May 16, 2005   Opinions are like cheesecake; some people like them and some think they stink.  I just wanted to put my stink on some of T-Bone's choices as I obviously disagreed with some of them.  Dave Matthews Band is a really good band.  Anyone that doesn't like them should round up 4 of their songs and tell me at least one of them doesn't appeal to you.  Gravedigger, Crash, Jimi Thing and What Would You Say would be my pics to show their diversity.  Metallica as the best band ever?  Kirk Hammett is the most overrated guitar player ever.  I've seen then live and James Hetfield is the only part of that band that lives up to the hype.  I do love their music but they're not even the greatest metal band ever.  That title belongs to Pantera!  Anyway here's my picks. Best movie ever:  The Shawshank Redemption - This movie was just about as perfect as a movie can be.  Every director should watch this movie and see how to connect ALL the pieces of the puzzle, not just one or two. Worst movie ever:  From Justin to Kelly - I am scarred for life after seeing this.  My wife was watching it, and I was somehow mesmerized by its retardation.  NOONE should watch this! Best band ever:  How could I pick ONE band out of so many different styles of music I like?  What about solo artists?  If it was only one I would have to pick Yanni.  There is so much talent in that band and it’s not like listening to classical at all. Worst band ever:  Big and Rich - Save my ears (shut the hell up)! Best job to have:  Adult Film Star - This is programmed in to the DNA of all men born after 1970!  What better job than to get paid to get laid? Worst job to have:  Anything that pays well and you hate to do.  It makes you feel trapped because you can’t just quit and find another job doing something you like better that pays the same.  I would rather wipe spooge off the wall of a titty bar than feel helpless and trapped. Best TV sitcom ever:  Married with Children - I loved to hate this show.   It was one of the only shows that my dad and I would sit and both laugh at. Worst TV sitcom ever:  Becker - If you’ve seen it then you know what I mean.  An honorable mention to any show that tries to make being gay seem cool. Best 80’s cartoon:  He-Man - Who cares about their toys since the show is what were talking about here and He-Man was better as a show!  Best ‘80’s toy would go to Transformers but not many people think of the show, only the toy. Worst 80’s cartoon:  She-ra - Did she really need her own cartoon?  NO! Best color:  Black - You can’t look mysterious and handsome in green now can you? Worst color:  Pink - This is unanimous from the strait male population.   Coolest car:  McLaren F1 - There is no substitute for the baddest car on the planet! Junkiest car:  70’s Chevrolet Camaro - How many mullets have you seen behind the wheel of one of these?  It just seems like everyone that runs a methlab must pass the requirement to own a 70’s model Camaro with rust on it somewhere. Best actor:  This is like picking a best band.  There are actors in certain roles and some I don’t.  If I had to pick one that could do it all, Edward Norton has never let me down.  Honorable mention goes to several people here including Kilmer, Pacino, De Niro and Oldman! Worst actor:  Nicolas Cage - He just can’t act.  He does terrible accents and is NEVER believable in a role.  I have never enjoyed him in a movie, and I don’t see how anyone could.  He is the perfect example of the old saying: “It's not what you know, it’s who you know!” Best actress:  Meryl Streep - I don’t see how anyone could argue. Worst actress:  Brittany Murphy - I have to go with someone who is actually being taken serious and getting roles here.  There are a ton of terrible 1 or 2 film flops for both the actor and actress categories.  She is just amazingly bad and I don’t see how she keeps getting work.  Honorable mention to Jennifer Garner here! Best pro athlete:  Michael Jordan - He did it all more times than anyone and  then came back and did it again!  He took the game to a new level like no one before him, and it hasn’t been the same since. Worst pro athlete:  Mike Tyson - This guy should be sent back to jail.   He's a joke and a black eye on the sport.  He should have been gone after the first bite! Well, that's it.  You might love my choices or you might hate them, but that's the whole point.  If you want, take it and make your own and tell us all what your choices are.                                                                                                                                                      Robert Neal Tyson                                                                                 Contact Me

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He-Man is the heroic lead character
in the toy series Masters of the
Universe and the various spin-off
products and media related to it. The
most prominent is the animated series
He-Man and the Masters of the
Universe, produced by Filmation
Studios. The syndicated series
premiered in 1983 and ran until
1985, for a run of 130 episodes. In the
series, He-Man and his friends defend
Eternia and the secrets of Castle
Grayskull from the evil forces of
Skeletor.

Yanni is the popular name for Yanni
Chrysomallis, a popular keyboardist,
singer, and composer. He was born on
November 14, 1954 in Kalamata,
Greece.

Although many fans and critics call
his music "New Age", Yanni himself
has distanced himself from that label.
In his autobiography, Yanni devotes
an entire chapter to the subject,
stating that he prefers to call his
music "contemporary instrumental."

Early in his life, Yanni tried to forge a
career in rock and roll, touring with
locally popular bands in the Midwest
United States while a student at the
University of Minnesota. His most
popular group was Chameleon, a
band that earned some modest
commercial success touring
throughout the Midwest, particularly
in the states of Minnesota, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois and South Dakota.

Eventually, Yanni grew tired of the
rock and roll lifestyle and focused
solely on his instrumental career as a
soloist. Most of early music relied
heavily on the synthesizer and
received little airplay, except on New
Age radio stations in larger markets.

Yanni's breakthrough commercial
success came with the release of his
album and video, Live at the
Acropolis (1993), which was filmed
live at the Herodian Ampitheater,
under the Parthenon, in Athens,
Greece. This was Yanni's first album
which utilized a full orchestra rather
than a handful of studio musicians,
and his first live album. Subsequently,
the concert was broadcast in the US
on PBS. It proved to be one of PBS's
most popular programs ever, and the
resulting album sales brought Yanni's
biggest commercial success to date.

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12,
1953), better known by the stage
name Ron Jeremy, is a well-known
American porn star and director. He is
nicknamed The Hedgehog for two
reasons: because of his hirsute and
overweight body, and because he is
capable of autofellatio (contorting
himself the way a real hedgehog does
when rolling into a ball, and owing to
his large penis, reported to be 9.75
inches, or 25 cm).

Born to a Jewish family in Flushing,
Queens, New York City, he took a B.A.
in theatre arts and acted off-Broadway
before gaining a master's degree. He
began a career in special education,
but soon decided to quit and become
part of the newly formed 1970s New
York porn scene following an amateur
appearance in Playgirl magazine. He
submitted his nude photo to the
magazine on the suggestion of his
girlfriend and the phone reportedly
rang off the hook with fans and porn
producers. It was at this point that he
decided to take the surname Jeremy
to protect his family from
embarassment.

His venture into pornographic movies
occurred during the "golden era" of
1975–83 –marked by reasonable
production values and scripts, with the
movies intended for cinematic release
rather than video. However, during this
era the production of adult movies
was still illegal. Jeremy left New York
for California but he was arrested on
two occasions and faced a lengthy
jail sentence before being reprieved
as a result of the Hal Freeman
precedent in the United States
Supreme Court of 1988.