Monday, January 05, 2015

Today's Blind Items - The Bluff - Part One

One of the most important things ever learned while interning at a radio station was how to bluff my way to free tickets and backstage passes to concerts. When you are a college student and don’t have unlimited funds, it is a night of fun and complimentary booze and food courtesy of the singer’s rider.  The down side though is inviting a couple of people to go with you and having the person who was supposed to put your name on the list not do so and then you look like an a-hole. Hey, it happened more than once.  One of my favorite tricks was to call up the PR person or manager and tell the person I was a reporter or writer for a made up satellite radio network. There are tons of conglomerates and it is pretty rare to have anyone check up on you because they all want free publicity for their client.

Well, one of my crushes from a few years earlier was in town and although I already had tickets, I wanted to meet her so needed a plan to get backstage passes. The reporter thing would be good except that I really didn’t want to interview her. Most of the time you didn’t actually have to. You were just a name on a list and once inside you would just melt in with all of the other people.  Sometimes though the rep was waiting for you or left word to let them know when you showed up and you would have to interview them. I could do it if I had to, it was just never my first choice. My crush had been an A+ lister for a year or two before her pop music career went crashing into an abyss from which it has never recovered. She does still sing. Acts some. If you are of a certain age or have a love for her style of pop she has A+ list name recognition.  Anyway, I made some calls and a few days later I was put on the list. I was pretty excited to meet her. Excited, but not in a hey I saw The Smiths play live kind of excitement.  Yes, I name dropped The Smiths and yes that is me involved in a huge brawl in a Morrissey Live video you can buy anywhere. That is a story for another day though.

The night before the show to see my crush I got a call from one of my best friends ever who used to get name dropped on the site back in the early days but has since made it very clear she doesn’t want to be name dropped any longer and will probably text me then e-mail me and then call me repeatedly after she reads this not realizing of course that it is a blind and that I am not actually name dropping her or mentioning she was also briefly A+ list in a one hit wonder kind of way, but has a unique look that she still adheres to and also does a little bit of everything to stay in the public eye. All of you would know her. I think she hates that back in the day we used to double date and I frequently remind her of some of her poorer dating choices.

Where was I? Oh yeah. So she calls and says she is going to be in town and wants to hang out and I tell her about the show the next night and she invites herself because of course she knows the crush and they have not seen each other in ages and blah blah blah. This is not going to work out well for me at all. I don’t have a choice though. I can either tell her yes or she will make her own calls and be there anyway.

40 comments:

  1. sandybrook2:13 AM

    Debbie Gibson

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  2. sandybrook2:15 AM

    I wasn't around here back in the day to know who was name dropped but I'll go Tiffany for that.

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  3. The 10th Doctor2:16 AM

    Gets out popcorn and pulls up chair...

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  4. Derek Harvey2:17 AM

    Natalie Merchant as the crush Lisa Loeb as the one hit wonder with unique look

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  5. Tricia132:18 AM

    Kylie Minoque
    Natalie Umbruglia

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  6. Tricia132:21 AM

    Natalie Merchant was never a pop singer nor an actress/Lisa Loeb had a few hits( I had several of her albums)

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  7. sandybrook2:21 AM

    Lisa Loeb is a good guess her picture popped up last year in the readers photos

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  8. sandybrook2:26 AM

    Remember Robin Thicke is a one hit wonder here too Tricia.

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  9. Tricia132:27 AM

    Did she?! Too funny. I really liked her first two albums pretty sure s he had a couple hits, nit just "Stay"("I do") is one. But maybe still considers that. 1 hitter.
    Imbruglia literally only hit with "Torn". And lived in LA for many years while starting up career. Gorgeous gal.

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  10. Tricia132:28 AM

    Haha. I forgot sandy! That one song- what's it called? Lol

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  11. Habibti2:32 AM

    Its a bit of a blur...

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  12. I for sure thought Debbie Gibson, no clue on the singer that used to be mentioned

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  13. There was Beetlejuice and this person with no bum twerking?

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  14. Tricia132:36 AM

    Nice Habibti!

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  15. Derek Harvey2:37 AM

    Liz Phair and Lisa Loeb will be my final answer

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  16. @Tricia it's "Stay (I Missed You)". I think it still remains the only song by an unsigned artist to reach #1. "I Do" was her other hit, albeit not as successful as Stay.

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  17. Tricia132:48 AM

    Yes Cary that's the one. I was in love with the song(and a reality Bites )!the film it was in.
    Fun fact: Ethan Hawke directed the video. They were(not sure bout now),"good friends" at the time, he sorta discovered her in a way. He absolutely made sure the song made it into the film or he wasn't gonna do it.

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  18. I'm going to throw out another name even though I don't know if she really fits- Sophie B. Hawkins. Not a OHW though.

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  19. Amanda Maone2:54 AM

    Amy Mann as the "unique look"? Enty mentioned her quite a bit.

