Of All-Time.  Such a smooth soul vibe with a great violin (huh?) right in the beginning of the song. Oh, this poor guy with the smoove as silk voice is sooooooo screwed.  He met this great lady and is totally hooked!  Good for him.  Go for it dude!  You can't help but cheer him on when you hear this song.  His only concern?  That she feels the same way! Don't even bother with that, they almost never do.  Just enjoy.  If it fails, you'll have another number one single! It's all about the music!

8.  When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees 2:58 (Philadelphia International Records)  "Whooooooo   Ahhhhhhh  Haaaaa Whoooooooo  precious moments"  See?  You already know what song this is, right?  Apparently, it was programmed into RR's memory banks cause he is turnin' and twirlin' WTP all over the place!  The lead singer sounds alot like Maxine Nightingale.  BRB Gotta go look that up! Ok, I was very wrong.  It was an ungrateful little chippy named Spencer Leigh who was insulted when she was asked to sing this lead vocal.  Hmmmmmmmmm.  Have you ever heard of her again?  Thank you!  Such a smooth cool song!  Today is just the day of smoothness, isn't it?

9.  Anticipation - Carly Simon 3:19 (Elektra Records)  Remember when this brilliant song was used for a ketchup commercial?  This was the first time I can actually recall what it meant when an artist sold old! Eh, hell.  what did it really matter?  This is such a great song, it just meant that more people would know it.  Man, listen to those drums and Carly's growl!!!!!  Carly Simon will always be one of the coolest singer-song writers our world has ever known. I know I have said this before, but, do yourselves a favor and go pick up her latest album, Never Been Gone.  Don't think about it!  Just do it!

10.  Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight - The Spaniels 2:42 (Eric Records)  This is the boy version of the smae song we started off with tonight! This is the original version of the song.  A few months later the McGuire Sisters' version was released and out sold the original.  To be completely honest....the McGuire Sisters' version is a tighter production and, obviously, more sellable.  Sorry guys but the girls win this round!

So, here I am several hours and several FB comments later (which I will never again post anything on.  FB has become a reading forum now for me) and I must say...my opinion has not changed.  Please, if you have faith and feel the need to pray for me, just freakin' do it.  LIVE YOUR RELIGION DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!!  Just pray for me, don't tell me you are doing it.  Seriously, get off the cross, we need the wood!  I love you guys very much, please understand that I think if you have faith in a religion, that is a wonderful thing and I may need you to pray for me one day, but please stop saying, at the drop of one sad hat, that you are sending me your prayers!  Make sense?  Thank you.  Now please, go tell someone you love how much you love them and make sure they really know it.  See you tomorrow!