HILL STREET BLUES BEGAN JAN 15 1981 BEST COP SHOW EVER

Hill Street Blues still stands the test of time. I just streamed the entire series on HULU during the holidays. No cell phones or computers to be found but they weren't needed. They used payphones a lot! Great show from the 1980s and older folks remember and young folks will dig it too...Check it out.. and Let's Be Careful Out There

On this day in 1981, Hill Street Blues, television’s landmark cops-and-robbers drama, debuts on NBC. When the series first appeared, the police show had largely been given up for dead.

Critics savaged stodgy and moralistic melodramas and scoffed at lighter fare like Starsky and Hutch. Created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Hill Street Blues invigorated television, paving the way for more realistic and gritty fare.

Hill Street Blues was set in an anonymous northern city (the exteriors were actually filmed in Chicago) and was the first real attempt by television to portray police officers as fallible human beings. Each episode began with the 7 a.m. roll call led by Sergeant Esterhaus. He closed the roll call with his trademark refrain, “Let’s be careful out there.”

Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad)

The series not only changed the way that Americans viewed police officers, but it also revolutionized the television drama itself. The show resisted formula and introduced the ensemble cast.

Whereas early cop shows like Dragnet and Adam-12 were centered around a couple of officers who always got their man by the end of the hour, the full squad house of regulars on Hill Street Blues rarely resolved cases in one episode.

Hill Street Blues was acclaimed through its entire run. When it ended in May 1987, it had set the records for most Emmys won in a single season and most nominations in one year.

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GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8 TO PREMIERE APRIL 14!

HBO announced Sunday night that the last season of their hit swords-and-dragons drama “Game of Thrones” will make its premiere on Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m.

The epic fantasy series Game of Thrones will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season April 14, 2019.

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David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter, and Miguel Sapochnik will be the directors for the new season. Writers for the new season are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill.

The executive producers of the series are David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger, and Bernadette Caulfield. Co-executive producers are Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin.

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The eighth and final season will contain six episodes and is expected to wrap up the Emmy-winning show’s many plot lines, including an invasion of zombie-like White Walkers from the north.

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KIMMER PICKS: 14 TV SERIES SOUNDTRACK FAVORITES

Here is a short list of some of my favorite tunes from Fargo, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Narcos. Have a listen they are really fun and addicting too. xK

Narcos Season 3 Pancho Herrera Dancing Scene

Breaking Bad Destroying the RV

The Sopranos Tribute Glad Tidings Van Morrison

Fargo Season 1 Wrench and Numbers

Fargo Season 2 California Dreaming Bobby Womack

Better Call Saul Chuck Plays the Piano

Fargo Season 3

True Detective Theme Song

Sopranos Season 6 Junior Shoots Tony

Sopranos Opening Song on Season 3

The Sopranos Opening

Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad Jessie and Jane

HILLSIDE STRANGLER ANGELO BUONO SENTENCED TO LIFE 1-9-84

The unfortunate victims of the Hillside Stranglers

On This Day: Angelo Buono, one of the Hillside Stranglers, is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the rape, torture, and murder of 10 young women in Los Angeles. Buono’s cousin and partner in crime, Kenneth Bianchi, testified against Buono to escape the death penalty.

Buono, a successful auto upholsterer, and Bianchi began their serial crime spree in 1977 when Bianchi moved from New York to live with his cousin. They started talking about how the prostitutes that Buono often brought home would hardly be missed by anyone if they disappeared. Idle speculation quickly led to action and the pair raped and strangled their first victim, Yolanda Washington, on October 17.

Within a month Buono and Bianchi had attacked three other women and developed a trademark method of operation. They picked up the women in their van, drove them back to Buono’s house where they were sexually assaulted in all manners, tortured, and strangled to death.

The duo then thoroughly cleaned the bodies before taking and posing them in lascivious positions on hillsides in the Los Angeles area, often near police stations. Thus, they earned the nickname the “Hillside Strangler.” The press assumed that it was the work of one man.

Following the death of the 10th victim in February 1978, the murders suddenly stopped. Buono and Bianchi were no longer getting along, even with their common hobby. Bianchi moved to Washington and applied for a job at the Bellingham Police Department.

 He didn’t get the job but became a security guard instead. However, he couldn’t keep his murderous impulses in check and killed two college students. A witness who had seen the two girls with Bianchi came forward and the case was solved.

Bianchi, who had seen the movie Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve many times, suddenly claimed to have multiple personalities. He blamed the murders on “Steve,” one of his alternate personalities. Psychiatrists examining Bianchi quickly dismissed his ruse and Bianchi then confessed to the Hillside Strangler murders, testifying against Buono to avoid the death penalty in Washington.

