seven year old itch

Bart Simpson Generator

2007-01-30T15:37:00.000-05:00

If you'd like to make a cool Bart Simpson photo, go here.

The hey ho and eat my shorts was added by me in MS publisher.

Extry Extry Its friday laff fest

2007-01-19T18:43:00.001-05:00

south park adhd a little jib jab and if the adhd is bad its fixed

japanese game show

2006-12-29T14:49:00.000-05:00

Here's a weird game show its a silent Japanese game show made in none other than a library.

poke'mon

2006-12-24T10:39:00.000-05:00

I'm going to be starting up pokemon so here's a link to their website.

new stuff

2006-10-19T18:36:00.000-04:00

I am going to post alot of new stuff starting my next post, tommorow

Starting up in Baseball

2006-10-18T18:59:00.000-04:00

Well i know ive been doing alot of music but i'll be doing baseball now

If you like movies and you like baseball you will love this

the top 3 (voted by me) baseball movies are

1.The sandlot
2.Field of dreams
3.Bad news bears

the ramones

2006-09-25T19:58:00.000-04:00

here is a ramones parade 1.rock and roll high school 2.the kkk took my baby away3.i wanna be sedated
4.blitzkreig bop

the beatles

2006-09-25T19:49:00.000-04:00

We all live in a yellow submarine

the turtles

2006-09-25T19:44:00.000-04:00

the turtles-happy together

some reverend horton heat

2006-09-22T09:35:00.000-04:00

I got a galaxy 500

my job is stupid

2006-09-06T10:24:00.000-04:00

my cubical

Attack of the old lady

2006-08-27T19:50:00.000-04:00

old lady's are mean

american idiot

2006-08-20T18:45:00.000-04:00

dont wanna be an a merican idiot

the clash video

2006-08-20T18:40:00.000-04:00

the clash video

in the barbie world

2006-08-20T18:30:00.000-04:00

im a barbie girl

i got nothing

2006-08-20T18:29:00.000-04:00

who killed bambi

peanut butter jelly

2006-08-20T18:18:00.000-04:00

I'ts peanut butter time

Simpsons

2006-08-12T11:43:00.000-04:00

This is a funny simpsons clip.

Jack In The Box

2006-08-02T17:15:00.000-04:00

My dad showed me You Tube and I'll be posting video's of my favorite bands. I'll post funny stuff, too like Jack In The Box. Watch it.

Pinhead

2006-08-02T17:00:00.000-04:00

The Ramones are one of my favorite bands. Watch this video of one of favorite songs, Pinhead.

Lightning Burns Seven Year Old Girl

2006-08-02T16:46:00.000-04:00

A seven-year-old girl almost died when a powerful lightning bolt struck her bedroom, burning her pyjamas anarm badly as she lay in bed.

2006-07-26T17:18:00.000-04:00

IONIA, Mich. — An 8-year-old boy stopped breathing and died after being on a ride at the Ionia fair, said the Ionia County sheriff's office.
Deputies were dispatched to the fair's midway about 10:20 p.m. Saturday to help the boy after he fainted and collapsed.

Let's get ready to golf

2006-07-22T07:14:00.000-04:00

A 8 year old boy named Harrison was playing golf with his dad dave at a tournament in cleveland when harrison hit a hole in 1! 20 minuets later he did it again!

Knifes,knifes,everywhere

2006-06-16T09:52:00.000-04:00

An eight year old boy has been arrested by police after being caught with a flick knife in the playground at his grade school.

It is thought that the boy could be the youngest child to be charged with having of a knife in Scotland.

In a separate incident, a 12 year student at a nearby grade school was also caught with a knife.

Fire Fire!!

2006-06-08T11:09:00.000-04:00

Winnipeg police have arrested an eight-year-old boy believed to be responsible for alot of fires in the city's North End neighborhood.It was in a semi-trailer parked behind a furniture store on Salter Street. That fire spread, and caused so much damage that it cost them about $175,000, to repair.

John Lennon, Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone Live In My Flower Bed

2006-05-05T16:16:00.000-04:00

My great grandmammy gave me tulips to plant. They turned out pretty cool.

Seven Year Old Kid Goes To Jail

2006-04-26T13:50:00.000-04:00

They can't send seven year old kids to jail for tantrums! Can they?

