Steve Martin on The Muppet Show - “Ramblin’ Guy”
“Way to go, Steve! That’s good stuff!” -Kermit
“Fairey rummages around on his desk and produces a letter from Obama himself. “Dear Shepard,” the candidate writes. “I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign.”
Messages. Images. Effect. Someone understands phenomenology. And the thing about stop signs? “He’s kind of endorsing graffiti,” Fairey says, “isn’t he?”
He has more Obama art in the works. Coming up next? Ten thousand bicycle spoke cards.”
Archie Bells & the Drells “Tighten Up”
The line in Tighten Up “we dance just as good as we walk” was a little ironic, given that Bell had been shot in the leg and was consigned to a military hospital bed at the time.
You want to get in on the new dance craze that’s sweeping and sort of confusing the nation? All you need is Tighten Up to show YLNT how you do The Fishstick!
via youlooknicetoday
Kenneth Lamar Noid
In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill customer who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia, Domino’s restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation and a copy of The Widow’s Son, Noid surrendered to the police. Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
via wikipedia/Noid
“This macaroni necklace my daughter made me tastes like garbage. Fuck this Montessori bullshit.
Randy Newman “Something Special”
from the trailer for Awakenings (1990)
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The Master (and His Balls)
Here’s the teaser and opening credits from the glancingly-referenced 1984 TV show (found in the “wanderer” section of your local VHS-mart) The Master.
It stars Lee Van Cleef (as played by Richard Roundtree performed by Yaphet Kotto) as the eponymous Clarence the irascible Master Ninja, and Timothy Van Patten (interpreted by an 80-year-old demented Estelle Getty) as Clarence’s sidekick, His Balls.
It never struck me while watching the tapes over and over and over as a child with a ninja fetish that the two stars had “Van” in their surname and that they drove around in a custom-painted van.
Chick Corea Elektric Band “Elektric City” (1986)
Chick Corea is one of the greatest jazz musicians ever to have lived. However, in this video, he heavily favors a keytar, mixes video on a Mac Plus, fistbumps poorly and takes a backseat to Screech on the guitar.
