when I see the future I close my eyes. I can see it now!

[thehefner]

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.

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That was just there in case the above four groups began a quarrel on an epic GL-style War of Light scale, so that we could all have that common ground to which we could return.

It's one of my immutable laws of the universe: everybody loves pie, it's impossible to hate Ringo, and it sucks to be Harvey Dent.

[shadowlongknife.livejournal.com]

Now, are we referring to Ringo Starr? Or perhaps Johnny Ringo, as portrayed by the criminally underrated Michael Biehn?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Starr of course, but any excuse to hail the excellence of the Biehnster is always welcome.

It's so wacky that in WYATT EARP, a main member of the Ringo gang was played by Jeff Fahey, who would go on to play Biehn's brother in GRINDHOUSE: PLANET TERROR. They need to team up more often, damn it. Truly a power duo.

[shadowlongknife.livejournal.com]

I would watch that buddy cop movie. You do realize that the only acceptable villian would be the Foppish Billy Drago.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

YES. Wait, only if it's inexpliciblyalbino!Drago from the Grace Jones epic VAMP.

Man, I must have set some kind of record at Potomac Video for the number of times I rented that damn film. For, uh, research. Yes. Hrm.