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Sailing – DJ Icey

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Well it’s not far down to paradise, at least’s not for me
If the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility
Oh the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me

It’s not far to never, neverland, reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again
Oh the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me

Sailing takes me away
To where I’ve always heard it
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Soon I will be free

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Fresh Off the Boat

15 Sunday Feb 2015

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Like my other favorite comedy The Goldbergs, Fresh Off the Boat is set in the 80’s when I was a child, only this comedy has a chubby little nugget who wants to be down and listens to hip-hop, it’s yo boy Eddie Huang.

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Baker Street & Baker Street & Baker Street & Baker Street & Baker Street

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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alcohol, Baker Street, Bassmonkeys, cover songs, dance music, depression, DJ Ross & Marvin, gay, Gerry Rafferty, house music, Lady V, LGBT, Michael Mind, music, music reviews, Peyton, promiscuity, queer, remix, sex, the 70's, the 80's, The Fierce Collective, UK

The lyrics are about alcohol and depression, promiscuity, sex and “People with No Soul”

’”Baker Street”

Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well, another crazy day
You’ll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold
It’s got so many people, but it’s got no soul
And it’s taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you’re trying, you’re trying now
Another year and then you’d be happy
Just one more year and then you’d be happy
But you’re crying, you’re crying now

Way down the street there’s a light in his place
He opens the door, he’s got that look on his face
And he asks you where you’ve been
You tell him who you’ve seen
And you talk about anything
He’s got this dream about buying some land
He’s gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands
And then he’ll settle down
In some quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he’ll always keep moving
You know he’s never gonna stop moving
‘Cause he’s rolling, he’s the rolling stone
And when you wake up, it’s a new morning
The sun is shining, it’s a new morning
And you’re going, you’re going home

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Sunchyme

18 Sunday May 2014

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buy John's book $3.99, dance music, Dario G, dating, DJ, gay, house music, LGBT, Life in a Northern Town, music, music reviews, new orleans, pop culture, pop music, queer, relationships, sex, Sunchyme Dario G, tampa, the 80's, the Dream Academy, top 40

Sunchyme vs. Life in a Northern Town

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A Little Respect My Heart Goes Bang

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

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@thejohnjernigan, AIDS, Alabama, atlanta, Birmingham, buy John's book $3.99, Cruising, dating, Dead or Alive, drag queen, Erasure, funny, gay, gay dating, homo, humor, LGBT, Looking Hbo, new wave, queer, relationships, sex, the 80's, transgender

16 years old, cruising Highland Park in Birmingham’s Southside, singing along with Dead or Alive and Erasure, searching for a distinguished gentleman: so so GAY! and criminal?

“The other night a close friend told me
Never let my heart fall into careless hands
I said,”Thanks, that’s very nice, appreciate your good advice
But things don’t always go the way that I planned”

“I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I’m so in love with you
I’ll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you’re making me work so hard
That you give me no
Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me”

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My Posse’s on Broadway, Goin’ Back to Cali

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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80's hip hop, Alabama, Alpine, atlanta, Birmingham, buy John's book, Childersburg, dating, Dead or Alive, Erasure, gay, Goin' Back to CaliLL Cool J, Harpersville, hip hop, LGBT, Munford, Mustang GT, My Posse's on Broadway, Pell City, queer, rap, relationships, Rockford Fosgate, Sir Mix a Lot, Sycamore, Sylacauga, Talladega, Talladega County, the 80's, throwback thursday, throwbackthursday, Vincent, Winterboro

My first 2 cars were a Mustang GT and a Chevy Blazer…and there was a time that I had that bass, ya heard? I had them Alpine 12’s and them Rockford Fosgate 15’s, booming all over Talladega County…bumpin’ Sir Mix a Lot in Childersburg, Sylacauga, Alpine, Winterboro, Harpersville, Talladega, Munford, Pell City, Vincent and Sycamore. When I started having “adventures” in Birmingham and Atlanta, 80’s hip hop was replaced by Dead or Alive and Erasure.

“I’m callin’ up the posse, it’s time to get rippin’
The freaks need a sunroof, to keep you sucka’s trippin’
Everybody’s lookin’, if your jealous turn around-
The AMG kick keeps us closer to the ground
we’re gettin’ good grip from the 50 series tires
the Alpine’s bumpin’, but I need the volume higher”

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time for me to move on…Atlanta?

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

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@thejohnjernigan, atlanta, Blue Savannah Erasure, dating, depression, gay, LGBT, Life, loneliness, love, new orleans, Nightswimming REM, perspective, point of view, relationships, sex, Somebody's Baby Jackson Browne, St. Petersburg, tampa, the 80's

I have failed again at finding someone, my old friend’s depression and pessimism are my constant companions, I am often sad and lonely, maybe it’s time for me to fly…maybe I should move back to Atlanta. I am worried that I will always be alone.

Somebody’s Baby

“Well, just – a look at that girl with the lights comin’ up in her eyes.
She’s got to be somebody’s baby.
She must be somebody’s baby.
All the guys on the corner stand back and let her walk on by.
She’s got to be somebody’s baby.
She must be somebody’s baby.
She’s got to be somebody’s baby.
She’s so fine.”

Blue Savannah

“Somewhere ‘cross the desert
Sometime in the early hours
To the orange side
Through the clouds and thunder

My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you.”

Nightswimming

“Nightswimming,
remembering that night
September’s coming soon
I’m pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit around the fairest sun?
The bright tide forever drawn
Could not describe nightswimming”

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Simply Red vs. Hall & Oates

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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80's remix, @thejohnjernigan, atlanta, culture, dating, gay, hall & oates, LGBT, music reviews, pop music, relationships, sex, Simply Red, St. Petersburg, tampa, the 80's

Sunrise vs. I Can’t Go For That

The same chill bassline…

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Eye in the Sky

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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buy John's book $3.99, dating, Eye in the Sky, gay, LGBT, lifestyle, music, music reviews, Orlando, Parralox, pop culture, relationships, sex, St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay, the 80's, The Alan Parsons Project

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Love and Affection – Nelson

27 Monday Jan 2014

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I used to love this song. In 11th grade, I thought I was in love with this girl April, and I would sing this song over and over again to myself, ostensibly thinking about her. Interestingly, I had a huge crush on her father Paul at the same time, with his sweatsuits and cute moustache…

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A Red Letter Day – Pet Shop Boys

12 Thursday Dec 2013

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Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labor on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there’s no one here to share

All I want is what you want
I’m always waiting for a red letter day
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying “I love you”
Baby, I’m waiting for that red letter day

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The Goldbergs

04 Wednesday Dec 2013

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My favorite show, so so funny! At the end of some of the episodes, they show some of Adam Goldberg’s real videos, shot from his childhood, as apparently he always had his video camera rolling.

The Goldbergs is set in the 1980s and follows the Goldberg family. The single-camera series stars Jeff Garlin as husband Murray, Wendi McLendon-Covey as wife Beverly, and three children. Adam documents their lives with his video camera. The series is based on creator Adam F. Goldberg’s real-life family, in which he actually video-taped events when he was growing up.

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Everyday I Write the Book – Elvis Costello

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

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art, culture, dating, Elvis Costello, Everyday I Write the Book, gay, john jernigan, LGBT, Life, music reviews, pop culture, pop music, Tampa Bay, the 80's

Don’t tell me you don’t know what love is
When you’re old enough to know better
When you find strange hands in your sweater
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I’m a man with a mission in two or three editions

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