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JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

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59 years old
Hendersonville N.C.-LessburgFl
United States
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JOB: Retired
MEMBER SINCE: 08/26/2009
STAR SIGN: Aquarius
LAST LOGIN: 07/20/2010 08:35:37
MY RATING: 0.00

I LIKE TO READ AND REFLECT...MAYBE TOO MUCH !!!
I ALSO LIKE TO WATCH MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARIES..
THEN THERE'S TRAVEL, I OWN A 1965 AIRSTREAM AND LOOK FORWARD TO ONE DAY MAKING IT TO MAINE FOR A WEEKS WORTH OF LOBSTER FEST..THINK OF IT, LOBSTER FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER...AFTER A WEEK'S WORTH, NEVER AGAIN !!! BEING ANTI-SOCIAL, I HAVE SPENT MY LIFE TRYING TO ASSIMILATE...A HOBBY?
NOT REALLY, MORE LIKE A NECESSITY...

REAL ECLECTIC; ALL THE 'BOURNE' FILMS, SHAWSHANK, MOST ACTION FILMS, MOULIN ROUGE, GEISHA, FIGHTCLUB, CLASSIC LIKE THE DIRTY DOZEN, GREAT ESCAPE, ANYTHING CLINT EASTWOOD, ANYTHING BY DIRECTOR SPIKE LEE (MALCOM X W/ DENZEL MY FAVE),
THEN THERE ARE THE DOCUMENTARIES, THE TRUTH ABOUT 911, WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR, MOST OF MICHAEL MOORES FILMS, BIOGRAPHIES, FORIEGN FILMS LIKE MOTOR CYCLE DIARIES, CINEMA PARDISIO,& ON & ON.
LIKE I SAID ECLECTIC...

THE MUSIC THROUGH-OUT MY LIFE HAS PROBABLY BEEN WHY I AM STILL ALIVE..THE MUSIC OF THE 50'S & 60'S GOT ME THROUGH AN OTHERWISE ROUGH CHILDHOOD AND THE VIET NAM WAR..MOWTOWN, ROCK, FOLK, IT WAS ALL GOOD. IRONICALLY, NEVER CARED MUCH FOR COUNTRY, AS DESTINY WOULD HAVE IT, MY FIRST RADIO JOB OUTTA COLLEGE, AFTER THE WAR, WAS A COUNTRY STATION IN ASHLAND OREGON..I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR TRYING TO SLIP IN SOME JAMES TAYLOR AND JOHN DENVER..GOT ME THE RADIO NICKNAME "DANGEROUS DAVE". BY 1977 I'D HAD IT WITH COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE UPCOMING OREGON WINTER, GAVE AWAY ALL MY WINTER CLOTHES AND DROVE 3,000 MILES TO FLORIDA AND GOT SNOWED ON THERE...ALSO DISCOVERED DISCO AND ENDED UP WORKING THE CRUISE SHIPS OUTTA THE PORT OF MIAMI AS A DISCO DJ..DANGEROUS DAVE OF COURSE...WHEN DISCO DIED (MID 80'S) I WAS INVITED TO ATLANTA TO RUN A TEEN NITE CLUB WHICH ROCKED EVERYNITE TO MADONNA, AND ALL THE 80'S BANDS & ARTISTS'..WHEN THAT DIED, I WENT BACK TO COUNTRY WHICH HAD LITERALLY BECOME THE NEW ROCK AND THROUGH-OUT THE 90'S I WORKED COUNTRY STATION'S IN ATLANTA AND TEXAS...RAP NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR ME, BUT I DID GET A KICK OUTTA "SLIM SHADY"..
TODAY, I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, OLDIES,COUNTRY, LATIN, EVEN HAVE SOME CHINESE MUSIC (DUBBED BY A FRIEND WHO OWNED A CHINESE RESTUARANT) CAT STEVENS' HAS COME BACK AS YUSEF, AND IS MAKING SOME INSIGHTFUL STUFF, AND AS SONNY & CHER SANG, "THE BEAT GOES ON" !!!

OH, TALK ABOUT ECLECTIC, LOVE BIOGRAPHIES, POLI/SCI, nOAM CHOMSKY, NAOMI KLEIN, HOWARD ZINN,
AND RCENTLY PICKED UP A 1936 COPY OF 'OUTLINE OF GREAT BOOKS', COMPRISING 250 OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS WORKS OF HISTORY, PHILLOSOPHY, SCIENCE, RELIGION, POETRY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL AND CRITICISM OUTLINE IN THEIR AUTHOURS' OWN WORDS..BEST OF ALL, IT'S ONLY 1282 PAGES LONG..STEVE MARTIN'S LATEST 'BORN STANDING UP' COMES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, ESPECIALLY IF, LIKE ME, YOU EVER DID OR DREAMED OF DOING STAND-UP COMEDY...WATCH FOR AN OLD COMIC NAMED 'DAVEY BOOMER' COMING TO A DIVE NEAR YOU, MAYBE !!!

