ZTAMS BLOG

Yes, I know it’s been much longer than three days since my last blog. I got food poisoning on August 14th and thought I was going to die. I don’t know if you’re all aware of this, but don’t eat old meat. It can make you very, very sick. And if it’s really spicy meat, you can’t tell that it’s old. Anyway, I’m sure you’re all very happy to have me back.

Keanu Reeves is a bit freaky to me. I know he is loved by millions, but there’s something almost robotic about him. I love his voice. It’s very calming. The rest of him is unsettling to me. I’m not sure what it is. So yeah, I guess I’m not a huge fan but I’m not a hater either.

Keanu means butt plug in Swahili. Nah. I made that up. Keanu means something like cool breeze in Hawaiian. That’s groovy I guess. He is kind of a cold cool robotic breeze. Keanu just celebrated his 46th birthday having been born on September 2, 1964. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon which is kind of cool. You know who else came from Lebanon by way of Ottawa, Canada? Lebanezer Scrooge himself, Paul Anka. But I digress…..

Keanu lived all over the place as a kid. His dad earned his GED while in prison for selling heroin. Proud. Keanu’s mom remarried like twelve or fifty or four times or something. It was a bunch. Keanu had to keep getting used to his new daddy. That must have been tough. He got expelled from schools and ended up dropping out. That’s not really a surprise considering his upbringing. And I guess it doesn’t really matter since he went on to become a huge movie star.

Keanu started getting TV roles in the early 80′s and then started working on movies. One of his earliest movies was Youngblood with hot guy Rob Lowe. Keanu hit it big in 1989 with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Some of his other movies are:

• Speed (with Sandra Bullock)
• A Walk in the Clouds
• The Matrix
• The Replacements
• Sweet November
• Hard Ball (my favorite of his movies)
• The Lake House (with Sandra Bullock again!)

KEANU TRIVIA TIME!

• Keanu took a 90% pay cut for his role in The Replacements so that Gene Hackman could be cast. Pretty cool.
• He also took a pay cut on The Devil’s Advocate so that Al Pacino could be cast. What a great guy!
• He learned over 200 martial arts moves for The Matrix Reloaded. That’s sexy.
• Was offered the role in Platoon that ended up going to Charlie Sheen.
• Was offered the role of Racer X in Speed Racer. That part ended up going to Matthew Fox.
• Is good friends with Alex Winter, his co-star in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
• His best friend was River Phoenix. Sad.
• Is good friends with Joaquin Phoenix.

Keanu continues to have a steady film career. He has a movie coming out next year called Passengers, and he has five more movies in development. He’s also a bass player and has played in different groups (Dogstar, Becky). My friend got Keanu sweat on her when she went to a Dogstar concert. That wouldn’t excite me. Anyway, Keanu seems like a cool dude. Yay. The end. I’ll try to be back in three days unless I eat more spicy old meat. Hey, that’s a good name for a rock band. Spicy Old Meat.

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I remember setting up my wonderful and beautiful niece Nicole’s very first email account for her in the 90′s. She asked for the user name “AaronFan”. Her first crush was Aaron Carter. How sweet. I didn’t really know who he was at the time, but I eventually learned. Many teen idols fade after a year or two. Aaron hasn’t really ever gone away.

Aaron Charles Carter was born on December 7, 1987 in Florida and was pushed into show business shortly after. He started singing in the band Dead End when he was seven. Do little kids really want to do that? I wonder about young celebrities. Are they there because they want to be or are they there because mom and dad want them there? Anyway, Aaron made his first solo appearance when he got to open for his brother’s band in 1997. He was nine.

AARON CARTER TIDBITS

• Is a big Bruce Springsteen fan.
• Has dated actress Hilary Duff.
• Younger brother of Backstreet Boy member Nick Carter.
• Has a twin sister (Angel).
• Got a scuba diving certificate at age 8.
• Has dated Lindsay Lohan.
• Very talented and can play many different instruments.
• Was engaged when he was 12. Okay, maybe he was a bit older but not much. He broke it off a few days later. Good choice.

Aaron is also an actor, having appeared in such TV shows as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Family Affair, and 7th Heaven. He has appeared on Broadway in the musical Seussical. Some of Aaron’s movies include Fat Albert and Popstar. I actually watched Popstar which Aaron had a starring role in. I didn’t watch it to see Aaron. I watched it to see a former love of mine, Leif Garrett. Leif played the janitor. Fitting.

