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[520] when passion's a prison, you can't break free
I still have several hours of work left and I'm very annoyed at whiny salespeople and their passive-aggressive emails. It's still on the cold side, but better than yesterday. I'm hungry, but not allowed to order myself anything until Friday after the movie (!!). Bearing down.
Another weird/sad thing that happened last week was when we learned that my stepdad when I was in grade 1/2 apparently died a couple of years ago. His obituary was a very barebones thing posted by the funeral home, no mentions of any family or arrangements and only one comment from a woman who apparently took care of him in a public health facility in Calgary some years earlier. I wonder what happened to him. I can't say that I look back on my time living with him particularly fondly -- he was very volatile and struggled with mental illness and I was far too young to understand any of that -- but I do still have a few nice memories of him and hope his life wasn't too rough. I think I really shook Mom when I told her. He was a very big part of a very small part of my life, ultimately, but she loved him enough to marry him in a bar once as a couple of crazy twentysomethings. The past is another country! RIP, Rey.
Wikipedia Sez: Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on August 18, 1986, by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sessions taking place between January and July 1986 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. The album features many of Bon Jovi's best-known songs, including "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", and "Wanted Dead or Alive", resulting in the first glam metal album to have 3 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. To promote the album, Bon Jovi embarked on the Slippery When Wet Tour, which ran from July 1986 to October 1987.
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Album Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Hair Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal, Arena Rock
Release Date: August 18th, 1986
Prior Familiarity: Extremely high as far as the big hits go, and then it drops off pretty sharply.
What I Did While Listening: Cleaned up ahead of the work week, journaled a bit.
Verdict: It's good! The singles carry it big time, but this is pretty much peak pop metal, right? Music to atonally yell in the shower, the dads got this one right.
Favourite Song: Livin' on a Prayer
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Today's lunchtime joshi match was Arisu Endo vs. MIRAI from Tokyo Joshi Pro '26, which is actually the only TJPW show I've watched in full this year. I keep meaning to watch more, especially since I'm going to be attending two of their dates next month, but there are only so many hours in a week, god damn it! Anyway, it's a good one, even if I thought the main event was better; nice to see MIRAI and her janky teeth again since I fell out of watching Marigold a while back.
Another weird/sad thing that happened last week was when we learned that my stepdad when I was in grade 1/2 apparently died a couple of years ago. His obituary was a very barebones thing posted by the funeral home, no mentions of any family or arrangements and only one comment from a woman who apparently took care of him in a public health facility in Calgary some years earlier. I wonder what happened to him. I can't say that I look back on my time living with him particularly fondly -- he was very volatile and struggled with mental illness and I was far too young to understand any of that -- but I do still have a few nice memories of him and hope his life wasn't too rough. I think I really shook Mom when I told her. He was a very big part of a very small part of my life, ultimately, but she loved him enough to marry him in a bar once as a couple of crazy twentysomethings. The past is another country! RIP, Rey.
Wikipedia Sez: Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on August 18, 1986, by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sessions taking place between January and July 1986 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. The album features many of Bon Jovi's best-known songs, including "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", and "Wanted Dead or Alive", resulting in the first glam metal album to have 3 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. To promote the album, Bon Jovi embarked on the Slippery When Wet Tour, which ran from July 1986 to October 1987.
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Album Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Hair Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal, Arena Rock
Release Date: August 18th, 1986
Prior Familiarity: Extremely high as far as the big hits go, and then it drops off pretty sharply.
What I Did While Listening: Cleaned up ahead of the work week, journaled a bit.
Verdict: It's good! The singles carry it big time, but this is pretty much peak pop metal, right? Music to atonally yell in the shower, the dads got this one right.
Favourite Song: Livin' on a Prayer
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Today's lunchtime joshi match was Arisu Endo vs. MIRAI from Tokyo Joshi Pro '26, which is actually the only TJPW show I've watched in full this year. I keep meaning to watch more, especially since I'm going to be attending two of their dates next month, but there are only so many hours in a week, god damn it! Anyway, it's a good one, even if I thought the main event was better; nice to see MIRAI and her janky teeth again since I fell out of watching Marigold a while back.