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 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 ( Read more... )

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Vergüenza Ajena, to the maxxxxXxXXXX:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=924zmIi55P8&search=racism

It was really hard to watch this all the way through. Now you have to.

I was at the arrivals level of LAX Terminal 4 today, waiting for my mother to get off her plane. There were some women in brightly colored cheerful clothing there at an information station with brightly colored cheerful signs. At first I thought it said "Kid Check" and I got the phear. On closer examination it was "Kids' Choice Awards". I guess ( Read more... )

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Thanks to hydrozoa for pointing me to slit's spot on smackdown of Sex and the City.

I knew I couldn't stand that show but I didn't yet know exactly why. Now I do! Thanks, slit!

They're remaking Capricorn One as a "reality show"! As the snake reaches back to bite its tail, the antigovernment paranoia of the 1970s becomes the freak-show humiliation theatre of the 2000s, just as we need 70s paranoia more than ever.

I wish they'd at least go dig up O.J. for this one.

http://www.bigad.com.au/

One of the better uses of Carmina Burana I've seen, actually. Uses a farked-up Java program to play the video but I got it to work on Safari okay.