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when I see the future I close my eyes. I can see it now!
I'm at a loss to guess if my recent discovery of Laurie Anderson will elicit which of the following responses:
A.) You don't know Laurie Anderson?!
B.) Hell yeah, Laurie Anderson is awesome!
C.) Good lord, ew, no, Laurie Anderson is crap!
D.) Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
E.) I like pie.
Whichever response it is, the point is simply this: I think I absolutely fucking love Laurie Anderson, and must travel back to 1984--during which period I would be one year old--and make her mine.
Because this... I gotta say, this gets me a li'l moist. Just a li'l bit.
I hated that song when Peter Gabriel covered it (with her) on his seminal album SO. Turned out, I just wasn't on their wavelength then, because watching that now, I feel like... what Amanda Palmer does to her fans, Laurie Anderson is kinda doing to me. She hits all my drag king points, coupled with my love of 80's prog rock and general wackiness.
She's like if Peter Gabriel and David Byrne raised a daughter together. She's like Peter if he ever looked like he was having fun doing any of his wacky shit.* And to make her even more awesome, look who she's married to:
Lucky, lucky man. God, that is a couple in rock 'n roll love right there.
Yeah, I can't compete with that, even with a time machine. All I can do is watch these, swoon, hope that my swooning isn't meant with reactions as if I just discovered Phil Collins, and pray for HOME OF THE BRAVE coming out on DVD soon.
*even in the videos for "Sledgehammer" and "Shock the Monkey," he just seems so intense; this is a man who treats walking around stage in a Zorb and going bouncy-bouncy-bouncy as SERIOUS BUSINESS.
A.) You don't know Laurie Anderson?!
B.) Hell yeah, Laurie Anderson is awesome!
C.) Good lord, ew, no, Laurie Anderson is crap!
D.) Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
E.) I like pie.
Whichever response it is, the point is simply this: I think I absolutely fucking love Laurie Anderson, and must travel back to 1984--during which period I would be one year old--and make her mine.
Because this... I gotta say, this gets me a li'l moist. Just a li'l bit.
I hated that song when Peter Gabriel covered it (with her) on his seminal album SO. Turned out, I just wasn't on their wavelength then, because watching that now, I feel like... what Amanda Palmer does to her fans, Laurie Anderson is kinda doing to me. She hits all my drag king points, coupled with my love of 80's prog rock and general wackiness.
She's like if Peter Gabriel and David Byrne raised a daughter together. She's like Peter if he ever looked like he was having fun doing any of his wacky shit.* And to make her even more awesome, look who she's married to:
Lucky, lucky man. God, that is a couple in rock 'n roll love right there.
Yeah, I can't compete with that, even with a time machine. All I can do is watch these, swoon, hope that my swooning isn't meant with reactions as if I just discovered Phil Collins, and pray for HOME OF THE BRAVE coming out on DVD soon.
*even in the videos for "Sledgehammer" and "Shock the Monkey," he just seems so intense; this is a man who treats walking around stage in a Zorb and going bouncy-bouncy-bouncy as SERIOUS BUSINESS.
icon battle!
See, yeah, my 80's-fetish isn't across the board. There's very little in the way of hair band rock that I like, but give me any of these kinds'a songs and I am GOOD. But that ties into my love of Meat Loaf as well.
And I do have a soft spot for Duran Duran. I wouldn't buy any of their albums, but I'm always up for rocking out to "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "View To A Kill."
Re: icon battle!
GradeSkool!Me totally used to rock it out to all those.
The following was the first Duran Duran song I heard/video I saw. Being the budding sci-fi, borderline transhumanist nerd that I have always been, it was love at first sight.
(Also, apparently the Canadians have joined in the icon fight.)
Re: icon battle!
Have you heard Paul Stanley's new song? It was most famously featured as the montage music in the brilliant WORLD OF WARCRAFT episode of SOUTH PARK. It sounds like a lost sibling from that list that landed in an iceberg during the 80's and was thawed out last week:
It's written by Desmond Child, who recently did new songs for Meat Loaf. One of my goals in life is now to have Desmond Child write me a concept album which will surely make me huge in Oslo.
Re: icon battle!