Tag: vox hunt
Vox Hunt: Photography – Favorite Photo Of Me
Show us your favorite photo of yourself.
I meant to do this yesterday but I forgot. So this is me, all super tanned (as if I needed it) in Turks and Caicos. It's not the best quality but it's still probably the best picture I've ever taken.
Vox Hunt: Music + Memory
Audio: Share a song that evokes a powerful memory.
Submitted by MalieKai.
We used to have these "parties" every weekend at a friend's house, going especially strong in the fall of '86. They weren't huge parties, we were only 13 through about 16 at the time. Well, that's the time when some of the friends became more than just friends. For a while, everyone just traded each other off and while I was a witness to all of it, I was never a part of it. I was always on the outside looking in. It was strange that I was the youngest, yet always the most responsible one, making sure everything was kept in order and no one got out of line.
This was probably the first time in my life that I realized that I was different than everyone else and that it could be the beginning of a long and lonely time in my life. I sat in a room and listened to this song 23 times in a row, crying and completely inconsolable. While everyone stopped by to see what was wrong, I never could bring myself to tell anyone and I suffered internally. Probably quite the reason my view on relationships had been so skewed until recently. Anyways, here it is. Jon Bon Jovi and crew with the classic power rock ballad, Never Say Goodbye.
Update: Let's not be sad.
I didn't date in high school and I went to dances, but I never got asked to dance. Yeah, sad, but I'm over it. Because Lovey and I have the same corny taste in music, the next song became "our song". One day it came on Sirius as we stood in the kitchen, and it was there that I had my first real dance. I may have shed a tear.
Vox Hunt: This Album Is All Good
Audio: Share an album in your collection that's a classic from the first to the last cut (no need to use the skip button). Submitted by Cortadito.
I'm sure this won't ring true for everyone, but this isn't about everyone, it's about me. In my sophmore year of high school is when I really started getting into, what was then, the rock scene. I was never any good at being "black". I couldn't dance or sing or any of the other stereotypical things black folks should be able to do. Could've come from living in tiny, suburban, white-bread America. Anywho, I loved me some rock and roll. I give full credit to Brian Lemley, wherever he is, for intoducing me to one of my all time favorites:
Back then, all the boys could keep their drug issues in check and produce the hits. The album is a great energy builder, although it could be the energy of all of your cells trying to escape your body. Great for working out and actually pretty good for relieving stress if you just let yourself scream along with Axl and the guitars. I find that these meds are best delivered to your body and mind if taken with a beer.
Vox Hunt: Under 17 Not Admitted
Video: What was the first R-rated movie you saw (or were allowed to see)?
Submitted by Lisa.
Wow does this bring back a great memory. Back in the day, we were fortunate enough to have a local drive-in. The Super 71. By far the best deal around. Two movies for one price and the old guy at the gate did a head count for the car to decide how much to charge. Short on cash? Get in the trunk!
If you know me or have read some of my posts about my family, then this should come as no shock to you. Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams was the first R movie that I can recall seeing. My dad packed us (me, my brother, mom and dad) up into the car for an evening of entertainment. Mind you, this was summer of 1981 which made me not quite 8 and my brother not quite 6.
Many of the subleties of the movie were lost on us. I honestly couldn't remember the name of the movie just now, only one scene. And thanks to a Google search of "cheech and chong" with "glass elevator" I found just what I was looking for.
I haven't seen this movie since then, but the drive-in version is different than the regular version, I'm almost sure. I distinctly remember one of the two looking into the camera and telling the viewers to "Honk if you're horny". I didn't know what that meant, but I knew my dad laid on the horn like there was no tomorrow.
As an end note, it's probably traumatic to allow your 6 and 8 year olds to see all that. Not the drug use, we saw that at home, but the 90% naked Latino men. Holy smokes!