Just another list this month. I'm doing a simple list of songs, health foods, and websites. Here we go!!!

1) Vitamin information: A little vitamin information could save you a bundle on your car insurance. Actually, that's not true.

2) Clint Eastwood: Not the man, the song. It's a great song by the Gorillaz. Take a listen.

3) Chili: Nothing is healthier than a big cup of pork chili. I like mine spicy.

4) Vitamin Shoppe: I don't really like this store, but you've got to buy your vitamins from somewhere, right?

5) Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth: A great pasttime, too bad phone booths don't exist anymore. Or do they? This is a song, by the way.

6) Jerk Chicken: Chicken is healthy, spices certainly aren't harmful. Pretty much the only thing you have to watch out for is the amount of molasses you use in your jerk sauce.

It seems over half of all songs written are about love. This isn't surprising as love is something most people experience to some degree, and the rest want to experience it. Songs about finding love, losing love, giving up on love, loving, living for love, dying for love, you get the picture.

And that's why I love rock and roll.

A good deal of hard rock leaves love out of the equation. Sure, there's some great sentimental rock ballads, but the best songs are their own beasts.

Sympathy for the Devil - One of the Best Songs Ever - Not about Love

David Bowie gives us: Time, Major Tom, Pressure - No Love their

Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R - No Love required

Black Sabbath - Have they ever written a song about Love?

My Name is Jonas - a great of modern rock - NOT about Love.

Stairway to Heaven & Brick in the Wall - School Children, not Love

Now you get the BIG picture. Rock explores more grounds. Religeon, Societal norms, Government, the search for soul and purpose, the dismantling of thought, rock goes deeper than "I love you, don't leave me, I'm sad that you left me."

What's all the have to do with orac value? Nothing! Nor does it have anything to do with vitamins online or washboard abs.

"Sweet Nothings in My Ear" Doesn't that just sound like a Hallmark movie of the week?

Turns out it is!

I used to have a crush on Marly Matlin. I was in high school back in the 80's when Children of a Lesser God came out, and Marly Matlin was the hottest deaf girl I'd ever seen. Something about the disability made her all the more strong and yet vulnerable, all the more lovable in my eyes.

She has since become (to my knowledge) America's ONLY deaf actress, which is actually sort of sad, because I know there are other talented deaf women out there.

Marly typically plays the deaf housewife as is the case with "Sweet Nothings in My Ear" in which the primal theme "Deafness is not a disability" is stated over and over again.

I beg to disagree. I think the the credo is almost right, and yet totally wrong. A deaf person is not a victim, a deaf person is not disadvantaged, but not being able to hear is certainly a disability. The trick of the Hallmartacular is to  suggest that a deaf kid shouldn't undergo surgery to regain his hearing.

Having spent most of my adolescent and adult life devoted to music, I can't understand how someone would argue that NOT hearing is just as good as hearing. People who can't hear can certainly be as good, often better than people who can hear. In fact, deaf people I know are also some of the best listeners I know. But that is not an excuse to hold back the opportunity for hearing to a child who has yet to grow up a deaf person.

I don't know, I feel like I'm walking on tricky ground. But screw it, music is worth it man.

Okay, health links, and yet not exactly...
Orthorexia nervosa is my first link, grand with eating disorder mayhem.
People search is my other link, grand with people searching goodness.