Hanging On For His Life

2006-04-24T18:37:00.000-04:00

Back in 1901, a seven year old boy decided to hitch a ride on a train.Then he decided to jump off, but the train was going too fast. People on the train saw the boy but could not rescue him because they were afraid of knocking him off. He held on for 53 miles at 60 miles per hour. Then they finally reached Utica and he was really tired.

Riding The Rails To Trouble

2006-04-20T19:46:00.000-04:00

Ten kids got in trouble for stealing a ride on a steam train. The boys liked riding the train to the Hill Station and were watched by coppers several times. A judge gave the boys a mean lecture and put them on probation.

All Aboard !

2006-04-12T08:21:00.000-04:00

In 1912, nine kids ran away from an orphanage and stole a steam train. They wanted to see the world, but were caught.

No, that picture is not their train, but still a cool picture

My Interview With Katie Stanko

2006-02-01T10:59:00.000-05:00

Katie Stanko, the indie-folk songstress who appeared 1-27 recently "talked" with me about her music, inspiration and ice cream.

Joey: Hi Katie, I'm Joey and thank you for the interview. What do you remember about music when you were 7 years old?

Katie: EVERYTHING! When I was 7 was when my crazy obsession with music began! I have always loved music since I was a little girl. I got my first keyboard at the age of 7 and started writing songs about my stuffed dogs. I remember dancing around my living room/bedroom well...every room and singing John Denver, The Culture Club or The Carpenters. I have always loved music.

Joey: What inspires you to play music and write songs?

Katie: My family inspires me to play in the first place. I grew up in a very musical family--a lot of guitar players, tons of singers...very talented people. I knew when I was little, watching my Aunt Fran play her guitar, that I wanted to do that too. As far as writing the songs I do write, mostly relationships inspire my songs. They tend to be about love or feelings I have toward another person...(laughing)...pretty standard stuff.

Joey: Tell me about Patrick and your musical partnership.

Katie: Well, we don't really play "TOGETHER" together very much. We've been working more and more toward writing some songs together and making us a duo...but as for now, we just go places together and we each play separately. I love Pat. He is an amazingly talented singer and songwriter. It is an honor for me to play with him, and to be his future wife. We are getting married in July.

Joey: Who are some of your favorite bands?
Katie: My absolute favorite is Rilo Kiley...the lead singer, Jenny Lewis, just came out with a solo album this week and it's excellent. I also really enjoy Imogen Heap, Sufjan Stevens, Viva Voce, Metric, Granddaddy, The Spinto Band...tons of stuff. That is just what I am listening to right now.Joey: What's your favorite ice cream and why?Katie: This is a tough one because things have been changing for me recently. I have ALWAYS been a cookies and cream fan---until the day I die--but lately I just haven't been craving it as much. I guess I will have to say cookies and cream--with mint chocolate chip and peanut butter cup close behind. Ice cream tastes good, it makes me happy and is in my top 5 favorite foods.

A Shower Thought...

2005-06-22T08:18:00.000-04:00

I was in the shower and just thinking...

instead of rules and no rules...

we should have yabba dabba do's and yabba dabba dont's...

My interview with Allen Terhune

2005-04-02T11:31:00.000-05:00

Hi, Joey here. This is my first interview. My dad wrote a nice thing to tell you about Allen Terhune. Here it is. "Allen Terhune has enjoyed a long career as a musician extraordinaire. He's toured with Cherry Vanilla, did a stint in Gerald Collier's band, played live with the Supersuckers and shared the stage with Willie Nelson. You can hear his talent on CD’s by Clay Bartlett, Euclid, Gerald Collier, the Supersuckers, Deadwood and, of course, his own self-released projects. He’s a prodigious talent who remains fiercely independent recording his own music on his own terms. For Allen, it's always been about his music and vision without having it filtered through other musician's interpretations."

I e-mailed my questions to Allen and here are the answers I got.

What do you remember about music when you were 7 years old?

