I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this in my blog, but I cannot stand to look at Steven Tyler. In case you don’t know who he is, he is the lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith. My eyes have had an aversion to his face since I was very young.
When I was a teenager, I used to go to the music store and rifle through the records to see if there was anything I wanted to spend my babysitting money on. I think that’s when I first saw Steven Tyler’s face. To this day, I have never owned an Aerosmith recording.
If he comes on tv for some reason, or if there’s a post about the band on Facebook, or various other sources, I avert my eyes. I just can’t do it. You probably think that’s silly. It’s awful but the man gives me the creeps. He looks like his face has been melted and then molded back imperfectly.
My Dad used to ask me, “What about so and so? Don’t you think he’s ugly?” I told him, “I can handle ugly. Ugly doesn’t bother me.” I mean, people can’t help the way they look, right? Steven Tyler can’t help the way he looks either and I know how shallow I sound, but I can’t help it!
My ex told me once that if he shaved his mustache he would look like Steven Tyler. I told him if he ever shaved his mustache off he could find the damn door.
My brain protects me from Steven Tyler. Years ago, I had a dream with Steven Tyler in it. I don’t know why. It just happened. In my dream, I couldn’t look at him either. I woke up relieved. My brain protected me.
I can’t listen to Aerosmith’s music even though I like some of their songs. I always picture him singing and it creeps me out. The soundtrack of the movie Armageddon features several Aerosmith songs, including the song “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.” I love the song but it’s really hard for me to listen to it. Not only is it rather sad but I can see his face singing it. I try to envision someone else singing it but it doesn’t always work.
Oh, and there was a video back in the day when MTV played music videos. The song was “Pink,” I think. It really gave me the heebie-jeebies. I know you’re laughing at me. I can’t help it. Look up the video and watch it. *Shivers*
Last week, I had a dream that Steven Tyler moved into the house next door. (There isn’t a house next door because I live out in the boonies.) I think I had the dream because Dad and I watched Armageddon on Friday night. Anyway, Steven Tyler kept coming to my door and knocking but I knew who it was and would not open the door. My brain protected me, yet again.
I don’t know the psychology behind this so if someone has any clue, let me know. I just know that I will continue to avert my eyes until I am dead…and hopefully in the afterlife as well.
You can stop laughing now.
Being Aunt Debbie 
Girl!! I’m still laughing, sitting here at my desk at my new job and I’m freaking snorting my ass off!! But what you describe isn’t something weird, we’re all adverse to something or someone in our lives. For me, it’s cilantro, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Yes I know that combination of total yuck is only a small snippet of the things I’m adverse to, lol. Like you with Steven Tyler, Bob Dylan and Neil Young bring the upchuck reflex to the forefront. It’s both their looks and singing, I can’t stand any of their music because they both a a whiney, nasally voice! When I saw that a movie about Dylan came out I actually went “YUCK who would make a movie about that whiney, unkept, harry head mofo?” I mean actually out loud at the television, lol. And Neil Young because he looks like he hasn’t bathed in decades, even more so now that he’s married to Daryl Hannah, I mean not the smartest woman alive. After all she married Neil Young, how gross, they both look like the skip the bathtub and smoke pot and drink homemade hooch (probably from the bathtub, and why they don’t bathe) and walk around in flannel all day long. See? Your not the only one that has these reactions to people, at least I can say that I’d rather have cilantro around than Bob Dylan or Neil Young LMAO!
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Lol! Now I’m laughing and snorting! I don’t mind Bob Dylan so much but can only listen to one of his songs now and then… But Neil Young is definitely gross! You’re right when you say he looks like he hasn’t bathed in decades…probably since A Horse With No Name came out! Lol. His voice is irritating and so is Dylan’s but I’d turn the radio off to avoid Neil Young. You crack me up. Lol. I don’t know anything about Daryl Hannah. I’ve seen movies with her in it but that’s about it. I haven’t seen pics or anything of her in her leisure time.
I love cilantro, on the other hand. Unless they put too much in their salsa when I eat out, but I still eat it. I have heard that people who don’t like it only taste soap when they eat it. Is that what you taste, too?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has such deep dislike for certain people. People make fun of me because of Steven Tyler and how he gives me the heebie-jeebies. Lmao!
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If you remember the movie Steel Magnolias, Daryl Hannah is Dolly Parton’s new employee Annelle. She gets on my nerves in the movie because by the middle of it she’s wearing nothing but damned house coats, lol. If you Google her name you’ll see her holding hands with that grungy mofo Neil Young. I’m like cut your hair already (him not her) your going to be 80 years old for fucks sake!
Anyway, yes cilantro does taste like soap to me, every since I was a kid and my mom having a Mexican restaurant and all it was pure torture for me. She wouldn’t care if I didn’t like the stuff or not, she cooked with it at the restaurant and at home and I would wind up eating PBJ’s instead. As I grew up I started telling her if she didn’t make food (like for the holidays) without Cilantro I wouldn’t be going. So she’d make separate salsas, soups and stuff without it so I’d go, lol. Yep, Neil Young looks like he really is the godfather of grunge, he definitely looks the part don’t he? LMAO
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I’ve seen Daryl Hanna before but she mustn’t have been very memorable. Lol.
I wish my mom would have had a Mexican restaurant but shit, when she married my dad she couldn’t cook. Dad bought her a “365 Ways to Cook Hamburger.” He regretted it. 🤣🤣
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For me that would be Mick Jagger… I just don’t see the attraction so many have to him. And his “struts” don’t look much like dancing to me. So I try to avoid anything with them performing… but I can listen to their music. Here again it is ok, not “to die for” though.
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I agree. Mick isn’t appealing to me, either. I can listen to their music if I have to but I normally channel surf to find something else. 🤣
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