Birthday Month Top 5 – TV Shows of All Time

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Just Chuck

These are my top 5 favorite TV shows of All Time. This was tough, I could go Top 10 easily. Growing up, except for Saturday morning cartoons and after school shows ( Ultraman and Batman in syndication), we didn’t watch TV. In fact, my TV consumption didn’t really start until I was well into adulthood. We just didn’t watch TV. We played outside… a lot.

  • The Partridge Family – I loved this show
  • Batman 1966 – need I say more
  • The X Files – watched religiously when it was on
  • Quantum Leap (the old version) watched every episode religiously
  • The Goldbergs (still on, makes me laugh uncontrollably at times)
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Comedians

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Just Chuck

These are 5 comedians that I’ve enjoyed over the years and recently.

  • Eddie Murphy – “and GI Joe got stuck…”
  • Cheech & Chong – Up in Smoke, that’s where I wanna be…
  • Jerry Lewis – Original The Nutty Professor movie is one of the best
  • The Three Stooges – Hyuck Huck Hyuck, OH! a wise guy!
  • Robin Williams – zany off the cuff crazy improv genius

Growing up I loved Jerry Lewis. All those movies with Dean Martin and then the Nutty Professor. I wanted to be Buddy Love. I miss the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethons. I love the Three Stooges. I can still spend hours watching the classic Moe, Larry and Curly lineup. As I got older there was George Carlin (which we had to secretly listen to because of the language), Richard Pryor and then came Cheech & Chong. I didn’t completely understand the drug related humor initially (until later) but the rest of their skits had us repeating them at school. What can you say about Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live (Gumby, Buckwheat) and his first special Delirious. Still hilarious today, The guy is a genius. And then there is Robin Williams. Mork is where we got introduced to him but like Eddie Murphy, anything he touched was gold.

Extra mention – Jeff Dunham and Dave Chapelle.

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Birthday Month Top 5 – Actors – Female

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Just Chuck

These are my Top 5 female actors and some movies associated with them.

  • Drew Barrymore (Wedding Singer, Charlie’ Angels and more)
  • Charlize Theron (The Old Guard, Atomic blonde)
  • Scarlett Johansson (Avengers, Black Widow, Lucy, Ghost World)
  • Viola Davis (Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, How to get away with Murder)
  • Natalie Portman (Thor, Star Wars)
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Actors – Male

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Just Chuck

My Top 5 favorite Actors and the names of some of my favorite characters they played.

  • Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, Green Lantern, Mr. D)
  • Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken, Captain Ron, Elvis)
  • Tom Cruise – yes he does great movies (Ethan Hunt, Maverick)
  • Tom Hanks (Bosom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Woody)
  • Michael Keaton (I’m Batman, Beetlejuice, the Vulture)
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Movies

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Just Chuck

MY TOP 5 MOVIES (ok 11 cause it was tough to pick just 5)

  • Predator (the first one with Arnold)
  • The Thing (with Kurt Russell)
  • Nacho Libre
  • Sandlot (on par with Field of Dreams for best baseball movie)
  • Josie and the Pussycats (love the movie and the soundtrack)
  • Grease (seriously I really like this movie)
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original)
  • The Nutty Professor (with Jerry Lewis)
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show (Let’s do the Time Warp back to 1979)
  • Dazed and Confused (this was us growing up in Killeen TX)
  • That Thing You Do (love the movie and the soundtrack)

Honorable mention (Heavy Metal, Yesterday, Up in Smoke, Pretty much any Elvis movie)

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Birthday Month Top 5 – Guitarists

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Just Chuck

These are my Top 5 Guitarist. Oh there are more I enjoy, Angus Young of AC/DC, Gleen Tipton and K.K. Downing from Judas Priest, Brian May from Queen, but these Top 5 had some amount of influence on me.