"When I was seven, it was 1967. The Beatles were huge among me and my friends -- well, among the whole world. The Monkee's had a hit with "I'm A Believer." There was "Windy" by the Association, "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum. Radio and music was my life! My family would go to a place in Marion, Indiana every Friday called "Shoppers' Fair," which predated K-Marts by a couple of years, and my Dad would let me buy a 45 record each time, which is how I started building my record collection. I would bring home these records and play them over, and over, and over. I would say about this time, two of my friends and I decided to put on a "concert" for the neighborhood. This entailed taking my sister's Barbie game boxes, cutting them into the shape of guitars, and singing "Hanky Panky" to a small group of kids, most of them older than us. When didn't think anyone was going to show up, and finally about half a dozen bikes zipped into my back yard, and I then experienced my first case of stage fright. We mumbled our way through the first chorus before we exposed ourselves as total imposters. What made things worse, was my sister sold lemonade for a nickle a glass and ran off with the money without giving anyone any juice. They were an angry bunch. Although I remember that first "concert" -- at around age seven, it wasn't until I turned 17 that I bought my first guitar and even entertained the idea of wanting to write songs and perform."

What inspires you to play music?

"Oh, Joey. That's a tough question -- I think. What inspires me now to write/play music, is the excitement I feel and sense of accomplishment I get after recording a newly-written song in my studio, and listening back to it through really nice speakers. That's really been the inspiration to learning different instruments, too. I started playing guitar, of course, and when I bought my first four-track cassette, which was top of the line in 1989 at $1,000, I ventured into buying a cheap bass, so along with a keyboard that had some pretty cool drum sounds, I was recording music that sounded, I reckon, like a full band. It wasn't until ten years later, when listening to Uncle Tupelo, that I heard the pedal steel guitar, and knew I wanted that sound in my music, so I learned that. Then the lap steel, then mandolin, and banjo, and the accordian, and fiddle, among other things. I played the snare drum in junior high, so recording the snare and kick drum comes easily. I play many instruments, but none of them truly professionally."

What’s your favorite instrument to play and why?

"This is hard to answer without hurting any of my instruments feelings... The acoustic guitar is always a good friend, because it's what I've written most of my songs on, although the past couple of years, I've written many, many songs on a few baritone ukuleles I have around. As far as creativity, the lap steel is probably what I'm best at. I played with some Hawaiians doing their music a few years ago, and I spent hundreds of hours getting intimate with my lap. For a while, I was on a professional level without a doubt. Now, I only play things like lap and pedal steel when I need to record them (actually most of my instruments), and it's a matter of being creative as opposed to being fast and acrobatic with them. I've recorded pedal steel in the studio with a number of groups here in Seattle, but lately I just tell people I'm too old to be dragging that clunky thing, plus a 60-pound amp, around town to studios."

How did you get started writing songs?

"When I first bought my guitar at 17, it was because I was dating a girl in high school who played guitar. We'd been dating for a couple of months, and one day, at her house, she said, "I want to show you something." She pulled out an old Gibson guitar, and sang a song -- that she wrote herself! And she was only 15 or 16 at the time. I remember saying "Why didn't you tell me you could do this!" A big lightbulb went off in my head, and the following week I bought a right-handed guitar, switched the strings over to lefty, and immediately set off to composing songs. So, Susie Duncan, whereever you are, thank you for inspiring me to write in the first place."

What song/band made you want to play music? What is your favorite song? What is your favorite Terhune song?

"Well, Susie Duncan made me want to play music, but being a Steve Forbert fan, then reading about his trip to Greenwich Village in New York City, is what made me want to try to make a living at it.

Favorite song: I have many favorite songs, but for the sake of giving you one, I'll say "Hey Jude," but it could easily be "Holly Holy" by Neil Diamond, too. That's tough! The Bee Gee's "Lonely Days" is also up there. Ah, too many. What's interesting -- and only to me, is that when I listen to songs like "Holly Holy," I realize, that as a young boy, I really didn't memorize the words; I memorized the music and instruments. Each bass note, the drums, the way the cadence changes -- all these things I memorized like the back of my hand. Not the words, but the production. George Harrison's guitar solo in "Let It Be," I've known note for note, since I was ten years old. I've never tried to play it on guitar, but when I hear it on the radio, I know where he's going with each note. I don't think I could write down all the words, or even their correct order. The music, passion, and production always meant more to me than words.

Favorite Terhune song: Oh, I'm so good, I just...oh, it's sooo hard. I wrote a song when I was a senior in high school about my dog, whom I'd had since I was eleven. Maybe that's my favorite song. I've never recorded, but I think I can remember it...I'll bet your Dad heard it when we roommates in college. My dog's name was Tigger."

