#memory tape

[princesshillaryellaworld25]

Memory#2: Sick Miku leaving

Producer: Miss Sick Miku, C'mon we need you to be in the limo in 2 mintues

Past Sick Miku: Okay, I'm coming

Mrs. Sickest: Looks like you're leaving huh?

Past Sick Miku: Yeah, I have to, they need me on set so I have to go

Mr. Sickest: Okay, Just make sure you call us when you get there okay?

Past Sick Miku: Okay, I will

Past Bubble Soda: *hugs Sick Miku* We'll miss you, Big sis!

Lil Sick Babefriend: *hugs Sick Miku* We don't want you to leave!

Past Sick Miku: *sighs* Sorry guys but I have to, the people on set need me but don't worry, It's only for 3 months then i'll come back.

Lil Sick Babefriend: Okay.....

Lil Sick BF: S-Sick Miku? Y-You're actually leaving?

Past Sick Miku: Yeah, I have to....

Lil Sick BF: But I don't want you to leave! I want you to stay!

Mrs. Sickest: Oh sweetie, She has to. She's only going to be on set for 3 months and then come back.

Lil Sick BF: You promise?

Past Sick Miku: Yes, I promise, I'll come back in 3 months okay?

Lil Sick BF: O-Okay.....

Producer: Miss Sick Miku, We're running late! We have to go!

Past Sick Miku: Okay Coming! *about to leave but went to go hug Sick Boyfriend first*

Lil Sick BF: Please, come soon.

Past Sick Miku: I will, just promise me one thing, be the nicest to everyone for me okay?

Lil Sick BF: Okay.

Sick Miku heads to the door and then looks back at her family.

Past Sick Miku: Goodbye.

Sick Miku then leaves.

Lil Sick BF: Bye big sis, I'll wait for you....

.

..

...

Sick BF: It's been 15 years, and you never showed up.....

This was before Sick Kaity, Poppy and Sick Boy were born.

[weaversweek]

Uncool 50 - Video killed the lazy Buggles headline

Part of my Uncool50 series, an autobiography through songs.

Three excellent videos this time.

“Take on me” by A-ha, takes our representative out of the café and right into the pages of the comic she’s reading. The hand-drawn rotoscoped animation was a work of love; the seamless meld with actual footage remains a joy to watch.

This was the first single I bought with my own money, £1.55 to hear Morten Pål and Mags over and over again.

“Cloudbusting” by Kate Bush, a miniature movie starring Donald Sutherland.

If “Wuthering heights” had introduced the concept of pop music, this single helped coalesce pop as high art. As much an ear-worm as A-ha or Red Box (qv), but somehow the sort of culture my parents and grandparents clearly approved of.

Yes, Kate Bush gets two singles into the top 50. No other act does.

"Press" by Paul McCartney. Right there, that's it, yes. (Are you perfectly sure about this? - Ed)

My parents had a microscopic record collection. Lots of light classical, some ABBA albums, Simon and Garfunkel, and The Beatles' Red and Blue albums. Of the Fab Four, John Lennon's songs were new before I got into pop, George Harrison made one LP, and Ringo Starr is the voice for Thomas the Tank Engine.

Paul McCartney has always been a welcome guest, and much of his 80s work made my longlist here. "We all stand together" is completely awesome, “Once upon a long ago” plays for nostalgia. "My brave face" and "This one" are tremendous songs, “No more lonely nights” is a touching tearjerker.

For pure cheek, sass, and general Fab Macca Whacky Thumbs Aloft!!-ness, you can't beat "Press". Paul makes the music he loves, gets an audience because he’s the most familiar face in town, and it's all completely carefree and relaxed. Same for the video, filmed without permission on the Tube, it's relaxed!Macca surprising and delighting his fans.

Next time: crushes arrive.

[coffeeandtoastforbreakfast]

It’s all going up into flames…bright, white flames…

[nostalgia-folder]

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate blank VHS packaging design trends

[authenticcadence18]

I am CRUING LAUGHING AT THIS

[tolkiens]

"Working with them was such a breeze, that it showed me how collaboration should work. You're genuinely liking what the other person is doing, you're feeding off each other. They're a pretty funny pair. There's Thomas who is technical oriented, getting excited, turning knobs and all that stuff. And then there's Guy-man whose more of the French, brooding, kind of dude...he's got really good taste. Infinity Repeating is an appropriate song to end Daft Punk on forever."

