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Kate Bush!

Yep, I’m still revisiting teen enthusiasms.

We know we can find bizzare retro rock videos on YouTube; well, speaking of bizzare and retro, apparently it’s filled with Kate Bush videos, clips, rare-rare appearances, all sorts of strange obscure bits from TV specials that I got to see only once in the days that the Third Ear was a pub (and not just that, but a pub on Derech Petach Tikva, under Beit Maariv, of all places, which it was for just a brief while). And also those two videotapes I had and didn’t touched for maybe 15 years but which were part of my identity or something.

Anyway, the point is that now instead of seeing all this in crappy quality taped-from-TV and duplicated VHS, you can see it in crappy flash video, whenever you want.

Kate Bush Egypt Performance

Looking at the interviews and her choreography, most of it so painfuly bad that it speaks of a supreme, WTF??? level of daftness, Kate Bush seems heartbreakingly naive and innocent, even, well, stupid. Far more so than, say, Bjork in the video Tal linked to recently: Sometimes I suspect Bjork is just pretending to be the childlike pixie, that there’s a very self-aware, postmodern intellect there that’s posing. Maybe it’s because I suspect that, because she realizes her accent makes her sound strange, she delibrately over-plays the weird naif angle, just like some of my friends would talk English with a delibrately dumb Hebrew akzent.

But Kate Bush comes across as genuinely naive, or, not to be coy, stupid. I mean, this is a woman talking about the clip to The Sensual World and saying that the director worked with her to emphasize the sensuality of the world. She was in her thirties when she said that. In earlier interviews (there was one about Babooshka), she just comes across as the sweetest little girl.

But, you know, the mind boggles to think that a peculiar work like There Goes a Tenner has a clip, and was performed on TV.

Delius - Kate Bush

Thinking about it, I think that there’s a similarity to Robert E Howard who I was just on about. like REH, Kate Bush is an amazingly naive artist, just doing what she loves; and her passion comes across.

Oh, that and her being bloody gorgeous.

If this interests you at all, you’ll want to crawl the search results. But I still can’t resist one more link: here’s an appearance on some odd TV show, with clips for Babooshka and Delius!:

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Obscene Interiors

JustinSpace: Obscene Interiors

Obscene Interiors is a collection of real online male personal ad photos and my critique of the naive interior decorating exposed therein. (No need to shield your timid eyes, the often-nude figures have been laboriously obscured.)

I think my place is much worse. At least I don’t have a big gray cardboard cutout posed obscenely in my living room.
[ via Ken Hite ]

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Yes, Doctor Who writers


That’s enough with those touching episodes about the lonely Doctor abandoning a woman who loves him to grow old without him. Robots and monsters now, please.

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Walk around in great Pity of yourself

I should read a book, I said to myself. It’s been far too long (Nir’s book doesn’t count). I had a couple of those cheap editions of out-of-copyright works they sell at Steimatzki, and I picked up Frankenstein. I didn’t get far:

But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper blog, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

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Discs I miss

  • Element of Crime: The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny (list of songs with samples on a German website where you need to login with your cellphone number; last.fm listing) – because life keeps tickling my itch to listen to melodic bar-closing time alternative rock sung in a German accent. I actually got two of their albums from their late 80s / early 90s singing-in-English (one from my brother, who couldn’t find this one, and one from the internet; So I can listen to old favorites like The Way She Is (from Freedom, Love & Happiness) and Don’t You Smile (AKA You Fucked Up Your Life, from Try To Be Mensch), But I still crave the whistling chorus of The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny (Johnny and Jimmy are snakes, Johnny and Jimmy were snakes and he was a rabbit) and the anthem absurdity of She’s A Barmaid (She’s a Barmaid, She’s good to animals!).
  • Ute Lemper, Punishing Kiss – because her rendition of Little Water Song was the one non-Tom Jones song in Romance and Cigarettes I recognized immediately, although I had no idea from where or what it was. And yes, I saw it with the queen of Romance and Cigarettes, who I think was the one who got the album in the split.
  • Last, another album that I didn’t keep, The Biluim. Because, memorial day and independence day just put me in the mood for some patriotic songs like Shaul Mofaz and It’s Wonderful Here.