In 1996 Willy and I went on a snowboarding trip. After the first day of getting beaten to all hell we spent a good portion of the next day lounging in the hotel watching stuff like this. Turned out to be a pretty nice little vacation.
I just can't get enough of people's videos of their cats.
Theses aren't videos, but I think they go along with this post: Shocking Cats and Katalogen, a collection of pictures of cats on the internet, with quircky captions.
This video is probably part of the reason I moved to the UK in my early 20's years ago. I went out with a guy there because he kind of had that 80's British music star look. My anglophile love is irrational like that.
Willy tells this story of when he first heard Laurie Anderson on KTRU as a wee little child in the '80's and he tried to press his ear into the car speaker in the back seat while his daddy drove around. #1, it's so cool that his dad listened to KTRU and #2 I love picturing a young Wilster at the starting moment of an obsession.
We met her at a art fundraiser once. She was gracefully polite. We talked about the weather and riding bicycles. She probably doesn't remember, but I do.
Careful with this one. You've either seen it a thousand times already and hate it more than anything in the world, or you're like me and it always makes you laugh out of shear weirdness. I don't know. It's wonderfully strange and pointless.
From Dig Our Own Grave's Crazy interspecies animal friends section. I think this proves there's no reason for war EVAR. I mean if kitties and chickens can love each other....
Anglophiles check this out. A classroom show called Look Around You about ghosts complete with fancy machines and smarmy looking prep school boy. At the end he says the next program is about reggae. Gee why didn't I got to this school?!
The first album I ever got was Olivia Newton John's If you Love me Let Me Know when I was 7. Dad took us to the local record store and let each of my siblings and I pick out a record. Some day I want to find it again in some old record album bin in the back of a music store.
Here she is in the fabulous Xanadu. I watched this with my girlfriends in 8th grade on someone old betamax recorder. If that doesn't show my age I don't know what does, but lets just say the 70's and 80's were so great to grow up in.
If you ever wondered how vinyl records were made this shows you how.
I loved the old MTV ads Donal Logue did. Here's a revival of that character for MoveOn.
Some day I'll splurge and get this old VHS tape of MTV commercials from this Golden Era. I'm still waiting for someone to upload those old Toby Huss ones where he's Frank Sinatra.