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And now, some words of wisdom from Vanilla Ice.
Source:
[Via Radioactive Lingerie]
What’s cooler than cool,
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Source:
[Via Radioactive Lingerie]
What’s cooler than cool,
This is dF
… will be this one.
Unless the Royal Wedding™ has leather fetish gear, motorcycles crashing through stained glass windows and Billy Idol performing his first two solo albums. Then I’m happy to watch that one.
Start again,
This is dF
Unless the Royal Wedding™ has leather fetish gear, motorcycles crashing through stained glass windows and Billy Idol performing his first two solo albums. Then I’m happy to watch that one.
Start again,
This is dF
It’s Friday night here in HK. Which, at the Def Citadel, means one thing:
German disco.
FUN FACT: If the singer in the middle looks familiar, there’s a reason for that.
Yes, I’m just full of useless music trivia.
Arabesque in name only,
This is dF
German disco.
FUN FACT: If the singer in the middle looks familiar, there’s a reason for that.
Yes, I’m just full of useless music trivia.
Arabesque in name only,
This is dF
IF YOU REMEMBER THE 80s, YOU WERE THERE
Mar. 14th, 2011 12:48 amWhether you were there or not, you’ll always have films like Valet Girls to remind you what it was like.
Namely: big money, big hair, bright colors, complimentary Quaaludes and decadent topless pool parties with The Fibonaccis poolside doing no-wave covers of Jimi Hendrix songs and singing about Sergio Valente.
Yes. This is exactly how I remember it.
Less than zero,
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Namely: big money, big hair, bright colors, complimentary Quaaludes and decadent topless pool parties with The Fibonaccis poolside doing no-wave covers of Jimi Hendrix songs and singing about Sergio Valente.
Yes. This is exactly how I remember it.
Less than zero,
This is dF
You may find this hard to believe, but – apart from the “12 Days Of Christmas” – there aren’t really any songs about turtle doves.
So I got you a turtle reference and a dove reference.
The turtle bit is supplied by Janis Joplin.
And the doves bit by Prince.
Which is too obvious, I know, but there’s not that many songs about doves, either. Not good ones, anyway. Also, I’m not a big fan of the band Doves.
So you see the problem.
Anyway, thank Christ we wrap this meme up tomorrow.
Too bold,
This is dF
So I got you a turtle reference and a dove reference.
The turtle bit is supplied by Janis Joplin.
And the doves bit by Prince.
Which is too obvious, I know, but there’s not that many songs about doves, either. Not good ones, anyway. Also, I’m not a big fan of the band Doves.
So you see the problem.
Anyway, thank Christ we wrap this meme up tomorrow.
Too bold,
This is dF
And she’s down to her last stick.
Good morning. It’s Monday.
Blowing bubbles,
This is dF
Good morning. It’s Monday.
Blowing bubbles,
This is dF
THIS IS THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Sep. 11th, 2010 07:25 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
There’s plenty I could pick, but I’m heavily medicated due to a throat infection, so I’m just going to repost Falco’s “The Sound Of Musik”.
Because it’s Falco, dig?
And because it really IS a great video.
I mean, look at it.
Blow horns,
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There’s plenty I could pick, but I’m heavily medicated due to a throat infection, so I’m just going to repost Falco’s “The Sound Of Musik”.
Because it’s Falco, dig?
And because it really IS a great video.
I mean, look at it.
Blow horns,
This is dF
FABIO IS THE ULTIMATE HUMAN WEAPON
Sep. 8th, 2010 01:41 pm
Okay, technically it’s Frank Zagarino. Whatever.
And yes, that’s David Carradine haunting you from beyond the grave.
Point and shoot,
This is dF
UNTAMED PASSION, UNTOLD POWER
Aug. 8th, 2010 12:50 amAnd that’s just Donald Pleasance.
BOOM!
Queen bitch,
This is dF
BOOM!
Queen bitch,
This is dF
Speaking of Devo ...
They send me press releases sometimes, you know. Like this one:
This was, of course, part of an elaborate campaign by Devo to promote their new album (and first album in 20 years) by incorporating scientific demographic market research to determine what should be on the album ... which of course was their way of mocking record companies (and people like Simon Cowell) who really do make artistic decisions that way.
Clever. But for people like me who grew up watching Devo on Saturday Night Live and wore out their first four albums on the turntable, the important questions are: Are they still good, and can they possibly live up to their classic past?
The answer is: (1) yes and (2) no. At least not right away.
I went through this before with the B-52s comeback album Funplex – it was okay, but just didn’t hold up to their classic stuff. And yet quite a few of the songs from that album grew on me after awhile.
The same could happen with Something For Everybody. Trying it out on the listening station, it’s not bad, and they still have more to say about modern life than most bands, but I can’t say it’s essential Devo.
On the other hand, I can see songs like this taking root in my head after a few listens.
So we’ll see. In any case, it’s nice to have them back.
