I miss this car:

And I miss seeing this dashboard:


And I miss not being able to reach the passenger door without laying flat on the bench seat.

IGGY POP - "Repo Man"

This is the themesong of my mid-1980s:



Page out of a comic book.
A chicken hanging on a hook.
A river and a babbling brook.
A sermon
and a teenage hook.
Shaking my hand at your fake face.
A suicide a certain look.

A microphone a loose guitar.
People feeling near and far.
Stupidity a mental scar.
Put cruel into cruelty.
As life goes by you in a blurr.

An achoholic has gone far.
Everything just goes to far.


Indeed.

PULP - "Common People"

Just plain great:



Too cool.

JOY DIVISION - "Atmosphere"

This one goes out to Bob:



Don't walk away...

WHOMADEWHO - "Keep Me In My Place"

Yep, sometimes life feels like this:



Suicide by toaster is not the way.

P.I.L. - "Rise"

I can't believe I never posted this here:

I could be wrong.I could be right.
I could be wrong.

I could be wrong, I could be right,
I could be black, I could be white,
I could be right, I could be wrong,
I could be white, I could be black.

Your time has come, your second skin.
You climb so high and gain so low.
Walk through the valley.
The written word is a lie.

May the road rise with you.

I could be wrong.I could be right.
I could be wrong.I could be right.

I could be wrong, I could be right,
I could be black, I could be white,
I could be right, I could be wrong,
I could be black, I could be white.

They put a hotwire to my head
'cuz of the things I did and said.
They made these feelings go away,
but those feelings get in every way.

May the road rise with you.

Anger is an energy.

May the road rise with you.

Anger is an energy.

I've always like the lyric. And anger is definitely an energy. "Let fury have the hour, anger can be power, do you know that you can use it?"

Indeed.

IGGY POP & DINAH SHORE - Just chat

I remember watching the DINAH SHORE show when I was a child, along with Graham Kerr, Merv Griffin, David Frost and others... but I don't remember seeing this:


It's fairly gentle and human... it's from when talk show hosts didn't pander or plug.

Oh and Bowie's there too. Man, what a time and place.

Too Damn Funny

I recently ran across this video.

Here's the Bud commercial from 2000 they're spoofing.

And yes, those are the same actors eight years later.

True.

KERMIT THE FROG - "Hurt"

Just so...



painful.

TRICKY - "Council Estate"

I liked this one... interesting rhythms.



And HERE'S a better version.

TOM WAITS - "I Don't Want To Grow Up"

HOLY SHIT! I never knew that the Ramones were covering this Tom Waits song:



But I have the strangest feeling that I knew that once and I killed that memory with scotch or something...

MAHOGANY - "Neo-Plastic Boogie Woogie"

Speaking of plots, I love this video... makes me feel good.



Check it out in a cleaner version HERE.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - "More News From Nowhere"

Nick is perhaps too much



Nick Cave.