So “End of the Century” has been play on cable this week, and I finally got around to watching it.

(I don’t really “watch” TV. It just kinda plays in the background.)

Well, it’s has to be five years since the last time I really listen to The Ramones.

(Not since Sidney heard a Ramones song on Jimmy Neutron and I dug out my old tapes for him to listen to.)

I had almost forgotten just how much I loved that band! Can you believe that? I must have been twelve or thirteen the first time I ever heard them, when my older brother (Bubba) gave me a handful of old tapes: Reagan Youth, The Misfits and The Ramones: All The Stuff & More Volume 1.

The summer after seventh grade I must have played that tape nonstop! So much so, that the damn tape started to drag. I still have that tape around here somewhere.

The Ramones always have and always will be the perfect Rock & Roll band! That all there is to it. Nothing will ever come close.

And I will always believe that Joey Ramones was the hottest front man ever.

(Shut up Joann!)

I can’t really put it into words…

(Once in High School, I was really wasted and watching

Rock N’ Roll High School with a group of friends. And I tried to explain why I thought Joey Ramone was so sexy, but all I really did was further prove what everyone already thought: That I was just really fuckin’ odd.)

But to me, there was something about Joey Ramone that was just so fuckin’ cool…