Sister Sledge

I've just seen the video of "Greatest Dancer". Sister Sledge have always been high on my list of bands I would like to be gang-banged by, but those clothes? Orange spandex leggings and frilly tops - eeewww!

More music videos

Just seen Brand New Heavies' cover version of Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis" (also one of the first songs I ever covered, but that was really embarrassing). This has to be one of the silliest music videos of the 90s. You have a song that is all Arabian Nights kitsch, so you shoot a video in an underground car park with a lot of guys on roller skates. I am perplexed.

And more music videos

Now I have a rare treat - The Farm playing "Groovy Train". They weren't one of the greatest bands in history, to put it mildly, but bands like The Farm, The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses (anyone remember that T-shirt that said "Ugly as The Stone Roses"?) remind me of the happiest days of my life. It was all downhill after 1991.

1.4

I've just installed Moz 1.4 (on Mandrake 9.1). Very nice, but the menu fonts are pig-ugly (although web pages and mail come out fine). It's like going back to the days of 1.0.

Quotation pinched from somone else's journal

All life in New York is purely artificial & affected -- values are forced & arbitrary, mental fashions are capricious, pathological, or commercial rather than authentic, & literary activity & conversation are motivated by a shallow pose, a sophistical concealment of ignorance, & a morbidly charlatanic egotism & cheap assertiveness ... The "aesthetes" of New York are less interested in art & beauty than in themselves; & their smart badinage & discussion savor much more of psychological exhibitionism & social gesture than of actual artistic insight, vision & devotion.

Is this

(a) Jean Baudrillard
(b) Umberto Eco
(c) H.P. Lovecraft
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) An anonymous Situationist?

Sabır eden derviş, muradını ermiş

After my marathon of music TV, I am rewarded at 5 a.m. by Black Sabbath playing Paranoid. Sometimes life is good to me.

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It was Lovecraft, funnily enough.