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When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then we suffer,
Superstition ain't the way.
 -- Stevie Wonder

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with NEKO CASE!

Johnny has played a lot of songs on the Music Series over the years. Thousands at this point. Some fit a theme that night, some we have fun at their expense on either singer or song. Some we love. Tonight Johnny's going to let you in and hear three of his all-time most favoritest most wonderful songs he knows and he holds dear. The kind of song you too have that seems to make it on so many travel or driving playlists and CD's.

Johnny is starting off with someone you know he loves and links to on this very page, the fabulous Neko Case. Sure Johnny loves soooo much of her music but on her last album, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, she released a song, 'Where Did I Leave That Fire' about losing those closest to you in life and moving on alone and having to deal with those feelings as they sap your very will. The lyrics touched Johnny in his own orbit but the music laid down around this fabulous song is incredible. Johnny just wants to put the instrumental interlude in the middle on a loop and pump it into his brain it's so good. A song that means a lot and is never far from Johnny's heart. He's honestly never heard another song like it.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TOM TYKWER!

Johnny, WHO? Tom Tykwer, the guy so cool, he not only wrote, produced and directed the indie movie once called the Citizen Kane of music videos, Run Lola Run, he wrote the music. Now Tykwer (who was dating Franka Potente at the time and wrote the role of Lola with her in mind) thought if he let someone else write the soundtrack they'd only serve to fuck that up and ruin his vision. Know what he did? He wrote what Johnny considers one of the ten best soundtracks to any movie ever by himself. Yeah, wrote the entire soundtrack/score.

Here's a piece with no real true singing in it, just a small voice piece and yet Johnny thinks it's one of the most perfect pieces of music he's ever heard. Tom Tykwer and 'Casino'

P.S. If you're somehow reading this Ms. Franka Potente do know Johnny has the biggest crush on you. Email him :)

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FLEETWOOD MAC!

There was a time, 1973 to be exact, when Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks hadn't yet joined Fleetwood Mac and made Rumors and become mega super giant stars. That'd come in three more years. In 1973 Bob Welch was singing for the band. It was on the Mystery to Me album that Fleetwood Mac unleashed this song on Johnny's conscience and he still cannot ever change it when it comes on the iTunes or XM radio and it too is on every driving CD he's ever made. It's just that influential to him.

Fleetwood Mac and 'Hypnotized' on a Johnny's Favorite Cuts night on the Music Series.

Danger, Danger Will Robinson, impending Hoboken Lepre-Con tomorrow

Yes, we know they're not calling it Lepre-Con anymore but does anyone have a better name for what does and will happen tomorrow in the Mile Square City? Tons of drunken louts and loutettes wandering from bar to bar with a wristband that can cost, *GASP* upwards of SIX US dollars will be fuel to the drinking fire. Just about anyone selling food or booze in FuHo is open and catering to this though they'll say they're not catering to it. Yes, they are. If they weren't they'd tell those in green costumes and those who have already had a couple too many beers to get stepping.

There you have it, the 24 hour avoid Hoboken rule goes into effect around dawn tomorrow and carries over to dawn on Sunday when the last of the litter and passed out customers & yack are cleaned off the sidewalks.

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Boy Johnny was having fun with that #GifParty hashtag on the Twitter earlier today. Nobody got a better collection of those things than Johnny. Hope the Slim Jim and Mountain Dew cravings were worth it.

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Time to start planning for an NJ Rail strike after next week

No burying the lead on this one:

NJ Transit officials warned commuters on Thursday that bus service would only be able to handle 40 percent of the 105,000 people who get to work using its rail service if unions walk off the job in 10 days over a contract dispute.

Johnny's gonna stay out of the politics of this but it is worth \noting NJ Transit workers have worked several years with no contract.

The scariest part about getting around are there two points:

* 10,000 cars an hour during the morning and evening commuting peak on to roads in a 25-mile radius of New York

* The plan would mirror what was done in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy flooded and shut down the Hudson River rail tunnels and damaged the North Jersey Coast Line — using hired charter buses running from park and ride lots to bring commuter to Hudson River ferries.

So, the question becomes how do you get around and what are your plans to get around the area in the case a strike happens. So tell us Jersey City and the surround, did you learn any new ways to go after Sandy or do you have a secret route?

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
 -- Charles Dickens

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We hate to harp on the Governor...

...no, wait, no we don't. What an asshat. Let's "Mr. Trump" shit all over us here in New Jersey and nods his head like a bobblehead. Six different papers who endorsed Christie last time have now called for him to resign. We'd love for that to happen but he's too much of an egomaniac. It's time to fully fight back on anything Christie wants, and fight hard. Fight to the last arrow. He shall get nothing through nor do anything more to destroy this state. It's the only option and yes, he brought this on himself.

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Apologies, Johnny had a couple medical checkups today and never made it into the office. Might as well get them out of the way all at once.

Anyone get a load of our Governor with the Trumpmeister tonight? It went something like this...

What a douche.

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