It's Winner Time
Another contest is in the books! Many thanks to all who entered, it's always fun to read your answers. The Donald, who won the last contest made a very strong push to take this one as well - one more song/artist would have tied it - but in the end, it was the very first entry (received less than an hour after the contest video first went up) that ended up being the strongest entry. That one was sent in by an old friend of mine, Greg Bulmash. Greg wrote a humor column in the '90s, as well as a column on has-been celebrities called the "Washed-Update", which got picked up by IMDB.com, where he worked for several years. Now he's up at Microsoft, and living in the northwest. Rumour has it, he even tried out to be the Next Food Network Star, so you may be seeing more of him. But by far, the most famous thing he's done was one of his humor columns from the '90s. That week's column was a made-up job application to McDonald's, with all the answers being sarcastic, funny, or both. Years later, it started making the email-forwarding rounds, and by then was claimed to have been an actual application, and that they hired the kid. Thankfully, Snopes is here to sort things out. These days, when he's not winning my '80s music contests, he writes about whatever's pulling on his brain-handles. He even referred back to our contest here, which was cool! Congratulations, Greg, your 44 points wins the game! Blueberry Cheesecake Fudge sound good?
For the rest of you, here is the official Manic Mix Playlist:
- Gary Numan - Cars
- Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
- Madness - Our House
- Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
- Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug
- The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
- Phil Collins & Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
- Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You
- The Clash - Rock The Casbah
- Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands
- Ratt - Round And Round
- Van Halen - Panama
- Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
- The Tubes - She's A Beauty
- Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
- Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy
- David Bowie - Modern Love
- a-ha - Take On Me
- Blondie - Call Me
- Rod Stewart - Baby Jane
- Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
- Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
- The Power Station - Some Like It Hot
- Duran Duran - Rio
- Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
- Nena - 99 Luftballons
Thanks to everyone who played, and watch for the next contest... Mad Jack's fudge is too good to not keep giving away!
Well I'm glad I didn't embarrass myself by turning in my measly little list. I know you can't just give that fudge away {oh wait I guess you do} but a slightly easier contest would make some of us less knowledgeable patrons of Mikeymix very happy. This would only contribute to the dumbing down of America by a tiny bit.
ReplyDeleteWell....if the winner was able to answer all that within an hour he really truly was the winner! Donald slaved away at that for days!! No joke, doing all this research. He would play me a clip of something on the internet and then play me the medley that you had put together and be like "did it sound the same"? I give DOnald and A for effort.
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