MYTHS ABOUT CHEATING

No matter how good your relationship is, it’s hard not to wonder about cheating. So iVillage.com sets the facts straight about some common myths:

Myth #1: People cheat because they’re unhappy at home. Most women who have affairs say they’re unsatisfied with their relationship, but many men who love their wives and have great sex at home still look for a little on the side.

Myth #2: Men cheat more than women. This used to be true, but now — not so much.

Myth #3: Affairs are mostly about sex. Sex isn’t always the reason. Affairs are a way for people to get something they’re not getting from the relationship.

Myth #4: If someone cheats on you, they don’t love you. Not necessarily. It does mean they don’t respect you or the commitment you made to one another.

Myth #5: You should confess if you’ve had an affair. If there’s little chance your partner will find out, it’s better to keep quiet so you don’t hurt them.

When you’re sharing a bathroom with a roommate, spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend, there are tons of rules of etiquette that come into play — especially in the bathroom.

Here are some things to avoid doing if you want to keep the peace:

Peeing on the Seat – Nobody’s aim is perfect, but if you miss, have the common decency to wipe up your mess. Nobody EVER wants to clean up someone else’s mess. So if you’re in the bathroom alone, sit down you dummy. It all goes in the toilet everytime. You or anyone else never has to clean up pee that misses and winds up all over the seat and floor. Chance are you don’t have a urinal in your place. Urinals are for standing and toilets are for sitting. Get it?

Neglecting a Floater – Even if all your booze-battered brain cells have turned you into a forgetful oaf, do not forget to flush.

Curly Hair in the Soap – No need to explain. This sort of thing can lead to roommate homicide.

This last weekend was such a great wrap to the Summer 2009 outdoor series of concerts!  I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you to the artists and venues for a memorable weekend. 

Heart at Edgefield on Friday night was so much fun!  While there were lots of guys present, it was mostly “Ladies Night” at the venue, and the girls were wild all over the place.  On stage Ann and Nancy Wilson ripped it up as usual.  They’ve been on tour since spring, and this was their second to last show.  I don’t know how they do it.  Seriously!  Great job ladies.  Amy the Insider got some bootleg video and I was standing by her until the security guard with the T-shirt of authority told us to move along.  Hey, I know it’s your job, and a thankless one at that.  But just let us get all of the song, okay?  Great job on The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me!”  The weather was perfect, the tickets sold out, I ran into old friends and met some new ones, (in this picture, my new friends Bob and Brian who got backstage to hang out.  The Wilson sisters never showed up, but the drummer Ben was cool they said) and Heart rocked!

The next night was the last show of the season for The Amphitheater at Clark County with Pearl Jam and Ben Harper and Relentless 7.  OH MY GOD!  Seriously this goes in my Top 10 shows of all time list. 

Ben Harper and Relentless 7 ripped my face off.  My friend Annette went to the show with me and we kept turning to each other asking “is this as good as I think it is?”  Now, I had heard Ben Harper many times, and really enjoyed his session from “Live at Abbey Road” and was expecting this groovy little set…but not the monster rock that they delivered.  Guitar masters right up there with any of the best you can name.  Seriously, if you get the chance, see this band. 

Then Pearl Jam took the stage.  Yeah, they took it alright.  Took it home, baby!  Delivered and then some.  They were animated, having a blast, enjoying the crowd who was giving it right back.  Corin Tucker from Sleater-Kenny did a duet with Eddie on “Golden State” and it showed off their amazing harmonies.  Then they brought out Ben Harper for an encore with Pearl Jam and the guitar dueling between Harper and McCready was searing.  It was a great show and one of those times when I was so glad I witnessed such a great event. 

When I was back in my car at the end of the night just shaking my head thinking of how amazing the show was, it reminded me of the time in 1977 sitting in my car after seeing Pink Floyd at the Coliseum.  Yeah, it was that good.  I just had to sit there and savor the moment. 

Of course my ears kept ringing through Sunday, but it was so worth it. 

A big THANK YOU to the artists and venues for making it a very memorable 2009 Summer series of concerts.  I’m gearing up for 2010 already!!

