she looks insane!

but that's why i love her!
tonight has been a special night. the one and only madonna was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? that's crazy! it's just not right!
basically it means that i have had the pleasure of being a fan of someone for approximately 25 years! i might have been only 7 years old but i was old enough to witness the beginning of madonna's career! i'm definitely a child of the mtv generation. i was born in 1976...i had older brothers...older brothers with gigantic personalities...waiting for their youngest brother to develop his own. i'm pretty sure they got their wish...hehe...
so anyway...mtv came out in what? the early 80's? adam curry...martha what's her name? nina blackwood? that black guy with the gerry curls? the buggles...van halen...or better yet...david lee roth...tom petty telling us to not come around here no more!....boy george confusing us again....duran duran taking us on a boat ride through brazil....corey hart determined to keep his sunglasses on....poltergeist...hbo...that theme song...hating myself for falling in love with judd nelson in the breakfast club but feeling so naughty at the same time....wanting emilio estevez to get the shit kicked out of him...wanting to be ally sheedy's friend...ignoring molly ringwald but realizing that a few of your friends in school were a little too much like 'claire'...a fat girls name...

i remember madonna accidentally spraying paint on her really rich photographer's expensive car....i remember those neon green pumps with the orange socks...or was it the other way around...or were they yellow even?..... kicking the telephone pole because obviously some superhot object of her affection is not giving her the time of day and she's really pissed off but doesn't want to let anyone else that is watching know....something we've all experienced a thousand times or maybe a few times....but we can't possibly imagine someone of madonna's stature to have to remotely entertain the thought that they might face the dilemma of someone not wanting to spend time with them...or not wanting to have sex with them...or would not want to even meet them....you would think there isn't a person in the world that would not want to have the priviledge of meeting the one and only madonna louise veronica ciccone.

but anyway....that rambling of mine just now might go down in history as the craziest thing i've ever written and allowed to be posted onto the internet. i guess i'm pissed off at myself that i've been recently procrastinating with my blog...and i figure the way to apologize to all of you 20 loyal readers is by just running my thoughts off on you at 2 o'clock in the morning after a few too many stellas and a few too many jacks....

but all things aside....madonna got inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame tonight!

wow!

that was my excuse to celebrate....as if i needed one! ha!

here's some of the reports! she looked fucking awesome!

Madonna says thanks but won't sing, John Mellencamp rocks the house with medley of hits: 2008 Rock Hall inductions

by John Soeder/Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic

Monday March 10, 2008, 10:50 PM

(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)Madonna accepts her award after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York.

New York -- Madonna and Leonard Cohen were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a black-tie dinner Monday night, but they didn't sing for their supper. Among the other performers enshrined were the Dave Clark Five, John Mellencamp and the Ventures.

But the only freshly minted Hall of Famers who actually performed during the 23rd annual induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were Mellencamp and the Ventures. Did Black Sabbath start an unfortunate trend when the band declined to play two years ago, leaving Metallica to bash out "Iron Man" instead? Maybe, judging from the surrogate entertainment at this year's gala.

Madonna and Cohen made acceptance speeches, although it fell to stand-ins to regale us with a few songs on behalf of the reluctant pop superstar and the moody singer-songwriter.

The Material Girl was inducted by Justin Timberlake. "With all due respect to the city of Cleveland, even that place sounds slightly erotic knowing Madonna is going to be entering the hall," Timberlake said. "For longer than I can remember ... Madonna has been causing a stir, usually well-timed for the release of her latest album."

At the podium, Madonna was by turns humble, philosophical and self-deprecating. "I've always been fortunate to have people around me who believed in me," she said. "Life, like art, is a collaboration. I did not get here on my own. And why would I want to?"

She fondly recalled everyone from her former ballet teacher to ex-bandmates. She even thanked her critics. "They pushed me to be better," Madonna said.

Six-time Rock Hall nominees Iggy Pop & the Stooges were recruited to do a couple of Madonna tunes because . . . um . . . well, they're originally from Michigan, just like Madonna, OK? A shirtless Pop & Co. tore through "Burning Up" from Madonna's self-titled 1983 debut and "Ray of Light," the title track of her 1998 album.

"Between recording commitments, pre-promotion for her upcoming album and family commitments, there wasn't enough time for her to prepare a proper performance," Madonna's longtime publicist, Liz Rosenberg, informed The Plain Dealer via e-mail.

Madonna "does not, as we know, do things halfway," Rosenberg wrote. "I'd love for her to grab her guitar and just rock out, but that's not our girl."

Madonna, Mellencamp head to rock hall

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer
Article Launched: 03/10/2008 06:16:57 PM PDT

NEW YORK

Madonna, pop music's quick-change artist, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday and paid tribute to people who encouraged her and even critics who panned her for helping drive her career.

Heartland hitmaker John Mellencamp, Philly soul producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, literate songwriter Leonard Cohen, British rockers the Dave Clark Five and surf instrumentalists the Ventures were among the other inductees.

Madonna recalled a teacher who encouraged her to follow her dreams when she was only 14.

"Thirty-five years later, people are still encouraging me to believe in my dreams," she said at the Waldorf Astoria induction ceremony. "What more could I ask for?"

Even the people who "said I was talentless, that I was chubby, that I couldn't sing, that I was a one-hit wonder, they helped me, too," she said. "They inspired me because they made me question myself repeatedly and pushed me to be better."

Singer Justin Timberlake, who helped produce Madonna's upcoming album, inducted her with an innuendo-laden speech.

"The world is full of Madonna wanna-bes. I might have even dated a couple," said Britney Spears' ex. "But there is truly only one Madonna."

Timberlake told of how he felt ill one day while working on Madonna's new album and she asked whether he wanted a B-12 shot. He said sure, expecting a doctor, to show up, but Madonna pulled out a syringe and said, "drop 'em."

After he pulled his pants back up, "she looked at me and said, 'that's top shelf," and that was one of the greatest days of my life," he said.

"Everything he said is basically true," Madonna confirmed, "but I didn't say 'drop 'em,' I said, 'pull your pants down."

Madonna didn't perform, but asked punk rockers Iggy Pop and the Stooges to sing "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light."

At the end, a shirtless Pop said, "you make me feel shiny and new, like a virgin touched for the very first time," and tossed his microphone of the floor.