August 2008
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Watch#194: the beta band - inner meet me (1998)
international war would be eradicated if everyone was forced to listen to the beta band on a mountaintop while wearing funky but slightly scary masks plus some shirts from their grandmothers and pants from their grandfathers. then we’d all harmoniously live together, dancing around in a big circle in reverse-time, just like at the jolly end of this...
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Watch#193: boogie down productions - you must learn (1988)
the last week of august is suddenly halfway over, which means it’s time for all good kids to go back to school. the only thing worse than going back to school is the 1986 rodney dangerfield comedy back to school, and the only thing worse than that is being two years out of college, which means there’s no school to go back to and...
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“dear fans in columbus, i haven’t let you down before, and i won’t...”
– (neil diamond is so sorry, ohio.)
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Watch#192: marvin gaye - let’s get it on (1976, holland)
what is there to say about let’s get it on? it’s like writing about hamlet. (remember that scene where hamlet says, “lady, shall I lie in your lap?” and ophelia says, “no, my lord,” and hamlet grunts, “i mean, my head upon your lap?” and ophelia says “ay, my lord.” that is the...
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Watch#191: t-bone walker (with dizzy gillespie) - she’s my old time used to be (1966)
yesterday was sunday and sunny and i stood in a massive, empty pool and watched glorious yo la tengo play. not only did they play with a horn section, but they played a gaggle of tear-jerk soft songs and schizophrenic electric freak-out songs—and i almost cried, twice. the lesson i learned is that it is...
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Watch#182: slick (aka the doctor of style; the slickster) - jive soul bro (1986)
there are some superbly creepy things about this song, but i’m automatically okay with any 80s hip hop video from a texas-born wrestler who was nicknamed the slickster and happened to be the wwf’s first african american manager.
incidentally, here are some wrestlers he managed, in alphabetical order: big boss...
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