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  20. Tricia132:58 AM

    Too funny. One of my fave 1 hit wonders if all time- "Damn! I wish I was your lover, I'll do such things to ease your pain,clear your mind and you won't feel a thing"..thought it bold she wrote lyrics about another woman"making love to her with visions clear", instead of changing the pronoun. But not sure she fits here:(

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  21. She also had another fairly big hit "As I Lay Me Down". But her other one is probably more memorable. She has some minor acting credits so I threw her name out. Aimee Mann is a nice guess too.

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  22. El Materdor3:06 AM

    After all the trash talk about Enty & CDAN and you managed to come back. Ironic is it?

    Cockroach!

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  23. Tricia133:11 AM

    I hear ya. Kylie acts and was truly A + in the pop world- then vanished, but maintains the A list , so I threw her for 1st chica. 2 Nd chick the z1 hit wonder(as I read it) would could be Aimee when she was with Til Tuesday I guess. I love her solo stuff(always have), but not sure she ever reached a+ with it! even if briefly

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  24. AndrewBW3:16 AM

    I don't have any particular guesses, although I like Liz Phair and Lisa Loeb. But on a separate note, does anyone know if the Morrissey live video involving a huge brawl that Enty references is online anywhere? I'm looking for it but so far haven't found it.

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  25. Natalie merchant of 10000 maniacs

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  26. Derek Harvey4:02 AM

    Get a life

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  27. Derek Harvey4:18 AM

    and learn to use ironic correctly fool

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  28. Princess Kate4:51 AM

    My guess too!

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  29. El Materdor5:20 AM

    Last time you I saw you posting with THIS user name you stated you hate the site, the people posting and would never comeback. Then Lady H came by and you lambasted her for visiting the site, yet here you are. Now, who's the one who doesn't know the definition of ironic, who's a hypocrite and has no life? YOU!!!

    Everyone defending this site knew that all you sh!t talkers would eventually come back just like cockroaches.

    You all know who you are.

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  30. I love Original Enty. Also, I like the Aimee Mann guess. The Magnolia soundtrack is brilliant and could be what he meant by one hit wonder type of thing.

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  31. Derek Harvey6:27 AM

    You do not own this site jerk off and have no say who can post here and who can't. Clearly you frequent both sites yourself if you saw I had words with other posters for coming here. (which we got past, not that it is any of your business!) I thought the TROLLS were gone but clearly not. And it is you that does not know the definition of ironic and it is you that is a hypocrite. You only come here to start fights----never to guess at the blinds so sit down a*shole and stfu

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  32. Jason Smith7:09 AM

    The Morrissey live video is "Live In Dallas" from 1991. Pay attention at the end.

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  33. Don't yell at oldies coming back. Outtie stopped posting CDAN blinds half a week ago. You know almost all lurk for the goods. At least Derek has the stones to post and show it.

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  34. El Materdor8:49 AM

    Neither do you, however you managed to TROLL Lady H out of this site. Yet, you berated her and now she doesn't come here. BUT it's ok for YOU to come and pretend you're this sweet kind guy. Talk about as-hole. We actually like her. You, not so much.

    Dude, your panties are in a perpetual wad. Get over yourself. Go back to your beloved companions site BIATCH and whine there!!! There is a 100% certainty that you will or have already.

    And lastly, unlike you I've been here. Not fussing, pitching a fit, whining about the site. And then crawling back like a cockroach.

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  35. El Materdor8:52 AM

    Reason why I am reminding him of the as-hole he is is because he berated Lady H about coming to this site, then he has the cojones to come back? Lady H is cool and this jerk is nothing but a whiner.

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  36. Derek Harvey9:56 AM

    Lady H does what she pleases. You are mistaken to think she would be influenced by me. And what is all this "we like her" shit. Who is "we"? Unlike you I do not speak on others behalf. But when you post under 20 different names, like you do, I guess it is easier to speak for others.

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  37. back again4:37 PM

    Yeah but Til" Tuesday's "Voices Carry" was HUUUGE--- I still love it-- I like Aimee Mann for the friend =she's also bolder than Lisa Loeb @ getting her own friggin' passes to a show-

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  38. back again4:43 PM

    Yeah Eros, I'm with you & Derek re: #1-Natalie Merchant w/ 10,000 Maniacs...& as I stated above, #2- Aimee Mann (her Hit being "Voices Carry" w/ Til Tuesday)

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  39. back again4:46 PM

    Thanks Jason for the reference! I never would've found that!! ; )

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  40. back again5:30 PM

    Oh Shite, I forgot that Natalie Umbruglia DID act--- so, if I were Enty of that period,I'd definitely be crushin' on her with that 'come hither' song "TORN" over the other gals,talented as they may be--- Natalie's Austalian accent still slays & that song w/"lying naked on the floor" got all of us-male or female!!
    Amended Answer:Natalie Umbruglia & Aimee Mann

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