| Brenda: It seems to be something to that is DNA based to Native Americans and First Nations people. Nope, it is true. I have looked to see on Native American actors and First Nations and I know a couple of pure blood First Nations people and they don't. |
| Brenda: Know about Tom Cochrane. Love "Life is a Highway." |
| Brenda: Don't know of "Golden Earring" but I think I know of "Red Rider." I didn't watch much of the new Twilight Zone. So I am no help. |
6ixStringJack: Did your dad have any explanation for the lack of arm hair? Even just something funny that you grew up and knew wasn't true and was one of those things that parents just say to kids when they don't know the answer to something.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Golden Earring: Twilight Zone: [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh yeah... and here's Twilight Zone from 1982 by Golden Earring. Another jam here. I can't believe that's not Tom Cochrine too. This sounds way more like Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe to me than Life is a Highway. |
6ixStringJack: Yeah. Way before my time though. I think even my babysitter would have been too young to get excited about Matt Modine in a wrestling singlet when that movie came out. Probably before your time by just enough too I'm guessing.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Life is a Highway: [go to link]
Lunatic Fringe: [go to link]
The two songs couldn't possibly be different from each other in every measurable way.
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| 6ixStringJack: But while looking, I noticed that Tom Cochraine was the lead singer of Red Rider. I knew that name. I was half expecting him to be the lead singer of Golden Earring too, but he wasn't. Crazy to only now realize that the guy who did Lunatic Fringe came out 10 years later and did Life is a Highway. |
| 6ixStringJack: Golden Earring is a band. It wasn't even the right band. "Red Rider" did "Lunatic Fringe". Golden Earring did "Twilight Zone" This was actually all a bit before my time. I'm pretty sure those were already playing those on the classic rock stations by the time I was in high school. They sound a lot alike. I forgot it was two different bands. |
| Brenda: Nope and not even some half breeds. My dad didn't. Movies in a theatre or as I said his dad sold horses down into Montana. And my dad would have seen Native Americans, off reserve and working. Though of course in tv shows back in the day or movies, you could see how the make up was and be able to tell that way too. If you knew what to look for.
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| Brenda: Yeah and I never heard of those songs either. Oh, well. You are a head of me then. I haven't looked it up. |
| 6ixStringJack: Natives don't have hair on their arms? No kidding. I never knew that. You probably couldn't tell on the old tube TVs though. You'd probably only have seen that in the theater back in the day, huh? |
| 6ixStringJack: Doesn't sound like my type of movie either. At least now I know that it was a wrestling movie and why it was so popular with that group. I know the song "Lunatic Fringe" from "Golden Earring" was either made for the movie or just played in it. That was about all I knew before I looked last night. |
| Brenda: Most like. My dad showed me when I was a kid how to tell a true Native in movies from a white or Mexican. Because back in the day that is what they did. Hired Mexicans or did a white actor up with a lot of dark colouring. They way to tell is if they have hair on their arms. Native Americans don't but Mexicans do and whites. |
| Brenda: No worries. I've had that happen too and as to the movie no worries there either. Doesn't sound like it's my type of movie anyways. |
| 6ixStringJack: My guess, without doing any research or even knowing the actresses name is they probably just picked a white girl with a tan, and maybe there's a scene or two with some older legit Natives from her family that give him some "magic words" that put him on his own early 80s modern-day white boy Vison Quest. |
| 6ixStringJack: I meant to write more to you yesterday Brenda, but tags and the site were all hung up. I didn't even realize that one made it through.
I don't think Vision Quest really has as much to do with Native Americans like I thought it did. A very young Matt Modine plays a high school wrestler and meets a girl who changes his life. I'm assuming she's a decendent of Natives, but she doesn't really look the part. |
| Brenda: Well, since I don't drive and have never driven. Landmarks are all I have. |
| THG: bixStringJack: There's no
way Wish is coming back.
Not only did I prove to her
that I got her IP address
without doxxing her, but I
also showed her a picture
of a church in her city to
drive the point home. Her
husband probably banned
her from coming back here.
Reaverfan was banned by
Haken for making death
threats and telling people
to kill themselves. JO and
Anyway, you have a new friend, Jack |