During his trial, Buono fiercely insisted on his innocence, pointing to the fact that there was no physical evidence tying him to the crimes. Buono’s house was so clean that investigators couldn’t even find Buono’s own fingerprints in the home. But after more than 400 witnesses testified, Buono was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Angelo Buono died from a heart attack on Sept. 21, 2002, at the age of 67. Kenneth Bianchi was denied parole in September 2005 and remains in prison. Read More

STEVE JOBS DEBUTS THE IPHONE JAN 9 2007

On this day in 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco.

Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called the iPhone a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.”

When it went on sale in the United States six months later, on June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers lined up at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to purchase an iPhone. Read More

RICKIE LEE JONES RELEASING NEW VINYL LPS!

After years out of print, Rickie Lee Jones’ first two albums will be available on LP. Rickie’s self-titled debut album and the lauded follow up Pirates were re-released digitally and on CD via AWAL Recordings in the latter half of 2018. Now they will receive their long overdue vinyl reissues on January 18. Now they will receive their long overdue vinyl reissues on January 18. Pre-order Rickie Lee Jones HERE and Pirates HERE.

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Rickie Lee Jones skyrocketed to fame in 1979 when as a barely known artist she appeared on Saturday Night Live. Performing her biggest hit “Chuck E’s In Love” in her trademark red beret, Time Magazine instantly dubbed her “the Duchess of Coolsville.” Since then she has gone on to win two Grammy Awards, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone twice, and included in VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.

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Released in 1979, her self-titled debut on Warner Brothers won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and reached #3 on the Billboard Albums chart. The album’s brilliant songs include the exceptional "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963", the haunting "Last Chance Texaco", and the popular "Chuck E’s In Love", a top 5 pop single. Check out Jones' Coolsville 1979 Trilogy featuring the music videos for "Coolsville", "Young Blood", and "Chuck E's in Love".

With a busy year ahead, Jones will play her first shows of 2019 in the Northeast this February.

Tour Dates:
2/21 - New York, NY @ Sony Hall in NYC
2/22 - Toms River, NJ @ The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for Arts
2/23 - Beverly, MA @ The Cabot
2/26 - State College, PA @ The State Theatre
2/28 - Derry, NH @ Tupelo Music Hall
3/1 - Albany, NY @ The Egg
3/2 - Old Saybrook, CT @ The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center
3/3 - East Greenwich, RI @ The Greenwich Odeum
6/7 - Park City, UT @ Egyptian Theater
6/8 - Park City, UT @ Egyptian Theater
6/9 - Park City, UT @ Egyptian Theater

WHOLE AGAIN: NEW BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF PSYCHOPATH FREE

Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse

This author "Peace" wrote the fabulous book Psychopath Free. When I encountered a seriously dark entity some years back. This book saved me. If you too need help detoxing from the highly toxic people in your life, get these books today!! xK

From the Author:

I am so excited to share Whole Again with the world, and I am beyond grateful for all of the friends and professionals who made it a reality.

At the end of my last book, I described a “tight feeling in my heart”. It wasn’t painful or sharp, just a constant numb squeezing sensation. All day, every day, from the moment I woke up to the second I fell asleep.

I've since learned that I wasn't alone. Trauma often manifests as strange sensations in the body: numbness, tightness, emptiness, voids, hollowness, tension, blockages, agitation.

Along with these mysterious feelings, there tend to be a bunch of psychological and behavioral changes too: people-pleasing, self-doubt, fatigue, accomplishing, perfectionism, mood swings, isolation, over analysis, insomnia, rejection, depression, guilt, excessive daydreaming, irritability, jealousy, inadequacy, worthlessness, need for control, resentment, paranoia, rumination, care-taking, substance abuse... The list goes on, and it's unique to every individual.

We may struggle to trust ourselves, fall in love, or experience genuine happiness. Instead, a protective part of ourselves has taken control, to ensure this pain never happens again. Love becomes conditional, waiting for others to show their cards before we show our own. Identity and personality become shaky constructs, kept afloat by external measures of worth. In these cases, time does not seem to heal all wounds.

One of the most frequent phrases I hear from readers is: “I miss my old self.” As if the old self has gone away.

And that's why I've written this book.

I think there is a part in all of us that feels love and joy for no particular reason — the life energy that surges through our bodies — allowing us to feel light, free, humorous, grateful, whole.

Throughout the course of life, certain events "disconnect" us from that source — childhood traumas, difficult relationships, rejection from loved ones, it really could be anything. And when we're "disconnected" from this source, we're bound to struggle over and over again. Our inner world is damaged, and it distracts us with a never-ending quest for external solutions.

But I keep putting "disconnected" in quotes because the true self didn't actually go anywhere. It is not fractured, it is not broken, it is not destroyed.

There is a way back to this bliss, and as my heart began to open this year, I felt compelled to share what I've learned (and where I've stumbled) in a new book. Written in the same conversational tone as my first book, my goal is to explore how our minds and bodies work to protect us — so we can release old wounds and safely let the love back inside where it belongs.

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