Daddy Cool

I like cheap music videos. African, Reggae, and some country and bluegrass videos I see seem to have particularly homely production values. The music is usually something I haven't heard so they have a built-in interest value. The production values make them seem accessible and more genuine.

That said:

Boney M is some kind of West German genetic experiment in Pop. From the mighty mighty Wiki Wiki:

"Boney M. was a German pop and disco group created by West German record producer Frank Farian."

They swam in the same primordial muck as Northern European super poppers Abba.


Rivers of Babylon:



Brown Girl in the Ring (the most euro-pop sounding of the three)

Comments

If I had readers, and if those readers commented, these would be the rules:

• Write well
• If you make spelling/grammatical errors, expect snark.
• Expect snark
• Welcome snark
• Embrace snark
• Assholery will be challenged, but no one here is so chickenshit that comments reflecting assholery will be deleted
• Assholes will be called out by name, but their comments will be enshrined for all to see
• There is unlimited space for comments
• There is no limit on the number of comments one may make
• Statements of fact will be interpreted using ordinary (non-insane) criteria for such things
• Statements of opinion will be interpreted using ordinary (non-batshit-crazy) criteria for such things.

So, if I had had readers, I would be happy to read whatever is on their minds, no matter how tangential those thoughts may be to the post they happen to be commenting on. If someone has something funny or insightful (or inciteful, for that matter) to say then write it out and post it! I am not afraid of conflict, humor, or multiple posts by the same person for that matter.

Freedom of speech baby!

Life's not fair

And if it were:

• we all would get what we deserved
• some of us would expect to be unhappy about it
• some of us would be surprised at how good our just deserts were (the humble good)
• some of us would be surprised at how bad our just deserts were (the proud bad)

Most off us will think it's just more of the same and soldier on as always.

The Bigs

You should all be reading the bigs. If not for anything other than for the occasional amazing post that frames everything inside of a quaint Victorian intellectual conceit.

But read them. You know who they are, even though you never put them in your blogrolls. They are the Urquelle of the blogo-sphere. Come clean. Lose the ego. Wash away the sin of narcissism[1]. We all stand on the shoulders of giants and it is dishonest and unhealthy to act otherwise.

(I guess I am making two points - one meta and one the concretion of reality and metaphor. Take from them what you will.)

[1] If there is one thing I know about, it's sin. And the sin of omission is sin enough for me. Be warned.

Gay Nazis

I have a special place for the Nazi Gay (and it is not a Garden of Earthly Delights):

The successor of the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was dismissed yesterday after he revealed a “special” relationship “far beyond” friendship with his former mentor.
...

“I only had him. Now I am all alone. I would spend nights with him and his family and that was important for me because I often was afraid to be alone in the dark,”...

What's Going on?

Rock of Ages

Levi Stubbs, Rest in Peace, You left the world a cooler place.