Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Wheel

These times of staying home more often have undoubtedly given me plenty of time to listen to a lot of music, many of which I had not previously heard or at least wasn't very familiar with before. In addition, it gave me an opportunity to listen to many an obscure track by various performers who have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as of this year. As a lifelong fan with perennial Rock Hall membership as well as someone who has visited the Hall a total of eight times in person, I decided to create my very own Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Playlist Wheel!

This wheel will allow one to click on the wheel, and, perosnally, when it lands on a particular content, I will play that inductee or category examples on Spotify, Youtube, etc. Link to this wheel (partly inspired by Elvis Costello's Spectactular Spinning Songbook):  https://wheelofnames.com/view/2kt-dhb/

Category Descriptions:

British Invasion: Inducted British Invasion groups and bands (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Who, Hollies, Zombies, Yardbirds, Animals, Dave Clark Five, Small Faces)

Kings & Queen(s): Songs by Queen and inductees with the last name King (B.B., Albert, Freddie), along with songs by inductees with the words "king" and/or "queen" in their titles

Mo' Soul: Motown and classic soul/R&B inductees

Prog Power: Songs by inducted prog rockers (Pink Floyd, Traffic, Genesis, Yes, Rush, ELO, Roxy Music, Chicago, The Moody Blues, etc)

Funk & Punk: Parliament-Funkadelic, Ramones, James Brown, Sex Pistols, Clash, Sly & The Family Stone, Patti Smith, etc.

Brill Building: Songs and artists associated with Brill Building songwriting teams (Carole King & Gerry Goffin, Leiber And Stoller, Neil Diamond, The Drifters, Shirelles, etc.)

Vans: Van Halen and Van Morrison songs

I Am Woman, Hear Me Rock: Songs from female inductees

Fabulous Fifties: Inductees and their discographies from Rock'N'Roll's first decade in existence (Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, etc.)

Metal Mania: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Def Leppard, KISS, AC/DC, and other heavy metal and hard rock inductees

Charttoppers: #1 hit songs by inductees

Hope anyone who gets a chance to use the link above and click on the wheel has fun using it! In the meantime, wishing all please stay safe and healthy!

My updated SNL 40th Anniversary Collage

Sketch Comedy Collage

One of my favorite TV program genres for the past several years has been sketch comedy. Funny television programming often cheers me up when I need it, plus I enjoy watching live episodes of SNL late at night before going to bed. (I enjoyed watching MADTV as well prior to its cancellation, often switching back and forth between the two on Saturday nights throughout my high school and college years.)

A couple of years ago, I worked another one of several collages I made in the past few years. This one consists mainly of photos of the ensembles from various sketch comedy and improv groups of the past and present which I have viewed on TV and/or the Internet throughout my life, along with certain screencaps from certain indivudal sketches.

List of sketch comedy groups and programs included in this work: SNL, MAD TV, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Benny Hill Show, In Living Color, All That, You Can't Do That On Television, SCTV, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Almost Live, Royal Canadian Air Farce, The Carol Burnett Show, The Abbott & Costello Show, So Random!, Fridays, Mr. Show with Bob and David, The Ben Stiller Show, Blue Collar TV, Studio C, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strop, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, That Big Gay Sketch Show, Chappelle's Show, Red Green, The Kids In The Hall, and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Welcome Back SNL!

After its month-long hiatus due to the Winter Olympics being broadcast on NBC, I am really looking forward to watching SNL's return to the schedule tonight, with host Jim Parsons and musical guest Beck [Hansen]. While I personally feel that this past season has neither been SNL's best nor worst in nearly 40-year history, I still find it very funny and watchable nonetheless. I also watched the first broadcast of Late Night with Seth Meyers the other night and thought the former SNL head writer and Weekend Update anchor/co-anchor was off to a pretty good start with regard to his new gig.

Sometimes I pleasure making pictures and editing them with Microsoft Paint and Adobe Photoshop. Many times I like to make collages consisting of several photos sharing a common bond. In the spring of 2010, I made a collage celebrating what was then the 35th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. The photo below consists of practically every repertory or featured player in SNL's cast's history (continuously updated the past few years), along with several past and present SNL logos as well as stills and title cards from various sketches.