I watched Aaron on Dancing with the Stars last year. He and his partner finished fifth. I felt bad for him because he tried so hard and I could see the disappointment in his eyes each time the judges critiqued him. I’ve been in that situation. Not with dancing, but with my music. I would try so hard but never knew exactly what my teacher wanted. There are some things that are hard to teach/explain. I applaud Aaron for his hard work on that show. Maybe it’s an age thing. I don’t know. I just remember always feeling bad for him because he worked so hard and it seemed like the judges were always putting him down. Balls.

I believe Aaron is hard at work on some new music. He seems to have done so much already in life and he’s barely just 20. I hope he doesn’t get burned out and I hope he’s doing what he truly wants to do, not what others want him to do. He’s a talented guy and hard working. I expect we’ll be hearing about this “kid” in the future.

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As I sit here listening to my dog suck her ass (she needs her anal glands expressed), I’m inspired to write about Corey Feldman. Yeah, I know that’s mean and I’m going to hell. Whatever. Corey seems like an okay dude. He just seems to really like himself a lot or is so messed up that he pretends to like himself a lot. It’s one of those.

Corey Scott Feldman was born on July 16, 1971 in Los Angeles, California. His parents pushed him into commercials almost immediately. Okay, I don’t know if his parents pushed him into commercials. I’m just assuming. Corey was three when he started working. What three year old begs his parents to take him out on auditions?

He went from commercials to TV shows. He was on some groovy shows like Eight is Enough, Alice, Mork & Mindy, The Love Boat, One Day at a Time, Family Ties, and others. He also had roles in some of my favorite movies including The Goonies, Stand By Me…….um, yeah….I guess those are the only movies of his I liked. He and his best friend Corey Haim were really big in the late 80′s and made a ton of movies. I wasn’t into those. I was far too mature by then.

I watched Corey on the first season of The Surreal Life in 2002. Maybe it was the editing, but he didn’t come off as a great person to me. He seemed like kind of a dick and full of himself. I really liked the song he sang for his future wife. Not. He like grabbed her by the throat and screamed in her face. How romantic.

COREY FELDMAN TRIVIA
• Was married to Vanessa Marcil from 1989 to 1993.
• Was married to Susie Sprague from 2002 to 2009.
• Divorced both of his wives and his parents. Awesome.
• First acting role was in a commercial for McDonald’s Gift Certificates. I actually remember that.
• Is a vegetarian.
• He and Corey Haim were the two highest paid teen stars in the late 80′s.
• Has a son, Zen, with his ex-wife Susie. Zen was born in 2004.
• He married his first wife in Vegas but they never lived together. Odd.
• He and best friend Corey Haim were known as The Two Coreys.
• Says working on The Goonies was the fondest experience of his childhood.
• Was a heroin addict.
• Got paid $7,200 for his appearance in The Surreal Life.
• First TV appearance other than commercials was Eight is Enough.
• Landed his first TV series in 1979 with The Bad News Bears.

Some other interesting facts: My husband’s birthday is July 17, 1971. Corey Feldman’s birthday is July 16, 1971. My husband and I were married on October 31, 2002. Corey and his wife (now ex) were married on October 30, 2002. Corey’s middle name is Scott which is my husband’s name. And Lincoln and Kennedy each have seven letters in their name and were both shot in the head on a Friday in front of their wives.

It seems like Corey is trying to get it together which is admirable, but I think his youth (and drugs) messed him up. I also think there were people who maybe weren’t too nice and/or encouraging which scarred him. Hey, what do I know? I’m not a psychiatrist! I sell teen pinups! I leave you with a Corey Feldman quote: “I’m more than an actor. I’m an icon, an industry.” Well, big dick.

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I remember seeing these creepy men in my teen magazines. They kind of scared me. I was wondering why they were in my magazines. My magazines were filled with the loveliness of Leif Garrett, Scott Baio, Shaun Cassidy, Matt Dillon, and all those other handsome pretty boys. It seemed like the KISS guys should have been in monster magazines or something. And what was with the make up? I didn’t get that. I hate wearing make up. I can’t imagine having my face always covered in that goo. Gross. They always had to cover up when they went out because they didn’t want anyone to see them. Were they about music or a gimmick? Whatever. I guess it worked.

