I was born and spent the first 10 years of my life in the Bacliff/Galveston Bay area of Texas and if I was to make an album of my childhood this would be it.

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#	Title	Artist
1	Blue Bayou	Linda Ronstadt
2	Maggie May	Rod Stewart
3	Forever Young	Rod Stewart
4	Cracklin’ Rosie	Neil Diamond
5	Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)	The Hollies
6	Crazy Love	Poco
7	I Love a Rainy Night	Eddie Rabbitt
8	Lookin’ for Love	Johnny Lee
9	Drivin’ My Life Away	Eddie Rabbitt
10	Lost in Love	Air Supply
11	Bang a Gong (Get It On)	T. Rex
12	Smoky Mountain Rain	Ronnie Milsap
13	Open Arms	Journey
14	Luchenback, Texas	Johnny Russell
15	You and I	Crystal Gayle & Eddie Rabbitt
16	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers
17	Jet Airliner	Steve Miller Band
18	Just Remember I Love You	Firefall
19	Kiss on My List	Daryl Hall & John Oates
20	You’re in My Heart	Rod Stewart
21	Lay Down Sally	Eric Clapton
22	Bette Davis Eyes	Kim Carnes
23	You Might Think	The Cars
24	Carry On Wayward Son	Kansas
Bonus Track      Fallen Angles           by Bacliff Punx

“To be honest, what kept us from doing it before was Isaac Hayes. We knew he was a Scientologist and he’s an awesome guy. We’re like, ‘Let’s just avoid that for now. Finally, we just had to tell Isaac, ‘Dude, we totally love working with you, and this is nothing personal, it’s just we’re South Park, and if we don’t do this, we’re belittling everything else we’ve ripped on.’”

After 9 seasons as the lovable, centered & wise Chef on the always sly, controversial, and humorous show that is South Park the two have departed ways. The first thing you would figure is that Isaac Hays would be leaving over money but that is not the case as he is currently locked in a established contract and just wants out of it. No it seems his sudden need to get out of the animated lime light of South Park is largely and possible entirely due to the “Trapped in the Closet” episode that aired back in November in which Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote a scathing satire of the Scientology faith and the personal quirks of three celebrities who cant seems to leave the plush closet in a child’s room.

The fact that Mr. Hayes leaves after this episode is both sad considering the kind of pressure the Scientology community can exert over him and personally more insulting over the fact that the “Trapped in the Closet” is a stylistic copy of the even funnier and more scathing episode ” All About the Mormons?” and no one quit or was up in arms about that episode. In fact when Isaac Hays quit he had to following to say about it:

“Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored,” he continued. “As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.”

Where did Civil Rights come into play at all? How does the equal application of parody equate to the undermining of the following definition of Civil Rights?

The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination.

If your going to quit over image problems and community pressure then quit but don’t cloak it as some kind of minority or black protection issue saying things like that is pure fiction but so is Dianetics so I guess we can let it slide.

As I wrote many months ago, iHudgens.com would be revamped and split in direction from its previous focus which was part portfolio, part commentary. This is the first stage of a total redesign. The posting and comment progress has been streamlined and the subject matter has been enlarged to any and all news related in any way to art.

In the comming weeks everything from Starving artist recipies, to Political news, to Gallery reviews will be going up. With a built in comment feature database, getting the information easier and faster is now possible just as soon as I get the hang of the new coding for this. As I mentioned in the earlier posts this site is in tandem with http://hudgens.us and I have high hopes for getting both running at full speed with good data quite soon.