{"id":322,"date":"2005-04-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2005-04-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"if-i-werent-me-i-might-have-to-shoot-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"If I Weren&#8217;t Me, I Might Have To Shoot Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True confessions time &#8211; eesh. I can&#8217;t believe it, but I&#8217;m sitting here watching MTV Hits, channel 256 &#8211; the channel actually PLAYS MUSIC, guess you have to get the digital cable to get back to your roots. Anyway. I&#8217;m ashamed to say that the new Mariah Carey song, &#8220;It&#8217;s Like That Y&#8217;all&#8221; is actually catchy. Ugh. Let&#8217;s be honest.  Part of the hook for me is she&#8217;s got the ever-sultry Eric Roberts in the video, so if I can just time looking at the tv when he&#8217;s on-screen, and she&#8217;s NOT, then I&#8217;d be happy. And I&#8217;m actually ok with the song up until &#8211; thankfully, it&#8217;s late in the song &#8211; she starts doing that I&#8217;m-Warbling-Like-A-Pie-Whistle crap. And then there&#8217;s 30-seconds where one of the featured artists just BUSTS out and it cracks me up. This is on the heels of downloading JLo&#8217;s &#8220;Get Right&#8221; as a ringtone for my phone. I SAID it was TRUE CONFESSIONS, it&#8217;s not nice to judge, and I was raised on folk music. Sometimes I just have to have some cotton candy in the form of Top 40 radio. <\/p>\n<p>So I was thinking, geeze, maybe I&#8217;m like the next Dick Clark, you know, someone who won&#8217;t let go of the poppy top 40 crap, and that&#8217;s just the biggest buzzkill, every time I think of Dick Clark, because I met him once, and he was NOT NICE. Apparently, he thinks he&#8217;s more important than me. Whatever! I was more interested in my coffee, that his assistant was snatching from me, for fear I would trip and throw a cup of hot steaming java in the face of America&#8217;s Teenager, which probably would have melted his very tight face right off the titanium bone structure. And the whole time Dick Clark kept impatiently saying, &#8220;Jennifer. Jennifer. Jennifer. What do you want me to write on this Jennifer?&#8221; And all I wanted to say was, &#8220;WHATEVER DICK CLARK, TELL YOUR FAWNING MANSERVANT HERE TO GIVE ME BACK MY COFFEE.&#8221; But I think I just said, &#8220;To Jennifer.&#8221; And then later, in a fit of flashback pique, I threw it away &#8211; so there goes my opportunity to pay off the house someday with that relic. I apparently save all kinds of crap, except Dick Clark&#8217;s autograph, and Richard Simmon&#8217;s, too, dammit, I lost that one. But I was in junior high and by the time Duran Duran rolled around, I was too busy planning my wedding to half the band, with top choice going to Simon LeBon, to care about meeting a permed-out oiled-up gay diet &#038; exercise guru. Oh, I had an assistant once who INSISTED Richard was not gay. Since I&#8217;m confessing, let&#8217;s throw in how much fun I had at HER expense over that one. A LOT.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I just found some redemption. Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s on now, singing about Rumors and I am NOT IMPRESSED. Dick Clark can sleep safely, one more night&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True confessions time &#8211; eesh. I can&#8217;t believe it, but I&#8217;m sitting here watching MTV Hits, channel 256 &#8211; the channel actually PLAYS MUSIC, guess you have to get the digital cable to get back to your roots. Anyway. I&#8217;m ashamed to say that the new Mariah Carey song, &#8220;It&#8217;s Like That Y&#8217;all&#8221; is actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}