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Rock on. :)

Do you know if there was ever a video for the Frantics song about Mrs. Gorbachev?

Not that I remember off the top of my head. From what I can pull up on my lunch break, the following songs were on Four on the Floor (and therefore go videos):

- Yugoslavia (removed from reruns)
- Gas Station Washroom (also removed)
- Nazi Paraphinalia (ditto)
- Sigmund Freud's Tropical Island
- Carsick
- I Sell Computers
- Grade Three
- It's A Rodent
- Heavy Metal Shop
- Brown Car
- The People Inside of Your Walls
- Baby You Need Me
- I'm Rich, I'm White, I Love It

I was going to say that most of the songs from the TV show were more goofy pieces, but there's some there that have some political angles. Not many, but all the same. I'm shocked that "I'm Rich, I'm White, I Love It" wasn't removed, but I'm pretty sure that it was toned down from the radio version.

Oddly enough, this reminds me: you haven't put up any more Youtube video with Harlan Ellison, eh? I know you did the Fans one, but I was specifically looking for his rant on one episode of PoG where he's talking about the first Terminator flick and how it was based on his Outer Limits short story Soldier.

Just curious if that will go up!

Von

Writer's Rights? Yeah, I gots that one.

Is it going up? Heck, I don't know. My little rerun project died because my family situation is sucking the very life out of me. Heck, I'm only up at this hour now because a fight just woke me up (apparently my mother is doing heaven knows what over her cell phone and my sister burst into tears about it). Because of it, I haven't had enough sanity to sit down and do complex work on my computer in the past three months.

But I move this Saturday and plan to turn my life around and start healing. This might mean more Signal Loss work. Damn it, I miss being able to do it.

Oh, shit, sorry 'bout that. I've actually been a little lax on keeping up to date with various blogs. I didn't realize things were that bad. Then again, there are reasons that I haven't spoken with my father since '99, so for what it's worth, I feel your pain. That was the year that I realized while I love my dad I truly don't like him and I decided it was best for all concerned if we went our separate ways. Haven't heard boo since.

Hopefully when you move out healing will start and some bridges, in time, can be built. In the meantime, just be good to yourself.

Family can just be not fun at times.

Von

No worries. I haven't announced that it's the reason I stopped, but yeah, that's pretty much it. I've ranted about it here, but I didn't make it completely public because I know I don't want drama in my fun and I doubt other people would like it too.

I do love my mom and what she's done as a "mom", but I can't agree with her as a person. She has her own ideals and I have mine, but the problem is when she forces me to accept her ideals as my own. I just can't do that and it melts down into cat fight. We are too different - I'm my father's daughter in every sense of the word.

I think you're right in that moving out is going to allow some bridges to be built/rebuilt. Not to single myself out (and I don't know much about your family life, but you probably have a similar story) but there is a tremendous amount of pressure in this case because I am the eldest of six. My plan is to make a clean break, but then I get the knife twisted by my sister Jen in that it's my responsibility to look after my younger siblings and protect them to from whatever it is that my mother was doing and I doing this great disfavour to the planet by not giving a rat's ass about my mom does anymore. But, here's the thing - it's not my job to be the parent for my mother! I've tried to help with the situation, but after having credit cards stolen, my trust broken, the police called on me, ending up at a shrink (WITH being blamed for causing this mess!) and getting some nasty physical injuries from a fight, I HAD TO REMOVE MYSELF.

It's hard to save the world if nobody is there to protect you.

On a side note, most of these issues only happened to me, so I'm not too worried about the health and safety of my siblings. They seem to getting along fine, aside from Jen, who is now paranoid and obsessive, but I saw this when I moved up north. Removing myself may calm the house down, I dunno.

First, sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. Things have been a little nuts!

We're different in that I'm an only child and you come from a very large family. Large enough that it kinda boggles my mind a bit to be honest. I find large families...odd. It's a very different dynamic than what I'm used to. Go figure.

I agree completely: it's not your job to be a parent to your mom...or your siblings. Period. You have every right to want to live your life the way you want. It gets tricky when you're living under somebody else's roof, though. That's part of the reason why I moved out when I was 19 or 20. And I think why you moving out is a very good thing, too.

Fuck saving the world. Start with saving yourself. I believe we all have to be remarkably selfish when it comes to "us." Not to the point that we're stomping on others, but we absolutely need to take care ourselves first and foremost. Do what's right for you. If, at the end of the day, you're family doesn't understand that, at least you made the most ethical decision (the right decision) for you. Especially under the circumstances. And there's some consolation there, I think.

Besides, from what I've seen you're a pretty damn good person. I don't like the idea of anything happening that would ruin that.

Von

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