So I just got a text message from some random person and it says,” Is this the Amy that got fired from Hayden’s for drinking? I just found your number in my phone.”

Wow, really? That’s your best memory of me? My response of course, “Um, do you think you could have remembered me as the hot blond bartender who totally rocked?”

Hi Julie who now lives in a condo in Beaverton and works in Milwaukie!

One of the things I look forward to in the morning is reading my “Classic Rock Daily” for the little stories about what my favorite artists are doing.  Today was a real treat because when I read that Rob Halford, lead singer for Judas Priest, was doing a Christmas album, I about fell over!  It’s going to be called “Halford Three-Winter Songs” and is due out just in time for the shopping season to begin.  He’s doing versions of “Come All Ye Faithful” and “Oh Holy Night” as well as some new songs.  There’s one called “Get Into the Spirit” which I can’t wait to hear.  Seriously, I want him to be in a black leather Santa suit with a full on red leather Santa hat with a white fluffy ball at the tip on the cover of the album!   Halford has some of the strongest pipes in hard rock, and I just know this will be a treat for us who want a rockin’ holiday! 

First Dylan, now Halford.  I’m loving this holiday season already.  I’d settle for a holiday reworking of “Grinder.”  This will be anything but a “blue” Christmas!

My brother Mark and I haven’t spent so much quality time as we did on the way down to see my other brother, Neil and my father in California.  Fifteen hours in the car and we just talked and listened to each other the entire time.  I know I usually love the road for the ability to listen to radio from other places while I drive, or to catch up on  the CD’s that I haven’t really spent time with.  This time was different.  I did bring music along, but I decided to go old school.  I brought a bunch of cassette mix tapes that friends had made for me over the years.  Yes, I have a cassette player in my car.  It’s a 2002, and has gone across the country a couple of times, plus trips to Canada and California as well, so it’s well traveled too.  Some of those mix tapes I hadn’t listened to in 15 or more years.  But on our way down it was great to just enjoy conversation.  Mark has lived all over the world.  He’s MUCH younger than me (he’ll love that part) and is now retired from the Army and living in Colorado.  Retired in his world just means he’s thinking of other things to do.  He’s been to exotic places, devastated places, and places at war.  I’m always interested in what he has seen and how he feels about life.  I learn about the world, and myself, when I listen to my brother.  

So we had a great time.  The weather was lovely, the scenery unfolded like a grand 15 hour movie, and we are closer now than before the trip started.  We even visited the Huntington Museum and Library in San Marino for something to do on a lovely Southern California afternoon.  The treasures on display were amazing.  There’s so many places to visit on a trip to L.A. and this was one place that I couldn’t believe I had not been before.  I have loved the paintings of Gainsborough since I was a child (had a copy of “Pinky” on my wall as a little girl) and the real paintings are there at the museum.  And the mansion has been used in movies, the most famous being “Beverly Hills Cop.”  

He flew back to Colorado from L.A. and I made the trip home alone with those tapes I mentioned earlier.  I popped one of the mixes into the player and it was like a letter from an old friend.  In fact it hit me harder than usual because that friend passed away suddenly in February of this year.  So it was like a conversation that I can no longer have with that person in the flesh…just in spirit.  It was like he was just sitting there in the passenger seat grinning as each song came on and had a special meaning, or was something that he had just discovered and wanted me to hear.  Randy taught me a lot about music in my first radio job, and I’ll always be grateful.

Take a road trip.  We are blessed with a great big country that is easy to navigate.  And bring some mix tapes or CD’s if you have them lying around.  It’s great for the soul.

I’ve been very open about my dance with cancer.  It’s been a very interesting journey, and not all bad.  After losing several very important people in my life to cancer, it’s a wonder that I can actually feel this.  At times it’s been terrifying, other times just mildly annoying, and then there’s the time that I’m given the gift.  In every hard thing we ever have to go through, if you really look, there’s a gift somewhere among the muck.  That’s the true test…to look for the gift. In my journey, it’s been the people that I have met because of being diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2006.  The first doctor to see me and tell me the news was a gift.  He was wonderful, kind, and then sent me to a specialist who did the surgery.  My surgeon, Dr. Rushing was certainly a gift, and the best words in the world that I have continued to hear after surgery was “no evidence of disease.”  Now I have a new doctor because I’m staying with the clinic while Dr. Rushing is moving across the river to Vancouver.  I know, not that far away…but again, here’s the gift.  

