Udder Randomness

[Vetinari]

O.o ...okay... This really is utterly random, and more or less dates back 18 years. So my current Pulp music phase has resulted in me purchasing the ridiculous Harry Potter soundtrack for the songs Jarvis Cocker wrote, and plugging a few of the singles gaps I had in my collection (why do so many B-sides never appear on albums until 10 years later as extras??).

...And listening to a few interviews/radio shows the man had contributed to in the past (BBC6 on sundays damn how did I not know that was a thing???) anyway - noticed that the infamous "Michael Jackson Brit Awards" incident kept cropping up - so of course googlage occurred...

1) As always with these things the tabloids took it and blew it out of all proportion
2) MJs legal team reckoned an assult had happened
3) Bizarrely comedian Bob Mortimer turns out to be a lawyer, and helped stop the erroneous charges from coming to anything
4) Another coincidental thing; David Bowie was getting a lifetime acheivement award that night, so had his own film crew there so he could have something for his Archive. They filmed the whole thing and proved that nothing happened!
5) Really really weird this last one many MJ fans are still really really pissed off about this... Even though I personally thought the whole filmed incident is hilarious (maybe it's a British humour thing? Dunno) and MJ proved he's a professional performer not letting it get in the way of the act at all

And according to Jarvis Cocker himself - he reckoned the performance was a bit over the top/narcissitic at the time, and in a typically British (and dare I say Northern? Despite growing up in the South I've actually lived up North too, heh in Sheffield actually ) fashion was bitterly complaining about it to his bandmate, the keyboard player Candida. She called his bluff and told him to go and do something about it. Red flag to bull, he gets up starts wandering towards the stage - not actually expecting to make it there, and half expecting that he'll be able to go back and say "I tried!" Next thing he knows he's on the stage with no idea what to do since he hadn't actually planned that far ahead...

Eh here's video footage of the "incident" for the curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgG-XJgmXdU

And the resulting fury/press conference O.o :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0Ynq9Kl1k

And an example of the non-tabloid British reactions (ironically the guy hosting this show actually hosted the awards ceremony itself too):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UrQOYOnWo

[DollyKim]

There are some fans who feel they "own" a celebrity and "know what's best" etc and all the emotionally immature I can scream loudest things that come with it. I feel sorry for Michael Jackson's children but the only people who really know what that's like are children of other famous people.

[DollyKim]

Remember seeing The Magic Pony/Horse as a kid? Bet it never looked this good http://youtu.be/GFXpCtHmU1U We used to get faded, grainy, out of sync cartoons with muffled audio and we liked it!

[Gift_in_Edge]

Remember seeing The Magic Pony/Horse as a kid? Bet it never looked this good http://youtu.be/GFXpCtHmU1U We used to get faded, grainy, out of sync cartoons with muffled audio and we liked it!

Aw yeah! I love this movie. We had the English dub, The Magic Pony, on VHS. The Lonely Child song is sweet. http://youtu.be/m3WM1xxh2rY

[victoriavictrix]

Remember seeing The Magic Pony/Horse as a kid? Bet it never looked this good http://youtu.be/GFXpCtHmU1U We used to get faded, grainy, out of sync cartoons with muffled audio and we liked it!

That is a classic Russian Fairy Tale, "The Little Humpback Horse." There is also a ballet from the same fairy tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQhpzsKmBk

There are a LOT of those lovely 1950s Russian-made Fairy Tale cartoons on YouTube.

[knittnkitten]

I wish I didn't feel hungry all the time XP

[richila]

An idea for those who do altered art book journaling collage things- Personal pop culture. Examine the things, movies, TV, books, music, celebrities, memes, trends, friends, that other people have done that affect you.

Yeah, someone is up to their elbows in ephemera and home made books right now. And being a year away from a major birthday I'm looking at a project I half thought of ten years ago, a quilt square for each interest I think I have a few somewhere, but doing it as collages seems more doable and where I am now. Not looking forward to the printing bill but I want the feel of a physical book. Maybe I'll call it Fook, I'm Forty.

That is a cool idea-I may just do one page in my art journal for each decade.

[Vetinari]

Random brain splurge coming up:

Hrmm my hobbies definitely go through cycles - at the moment it's music &/or vinyl collecting. Dammit it can be almost as expensive as bjds - though right now I've not got any cash to spend, so in that respect I'm safe. I've been fiddling with the electronics of my cheapo guitar as well as LP cataloguing.

Looking around at Pulp LPs to potentially fill in a few gaps. I've already got LP copies of my 2 favourite albums of theirs. A decent repress of His 'N' Hers (since the 1st pressing is Not worth the relatively low asking price - since it's missing a track ¬.¬ ) and my favourite of their albums, This Is Hardcore (which I believe might be an original pressing but no idea - the Pulp discog is not as thorough/targetted by anorak collectors as the Bowie one so there isn't a huge amount of info. floating about).

But dayum We Love Life goes for upwards of £100, and has only had the one pressing, which is understandable if upsetting. It came out when vinyl was really really unpopular... And Different Class can go for similar cash if it's the 1st pressing with all of the ridiculously collectable inserts for the silver embossed aperture in good nick. Too many copies of that album that I've seen have had the aperture torn to shreds. And then there are the relatively rare early albums - which really are for vinyl anoraks only... Damn why did I even contemplate going for vinyls of Pulp - they're a CD era band mostly... (Grr at my brain)

So yeah currently dolls are on the backburner (a lot of that is just not having any room around here) though beyond working out what I've currently got I can't actually do much LPs-wise.

(Though I have to confess I am feeling very smug that most of my Bowie LPs are 1st pressings, and that most of them cost a lot lot less than the usual asking price for such things. Having said that I'm annoyed that it's really difficult to fill one of the 1st pressing gaps; the asking price for Heroes is still stupidly inflated due to the Olympics overuse in 2012...)

And I'm surprised at the number of Dynaflexes I've managed to pick-up - I don't really collect those particularly, but it seems a load of them have made it into the UK, and my little collection.

[Trethowan]

Remember seeing The Magic Pony/Horse as a kid? Bet it never looked this good http://youtu.be/GFXpCtHmU1U We used to get faded, grainy, out of sync cartoons with muffled audio and we liked it!

That is a classic Russian Fairy Tale, "The Little Humpback Horse." There is also a ballet from the same fairy tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQhpzsKmBk

There are a LOT of those lovely 1950s Russian-made Fairy Tale cartoons on YouTube.

Also known as a camel? hahahahaha... j/k

[kenaiqueen]

Showing new Monster High vampire doll to DH & SulkyNotTeenAnymore son...fun seeing their reactions.
Showing them the much creepier Scarah sans eyes and making them scream EWWWWW!...Priceless.