Some Monday mornings I just shouldn’t listen to news radio on my drive in. So much gloom and doom. The shootings in St. Paul on Saturday. The thankfully failed car bomb in NYC. The ecological disaster of epic proportions off the coast of Louisiana. And more. Is it wrong that I need to bury my head in the sand and avoid avoid avoid, at least for a little while? To that end, a handful of happy fun times videos.
Five good things for this otherwise dire Monday morning:
- From the 70s, James Brown teaches you to dance! His version of the robot is my favorite.
- From the 80s, essentially it’s Annie Lennox in drag in the classic Eurythmics video for I Need A Man. This will have you growling and strutting around in no time.
- Listening to some 90s era Flaming Lips and it still holds up, for me, but honestly I think I prefer Wayne Coyne as he is now, in silver fox mode. Rawwwwwrrrrr.
- An adorable video of Common and Queen Latifah (who are, apparently, co-starring in the upcoming RomCom Just Wright) surprising the PS 22 Youth Choir Group. More about this lucky and talented group of 5th Graders here.
- Marshall from local band Dark Dark Dark kept a tour journal from earlier this Spring - with photos! - and it is available via InDigest Magazine.
And lastly…non-music related but fascinating. A friend was flipping through TCM the other night, like you do (if you have cable) and stumbled across a movie with a man falling into the sea, and a woman stepping on his head until he drowns. “This,” she says to herself, “is relevant to my interests. I think I will watch it.” Then the drowner is speaking to another woman in a language that sounds like Italian but isn’t. And then…WILLIAM SHATNER himself appears, speaking something that sounds like French but isn’t. It was ESPERANTO! Apparently this was 1965’s Incubus and now I desperately need to see it. Oh, and it is allegedly CURSED. And available, in its entirety, via YouTube but the sound is spotty at best. I may wait for a copy from Netflix. But I have no idea when I’ll have time to watch any movies in the near future. Busy busy. And how is this Thursday evening so improbably packed? A friend’s birthday happy hour, First Thursdays/Open Studio at Casket Arts, Low playing at the Varsity, and my man friend’s new band is playing their first show. All good things, all at once. But it’s better than the flipside.
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