DORM DAZE 2

Well, I've done it fans of FNC. I've found a way to show all of you my drunken pictures from college. Please, whatever you do, don't post them anywhere else, as they are quite embarrassing, but I figure my loyal fans deserve to see them. Check them out here. They are awesome.

After looking at the photos, keep reading below for my comments on each shot.












Congrats, you've just been Rickrolled. Yes, it's the new Internet phenomenom where people are tricking other people, into watching Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up Video." It's pretty sick, but apparently, that's what young kids these days are up to. Another part of Rickrolling is gathering a bunch of people in a public place and playing the song as loud as possible. There's also a Met connection, since some Rickrollers duped the Mets into having the song as one of their nominees for their 8th inning song.

The video, by the way, is tremendous. Astley's dancing is lame, his lip-synching is awesome, and the bartender dude is likely on crack, especially when he jumps into the chain-link fence.

DORM DAZE

I have an ethics question for fans of FNC.

Is it ethical to post incriminating photos taken long before the Internet age on the Internet?

Interesting question, huh.

The reason I ask is because it recently came to my attention that the college alma mater of myself has an alumni page where members can post photos. The idea is for alum to post current photos of themselves and their kids and stuff like that. Well, one of my classmates has posted photos from back in the day. Several feature a drunken Joe Pendleton doing the following

1. licking his girlfriend's face while holding a can of Old Mildew.

2. Smooching some other dame on the cheek

3. Arm around some other dame while obviously not sober

4. Doing a drunken version of the Unicorn song (there are two of those).

Now, had these pix been taken within the last few years, I would have no problem with them hitting the world wide web, since I would've been well aware of the fact that these photos could hit a large audience in a short time. But at the time they were taken I figured only a few friends would see them. I've lodged a complaint with the poster, but he tells me those shots are innocent compared to the other ones he has of me, so I will just pipe down. Now before all you fans go scrambling to the web site, you need to be a graduate to get on there. So if you want to see them, stop by FNC World Headquarters some day and I will show you.

Speaking of college, on my last post JG said how much she loved the Hooters' Nervous Night album. It got me thinking about other albums that influenced my four years in college. So, without further ado, here's the list of my top 10 albums that got me through college. Please remember it was 1994-1988, and, as the photos will attest, I was young, drunk and stupid.

Now, these are not my favorite albums from the years 1984-1988, just the most influential from that time. Actually, my favorite album from that era - The Cult's Electric, did not come to my attention until 1989.

Without further ado, Here we go.

10. Genesis, Genesis OK, let's start with this statement. I hate Phil Collins. Hate Genesis. Did I mention I hate Genesis. However, there was something about this album I liked, and it's probably because one night me and some co-ed got very friendly in my dorm room while this album played quite loudly. My roomie had a nice stereo system and this CD. Everytime I hear any tunes from this album, it brings me back to that evening. Nothing like getting busy to "Illegal Alien." I got my first hickey that night, and of course, didn't realize it until the next day, when, while sitting in class, some dude behind me kept starting at me. When I took a stop in the can after class I spotted - for the first time - the golf-ball shaped red thing on my neck. Note: This photo not on web site - yet.

9. License to Ill, Beastie Boys: This album was the shit in the mid-80s, and my junior year, it was pretty much played once a day in my dorm room. "Girls" is one of my favorite tunes at the time. I didn't get any broads to this one, maybe the offensive lyrics had something to do with it.

8. Centerfield, John Fogerty: I got this free from the radio station - since they didn't play mainstream stuff, and it's actually a collector's item, since one of the songs - Vanz Cant Dance - had the name changed after the album's initial release. I still have a vinyl copy with the original, and not the changed tune. Of course the title track could get any baseball fan fired up.

7. 5150, Van Halen: My roomate, who's nickmane is Jimmy Jam, was a HUGE, HUGE Van Halen fan. I liked them, but not like he did. Anyway, he played this album every second he could. Perhaps my biggest memory of this album is in the summer of 1986 me and James Jam cut our own version of "Why Can't This Be Love," in one of those Boardwalk recording studios in Wildwood. I still have the tape. That will never see the alumni Web site.

6. Eat 'Em and Smith, David Lee Roth: Jim Jam's and his other partner in VH crime, Johnny Ace, were also DLRoth fans. So much that Mr. Ace spent 6 hours on Halloween 1986 making up his face to look just like the cover. That same October, on the same day Lenny Dykstra homered in Game 3 of the NLCS, me, Ace, Jam and others trekked to the Spectrum in Philly to see Diamond Dave in concert. Cinderella as the opening act. Great job.

5. Vital Signs, Survivor: Let's just say Old Joe was a pretty sentimental - and desperate cat - back in the day, pretty much falling in love with any dame that showed any interest in him. If I had a dollar for everytime I - in an inebriated state - sang "The Search is Over" to a dame, I'd have about 10 more bucks to my name. Of course, "High on You" and "Can't Hold Back" were party staples back in the day.

4. Raisin' Hell, Run DMC: If Jim Jam's stereo wasn't blasting the Beasties, it was kicking out this one. "You Be Illin" and "Walk This Way," must've been played about 300 times in the fall of 1986. Let the record state, however, that I never wore laceless adidas or a Kango hat.

3. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen: Every person in every dorm in every college in America had this casette in the fall of 1984 and with the Boss churing out single after single until about 1985, this one never got old. My fondest college memory of this album is getting loaded and lip-synching the end of "I'm Goin Down," where Bruce does all this "hey, a baba hey mow mow," shctick. I knew every word to every song of this album.

2. Nervous Night, Hooters: Since this band was from Philly, they were huge in South Jersey. My biggest regret is about a week before this album came out, they played the college rec center, but I blew it off. When I bought the cassette the next week, I was ticked that I missed it. I did see them with Squeeze at the Garden State Arts Center the summer of 1985, but was drunk and on the lawn, so I don't recall much except yelling, "They Were the Isrealites" at the top of my lungs. It was also on a constant loop in my brother's blue 1972 Nova, which made trips to the Jersey shore almost every weeekend. Love this album. And no, No. 1 .....

1. Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi: While the boys from Sayreville are not my favorite cup of tea, I do owe them plenty. You see, college dames loved, LOVED, this album and they loved JBJ. So this scenario played out often: Dame is partying, dame gets fired up over "You Give Love a Bad Name," and "Livin on a Prayer," dame is longing for Bon Jovi, dame realized Bon Jovi not stopping by party, dame realizes J. Pendleton and others at party are her best shot for a good time. You throw in the Jersey factor and this album was worth its weight in gold. Ironically, Social Disease is my favorite tune off this album.

Well, there you have it.

One final note on college, the web site photos has got me thinking about writing my college memoirs. I may start and run the forward on this site to see if I should continue.

A few other notes:

This is gonna be a long year for the Mets unless they get a lights out pitcher in the pen.

Rangers-Devs will go 7. Still have no clue who will win.

I'm getting very soft. On Friday and Saturday, I had a few tastes, and about an hour after the drinking stopped, I was ready for bed. Very soft.

That's it for now. Let's Go Rangers