{"id":908,"date":"2007-05-30T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/a-pop-culture-holding-action\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:44:54","slug":"a-pop-culture-holding-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/a-pop-culture-holding-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A pop culture holding action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two other projects and my day job have temporarily distracted me from keeping up with this blog.<\/p>\n

As a penance, and a way of quickly knocking out a post, I present some video links that I’ve run across in the course of doing one of those other projects. Each of these can be offered as a solid argument that EVERYTHING is online now, but taken together I think they may actually constitute definitive proof.<\/p>\n

First, allow me to present the video to Mojo Nixon<\/a>‘s tune “Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child”<\/a>. If I remember correctly, MuchMusic here in Canada was the only network that would actually air this video, with the others–notably including MTV, which did actually once show videos–refusing. Yes, that is Winona Ryder, and yes this is the only thing she was ever good in besides Heathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Psst… lots of free Mojo<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n

I can’t embed the other two, for various reason–primarily because I’ve so far been too lazy<\/s>busy to dig up the actual embedded files–but I can link to them.<\/p>\n

Our second stunning piece of pop culture detritus is the video to Bob Geldof<\/a>‘s brilliant tune “The Great Song of Indifference<\/a>“. A simple, but brilliant video for a scathing commentary on Western society.<\/p>\n

The final piece is the masterwork of the bunch though: The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band<\/a> performing their wonderful “Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming<\/a>” for a 60s television broadcast. Yes, it’s live, and yes they lose it a couple of times, but it’s still majestically weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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