My new doctor is a rocker.  He plays guitar and is in a band called…are you ready for this one…”N.E.D. No Evidence of Disease.”  His name is Will Winter and he’s part of a band made up of six gynecologic oncology surgeons from across the U.S. who decided to form a band.  They  started as a cover band, a novelty created to provide entertainment to fellow physicians at medical conferences dedicated to improving cancer care for women.  What started out as a novelty, has turned into a real band with original songs.  In fact Dr. Will wrote my favorite song on the album called “False Pretenses.”  They were asked if they would like to record in a real studio in New York City and put out a CD.  It is selling like crazy after it’s release.  

There’s going to be a special CD Release event on Sunday, October 25th at The Crystal Ballroom called “Rhythm Heals.” An evening celebrating the role music plays in treating women’s cancer.  I know how music helps me every day.  This is why I get so excited to come to work at KGON every day.  It’s like I’m taking the best medicine of all each day I’m on the air.  So, I’m helping out with this event in any way I can, and it looks like I’ll be doing some on stage announcing for the evening.  To say I’m excited about this in an understatement.  There’s a star studded local/national line up of artists who will open for the band.  Dr. Will said that it’s funny that professionals will open for amateurs, but after listening to the CD, these doctors are not only “Type A gifted surgeons” but also very gifted musicians and songwriters.  Plus, what they are doing for the awareness and cure of women’s cancer is amazing and from the heart.

Meet the band.  N.E.D. No Evidence of Disease.  Even the liner notes in the CD gives information on the types of cancers that they treat daily, and raises awareness of what to look for.  Not every kind of cancer is obvious in a yearly exam.  Mine wasn’t.  It was just that I knew that something was not normal, something was wrong and I sought the answer.  Little did I know at the time what a marvelous journey of meeting people, getting involved with giving back, and enjoying great music would all come together because of it.  There it is.  The gift.

Great show! And I managed to stay sober. Mostly.

Allegations surrounding the 1969 death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones continue in the weeks since British cops announced plans to re-examine the case. According to Reuters, the band’s former road manager accused a former chauffer of killing the guitarist.

Sam Cutler claims the band’s now-deceased driver, Tom Keylock, was responsible. Keylock allegedly wheedled a deathbed confession some 16 years ago out of his friend, Frank Thorogood, a builder working at Jones’ house who immediately became a prime suspect in the case.

While there is no hard evidence tying either Keylock or Thorogood to the rocker’s death in his own swimming pool, Cutler claims Keylock behaved suspiciously in the ensuing days, removing or destroying items at Jones’ estate. Cutler also says Keylock was the only suspect in a private investigation that Allen Klein, the Stones’ manager at the time, commissioned because he had little confidence in the local police.

“He investigated Brian’s murder with all the resources he had available to him and Klein thought that Brian had been murdered,” Cutler wrote on his blog. “Tom Keylock was the prime (and only) suspect named in that report.” Keylock and Klein both died this past July, leaving Jones’ passing — officially deemed “Death by misadventure” — a long-standing mystery. When pressed for a statement by Reuters, representatives for Klein’s ABKCO Music label and the Stones declined to comment.

As for Keylock’s motive, Cutler told Reuters in an interview, “My gut feeling is that he was ripping Brian off on some
level or another.”

Courtesy of aol.com

I know that’s pretty scary for a lot of us, but a climatologist is warning the beer drinking world that trouble is on the horizon.

Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute says that the quality of Saaz hops…the delicate variety used to make pilsner lager…has been decreasing in recent years. He says the reason the hops are fading away is GLOBAL WARMING.

According to Mozny, future crop yields and quality are going to continue to get worse and worse.

Are you doing at least “One Thing” to help prevent global warming…if not i invite you to visit One Thing. to keep the beer aflowin. Fellow beer drinkers…it looks like it’s up to us to keep in the suds.

Question: What stuff in your life do you think has gotten worse over the years? How great was this stuff back in the “good old days?”