Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Gwinky will appreciate this -- One summer (1985 or 1986??), at band camp (actually band trip), I actually saw the aforementioned Katrina and the Waves perform during their short-lived fame at Ontario Place in Toronto. My one trip there and they just happened to be playing in the park that day...

This is unreal. I was at that concert. I WAS AT THAT FUCKING CONCERT. GET OUT.

Str(play "Walking on Sunshine" again)8

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Wasn't he also the voice of Triumph? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

tm

That's Robert Smigel, isn't it? ...one of the Superfans from SNL and the creater of "Saturday TV Funhouse" and the superhero team "The Ambiguously Gay Duo"... NTTA Ambiguously WWT.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
My favorite bit on the entire "I love the 80s" VH1 special is Michael Ian Black (from Ed, the State, etc.) talking about Rick Astley, and singing:

"I'm a little whiiiiite boy, with a big blaaaack voice."

Hilarious. His performance on those specials is in the pantheon.

I can't listen to Rick Astley without thinking of Bill Hicks profane monologue about late-80's pop music and popstars singing jingles for Diet Coke.

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna make you cry, Diiiiiiet Co-ho-oke for-ever."

(That's not the really funny part of the bit, but it's too raunchy even for the FB.)

Those "I love the 80's" specials are addictive. You turn on the TV, it's 1982, and 5 hours later you think to youself, "Well, I've already invested most of the evening, I can make it to '89. Plus, Traci Lords will announce the hunks of 1987 after the next commerical break!"

I can't wait for "I love the 90's: 1994" with in-depth analysis of Melrose Place by Patton Oswald and Aisha Tyler.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Wasn't he also the voice of Triumph? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

Triumph is Robert Smigel, of TV Funhouse fame and formerly an SNL writer. {Edited to note: too slow.}

Michael Ian Black was so fucking funny in that VH-1 '80s retrospective that I forgave him for having three names and seriously considered writing him a crush letter and offering to cook him dinner. My wife consented to this plan, something she has only ever previously done for Dave Grohl among my hundreds of weird celebrity crushes, but I never got off my ass to do it. Also surprisingly funny on that show were Mo Rocca, who showed up with material and did better than he does on TDSwJS, and Hal Sparks.

Based solely on its star-launching power, Talk Soup will go down in history as the only thing of value E! has ever produced.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I have seen They Might Be Giants twice. I used to have a prosthetic forehead on my real head.

Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
Gigantic, the TMBG documentary, opens tomorrow in LA.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This is unreal. I was at that concert. I WAS AT THAT FUCKING CONCERT. GET OUT.

Str(play "Walking on Sunshine" again)8

Amazing. If I recall they did play it twice, and also played their minor follow up hit "If You Want Crying...". If I recall correctly it was an outdoor pavilion, with a roof and seating on all four sides of a open, square stage...Right??

Creepy.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Wasn't he also the voice of Triumph? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

tm

Close; he was the voice of the Pets.com sock puppet.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Not at all... Very catchy song. Hoping Rhino puts it on the inevitable 7-CD 90's Pop Culture Box Set...

("Ooooooh, Baby..... You're making me crazy..... Every time I look around...")

That CD set should start with "Seether" from Veruca Salt. We'll have to ask Lisa Loeb if we can have "Stay" because she owns the masters. I'm certain we'll have an easier time getting EMF to let us use "Unbelievable." Jesus Jones will probably let us use "Right Here, Right Now" for free if we give them a hot meal and a place to crash for a few days.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Close; he was the voice of the Pets.com sock puppet.

Thanks Ollie. I knew he went with some sock puppet or other, once beloved of the FB.

tm

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Wasn't he also the voice of Triumph? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

tm

Are you talking Triumph the Canadian band? No. That was Rik Emmett the best voice to come out of Canada EVER!!!!

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
That CD set should start with "Seether" from Veruca Salt. We'll have to ask Lisa Loeb if we can have "Stay" because she owns the masters. I'm certain we'll have an easier time getting EMF to let us use "Unbelievable." Jesus Jones will probably let us use "Right Here, Right Now" for free if we give them a hot meal and a place to crash for a few days.

Absolutely. Chumbawamba falls into the hot meal category for "Tubthumping". Others include the Verve Pipe for "The Freshmen" and Ben Folds Five for "Brick".

We need a whole "post-Swingers" category for Squirrel Nut Zippers "Hell"; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three"; and Cherry Poppin' Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot".

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Are you talking Triumph the Canadian band? No. That was Rik Emmett the best voice to come out of Canada EVER!!!!

Celine will not be pleased. Expect a call from her agent.

Great band, but I'll still take Geddy any day...

("Fight the Good Fight!!!")

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by taxwonk
General Public was the other half. Either that or FYC was a third generation entity. At one point, I was really into British ska. Then I went half-senile.

you should come back to it- the Selector has done some good things in the last few years (not as good as its early stuff though)

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by bridge of love
you should come back to it- the Selector has done some good things in the last few years (not as good as its early stuff though)

The Selector is still around? Can Bad Manners be far behind?

Ollie (Lip up, Fatty) Ramone

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Celine will not be pleased. Expect a call from her agent.

Great band, but I'll still take Geddy any day...

("Fight the Good Fight!!!")

Celine couldn't carry Rik Emmett's jock strap. She is SUCH the princess - she doesn't cough, sneeze or laugh for fear of harming her precious voice. Oh puhleeze. Good luck to her husband - I guess that means no moaning or shrieks of passion either. Yawn.

Geddy just doesn't do it for me, but most of my friends tell me I'm so wrong. I'll just have to live with that.

Brush with greatness...I talked to the Triumph limo driver after a concert and he gave me backstage passes and told me that there was a party at the Edgewater if I wanted to go. I should have gone. What a dope I was.
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