A Spiritual Journey With Michael Sembello

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See now, this is what Marissa Marchant should have done.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago) link

He seems like a very sensible man to me. Where's the weird bits?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:44 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Apparently some people (eg Mr. Perry) haven't yet seen this thread or what it links to. I now correct that situation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

I feel sorry for those people.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

other people i feel sorry for: michael sembello

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

I don't! The man's an entertainer!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH YES YES YES i love this thread

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

God, I love the guestbook. This isn't insane, it's just weird:

Melanie & Manuel Menge Email
4/05/04

Comments:
Hi Michael,

special greetings from germany !
We are a part of your family and we are very proud for you. We have the same uncle which name is Frank (Pancho) Villa. When we listen to the song "maniac" in the radio, we think about you. If you want you can answer us. bye, Melanie & Manuel Menge

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my GOD.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

Haha, at last!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

dan when you dropped that pic on those 2 threads did you really NOT KNOW?? my mind is blown!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

I really did not know! Ned dropped the pic first and I was all "OH MY" but I had NO IDEA...

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

there's a little sembello in all of us, and in everything

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

I provided the photo and he, being Dan, was understandably amused. Then I realized that he didn't know about the thread...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

=:-O

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

This one CAN'T be real, can it??

Ricky B
2/09/04

Comments:
Hey, Michael,

I wonder if you would allow me to cut your song 'Maniac'. I'm producing the legendary Flip Wilson & he wants to do this song with his 'Geraldine' character for his new dance cd. She has a thing with water & welding & some other issues I'm not privy to at the moment. but, you know that this means a sincere performance, just as it was written, a steamy jacuzzi reading per se.
I have the charts worked out, which I can forward to you (one note at a time) & you are certainly welcome to play (replay, fly in) the solo gtr on this recording. (Logic Multi-paltinum 9.44.01 preferred for Linux)
This is a great opportunity, being Flip's swan song & telling (all)at that. He wants to go 'out' on this, your note, & I can't agree more!
Do not dilly dally or even dilly Dolly with Geraldine! Time is of the essence.
What's the word, Mr. Sembello?

― chuck, Monday, 10 May 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

OMG "What's the word, Mr. Sembello" becomes ILx meme starting NOW!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

Hahah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

primadonna Email
1/05/04

Comments:
"Michael how are you and President cheesesteak? ...well we survived the "sopranos" episode and I learned that I can still fit in a closet
To answer your question of 12/22/03 11:25 pm...yes... Carlos Santana taqueria La Cunbre SF CA and you're correct YUM....
Heading for Pasadena...may get to FtL en route
ChecK out my friend's website Diane Postell.com..she is meeting stevie w in Bowie MD this week ...I'm going to send him some PANCAKES!!!

CIAO,XOXOOX"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

'well we survived the "sopranos" episode and I learned that I can still fit in a closet "

wtf?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

It has deep mystic meaning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

BEAUTIFUL

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

utterly.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

It's truly mystic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Can we talk for a second about the lyrics to "Maniac"? Without really knowing anything about Michael Sembello yesterday, I guessed that he might be from Italy and that the language barrier would explain just how odd and beyond comprehensibility these lyrics are. But no, he's from Philly. THERE'S NO EXCUSE.

philadelphia IS a strange town.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

Halloween gift. Ghostly sum resurrection. The ghouls and goblins.

It's too good too let die.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the best thread i've ever started.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

C'mon, what's not to get about 'cold connective heat?'

https://www.asseenontvnetwork.com/vcc/coldheat/coldheat/121315/

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

hehehehee

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

crate diggers take note: there are at least TWO different record covers of sembello's epochal _bossa nova hotel_. the first (and i'm guessing original) looks like this:

http://www.bluedesert.dk/cd3cm/sembello/bossa.JPG

that's michael behind the desk on the right in black/white face reading a godzilla comic. then there are two oiled-up pieces of beefcake rising off the floor (?), a dark one in a speedo with a huge shiny log-chain around his neck (??), the blond one in a sumo-diaper thing and what looks like christ's spear wound on his ribs (???). michael is on the back side in white shorts similarly floating off the floor with two suitcases.

the second (i'm guessing, for gay-squeaming audiences) puts the floating-suitcase michael on the front cover, and EXCISES COMPLETELY the stigmata-chain-diaper-south-beach-titty-tan-angels. so don't get that one!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

good to know

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

please tell me there's a larger image of that original cover online.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

a little bigger

meanwhile, "squeaming"??

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Still one of the greatest threads ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

what the?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

the movie linked to seems like it's gotta be a comedy... like there's even jokes and stuff in it! but the rest of the site, and people's reactions on this thread, make it seem totally serious. so i am confused.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the movie WANTS to be humorous, but it's unironic in ways perhaps sembello and howard don't even realize.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean it's definitely... jokey. and ron howard is def'ly acting like he's in a comedy.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

fuckin scientologists

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

And now you know the mysteries, Mr. Slocki.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i think about ron howard in this clip WAY more often than is probably normal/safe

― jones (actual), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

may..june..july..august...REVIVE! I did this once and I SWEAR it will never end. For the newbians y'know.

― cs, Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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― online casino, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, keep it up buddy!

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I just laughed out loud at the last two posts here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"keep it up"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a feeling this is all down to the Sembello cult.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, these drugs are definitely being flogged by singing dolphins with access to gmail.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd believe it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

time honored tradition----REVIVE!!!!!!!

― one triple scoop (cs appleby), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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