Site update - A SPECIAL treat!

[Amy]

The site has just been updated and I have a very special treat for everyone!

www.martycasey.org/siblings.htm

[rockfan]

Wow, Amy, thank you for that nice treat. Loved it.

[Mad For Martay]

Thats great Amy!! Keep up the good work guys and the information coming we cant get enough of it!!!!!

[RayneDove]

Thanks so much for that article. How wonderful to get to know Marty's family and hear how much they love and support him. I feel even closer to him now. You girls ROCK this website.

[penny74]

Awww...that was so sweet. Thanks!

[everlong]

I loved that! Thanks so much.

Liz reminds me of me. I could picture her as a poster on MartyCasey.org very easily lol.

[Trees]

Thanks Amy and Jenny. Right now the world feels warm with a sense of Peace.

Just loved it

When I read the question...

"As those of us who have them know, siblings generally support each other, yet also take delight in embarrassing each other. With six kids in the family, surely there was always some sort of mischief afoot in the Casey home. Tell us your funniest memory of Marty as a little kid. Also, what would Marty's fans be most surprised to learn about him? (Don't embarrass him too badly!)"


One of my special pics came to mind. I remember looking around MSN RS site to find out "Who is this Guy" I laughed seeing this pic in his photo bio. It just cracked me up.




This pic must be one of the times Marty was goofing around Probably Jenny in the background LHAO at him with his picture being taken. He does look around 8 or 10.

And the Humour continues..

[franny2]

Wow! That really was a special treat. I have reactions and comments to every question and answer in there, but I'll spare you most of them. I will allow for a few though, starting with one that made me laugh:


How do you feel about the somewhat obsessive and bizarre behavior of some of the new fans out there? Does it scare you, or do you think it's funny?

Liz: It's amazing. We're obsessed too.

Who asked that question anyway? That would have been mine, but I would have phrased it more like How do you feel about MY somewhat obsessive and bizarre behavior . . . And I absolutely LOVED the answer We're obsessed too because there really is no other way to describe it. I just love that they're so proud of him.

And also Liz's description of the CREEP performance . . .

But still "Creep" sticks with me; the build-up, his absolute I'm going-for-it intensity, and his whole soul in that "run-run-run-ruuuunnn", and that "and I don't belong...here"--straight into your eyes. I was just blown away. It still gets to me just thinking about it. Shit--he is just such an awesome performer. I miss seeing him on the tube because of those performance moments that a camera can better deliver to us all.

Now I don't know why it surprised me that Marty's family saw it exactly the same way we did . . . maybe because they know him so well and we were only looking at a stranger? Now I'm thinking perhaps we weren't looking at a stranger after all . . . .

And as for Liz's LAST comment . . .

In what ways (positive and negative) have your lives been impacted by the aftermath of Marty having been on Rockstar: INXS?

Liz: It's like -- stop, you can do whatever you dream of doing, opening up new hope in the future. Don't accept life as it is if it's not everything you want it to be already. You can and should still dream and make those dreams a reality. It's given me some youthfulness back somehow. I'm dressing different, I got a Suzie streak in my hair, and it's completely renewed my interest in music again. (Instead of listening to my professors' lectures on tape I crank the Lovehammers' tunes, Marty's Rock Star tunes, the radio) My middle son, and I talk about music together now--it's a shared interest. We are going out more, socializing more. I became friends with my cousin's cousin because of this experience, and she is a wonderful new friend that I keep in touch with.

I can't even describe how that made me feel . . . uh, Liz, that's exactly what happened to MY life! Renewed interest in my dreams, new energy, new movement, new meaning, NEW FRIENDS THAT ROCK BIG TIME and finding I can't go back to the way things were before . . . anyone else with me on this one??? So this just makes me feel like I'm not going off the deep end, Marty really shook things up for everyone in a big way INCLUDING HIS FAMILY. . . just by having the courage to walk his own path.

That just touches me . . .

One man can make a difference . . . so true!
I'm really starting to love that song.

[myohmy]

Very nice treat indeed!

They all seem like great people....and a wonderful family...

Thanks for the doing that interview...and sharing it with us!

[lioness]

Amy and everyone involved in helping with this interview are amazing. Amy you just keep giving the fans on this site such wonderfully entertaining and informative materials on Marty and the Lovehammers. Props to all of the mods on this site. You are all doing such a great job!

[chitowngirl]

Thank you for that Amy! So wonderful to hear more from Marty's family!

Makes me wonder what you are gonna pull out of the bag next!

[Amy]

I appreciate the kudos, but the real thanks go to Liz, Jen, and Steve for participating. They couldn't have been more gracious!

[keysunset]

Well, please please please extend our heartfelt thanks to them!!!! This was a real treat!

[kiwigirl]

Thank you so much Amy and HUGE thanks to the Casey family, what a nice bunch of people, our Marty can only soar upwards with the support of a family like that. Good stuff

[gingerpyle]

How many of us had that laugh from a sib? I guess he "got even" with her...lol

joking...

Just look at the way he's standing and that expression on his face...classic Marty!

[radioclash]

That was extremely special! Thanks to all those involved

[rachael]

Thanks to all for sharing such another beautiful part of Marty. That was truely something special to read. Thank you again..

[Sandra]

thank you so much to Liz Jen and Steve for that also thanks to Amy Marty's family seem real nice

[Sharon (sdbrins)]

franny2 wrote,
"I can't even describe how that made me feel . . . uh, Liz, that's exactly what happened to MY life! Renewed interest in my dreams, new energy, new movement, new meaning, NEW FRIENDS THAT ROCK BIG TIME and finding I can't go back to the way things were before . . . anyone else with me on this one??? So this just makes me feel like I'm not going off the deep end, Marty really shook things up for everyone in a big way INCLUDING HIS FAMILY. . . just by having the courage to walk his own path.

That just touches me . . .

One man can make a difference . . . so true!
I'm really starting to love that song."

That is it exactly, he changed my life too. At first I thought how can this be? Some guy I saw on TV, how could he have this kind of effect on me?

I have since given into the belief that he is Magical it is some special gift he has been given, to touch us, effect us, even change us. I am so grateful for him I can't find the words to say how he makes me feel.

And 'Casualty' IMHO may be his best song yet.

Sharon

[everlong]

Franny, I said that Liz reminded me of us and you described exactly why that was. Thanks for the great post!