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iwombat - 2007-03-12 18:53:10
wow, all angry and opinionated! defender or the true aesthetic! what a shock! (I'm shocked, sho...etc.)
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tris mccall - 2007-03-12 19:33:46
yes, but oakland and ridgewood are cool, and franklin lakes is not.
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Paula - 2007-03-12 20:12:04
Ridgewood, while quite stuffy, has a real charm to it. I lived there for a while, and worked at its library for years.
I like towns with cool old train stations.
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grigorss - 2007-03-12 23:20:47
MTV ... What a wonderful art form.
Are you sure this isn't "how Paula is" right now?
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2fs - 2007-03-13 01:10:35
It's kind of funny, reading about MTV: how it was supposed to change music forever, how having visuals presented to us would "ruin" the possibility of our having our own ideas of what the music was about, etc. MTV hardly even plays videos any more, does it? Anyway: I watched MTV pretty regularly for a couple of years in the early '80s (when I was a sleepless college lad, we'd hang out in a dorm lounge after 3am Mexican food: the addictive format of MTV was that you kept waiting for a decent video to come on..."well, maybe the *next* one won't suck..."), and I think the writer's nuts in claiming that its early days were "family friendly" in comparison to the terrible smuttiness of the Missing Persons video ("shocking," eh? You can see more female flesh - albeit much less creatively covered - on any beach in the US. Puh-lease.) Didn't Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" come out in like 1980 or so? And wasn't the whole "for some reason, water pours down from the sky upon the females in the video" trope well established quite early in the medium's history? Ah well. Also, pity poor Paula, going to high school where apparently one couldn't see issues of _Rolling Stone_ or whatever to know what the Go-Go's looked like... ;-)
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Paula - 2007-03-13 12:15:19
Also, pity poor Paula, going to high school where apparently one couldn't see issues of _Rolling Stone_ or whatever to know what the Go-Go's looked like...
Rolling Stone? I don't think the majority of kids in my high school read music magazines.
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Flasshe - 2007-03-14 17:53:58
I might have that issue of Trouser Press around my house somewhere. Remind me to look for it sometime!
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Paula - 2007-03-15 15:24:05
I wish I'd saved mine! I'm not even sure wha'ppen to them, I think my mom tossed 'em when I went to college.
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