Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with STEVIE WONDER!

Did you know then that the background singers on this one are The Jackson Five? Now you know. You even hear Stevie say it 1:47 into 'You Haven't Done Nothin'. They were label-mates in 1974 on Tamla Records, an offshoot of Motown. If you are not absolutely funking out during this song wherever you are at there is something very very wrong with you.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT!

Bazinga!

No, Alan Parsons, not Jim Parsons. Oh you kids. Johnny could have picked like five or six tracks off this masterpiece of an album, I Robot, but went with 'Some Other Time' as he remembers it sounding really good in Kalamazoo at his best friends house at a party once. Funny how memories work. Funny how nobody was 'Rowing the Boat' at Western Michigan University back then either. Slug-A-Beds they were. Johnny went to Eastern Michigan where academics happened, just not for Johnny.

Late night open thread

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Call it a Johnny hunch -- Bob Menendez is in trouble

Just a feeling. Johnny does not know yet where he will be voting this November, here in Jersey City or back in Michigan once his home sells (A place has already been picked out and Johnny knows the city -- all in good time friends, all in good time) but Sen. Bob Menendez is in trouble in his re-election bid. Democrats had better turn out in really large numbers because there's not going to be an "I gotta vote FOR Bob Menendez today" wave out there anywhere.

Keep an eye on this. See if you don't see what Johnny sees.

Late night open thread

Like the rings of Saturn, backyard astronomers like Johnny never tire of looking at the Horsehead Nebula just below Orion's belt.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Sunday sails

It's the wind kids, not the lack of sun that makes for good sailing on the Hudson River...

Late night open thread

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PUBLIC ENEMY!

Starting off with quite an attention getter. Go big or go home. We have the right band with the absolute right song to get us started on a warm early-summer night for that.

'Fight the Power' from Public Enemy, one of the best songs ever, ever done. No, any genre.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FOLK IMPLOSION!

Sure, right now you're saying, "Folk Implosion, who is THAT Johnny?" In 20 seconds you'll be saying, "Oh man, I LOVE this song, haven't heard it in forever, thanks Johnny!"

You're welcome.

Folk Implosion with 'Natural One'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SHERYL CROW!

Today is June 1st which means those car systems are going to be turned up louder and the windows are going to down further. Know whose music usually sounds great coming from a nearby car? Sheryl Crow. She was made for that summertime music sound, and when that happens, you go with it. Sheryl Crow sending you out into this humid-ass evening with 'Anything But Down'

Johnny loves Sheryl Crow but will be the first to say we need another Globe Sessions one of these days.