Found this tiny box among my old business stuff. It was full of coins that I moved to the piggybank. It now has incense cones in it. Incense burns and becomes wisps of smoke that vanish into the air.
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well, mister, they vanished right into the air
You can’t say I traded money for nothing because I’ll be giving Houndstooth aromatherapy.
Pick your video, or be bold and go for both.
Do you know the rumor about Money for Nothing and Sting? Supposedly, they took “Don’t stand so/Don’t stand so/Don’t stand so close to me” riff and turned it into “I want my/I want my/I want my Mtv” without telling Sting he was singing his own music. When he found out, he was unhappy. Oh, well. I guess everyone lived. 🙂 Btw, I have an aromatherapy machine, but what is much more relaxing is Versace Eau Fraiche. I just have a sample splash bottle. Makes me so calm and drowsy. 🙂
One day when I go out into the world again, I will get a sniff of Versace Eau Fraiche.
Sting is among a half-dozen or so musicians I think of as “cranky,” yet I continue to love them. =)
Then came Beverly Hills…, but I do miss those days when MTV was all about the music video.
I was ALL about going between MTV, VH1, and CMT.
Do any channels still do all videos? Even a high percentage of videos? At all?
oh you mean youtube, a service of of advertising that’s annoyingly plagued with irrelevant interruptions of weird old school stuff. But soon, we will have that golden all adverts channel and be rich! Rich, I tell ya! Rich! And it will be all perfect.
I miss the VJs. I miss Kurt Loder. I miss Pop Up videos. I miss not knowing what might come next, or the hours I’d leave the TV on a music station hoping to see that ONE video again. To this day, there are videos I associate with seasons because of when I saw them the most. For example, INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart” is a fall rainy day video forever in my brain.
I could set my watch by when Billy and Michael were on. I knew the routine
Oh Micheal
Bless the 80s, they were awesome in some of the innovations and creativity and joie de vivre they brought into our living rooms, dens, bedrooms–wherever the damn TVs were. The waiting may have been the hardest part, Tom Petty, but that made it all the better when we got to see and hear.
Michael–truly a beautiful, troubled soul, like several dead musicians I love.
I had to come home to listen to Kissing Michael, that song is one that makes me cry … that one and Beautiful girl which is my fave … the stay with me.
I love “Beautiful Girl,” too!
This is one of my lost albums. Can you see the Harvey water line on it?
I’m replacing these with CDs.
Yeah those were the days. Where did those executives go wrong in their quest for more money? They ended up killing the one thing that actually had us all muting those adverts for, and now even youtube is falling into that black hole. Even the MTV music video awards lost their muse
I too enjoyed Kurt Loder and the occasional pop up video. I also miss watching randomized music videos just like the radio (ga ga), their artist documentaries and end of the year countdowns.
You just don’t get that kind of quality with endless adverts before and after the music video in badly compressed crap with adverts damn it all during the damned video too!!!!
It is MADDENING when I’m listening to some band or artist’s full album, especially when it’s part of my writing zen, and–bang!–right in the middle of a song–they break in with some heart-wrenching story or an ad for random shit I will never want or need.
I listen to music to get a break from sorrow and commerce. This is why I’m slowly rebuilding my post-Harvey music library.