The DJ Rollie D Story

2014 is pretty much over.  In just 25 hours we'll be watching the ball drop or whatever the custom is where you live to ring in 2015.  A new year, with resolutions to boot that usually only end up lasting about a week or two.  I quit making them several years ago as they never seem to pan out compared to some of the other decisions I make when I need to make them.   I was supposed to celebrate by seeing the annual New Year's Dinner Theater that the local acting company in Virginia puts on, but a case of mumps prevented that.  Let's just say hospitals are quite interesting in the wee hours of a Monday.  I should probably be glad that it wasn't something more serious like an infection that would need surgery. Other than the recent fever/mumps episode I've had to close out the year, the year has been pretty spectacular.  These were my favorite things about the year 2014. Walmart: In August a new Walmart Supercenter opened up in Mountain Iron, and I got a

Another year in good, meh, and horrible music has come and gone.  Being a DJ and having a lot of preferences to genre I generally listen to and enjoy a lot of music.  Of course there's always songs that don't catch my eye right away, or songs that I hate right smack out of the starting gate.  And so, with that being said we have three Top 10's today, one each for the best, mediocre, and worst songs of the year.  These go in no particular order. The 10 Worst Songs of 2014 Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX: Fancy  Iggy Azalea & Rita Ora: Black Widow  Ariana Grande: Break Free Ariana Grande: Love Me Harder Brett Eldredge: Beat of the Music- An interesting choice really, as this just won the country countdown's top spot for the year as a whole. Frankie Ballard: Sunshine & Whiskey Jesse J, Ariana Grande, & Nicki Minaj: Bang Bang! Jeremiah feat. YG: Don't Tell Em'  Christina Perri: Human Pharrell Williams: Happy.  Oh the rants I could go on abou

Today is the Christmas holiday.  This holiday is so great!  The lights, the atmosphere, the hostile shopping environments, the family stuff, the list goes on and on.  Of course, sometimes in our flurry to celebrate the season we lose sight of the holiday's true meaning, and the meaning involves part of the reason we can go to sleep at night knowing we'll ascend to Heaven upon our departure from our current bodies. Yes that's right, today is Jesus' birthday, and as Chris Rock said in a stand-up bit of his..... "We have an entire shopping season based around Jesus' birthday.  As a matter of fact, after the season is over, people will come out and say how horrible the Jesus' birthday season sales were this year"  This quote is so true unfortunately.  People will swarm the stores as early as October now in order to put those presents away as early as possible for people who probably don't even deserve them!  Then, it's about the decorations a

2014 saw a lot of great movies roll through the box office.  I had the opportunity to see quite a few of these either in the theater, the value cinema in Superior about three months after they were in the theater, or right after they came on DVD.  So, with that being said, here are my Top 10 movies of 2014 in no particular order with a short description. A Million Ways to Die In the West: A lowly sheep farmer gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to participate in a duel with the man who stole his girl, who coincidentally is very into mustaches.  A satire of the Old West itself.   22 Jump Street: 2 cops go undercover at a local college and try to break all the stereotypes of your typical movie sequel. The Giver: A teenager living in a dystopian future is selected to be the receiver of memory for his community, and the previous receiver shows him that there's more to live for in this world than what's provided in the community. Based on the famous children's n

Some of you might have heard of the Rifftrax franchise before, or possibly the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (which I'll abbreviate to MST3K from this point on), that aired on Comedy Central and Sci-Fi from 1988-1999.  MST3K actually got it's start in Minnesota on a small cable TV station in the Twin Cities area.  It was cancelled after one year due to poor funding from the station before Comedy Central picked it up and things really got going for the next 10. From L-R: Crow, Joel Robinson, Mike Nelson, and Tom Servo For those of you who have never heard of the shows the premise is relatively simple.  MST3K is about a guy trapped on a spaceship with 4 robots forced to watch extremely horrible movies involving anything from teenagers going crazy to cursed toy monkeys.  During the movies the guy (Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson depending on which episode you pick), and 2/4 robots (Crow and Tom Servo), sit at the bottom right of the screen in silhouette form and actively m

Today marks the end of my first year on Blogger.  It's been a fun ride writing posts from the very serious to the extremely amusing.  I would like to thank all of you who have checked this thing out at one point or another in the past 365 days. I would also like to thank those who have commented on my posts at one point or another, or those who have talked to me in public and over the internet.  Your support keeps this blog going as I know I'm actually attracting readers from various points of the country and world and all those page views aren't just from me checking to see if any new comments have been made. And with that being said, these are the Top 10 posts from the past year in order of pageviews.  They are linked so that if you wish to read them you can click and be transported. #10  What I Think About When Pushing Carts at Walmart : Views: 18 Original Publish Date: 10/23/14  #9  Tagging Books With Chocolate Flavors : Views: 19 OPD: 11/6/14  #8  Oh Happy Day!