Are we not men,
We are dF
They send me press releases sometimes, you know. Like this one:
This was, of course, part of an elaborate campaign by Devo to promote their new album (and first album in 20 years) by incorporating scientific demographic market research to determine what should be on the album ... which of course was their way of mocking record companies (and people like Simon Cowell) who really do make artistic decisions that way.
Clever. But for people like me who grew up watching Devo on Saturday Night Live and wore out their first four albums on the turntable, the important questions are: Are they still good, and can they possibly live up to their classic past?
The answer is: (1) yes and (2) no. At least not right away.
I went through this before with the B-52s comeback album Funplex – it was okay, but just didn’t hold up to their classic stuff. And yet quite a few of the songs from that album grew on me after awhile.
The same could happen with Something For Everybody. Trying it out on the listening station, it’s not bad, and they still have more to say about modern life than most bands, but I can’t say it’s essential Devo.
On the other hand, I can see songs like this taking root in my head after a few listens.
So we’ll see. In any case, it’s nice to have them back.
Are we not men,
We are dF
You remember Nena, don’t you?
There was more to them than “99 Luftballons”, you know.
Translation here if you need it.
Dreaming of you,
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There was more to them than “99 Luftballons”, you know.
Translation here if you need it.
Dreaming of you,
This is dF
FRED PHELPS: NOT METAL
May. 23rd, 2010 11:32 amI’m back from Hainan. What’d I miss?
ITEM [via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dr_p_venkman ]: The Westboro Baptist Church has put Ronnie James Dio’s funeral on its “to do” list.
Ah.
I confess, I wasn’t expecting this, if only because the WBC usually sticks to gays and soldiers, and Dio was neither. Yes, people like WBC are naturally going to have negative opinions on metal in general, but it’s been low on their priority list compared to, you know, teh gayz and teh jooz. Still, metal gods don’t die every day, so I guess you’d be foolish to pass up a golden opportunity to protest someone with that high a profile.
That said, protesting a “celebrity” funeral means they’ll have to contend with a couple of new and challenging elements:
1. Professional security
2. Metal fans.
I’m almost looking forward to the results, though I doubt there’ll be any. The WBC said they’d protest Michael Jackson’s funeral too, and as far as I know it never happened, probably due to the security element. Or maybe it did and the news media collectively couldn’t justify giving them so much as a soundbite’s worth of airtime – which is really what the WBC wants anyway.
I probably shouldn’t be calling attention to them myself. It’s just that ... well, denouncing heavy metal as Satan Rock is so 80s.
As Dee Snider can tell you.
Granted, back in the 80s you could actually get liberals and senators (or at least their spouses) to fight The Metal. Nowadays, it seems limited to the usual batshit fundamentalists.
Progress!
In a metal mood,
This is dF
ITEM [via
dr_p_venkman ]: The Westboro Baptist Church has put Ronnie James Dio’s funeral on its “to do” list.Ah.
I confess, I wasn’t expecting this, if only because the WBC usually sticks to gays and soldiers, and Dio was neither. Yes, people like WBC are naturally going to have negative opinions on metal in general, but it’s been low on their priority list compared to, you know, teh gayz and teh jooz. Still, metal gods don’t die every day, so I guess you’d be foolish to pass up a golden opportunity to protest someone with that high a profile.
That said, protesting a “celebrity” funeral means they’ll have to contend with a couple of new and challenging elements:
1. Professional security
2. Metal fans.
I’m almost looking forward to the results, though I doubt there’ll be any. The WBC said they’d protest Michael Jackson’s funeral too, and as far as I know it never happened, probably due to the security element. Or maybe it did and the news media collectively couldn’t justify giving them so much as a soundbite’s worth of airtime – which is really what the WBC wants anyway.
I probably shouldn’t be calling attention to them myself. It’s just that ... well, denouncing heavy metal as Satan Rock is so 80s.
As Dee Snider can tell you.
Granted, back in the 80s you could actually get liberals and senators (or at least their spouses) to fight The Metal. Nowadays, it seems limited to the usual batshit fundamentalists.
Progress!
In a metal mood,
This is dF
re: The Voyager 2 Hijacked By Aliens story.
John Carpenter’s Starman was the most directly relevant reference. However, oddly, it wasn’t the first one to occur to me.
That would be this slice of 80' pop culture cheese.
The best part (apart from the Flying V spaceship and Pia Zadora making Tom Nolan's head explode):
“And a special appearance from Jermaine Jackson.”
The 80s®: You had to be there.™
Guitar invasion,
This is dF
John Carpenter’s Starman was the most directly relevant reference. However, oddly, it wasn’t the first one to occur to me.
That would be this slice of 80' pop culture cheese.
The best part (apart from the Flying V spaceship and Pia Zadora making Tom Nolan's head explode):
“And a special appearance from Jermaine Jackson.”
The 80s®: You had to be there.™
Guitar invasion,
This is dF
CALLING DR ALIEN
Apr. 4th, 2010 09:23 amSome of you may remember the 1980s.
