man, what a great channel this used to be. for some reason, our cable service dropped it several years back, so i have no idea what it's even like these days. but i used to watch it all the time in the late 80's, early 90's...good 'ol channel 9. if i dig around, i can probably find some old howard stern shows i taped from his little stint on the channel. there was some funny stuff, like bowling with the ramones, iggy storming off the set because howard booked him on the same show as angie bowie, with whom iggy was feuding with at the time (i think she wouldn't let david see their kid or something like that), kenneth keith callenbach blowing smoke out of his eyeballs and then hurling on camera, richard simmons losing it because howard was taunting the fat people richard brought on, and all the different masks they would make boy gary wear to hide his horse teeth every week while howard did commercials for the brother p-touch, 1-800-MATTRES (leave off the last "S" for "savings!!", and snapple... man, those were good times.
one show that cannot be left out of this little channel 9 tribute is the richard bey show. the movie party monster did good when they had a scene of all the club kids on the show. which i TOTALLY remember!! they had club kids on there all the time. and the movie got john freakin stamos to play him! that ruled. the set looked totally dead-on, too.
and let's not forget good 'ol morton downey, jr. and joe franklin! and the horrible kids show steampipe alley with the fabulous mario cantone! ha. they also showed reruns of "family" every day in the early 90's, which i haven't seen anywhere since. i don't know why i remember crap like that. i got all into "family", man...especially when leif garrett would guest star as kristy mc nichol's boyfriend. so cute!
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what's NOT a miracle, however, is the fact that she divorced his ass!!! serves him right for being sooooo lame. i'm so mean.
indeed. but then chris would've had to carry me around all night so people would know who i was. which is fun in theory, i guess, but...meh.
ahhh, the million dollar movie theme! YES!!
i'm glad action news hasn't changed their theme in, like, 30 years. i like it. i like the one they play when the end credits roll, with the words. :) so funny.
p.s. "there's that news van again!!"
ahh, that's awesome! i would flip out if i was at a show and the badn started playing the action news theme! apparently, philly is the originator of the theme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_News#Theme
i have never been to the bar you mentioned...by the mid-late 90's, my main hangout was ortleib's. :) i love that place. what a dive. but they had THE best key lime pie in the whole wide world, oddly enough. i also used to hang out at cloud 9, which was a REALLY crappy bar on south st. that my friend bartended at...it's not even there anymore. i also liked nick's (and upstairs at nick's) back in the day. horrible bands but good food.
at any rate, your band sounds pretty darn cool! anything with an accordian is ok by me. i actually have one, but i left it under an open window in the rain and now it sounds like an injured cow. :/
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