Daft Punk - Memory Tapes - Episode 1 - Julian Casablancas, directed by WARREN FU

[artful-peculiarities]

I’ve just had this really specific vision of post canon Doug Eiffel being a mechanic. Maybe even though his memories were drained from him, the movements of repair are still familiar, and I think it would also add something to his characterization once he’s back in earth with the others. I’m gonna think about this some more and come back to this post in a bit

[goobersplat]

Shelley Duvalls’s Besdtime Stories Set of Eight VHS Tapes

I know Shelley Duvall passed away recently, which made me think back to “Bedtime Stories” which I absolutely loved as a kid. I remember all of these!

My favorite was “Elizabeth and Larry” which to this day touches my heart and makes me cry. It’s about an older lady in Florida who finds a baby alligator in her box of oranges and they become best friends :) “Bill and Pete” (the other story on the tape) is also extremely charming.

I also highly recommend “Blumpoe the Grumpoe meets Arnold the Cat” which is about a man whose dog passes away and he becomes bitter regarding animals. He stays at a cat hotel and starts to soften when he meets a shy cat named Arnold. It’s also narrated by John Candy and he does a great job reading the story.

If you’re interested here’s links to both tapes I mentioned. They’re really charming and cute and I highly recommend. Rest in peace Shelly Duvall <3

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[weaversweek]

Uncool 50 - my kind of pop

#Uncool50? My favourite 50 singles (since 1976), effectively a mini-autobiography. Here’s the series index.

I heard a lot of early 80s pop music by osmosis, filtered by my sister. Adam Ant, Madness, Culture Club, the Thompson Twins. (All in the Uncool 100, not the 50.) For some reason, my sister never quite got into Nik Kershaw. So when I liked "Won't let the sun go down on me", here was a star of my own! Someone I didn't have to share! Catchy hooks, an earworm of a song - and it's not even the best he wrote (but "The one and only" isn't in the 50 – probably makes the 100). 

And when I fell for pop, I fell hard. Strawberry Switchblade, Rose and Jill, the cool girls with bags of attitude and a look to die for.

They were on the cover of Smash Hits magazine, inside was a gripping feature on Band Aid, and some serious writing about trivial subjects. Writers like Sylvia Patterson, Mark Ellen, Linda Duff, Dave Rimmer, and the masterful work of Tom Hibbert. Black Type remains an inspiration, the mixture of breezy chat and intense knowledge is something I try to replicate in the Week. 

Pop music changes lives. Random chance changes lives. I wouldn't be using this blog name without "Since yesterday", and that's why it gets the lot - token, teatowel, and my DOUZE POINTS.

The local radio station round me was Beacon Radio. Peter Craig was the friendly voice - he did the pop magazine programme on Sunday morning, and the afternoon show. One of his features was "Kid's Clues", try and work out what the children are describing. Peter recorded some clues with the year group below, and was guest of honour at the school's Easter Fayre. "Jacob's ladder" from The Monochrome Set reminds me of him, and the days we had proper local radio. Sadly, Peter died in 1989, leaving a young widow and child.

"Lean on me (ah-li-ayo)" from Red Box. Are they sneaking communist agitprop into the top ten, emphasising the common humanity? Yep. Is it more catchy and toe-tappy and accessible than everything Paul Weller ever did? Again, yep. I've always reckoned that you'll convert more minds through positive alternatives than through moaning, and this is a shining example.

A trio of classic videos in the next part.

[shiftythrifting]

Boyfriend found a cassette tape at the dump that looked cool. It's actually a completely different tape inside, and one just as weird.

Thrift adjacent.

[cuntylestat]

“I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don’t know, the last thirty bucks I had. My editor reminds me, it’s seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.” 

The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey.

[visuac]

maggot groan

[1five1two]

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

Interesting… I wonder what the significance of this is

please please please tell me your thoughts

[zaddyazula]

obviously i love strangelove’s character but she wasn’t written well… as a woman or as a lesbian…