If not, it looked an awful lot like this.
[Via House of Self-indulgence]
Am I saying that the 80s were basically one big day-glo straight-to-VHS teenage sex comedy starring Judy Landers as an alien in lingerie?
Yes. Yes I am.
Well, there was also a lot of punk and heavy metal too, yes. But you can’t expect me to cover an entire decade in one post, can you?
College humor,
This is dF
If not, it looked an awful lot like this.
[Via House of Self-indulgence]
Am I saying that the 80s were basically one big day-glo straight-to-VHS teenage sex comedy starring Judy Landers as an alien in lingerie?
Yes. Yes I am.
Well, there was also a lot of punk and heavy metal too, yes. But you can’t expect me to cover an entire decade in one post, can you?
College humor,
This is dF
ITEM: Over on BoingBoing, John Cusack (yes, that one) reminisces about seeing the Up With People halftime show at Super Bowl XX.
I’m not quite as horrified by it as Cusack is, but it’s fair to say this video takes about 85% of everything that was wrong and bad and hideous about 1980s Optimist American Pop Culture (complete with fundamental misinterpretation of "Born In The USA") and compresses it all into ten hideous minutes.
Watch it. I dare you.
This, if yr wondering, is what drove me to embrace punk rock, Black Sabbath, nihilism, bourbon and writing pr0n stories as a way of life.
Naturally, I don’t regret a thing. Cheers, UWP!
Up the people,
This is dF
I’m not quite as horrified by it as Cusack is, but it’s fair to say this video takes about 85% of everything that was wrong and bad and hideous about 1980s Optimist American Pop Culture (complete with fundamental misinterpretation of "Born In The USA") and compresses it all into ten hideous minutes.
Watch it. I dare you.
This, if yr wondering, is what drove me to embrace punk rock, Black Sabbath, nihilism, bourbon and writing pr0n stories as a way of life.
Naturally, I don’t regret a thing. Cheers, UWP!
Up the people,
This is dF
#9 HOWARD JONES DREAM
Mar. 20th, 2010 10:39 amAnd now, Thomas Dolby – whom you may remember from the 1980s – relays possibly the greatest celebrity dream ever:
Last night I dreamed I hired Howard Jones for a keyboard session at a big studio (Abbey Rd? Real World?) We were getting ready for him and setting up all my old keyboards—the Fairlight, the PPG. I was worried because they had been in storage for so long. Someone came in and said ‘Howard’s juicers are here–where should be put them?’ (For some reason I knew his ‘juicers’ were not electric blenders, they were people to make his fruit juice.) I hooked up the PPG Wave 2.2 and played a chord. It was a long backwards sample that I could not make out. Then I looked at its little LED screen and all the text was back to front. At first I thought this was because its patches were garbled after all this time. Then I realised it does that when you play a backwards sample—it’s a little German in-joke.
Eventually Howard arrived. He was very friendly and looked great, in fact just like 1983. But we were both wearing identical green corduroy jackets. This was embarassing but being English neither of us felt able to mention it. Then I woke up.
FUN FACT: These days, Dolby is also a high-tech businessman. He’s founded a number of start-ups like Beatnik, which makes audio engines for mobile devices (which is what makes the MP3s on yr mobile phone sound decent) I know this because the magazine I work for covers stuff like this. I’m hoping this will someday enable me to actually meet him.
If not, I’ll settle for Dave Dederer of The Presidents Of The United States Of America (whom you may remember from the 1990s) – he's vice president of business development at Melodeo, which runs a mobile music service called nuTsie.
Dream on,
This is dF
Last night I dreamed I hired Howard Jones for a keyboard session at a big studio (Abbey Rd? Real World?) We were getting ready for him and setting up all my old keyboards—the Fairlight, the PPG. I was worried because they had been in storage for so long. Someone came in and said ‘Howard’s juicers are here–where should be put them?’ (For some reason I knew his ‘juicers’ were not electric blenders, they were people to make his fruit juice.) I hooked up the PPG Wave 2.2 and played a chord. It was a long backwards sample that I could not make out. Then I looked at its little LED screen and all the text was back to front. At first I thought this was because its patches were garbled after all this time. Then I realised it does that when you play a backwards sample—it’s a little German in-joke.
Eventually Howard arrived. He was very friendly and looked great, in fact just like 1983. But we were both wearing identical green corduroy jackets. This was embarassing but being English neither of us felt able to mention it. Then I woke up.
FUN FACT: These days, Dolby is also a high-tech businessman. He’s founded a number of start-ups like Beatnik, which makes audio engines for mobile devices (which is what makes the MP3s on yr mobile phone sound decent) I know this because the magazine I work for covers stuff like this. I’m hoping this will someday enable me to actually meet him.
If not, I’ll settle for Dave Dederer of The Presidents Of The United States Of America (whom you may remember from the 1990s) – he's vice president of business development at Melodeo, which runs a mobile music service called nuTsie.
Dream on,
This is dF
