Rockstar INXS

Saturday night I got to hang out with KTI Insiders Kerry, Nicki, Kelly and Tom at the INXS show.

INXS put a great show, the band sounded great just like I remembered back at Alpine Valley in the late 80's and JD did a nice job with the old favorites. The whole band came out to meet us. Sometimes only a few members will do that backstage. While backstage I got to see the donuts they didn't finish... the creamer they put in their coffee






and to talk to some guys that I danced to throughout the 80's. Then the countdown was on for the show.
Now I think I heard someone saying you couldn't bring your camera into the show but after seeing a bunch of people pull their camera out I decided to do the same. Unfortunately for me the security could plainly see me with my camera as I was in the side box at the Riverside.

Mr Security came up and paid a visit to me, when he came up to the box he gave me the come here finger, and told me to stand out in the hall way. His partner asked me what I did? I said I don't know, even though I was pretty sure why he was visiting me. Was he going to kick me out of the show and take my camera away? Just as we got to the hall way he got a call on his walkie talkie and was called away to shake down someone else, and he never came back to see me the rest of the show.

Saturday night almost became the night I almost didn't see INXS.

SMURFING the NET

Yesterday on the air I was talking about this story where this guy dressed up like a SMURF and went to a sporting event. He was acting very UN-SMURF like and ended up getting arrested, even though he tried to run away from the police....
(note to self it's very easy for the Police to find you even in a crowd if you are blue and dressed like a Smurf)


His UN-SMURF LIKE behavior made me think of some of the other lesser known smurfs that also were known to have UN-SMURF like behavior.

For example:

Mocha Latte Grande Frapachino with Soy Milk Smurfette..She's the one that also orders her smurfberry pancakes with butter and syrup on the side her toast only slightly browned but only on one side and make sure it's whole wheat using whole grains not unbleached white flour etc........

Two drinks too many Smurf.. he was the smurf that didn't know when to say when and he wasn't a happy smurf when he got liquored up.

Baked Smurf.. you didn't see a lot of Baked Smurf because he slept til
4:30 IN THE AFTERNOON, and was hidden by a cloud of smoke.

OCD Smurf... no matter how many times he washed his hands the BLUE just wouldn't come off.

Transistional Smurf/Smurfette... He kinda looked like a smurf trying to be a Smurfette.

I'll get you next time Smurf... this Smurf was always asking the other Smurfs if they wanted to go to lunch but never seemed to have any cash or his ATM card.

Not so Lady Like Smurfette... this Smurfette was more of one of the Smurfs, that's why most people didn't even noticed there was more than one Smurfette the small feet and hands were about the only thing that gave him/her away.

Big Boned/Husky Smurf... the only time you ever saw this smurf was in the group shots, it was very hard for "heavier" Smurfs to get work occasionally a big boned Smurf could play the role of the best friend or a bumbling mall security guard, but those roles didn't come around too often.

Road Rage Smurf.... this guy couldn't keep his cool, it didn't take much to get this smurf uptight. In one season of the Smurfs he ran over Gargamel's cat Azreal then backed up and ran over it again... only a magic spell from Gargamel was able to bring the cat back to life.






Soup Whiff/Smells of Fried Onion Rings Smurf... Everytime you enter his smurf-hut it always smells like soup and he kind of had this scent of Burger King Onion rings it was really weird.







Just some of the lesser known Smurfs that most people have forgotten.

Rock Star? ROCK ON!

This week here at WKTI we have been talking about being a ROCKSTAR for a day when INXS comes to town Saturday the 20th.
The winner and 3 friends will be picked up by limo and taken to The Riverside Theater, given their own private dressing room complete with a catered meal, hang out with INXS before the show, watch the concert from INXS's personal seats, and spend a night in a suite at The Pfister! It made me think about how cool it would be to be a rock star. In my highschool and college days I used to play in a couple of different local bands and always thought about being A ROCKSTAR! Every once in a while I get to pretend I'm a rockstar like last summer myself and Hollywood John Harlow sang with Kevin Sucher and the Heros at Miller's 150th anniversary.

(photo by TJ Lambert)

When bands play a gig they put together what's called a rider that outlines what they need backstage for them to perform, sometimes the items requested are a bit ususual, for example BON JOVI requests to have available at all times 2 mops and buckets, 2 pushbrooms, and 2 large squegees. WHAT IN THE WORLD DO THEY NEED THOSE FOR? Is Jon just some sort of neat freak?

Clay Aiken requests a whole bunch of food, 45 different items and that doesn't even include what he wants for dinner. Has anyone seen that guy he can't weigh more than 100 pounds. What you haven't seen him? That's right he's CLAY AIKEN, of course you haven't seen him no one has seen him in 3 years.

So if you win the WKTI INXS ROCKSTAR FOR A DAY live it up LIKE CLAY frickin' AIKEN because who knows if you'll ever get to put together a "backstage rider" ever again.

NEW DANCE MOVES TO LEARN

If you haven't checked out my dance moves on our PODCAST page of WKTI.COM, (it's under WKTI events) you can see me shake my stuff. After learning ballroom dancing now what's next? What dance can I learn next? Well one of our 7 listeners Mark sent me a link of a whole bunch of dances that we've all seen or done on the dance floor over the last few decades. It is the "Evolution of Dance" and I thought I should share it with you. Just click here and you can get your groove on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

I can't wait for the next wedding reception invitation!

Now what do I NOT look at?

So the WHALE wall is down. Some people are upset that it won't be there to look at as you drive through the Marquette interchange. But wait a second aren't you supposed to be looking at the road instead of at WHALES on the side of a parking structure? I'm not sure my Driver's ED teacher would approve of me contemplating what the WHALES were trying to say to me through the painting as I drove by with my hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel and checking my blind spot.

When the WHALES first went up on the wall it was cool, yea I remember checking out the wall as I drove by, but for the last 8 years 11 months and 22 days, I haven't looked up to check them out. So now that the WHALES are going away now what do I NOT look at as I drive through the Marquette Interchange?

I could NOT look at the construction workers bending over working on the Marquette interchange project......







I could NOT look at the person driving next to me eating, talking on the phone, and reading a map...

Or I could NOT look for unusual road signs....

Oh I'm going to miss those WHALES swimming through the Marquette Interchange because now I'll have to pay attention to my driving....