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02/18/2012

Can’t Stop Thinking About Whitney’s Daughter Bobbi

Filed under: Mundane Or Sublime,News,Pop Culture — admin @ 2:56 pm

I lost my dad at 20, so I can relate a little bit to what Whitney Houston’s daughter  Bobbi Kristina ‘Krissi’ Brown must be going through right now. Wow.

I’ve never met her, or her folks, but I can’t stop thinking about all my own stuff because of this. It took me a decade and a half before I even began to start feeling right again after all that.

Anyhow, here’s a reprint from my Facebook page that I thought deserved a wider “audience.” Cheers, marco.

First time I ever heard of Whitney Houston (RIP) was when I had a gig at a place called Mystic Oral School which got some kids ready for Gaulludet University in DC, known as the deaf college. I was only 17 or so myself. They also tended to kids with autism and other “special needs.” We were hired there to headline an all-school dance.

Before we played was a dj who was running a singalong and this song “Greatest Love Of All” by Whitney was presented by almost every girl and several of the guys in the course of a couple hours. Most of the band split after sound-check to get ready for the show but I stayed to watch many of the performances. I’d never heard this song before that night but it brought shivers up my spine when some of these kids sang this song!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Love_of_All

And to think Clive Davis tried to talk Whitney out of adding this song to her rekkid. I’m sure the George Benson version before her was a fine tune, but it would’ve slept at the middle of the charts and went away probably had Whitney not championed this song. Wow. Makes you think.

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02/13/2012

FLIM-FLAMMYS: reviewing this year’s Grammy/Naras Ceremony

FLIM-FLAMMYS: A Marco-Style Review of the Grammys.
  12feb12. Mystic, Konetiuk!

And now I’ll attempt to make all my snarky remarks over at FB and Twitter into one large post so I can delete all the one liners for good.

Most of the words are mine, unless the little iKons show you otherwise. J

😉

@tinselkorey LOL I did JazzHands 2day too. Also friends of mine sang at pregrammys at the Renaissance. Wish I were on that coast this wknd!

18 hours ago

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Adele, I have Amy Winehouse on line 1. She wants you to give her back her hairstyle. #grammys #grammy #grammys2012

rosannecash rosanne cash

The Minaj outfit just screams ‘GREAT MUSICIAN’! #IWoreThatInThe80s

12 hours ago

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@MarcFrucht Marc Frucht

@rosannecash You’re being sarcastic, right?

11 hours ago via web

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@MarcFrucht um.yes.

11 hours ago

marco capellimarco capelli @atizine

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@rosannecash @Terry_Ware @SandraBernhard I’m with you there, Roseanne. I’m watching it in a bar with the sound off, and reading tweets. 🙂

@calinative LL Cool who? I guess at least he kept his same name forever instead of changing it every week like P doody, diddy wah daddy…

11 hours ago

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I notice The Boss doesn’t need to wear a miter to sound like he owns the whole freaking world.

11 hours ago

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jamileh Pump up the Jam

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@rosannecash I know I could just google it but…what is a miter in this context?

11 hours ago

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@jamileh Minaj showed up on red carpet with a.. Bishop. Wearing a miter.

11 hours ago

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@MarcFrucht Marc Frucht

@rosannecash @jamileh If she really wanted 2 shock us she coulda ripped up a picture of Pope Ratzinger, oops. n/m. Sinead already dunnit..

11 hours ago via web

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I ribbed Adele at the end of last year a bit, and now she sweeps. What’s up with that? twitpic.com/81bcur/full

Oh wait, Adele won an award? holy wah. Who’d’a thunk it. Congrats lady. Here’s hoping you win a couple more, eh?

11 hours ago

@NeyomFriday I haven’t paid attention to anything by him since Grenade. What’s new with him?

Steampunk was popular at the last 2 NAMMs. I think I’ll play my folk music and classical guitar in front of gears, maybe I’ll win a grammy

10 hours ago

@mrdaveyd Man, I reached for my Pick Of Destiny and it wasn’t there. Who stole my pick? Nicky Minajjjj, you got my pick???

10 hours ago

@M_CCarpenter @rosannecash woah, first I thought that was Tina Turner doing her Pinball Wizard stuff all over again.

10 hours ago

Have U seen Katy Perry play guitar? I’m scratching my head trying to figure out why her label won’t let her shred in public!

