“The List”-tonight was a ”make-good” list.  I collected some of your e mails from “The List” weekend and added some of your suggestions to…Rocks Best Bassist, Rocks Greatest Front Men…and your suggestion for Rocks Greatest Guitar Licks was a real treat.  Think Robert Downey Jr.!

Rush-Limelight (Best Bassist-Geddy Lee)-from Colleen

Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen (Best Title Track)-from Bill

Lucky Man-ELP (best heard with headphones or earbuds)-from Chuck

You Really Got Me-Kinks-(Britains Greatest Rock Bands)-from Aimee

Centerfold-The J Geils Band (Rocks Greatest “The” Bands)-from Susan

I Can See For Miles-The Who-(Rocks Greatest Front Men)-from Will

Iron Man-Black Sabbath–(Greatest Guitar Licks)-Pete

Thanks for the input!  Tomorrow night “The List” will feature 7 great tunes for hitting the “blacks”…just in case you are headed for the slopes this weekend.  Check our Mountain Ski Report while you are here on-line…Happy Skiing!

Mountain listener George had an idea for songs from movies for “The List.”  So tonight I played 7 songs which you not only remember from a particular movie…but you get a visual of a specific moment in the film.  George left it up to me to come up with the tunes so here is my list based on George’s excellent suggestion.

Running on Empty-Forrest Gump (Forrest out running and running…)

Streets of Philadelphia-Philadelphia (Best movie song ever?)

You Can’t Always Get What You Want-The Big Chill (Funeral scene in the movie)

In Your Eyes-Say Anything (John Cusack and the boombox)

Old Time Rock and Roll-Risky Business (Tom Cruise in his underwear)

Don’t You Forget About Me-The Breakfast Club (Closing segment-Bender’s raised fist)

Tiny Dancer-Almost Famous (Singing on the Bus)

That’s it…that’s “The List.”  Tomorrow night I have a make good list from this past weekend.  Your suggestions for Rocks best bass player, Rocks greatest front man and a real sweet choice for Rocks greatest guitar licks…Think Robert Downey Jr.

The prank was set up perfectly. A high school girls’ basketball coach in Kansas was told he’d win tickets to the Final Four if he hit a half-court shot while blindfolded. The crowd was instructed to scream wildly when his attempt inevitably failed (because, really, that shot is nearly impossible) so the coach would think the shot went in. For an instant ,he’d think he was Final-Four-bound and then the joke would be revealed. There was just one problem, though: He made it.

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Former NBA player Paul Shirley offers up some harsh words of advice to the folks in Haiti including the suggestion to “use condoms once in a while”.

WOW!

Mr. Shirley?  That sound you’re hearing is the karma police coming for you!

His complete rant here.

Bet it wasn’t anywhere NEAR this cool….or this ridiculous…

(Newser) – Diddy’s son Justin Combs—whose middle name is Dior, by the way—got a $350,000 luxury Maybach car (and, of course, $10,000 to donate to charity) for his 16th birthday this weekend. But that’s not over the top at all—at least not when compared to the other goodies celebrity teens have snagged—finds The Frisky:

• Crystal Audigier: Got two cars for her 16th birthday from daddy Christian.

• Soulja Boy: Got a tour bus for his 19th birthday, from 50 Cent.
• Miley Cyrus: Received the traditional “Sweet 16 Recording Studio” from Billy Ray.
• Joe Jonas: Snagged a motorcycle with sidecar when he turned 19.

For the complete list—why in the world did Frances Bean Cobain’s 16th birthday gift have to do with suicide?—click here.

So which celebrities do people trust most? We turned to E-Poll, which ranked the A-list names Americans rated the highest in for trustworthiness, awareness and appeal.

James Earl Jones tops the list. One of the most instantly recognizable voices in entertainment history–and a commanding presence to match–he’s still best known as the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. But he’s also lent his voice to the CNN tagline and NBC’s Olympic coverage and his acting skills to everything from Conan the Barbarian to Field of Dreams.

Here is the rest of the list featured below.

1. James Earl Jones

2. Tom Hanks

3. Michael J. Fox

4. Mike Rowe

5. Morgan Freeman

6. Sally Field

7. Ron Howard

8. Will Smith

9. Bill Cosby

10. Denzel Washington

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Want great sound but tired of tripping over a bunch of wires and speakers?

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It’s Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day today, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, a day honoring the conception of the bubble wrap 50 years ago.

“Spirit 95″ Radio, a local radio station in Bloomington, Indiana, officially started Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day in 2001 with a number of events to celebrate the anniversary.

Sealed Air, the company which first made bubble wrap, adds on its Web site that the day is celebrated every year the last Monday of January.

Click Here for the Official Site

Lobbyists for the convenience store industry are trying to introduce a bill into the current Colorado legislative session that would allow them (but not grocery stores) to sell full strength beer.

Convenience stores are going their own way this legislative session with a bill introduced Friday that would allow them – but not grocery stores – to sell full-strength beer. Small liquor stores would also be allowed to sell non-perishable goods under House Bill 1186, which boasts a bevy of bipartisan sponsors in the House though none from the Senate.Under a complex set of alcohol laws stemming from Prohibition, only liquor stores may sell beer that is greater than 3.2 percent alcohol by weight and they are banned from selling snacks. The same rules limit convenience stores, gas stations and supermarkets to lower-alcohol beer.

I don’t want to suggest I”m a legislative mastermind, but aren’t there more important things for our state Government to be worried about?

