Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.
Nina Blackwood

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.
Nina Blackwood

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
Nina Blackwood

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.
Nina Blackwood

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.
Nina Blackwood

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
Nina Blackwood

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.
Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
Nina Blackwood

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.
Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
Nina Blackwood

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
Nina Blackwood

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.
Nina Blackwood

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
Nina Blackwood

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Nina Blackwood

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.
Nina Blackwood

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Nina Blackwood

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
Nina Blackwood

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
Nina Blackwood