10 hours ago

I thought for sure she was Tina’s granddaughter. Time for some family tree stuff! She’s got Mark Anthony’s belly though.

10 hours ago

Please 4give my allcaps; but since WHEN DID MY GRAMMYS BECOME A REALITY SHOW??? Deep breaths…

10 hours ago

“Has Snookie shown up yet? If not…be grateful.”

— Susan ______

Just spied my buddy Little Steven. I swear if he showed up w/o the round bandana over his head everyone would think he was me! #grammys

10 hours ago

“Men Without Women one of my fave albums ever.”

— Dawn ______

“Too funny, when I saw him playing I did a double take I was like does Marco have a twin? Lol”

— Cody ____

Dawn, you know that long bluish purplish coat he wore with Disciples of Soul is at Foxwoods Hardrock out in the hallway there, right?

http://twitpic.com/ome1f

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Woah, what’s Lady Gaga wearing, that French inquisition helmet thingie???

10 hours ago

And I’m sorry, I mean no agism here, seriously. Do each of the Beach Boys look like Senator McCain in intense pain or what???

“That net thing made think of those things they put on hams or turkeys…well, it did.”

— Allison ____

@Podemskichick I’m not a fan either. Plain White T’s are the only Violent Femmes wannabes I’ll tolerate really. #grammys2012 #grammy

10 hours ago

OK I give up, who’s the blond dude doing Bm looking stratocaster solos on a cutaway classical guitar while Sir Paul’s tryin’ to sing? (I’ve got the sound off so I think it was that, or was it C? Anyhew…)

“Joe Walsh. Diana Krall on piano.”

— Colin _______

Oh that makes sense. He’s still doing Rocky Mountain Way no matter what axe you put on his lap. 😛

“LOL…it actually wasn’t bad. But kind of surprising to see ol Joe up there with the classic acoustic.”

— Colin

neat. I’ll have to catch it on youtube or reruns. 🙂

I definitely saw some interesting vibrato but for the most part it looked quite boring. In my not so humble opinion. 😛

@CatalinaByrd wait that’s taylor swift? I thought it was Grace Potter just not showing panties or anything…

9 hours ago

@FolkAlley Dust Bowl? I thought she was recreating that Orwellish Hillary Clinton 1984 ad they did before the primaries last time around.

9 hours ago

I love Chris Brown!

Could someone maybe please help me find out if maybe I might’ve caught Stockholm Syndrome maybe?

Got to agree with you there. Losing /world/folk/nativeamerican was a punch in the gut, to be sure. Not to mention all the others!

8 hours ago

@DanteRoss @lorrieboo you’re right, that says it right there!

2 hours ago

@lorrieboo LED ZEPPLIN never won a Grammy and TRAIN have won 3. #grammys The whole shabang in a nutshell right there

5 hours ago

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@tinselkorey once in a while something musical happens at a grammys. It’s like watching The Dead for hours hoping for that moment. Oops…

2 hours ago

“Too late, you said it. The living deadheads will be coming to get you soon. Don’t panic.”

— John ____

hahahaha. Well I won’t be the first to have said it. I don’t think Jerry Garcia was the first either. I just made the analogy. 😉

@ThatEricAlper I think Michael Jackson broke Roger Miller’s longstanding streak on the male side. How far back do the female records go?

2 hours ago

Slowly wake up to realization that “Breaking Dawn” didn’t sweep, didn’t even win any… Wait wrong Ceremony…

2 hours ago

@459GangNutty wow! Maybe my favorite quotable of the whole nite! You said a mouthful, toots. “Whitney Houston died YESTERDAY and the WHOLE GRAMMYS CHANGED..JESUS DIED 2000 years ago and he is STILL waiting on US TO CHANGE”

1 hour ago

@ThatEricAlper Nothing wrong w’ AmericanIdol as realityshows go. I just came up hoping 4 Grammys 2 B THE LAST event 2 cave & become one.

1 hour ago

RT @YummyMummyclub : Dear Adele. Please don’t do drugs. Ever.

9 hours ago

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@ThatEricAlper Truly believe the worst side effect of the move from hippy to yuppy was the global shift from pot to coke

1 hour ago

Levon Helm took americana? That man IS americana, and I mean that in a good way.

1 hour ago

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http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=330

http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ATI/ati347.txt

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/feb/09/monday-round-town-plus-soft-pack-says-hi-from-la-w/

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