01/19/2010 10:50:48
01/17/2010 10:47:56
01/04/2010 13:08:28







BECAUSE OF MY DISORDER(S) LIFE AS SOME FOLKS DESCRIBE IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE REALM OF FAMILY, WIVES, AND FRIENDS, EITHER CASUAL OR CLOSE. I TEND TO STAY TO LONG IN UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, HOPING THINGS WILL CHANGE. I'VE NEVER KNOWN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS ALL THE LOVES I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HIGHLY CONDITIONAL..I KNOW I'M THE PROBLEM AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU I'VE READ EVERY SELF-HELP BOOK THERE IS, BUT TO DATE, HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO EITHER COMPREHEND OR PUT INTO ACTION ALL THE ADVICE GIVEN BY THE VARIOUS GURU'S...AS HARD AS I AM ON OTHERS, I'M THREE TIMES AS HARD ON MYSELF..AS THE LATE GREAT 'JOHN LENNON' ONCE CROONED "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOVE WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS?"..NEITHER OPRAH OR DR. PHIL'S PEOPLE RETURN MY CALLS, SO I'VE STOPPED CALLING...AND AS MY UNMEDICATED FREIND, WHO SUFFERS DEEPLY FROM DEPRSSION AND I HAVE CONCLUDED; AT THIS POINT WE'RE LIKE SCHOOL KIDS, OUT ON THE CURB, WAITIN' FOR THE BUS...AVOIDING STIGMA BY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT...AND ASSIMILATING AS BEST WE CAN.


daveyboomer has 16 friend(s)



Displaying 10 out of 13 comments
From: steph
07/17/2010 21:21:28

Well it's about time! I am glad you are back and in the land of the living. I hope it wasn't too serious. ttyl


Steph



From: patrickthecritic
07/17/2010 16:28:01

Welcome back ! Thanks for adding me as a friend.



From: steph
05/01/2010 20:28:49

Davey


Where you been? You okay?


steph



From: steph
03/30/2010 19:22:55

Hey Davey


Just checking in. Doing okay here. Still trying to get my meds just right and therapy has been tough lately, but for the most part, I'm okay. Boy, this trying to get better stuff is hard!


Hope you are doing well. Drop me a note and let me know how you are doing.


steph



From: steph
02/27/2010 22:43:17

Hey D Boom ~


How ya doin?


steph


 



From: deejaydee
01/31/2010 04:54:20

Hi Davey, what's up buddy? one day at a time as I tell myself, the future can change in a second so I don't count on it. Today is a brand new day, how exciting!! actually, I have tons of housework to do, yuk



From: deejaydee
01/27/2010 09:37:52

GOOD MORNING DAVEY


LOTS OF PEOPLE DREAM OF TRAVELING, MINE IS OF FAMILY & FRIENDS, ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW WE ALWAYS WANT WHAT WE DON'T HAVE? I DON'T GO OUT MUCH, I'M A HOMEBODY. I TRY TO GET OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE BUT I DON'T COPE WELL AT ALL. NEVER BEEN ONE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP. I GET PANIC ATTACKS A LOT, AND FOR FAMILY I WAS RAISED IN A CONVENT SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 5. UNCONDITONAL LOVE IS WHAT I HAVE FOR MY CHILDREN, I LEARNED WHAT IT IS. HOPE YOU CAN READ THIS BETTER. I HAVE TO REMEMBER YOU CAN'T SEE WELL. WELCOME TO YOU IN MY LIFE, DAVEY PS) DON'T BE SO ANGRY



From: deejaydee
01/26/2010 15:47:52

Thanks for being my friend!! I was wandering around the site, hoping you would find me. I read all your blogs and you are right you are hard on yourself but extremely frank, I hope you straighten me out whenever I pull the pity me stuff. I have wasted too much time singing that old song. My husband and I travelled the whole US and Canada in an RV. It took us 9 yrs and 9 mths out of the year, looking for an ideal place to retire and guess what? stayed right here, where we were. A rolling stone doesn't gather any moss and this is so true in life. I'm done traveling.


 



From: bevvy
01/21/2010 17:38:42

Hi Davey! 


Sorry for the delay in writing, but haven't been on the site till now.  Thanks for the warm welcome : )   I think I posted my pics first then profile, so you wouldn't have known about the performing.    


You're in Leesburg, I'm in the Cape.  Hope you're enjoying your time here.  My word, the last couple of weeks were so cold!


Next show won't be till mid April.  I only do about 3 shows a year, as I still hold down a full time job.  Great fun, but like having 2 jobs.  And auditions aren't until first week of Feb.


I remember reading about Bourdain.  They make more from those appearances than they do the shows.  I think he was on the east coast recently. 


Funny, we were both in radio.  I was always the midday maiden.  Made more from freelance, radio/tv commercials and industrials.  Write when you can~~b


 



From: STAGEPROMO
01/20/2010 15:06:43

Yo Boom, Nah little Phil has not died. He's one hard ta kill lil sob. i bought him a vw, back in the seventies. He blew a tire goin to a gig one nite, and, as he was changing it, got hit by a car! Knocked im about 100'. He woke up three months later to find this huge black guy standin over him- yet none the worse for wear (cept one already short leg was about two inches shorter)


Phils about 5'2" and can rock a blues harp like nobodies bidness! He's just released a coupla albums on Hottrax Label- One is a retro from his earliest days with The Night Shadows and the other is called Out of the Shadows. Mostly Beach music type stuff with some psychadelia thrown in.


He was frontman with Kudzu for years, playin mostly the southern curcuit. Our bandmate,Birdlegs, went on to form Spyro Gyra, a jazz fusion group. Phil rocked out the seventies and part of the eighties with a band called Bandit. i was in Chi. then and we've lost and retouched many times over the years. One thing i can say, its nice to keep friendships alive, me and phil have been friends for almost thirty  eight years.


So, are you still doin radio?


PS i appreciate your comments to my rants- see my rant about weed in the forun section.


i do so love Joey f'startin this site- its nice to talk with other (crazies) like myself- yet who's sane enuf to judge the insane. i ain't insane- just exceedingly damaged.....



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