Matt

Um... I think I'm absolutely totally head over heels in love with Oh My Girl's "Closer". Simply fantastic & gorgeous. I especially like the almost old school trace like quality of the backing track.

All I've heard since I first got into kpop a few months ago on the various kpop blogs/site is "iKON's coming iKON's coming!" and I was prepared for something spectacular and... well... I was underwhelmed, to say the least. Granted, I know this is a "pre-debut" release (whatever that really means, I'm not entirely sure), so I'm hoping the actual debut has some punch to it. Really, REALLY like "Fire" by Junho. And that MV for "So Good" is, well, SOOOO GOOD! Meanwhile, did anyone catch the special release of "Amen" by Monsta X?!? They're marketing & promotion & style is so totally bad boy hip hop-ish, but this video has to be the cutest, most adorable "off brand" thing I've ever seen. And, back to Seventeen, I actual bought that entire EP and every single track is good. They've quickly become one of my favorite boygroups to watch.

Yeah. Apparently JYP's youtube account got hacked (or something) & the video got deleted & they had to reuploaded it. And I totally agree about Dumb Dumb. I wasn't sure what to make of all the teasers (and the video is still whack as f-ck), but I cannot get that "dumbdumbdumbdumbdumb" out of my head. Seventeen's new song "Mansae" just dropped & (as to be expected based on the awesomeness of Adore U) it is FABULOUS!!!

Ok. I'm am SO TOTALLY HERE for this. Holy [!@#$%^&*]. Thanks to the internet, I've already listened to the whole EP (the first time I've EVER listened to a whole kpop EP/Album) and this is really THE [!@#$%^&*]. These boys are going to be HUGE. DAY6 - Congratulations

OMG! I watch EVERY single music show performance of MTTM just for that flying in move alone. That entire dance routine is one of my favorites out of all the boyband routines I've watched. Now that I've gotten acclimated to the new releases, I've been digging to back catalogs & I love every single single EXO has put out, so much so that I went and bought all of them on itunes. lol I really, REALLY love Mama. And I just downloaded a bunch of T-ara stuff the other day because I kept finding hits of theirs that I freaking loved. Rolly Polly is the silliest song ever, but I couldn't get it out of my head. TOTALLY agree about Hyuna's new song. Catchy as all get out. But I'm never quite sure what the song's actual title is because I've seen both "Roll Deep" as well as "Because I'm the Best." lol I've also been feeling the 2 new Girls' Generation songs, "Lion Heart" & "You Think" B1A4's "Sweet Girl" is simply a smooth, discoy confection Of course, I then had to go looking back at older B1A4 songs & found "Solo Day" WHICH I LOVE!!!

my favorite boyband songs at the moment... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAn6KvsnP3E

Currently, my favorite girl group songs.

That's Australian itunes. It's not available in the US yet. Trust me. I keep checking. The new T-ara song isn't on there either, yet.

TOTALLY loving this song at the moment Love, love, LOVE this song! It's pissing me off that it's not on itunes.

Just surfing around the k-pop nether-sphere & stumbled upon this song for the first time. Oh. My. God. I'm an emotional wreck. Her voice is phenomenal. I need tissues.

Accidentally stumbled down the rabbit hole of K-Pop a few weeks ago thanks to an article on Billboard about K-Pop boybands. I'd never listened at all before that, but now I am OBSESSED. Quite literally, K-Pop is just about ALL I've listened to for WEEKS now. It started with MVs on youtube, progressed to buying songs on itunes, now watching reaction vids, countdown vids, & performance vids from the various K-Pop music shows. This has become a sickness. I am not seeking an antidote.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, the photo in the bottom right corner is Peter Brown & Denise Alexander as Greg & Susan Peters from DAYS, because I've seen that exact same picture before.

People.com has posted a profile of cosmetics CEO Vera Moore, who played Linda Metcalf from 1971-1982. http://www.people.com/article/vera-moore-journey-humble-means-cosmetics-ceo

They would often preempt regular program for these special afternoon movies which were, typically, 90 minutes long.

This. Is. FABULOUS!

I could listen to Lois Kibbee read a takeout menu.

SEPTEMBER 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYe_WP7Em4g NOVEMBER 1976 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUcFLvJTdrE

There were four. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwSe7bPiXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgAUVPWoh-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xoYmr7a8Po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOxW8Qk9w8

I actually remember watching Highcliffe Manor as a kid. And don't you be shading Cliffhangers. It wasn't on the air very long, but it made such a lasting impression in my head as a child.

Sometimes the number of an episode and the total number of actual episodes doesn't line up due to how they used to number scripts/episodes. It seems to have been a general practice back in the day that followed a 01/02/03/04/05 & 06/07/08/09/10 M/Tu/W/Th/F pattern so that the number of every Friday's episode would either end in a 0 or a 5. I believe Dark Shadows employed this system (often with multiple episodes ending up with the same number) and we've discovered that The Doctors seems to use this system as well. I believe I even heard about The Guiding Light doing the same. This would mean that if Episode #1233 aired on Wednesday & a preemption happened on Thursday, Episode #1234 would air on Friday (because it had already been written/taped), but new scripts/taped material would go back to the original pattern so that Episode #1255 would air on a Friday again, which might cause there to not even be an episode with a given number because that episode number was skipped to resume the pattern. This could help explain wonky episodes numbers & counts.

Judge Stevens' first name was Sam. He and Valerie were at least important enough at the time to warrant a cover of After Noon TV.

Yeah. Nearly all of the 1987 episodes are from the Spring. Johnny didn't come down with cancer until September & he decided to end it all & crash his plane in early November, but then changed his mind mid-flight and went to faith healing. He was cured by Spring 1988, a couple of months after Roxie went off the deep end & was institutionalized.

I'm busy looking for something for a friend & any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to find the letter Johnny Bauer wrote to Roxie Shayne when he thought he was dying of cancer. This would've happened sometime in the fall of 1987. I'm not certain whether this was when he was planning to off himself, but definitely before he decided to take the faith healing route (which was happening by Christmas, I believe). I'm looking for either the full text or youtube clip. Thanks much!

Well, whaddya know! Home & Away just started on Hulu! http://www.hulu.com/home-and-away

That scene that won the spectacular Douglass Watson an Emmy.