I did like some of the songs KISS did. I liked more of the pop smooth sounding stuff. I liked the song Beth which was co-written by drummer Peter Criss and was kind of written for his wife…..whose name was Lydia. I liked Rock and Roll All Nite (as sung by Joey Tribbiani on Friends) and I Was Made for Lovin’ You.

I remember when the members of KISS all came out with solo albums. I walked into my local K-Mart one day and the record section was decorated all in KISS stuff. I think this solo album thing was very highly publicized but kind of failed. The albums didn’t sell well and ended up in the bargain bin. I think Ace Frehley‘s sold the best, but my favorite was Paul Stanley‘s. I would listen to his cassette each night while I fell asleep in the summer of 1979 while staying with my grandpa in Turtle Lake, North Dakota. My favorite song on that cassette was “Hold Me, Touch Me”.

Gene Simmons kind of always freaked me out until I started watching his show Family Jewels on A&E. He’s a really cool guy. It’s weird, but I kind of love everything about him. I know a lot of that show is scripted, but he seems like a very mellow person. He’s a very hard worker and he’s obsessed with making money. Sounds just like me. I have new respect (had none before) for Gene Simmons after seeing his show.

I know there are many KISS fanatics out there. There are some fans who have everything ever made about KISS. They have the magazines, the posters, the dolls, the comic books, the pinball machine, the board games, the butt plugs. I made that last one up. I guess there could be worse obsessions than collecting KISS memorabilia.

There’s a lot of KISS history that I could go into with my blog, but I kind of just wanted to give you my opinion on them. They creeped me out in my teen mags, I liked some of their music, and I now love Gene Simmons. The end.

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JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD! Hahahaha! I love the TV show Friends. I watch it at least twice a day. It is so awesome. There isn’t a bad character on that show. Phoebe always makes me laugh with her songs, I love Chandler‘s sarcasm, Monica reminds me of myself, Rachel reminds me of who I wanted to be, and Ross is outright hilarious. What can I even say about Joey Tribbiani? “Grandma’s chicken salad.”

Matthew Steven LeBlanc was born on July 25, 1967 in Newton, Massachusetts. He graduated from high school in 1985 and started auditioning for acting gigs shortly after. He appeared in many commercials before landing his first TV series in 1988. TV 101 lasted only one season, but hey….it was a gig. He appeared in some music videos after that. He was in a Jon Bon Jovi (HOT!) video, an Alanis Morissette video, a Bob Seger video, and one for Tom Petty. He got another series with Top of the Heap which was a spin-off of Married with Children, but that only lasted seven episodes. He kept doing other crappy acting gigs until he hit it big with Friends in 1994. Yay Friends!

MATT/JOEY TRIVIA

• The writers of Friends didn’t originally intend for Joey to be dim, but LeBlanc put a different spin on things when he auditioned. I can’t imagine Joey not being dim. How boring would that be?
• “How you doin’?” was ranked number four in TV Guide’s list of TV’s 20 Top Catchphrases.
• LeBlanc was married to Missy McKnight from 2003-2006.
• Has a daughter with his ex-wife Missy.
• When he auditioned for the role of Friends, he only had $11 to his name.
• Had a crush on Rachel on the show and on Jennifer Aniston in real life.
• Was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in 2000 by People magazine.
• His role as Major Don West in Lost in Space was originally offered to Matthew Perry.
• Was a model before he started acting.
• Is the only cast member of Friends to not have hosted
  Saturday Night Live.

• Is a trained carpenter.
• Attended the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston for a second.
• Joseph Francis Tribbiani Jr. was his full name on Friends.
• On the set of Friends, he was known by LeBlanc by the cast and crew so as not to be confused with Matthew Perry.

Life has not been kind to LeBlanc since Friends ended in 2004. He starred in a spin-off of Friends called Joey. Duh. That lasted two years. I watched it and thought it was okay. It had the pot head guy from Road Trip in there. (That’s one of my favorite movies, BTW.) I don’t think LeBlanc has done any acting since that show. He also divorced his wife about the same time Joey was ending. Sad…..

I think Matt does have something coming up next year where he plays himself. I hope to see him back on the tube soon. He’s funny. In my spare time, I , uh, read to the blind. And I’m also a mento for kids.

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