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Jun. 7th, 2007 09:56 pm1) Pretty good use for a fun one-hit song.
2) Wow. These are the whitest people ever.
Feeling good today!
Really good, in fact, for the first time in a while. Rollin' with that, if you please. Partly an accident of daily chemistry and partly Spring, but also I'm nearly off the #$(@)$ Vicodin, not more than a half pill a day.
This means that my digestive system is working again and I'm no longer laboring with the extra weight of a depressant. People who have abused the stuff tell me it's no fun unless you take ten or more with a big glass of vodka. I'm going to trust them on that one because I want to reach age 50, and preferably without dialysis or unwanted prison tattoos.
I have been listening to a lot of Bowie, and Queen, and a lot of other very pinky music. I wonder if I'm slowly turning into a fey, bisexual 1970s Englishman? That would be more interesting in Orange County than being a left-wing nerd. To celebrate this, here's a video of Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and Joey Arias doing "Boys Keep Swinging" on Saturday Night Live, on my 15th birthday: December 15, 1979 (thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
torgo_x for the find!):
( embedded video )
There are hummingbirds attacking the flowers in my yard. The buzznets isn't broken. I'm gonna go out into the big blue room, now.
Really good, in fact, for the first time in a while. Rollin' with that, if you please. Partly an accident of daily chemistry and partly Spring, but also I'm nearly off the #$(@)$ Vicodin, not more than a half pill a day.
This means that my digestive system is working again and I'm no longer laboring with the extra weight of a depressant. People who have abused the stuff tell me it's no fun unless you take ten or more with a big glass of vodka. I'm going to trust them on that one because I want to reach age 50, and preferably without dialysis or unwanted prison tattoos.
I have been listening to a lot of Bowie, and Queen, and a lot of other very pinky music. I wonder if I'm slowly turning into a fey, bisexual 1970s Englishman? That would be more interesting in Orange County than being a left-wing nerd. To celebrate this, here's a video of Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and Joey Arias doing "Boys Keep Swinging" on Saturday Night Live, on my 15th birthday: December 15, 1979 (thanks to
torgo_x for the find!):( embedded video )
There are hummingbirds attacking the flowers in my yard. The buzznets isn't broken. I'm gonna go out into the big blue room, now.
DOG POLICE!
Nov. 23rd, 2006 11:16 amI'm not sure where mendel found this. I never saw it back in the day, probably because I didn't see much MTV until the end of '83. Now I cannot stop watching it, and I pulled out the mp3 so I could listen to it. It's.. Well, it's the dog police.
( cut for inline video )
mendel found this. I never saw it back in the day, probably because I didn't see much MTV until the end of '83. Now I cannot stop watching it, and I pulled out the mp3 so I could listen to it. It's.. Well, it's the dog police.( cut for inline video )
Music video blows. Seen your video, we don't wanna know. But sometimes...
The Members released this song in 1982 and it was a minor New Wave hit here. It's been a mixtape regular for me since. Never did see the video. Now I've seen it and I like the song even more.
Effortless raffish charm from the singer. You can immediately tell he's the kind of guy who makes everyone think "Oh, shit..." whenever he grins, and who shows up and spontaneously causes parties. Goofy overacting. New Wave Girls in 80s Power Suits. HUGE PHONES. The near total inability of anyone to keep a straight face. And in true punk fashion the whole thing dissolves into chaos and hilarity by the last third of the video: people stuffing food into their faces and pushing each other into pools and failing to keep a straight face for any reason whatsoever. I want to visit 1982 so I can party on the set of this video.
I dropped a flash video at http://www.masculinehygiene.com/d/m/workinggirl.html and you can probably find it on youtube also.
The Members released this song in 1982 and it was a minor New Wave hit here. It's been a mixtape regular for me since. Never did see the video. Now I've seen it and I like the song even more.
Effortless raffish charm from the singer. You can immediately tell he's the kind of guy who makes everyone think "Oh, shit..." whenever he grins, and who shows up and spontaneously causes parties. Goofy overacting. New Wave Girls in 80s Power Suits. HUGE PHONES. The near total inability of anyone to keep a straight face. And in true punk fashion the whole thing dissolves into chaos and hilarity by the last third of the video: people stuffing food into their faces and pushing each other into pools and failing to keep a straight face for any reason whatsoever. I want to visit 1982 so I can party on the set of this video.
I dropped a flash video at http://www.masculinehygiene.com/d/m/workinggirl.html and you can probably find it on youtube also.
straight outta Tampa
May. 31st, 2006 03:47 pmI direct your attention to Sondra Prill, the songbird of Tampa. Particularly to her interpretation of the classic Janet Jackson dance number "Nasty Boys".
The 80s music video list that jwz posted today is, of course, a huge pile of crap, but there are some gems.
The Art of Noise's Paranoimia reminds me how much I loved Max Headroom, and how much Max Headroom is likeodradak after a few glasses of wine.
Being arty jerks, Bauhaus made great videos, and their cover of Ziggy Stardust is a lovely piece of desaturated aaaart. It was more impressive on a big screen in a nightclub in 1984 at midnight after some beers, though. Most other things wore, except the goddamn .38 Special video they kept showing at that place.
The big screen rule holds for Cabaret Voltaire's wonderful Sensoria as well but if you haven't seen it you must. I want to get a nice big hi-res of this one. The Poltergeist 2 preacher dancing Appalachian style witih the girl. That camera trick. Do right. Do do right.
Good live Gang of Four doing To Hell with Poverty on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Holy crap they're young.
Invisible Touch was a shitty album, but the Spitting Image puppets in the video for Land of Confusion are wonderful.
There's some real chestnuts in there, and by chestnuts I mean forgettable stuff that I wish I'd forgotten. Freur's "Doot Doot", Animotion's "Obsession" (my candidate for most coked out insane 80s video), the Lambada...
jwz posted today is, of course, a huge pile of crap, but there are some gems.The Art of Noise's Paranoimia reminds me how much I loved Max Headroom, and how much Max Headroom is like
odradak after a few glasses of wine.Being arty jerks, Bauhaus made great videos, and their cover of Ziggy Stardust is a lovely piece of desaturated aaaart. It was more impressive on a big screen in a nightclub in 1984 at midnight after some beers, though. Most other things wore, except the goddamn .38 Special video they kept showing at that place.
The big screen rule holds for Cabaret Voltaire's wonderful Sensoria as well but if you haven't seen it you must. I want to get a nice big hi-res of this one. The Poltergeist 2 preacher dancing Appalachian style witih the girl. That camera trick. Do right. Do do right.
Good live Gang of Four doing To Hell with Poverty on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Holy crap they're young.
Invisible Touch was a shitty album, but the Spitting Image puppets in the video for Land of Confusion are wonderful.
There's some real chestnuts in there, and by chestnuts I mean forgettable stuff that I wish I'd forgotten. Freur's "Doot Doot", Animotion's "Obsession" (my candidate for most coked out insane 80s video), the Lambada...
AVERAGE HOMEBOY
Apr. 15th, 2006 09:25 pmThis is clearly the best rap video ever made, and I'm tremendously in debt to the Exploding Aardvark for finding it for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6vufmTJ9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6vufmTJ9Q