Who is your favorite singer of all time? Why?

"Early Jonathan Edwards -- oh, such a great voice. John Prine -- a very humble voice, yet such character. As for songwriter...again, John Prine -- he writes, nice, simple, easy to understand songs. No hidden meanings. For the common man -- like myself. I think he even had an album called "Common Man." I might be lying, though."

How do you write songs? Do you write the words first or the music first?

"When I first bought a guitar, I think I wrote words first. Shortly thereafter, though, I started, and continue to do so, writing the melody first by plunky around in a certain key, then coming up with words to fit the music. See? Music first, words second. That's just me. Unless I really try, which I didn't for 20+ years, my words are usually common and corny because they were simply a tool to fit around my melodies, a means to complete a song. When I began selling my CDs on the internet, though, I became a little more conscious of writing something that wouldn't be laughed at for being so common and not worth while. Doesn't mean people might still not get a good laugh at some of my words, but I think the past few years they've been fairly good and creative, even though most of my songs are usually only about two things...someone's leaving or someone's getting hurt. Gee, I just blew the lid on myself."

What was it like the first time you heard yourself on the radio?

"The first time I heard myself on the radio was playing pedal steel on Gerald Collier's "Long Distance (Nashville Calling)." I was still playing with Gerald, and was actually just pulling up in my truck to the rehearsal space for one of our three-times-a-week rehearsals. It's such a great song, and because of that, the feeling I had hearing it on the radio was almost sureal -- quite emotional. My playing was very minimal on that song, so it wasn't like "wow, I'm playing great," it was just warming to be a part of a classic recording."

My Dad says it’s been a long trip from “Following Deer”…how many songs have you written? Have you ever wanted to re-do any of your old songs?

"Exhibit A: "Following Deer." Uh, a perfect example of very juvenile lyrics, and the sad thing, is that I was genuinely serious about writing songs like that, and thought of myself as quite the "artiste." As a friend of mine said at the time, a fellow by the name of Ron Payne, and although he was being perfectly honest when he said it, and it hurt my feelings, he said that particular song sounded like a "horrible John Denver" song. Boy, he was really right. Anyway, yes, I've come a long way since then, and I'd say I've written over two thousand songs. I've thought about redoing some of the older songs, but, gee, like I've mentioned, most of them had lyrics that could have been written by someone younger than youself -- and I don't mean to insult you."

What’s your favorite fruit and why? How about ice cream?

"Favorite fruit: apple sauce. Just love it. Have it with almost every meal. Can I call apple sauce a fruit? Well, if you need a nonaltered fruit, I'd say...perfectly-ripe, seedless, green grapes.

Favorite ice cream (concoction): Chocolate ice cream with a looot of chocolate syrup. It's making my mouth water. I'm partial to ice cream sandwiches, too."

My Dad says you have a special love of dogs…what do dogs mean to you?

"Dogs are the epitome of unconditional love. They'll show you love even if you accidentally yell at them. I could come home ten times in a day, and each time I walk through the door, my dogs act like they haven't seen me in years! It's such a wonderful feeling to be greeted that way. It makes me feel quite popular. I think we, humans, like to live vicariously through our dogs...go take a crap in the yard, lay around and watch the birds, come back in, get lots of food without having to cook it or clean up plates, lay on the couch and be petted and scratched all night long...I mean, man! Who wouldn't want to live a life like that?"

Thank you Allen!
"Thanks, Joey. You make me feel like a rock star. You're a rock star!"

You can listen to Terhune on www.cdbaby.com There's more cool interviews with him on the site.

Here I Go

2005-03-23T16:26:00.000-05:00

Hi. My name is Joey and I'm seven...now I'm eight. This weblog is for having fun. I love music and some of my favorite bands are the Ramones (my middle name is Ramone), Exploding Hearts, Johnny Cash, Elvis (Costello & Presley), Blink 182, Joe Strummer, and Rancid.

My first interview will be with Allen Terhune. He plays many instruments and puts out his own CD's. He's kind of like a cool uncle who writes really good songs.

April 12 update--I like reading about old things so I'll be writing about kids like me...from 100 years ago. I'm still trying to figure out what they used for toilet paper.

See you soon!