  1. Billy Gibbons – ZZ Top
  2. Jimmy Page – Led Zeppelin
  3. Alex Lifeson – Rush
  4. Ted Nugent – Uncle Ted
  5. Ace Frehley – KISS
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Bands and Albums You’ve Never Heard of but Should Know

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Just Chuck

These are bands and their best albums that I’ve listened to over the years and am a big fan.

  1. American Tears – Powerhouse (1977)
  2. Riot – Rock City (1977) No this is not Quiet Riot.
  3. Manowar – Battle Hymns (1982)
  4. The Godz – the Godz (1978)
  5. Spock’s Beard – Snow (2002)
  6. Angel – on earth as it is in heaven (1977)
  7. Starz – Starz (1976)
  8. Black Oak Arkansas – Live Muthu (1976)
  9. The Tubes – The Tubes
  10. New York Dolls – In Too Much Too Soon
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Albums

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Just Chuck

Picking 5 albums is tough, so I did 10.

  1. Physical Graffiti- Led Zeppelin
  2. Jailbreak- Thin Lizzy
  3. Dressed to Kill – KISS
  4. Farewell to Kings – Rush
  5. Ted Nugent – Ted Nugent (with Stranglehold)
  6. Live – Foghat
  7. Love Gun – KISS
  8. Caught in the act – Grand Funk
  9. The B-52’s – the B-52’s
  10. Genesis – Trick of the Tail
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Birthday Month Top 5 – Songs

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Just Chuck

I couldn’t really pick just 5 songs. So here are my 10 favorite songs in no particular order.

  1. She – KISS
  2. Highway to Hell – AC/DC
  3. Over my head – Kings X
  4. Kashmir – Led Zeppelin
  5. Reelin’ and a Rockin’ – Chuck Berry
  6. Cowboy Song – Thin Lizzy
  7. Supernaut- Black Sabbath
  8. Chuck E’s in love – Rickie Lee Jones
  9. Stranglehold – Ted Nugent
  10. Some Kind of Wonderful – Grand Funk
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Happy Birth Month to Me

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Just Chuck

Guess what day it is? Its the first day of my birthday month.

Last year I spent 31 days flashing my life before my eyes on Facebook. If you follow me on Facebook then you were privy to a chronological accounting of my life complete with photos and videos. Perhaps I’ll do that here one month.

This year I decided to do a month (31 days) of Ozone Ferd‘s Top 5’s (Top 10 in some cases). Every day I’ll post my Top 5 of some subject or product. Starting with an easy one.

TOP 5 BANDS (or in this case Top 10 cause music is life)

1. KISS – cause it’s KISS and if you know me personally you know I’ve been a KISS fan since 1975

2. Led Zeppelin – well, again no brainer, been a fan since 1974

3. Grand Funk – even before there was KISS there was Grand Funk Railroad, always a fan

4. AC/DC – found them in 1978, will never forget seeing them from the front row on the Black Ice Tour. doesn’t hurt that my band played a lot of AC/DC cause I could sing like Bon Scott.

5. Rush – Another band that my band played a lot of because I could sing like Geddy Lee. We would do the whole side 1 from 2112 plus some of the oldies along with Xanadu

6. Queen – who isn’t a Queen fan. We used to play Tie Your Mother Down

7. Ted Nugent – the man, the legend. When my band wasn’t playing AC/DC or Rush we were playing Nugent songs – Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever, Free for All, etc.

8. The Tubes – not many people no this band. I learned of them through CREEM magazine. Like KISS, they had an unbelievable stage show and I lucked into their first album in a K-Mart in Natchez Mississippi. White Punks on Dope baby. Their album needs to be a future Vinyl of the Month.

9. ZZ Top – I’ve live in Texas since 1976, ZZ Top is ingrained in you. While drinking beer around a bon fire in a pasture in the middle of Texas you were listening to ZZ Top. We were all looking for a little Tush back then.

10. Black Sabbath – I had to throw them on because I’ve been listening to them a lot lately. Tony Iommi is a riff master.

So many din not make the list (Judas Priest, King’s X, Thin Lizzy, etc.) and really Elvis and The Beatles could/should be on here as well.

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