This isn’t the dark ages…let’s just make this simple, shall we?

If you’re a store, and you can sell food, then you can also sell full strength beer.

If you don’t sell food, you can’t sell beer.  Not even 3.2 beer.  Nothing.

See how easy that was???

So another season ends in disappointment for future Hall of Famer Brett Favre.

When he announced his first retirement 2 years ago I thought it was a pretty wise decision on his part.

When he decided later in the summer of 2008 to come out of retirement, I thought it was perhaps the most foolish decision of his entire career.

Two years on I looked over some thoughts I wrote about Brett Favre’s ongoing saga back in ‘08.

Was I right? Or has Brett proven that his decision to return was in fact the right one?

Here are my ‘08 thoughts:

In the interest of full disclosure, let me first say, I root for the Steelers and the Broncos and that’s pretty much it.  But like many other football fans the world over, probably minus division rival fans in Minnesota and Chicago, it’s almost impossible to be a fan of the game and NOT be a fan of Brett Favre.

To date, he has been a Pro football player for 17 years.  That’s a crazy number in the modern NFL, especially for a Quarterback, and to play 16 of them for the same team in the world of free agency is virtually unheard of. 

Statistically speaking……he leads in so many different categories, it’d take a whole show to name ‘em all….so I won’t….but in a nutshell….

Brett Favre has thrown 442 touch down passes, for over 61 thousand yards and won 160 regular season games as a starter…. All of which are more than any other Quarterback in NFL history.  He’s appeared in 9 pro bowls..and is the ONLY 3 time AP Most Valuable Player in history…. And maybe the most telling statistic of all, Brett Favre started 253 consecutive regular season games dating back to 1992….and that’s something you can’t do unless you love the game..I mean LOVE the game…plain and simple.

And as is the case with all the “great ones”, there were a lot of things to love about watching Brett Favre play the game other than his statistics.

He had a unconventional throwing motion that didn’t always result in perfect spirals….he played on instinct a lot of the time and ball protection wasn’t exactly his strong suit…..and though he didn’t scramble often, when he did it looked like he was running uphill in a windstorm…..but Brett Favre was a great improviser and was often at his best AFTER a play broke down.   And he was a little bit wild …you never knew exactly what he was going to do…….but he’d do anything to win the game for his team.  That much is beyond debate.

In the world of modern sports, where so many athletes squander their gifts on the temptations offered by money and stardom and ego, everything about Brett Favre indicated that other than his family, there was NOTHING more important to him than playing football.

In addition to the last minute heroics and the rocket passes released from his golden right arm, there were struggles, as there would be in any career that lasts 17 years.  He wrestled with an addiction to pain killers and issues with alcohol…..and what fan could ever forget the Monday Night game in 2003 when he passed for 4 touchdowns and nearly 400 yards in the game only one day after his father Irv died suddenly of a heart attack.

As all football fans know, a tearful Brett Favre announced his retirement from the game in March of this year…. several months after taking his Packers to within minutes of an appearance in Superbowl 42.

But then, earlier this month, the rumors started.  Brett Favre wanted to return to football……he says rushed his decision to retire and was ready and willing to play again.

But the Packers had already named Aaron Rodgers their starting Quarterback for the season.  Brett Favre made it known that he wouldn’t play back up to anybody so he asked for the Packers to release him unconditionally.  Unsurprisingly, they wouldn’t.  That’d be like asking the United States to release George Washington……..it just ain’t gonna happen.

Green Bay GM Ted Thompson has hinted that he would trade Favre OUTSIDE the NFC North in exchange for adequate compensation but that deal hasn’t really found legs yet.  And to be fair, who can blame Ted Thompson?  As bad as it would be for Packer nation to see Brett Favre wearing another team’s jersey, it would be worse yet to have to play him twice a year in that jersey when he’s starting for a division rival like the Vikings or the Bears. 

To call it a no win situation at this point would be the understatement of the century. 

The BRING BACK BRETT t-shirts have already flooded the state of Wisconsin. How’d you like to be Aaron Rodgers or Ted Thompson right about now?

 Brett Favre turns 39 in October and has said if the Packers won’t give him back the starting job then he would prefer to play for Minnesota or Chicago.

He is eligible for the hall of fame in 2013…and regardless of what happens in the coming weeks, he’s a guarantee 1^st ballot entry.  Somewhat awkwardly, the Packers are already scheduled to retire his #4 jersey at a ceremony at Lambeau Field on September 8.

Most of us can’t even imagine what it must be like to be a professional athlete of the highest caliber and to have to admit it’s time to quit playing the game you love.  But from the perspective of a football fan who doesn’t have a lot personally invested in whether Brett Favre plays again, I gotta say….it’s time to hang ‘em up, Brett.  It’s time. 

Could you win some more games as an NFL Quarterback?  Yeah…of course you could. 

Could you still lead a team to the Superbowl?  Statistically speaking, it’s not all that likely…but stranger things have happened in the world of sports.

But if you do come back this season or even next season, whether it’s in a Packer uniform or another…..all it will do is complicate the story of your life’s work and cause turmoil for the team you love, and the fans you love, both of whom have loved you unconditionally in return….and will continue to do so.

You’ve had a brilliant career.  One of the best the game has ever seen.  You played the game with passion, dignity and respect.  Everything about your style of play reminded us that no one man is bigger than the game itself.  And as hard as it probably is to do, it’s time to say good-bye to the game in the same way, Brett. 

As a football fan….thanks for the memories.  I mean that sincerely.