Comments | realmilkbrother: It came from the 80s!

realmilkbrother

It came from the 80s!

Jul 09, 2006 12:36

It seems that the public video site YouTube has become home to all of the 1980s music videos that the Milk Brother spent so many hours watching as a teenager. Of course, the Milk Brother's folks would not pop for extended cable, so I never saw MTV. So instead, my foster brother and I spent our Friday and Saturday evenings watching "Night Tracks" on ( Read more... )

my bliss partner, childhood

Comments 4

The Bliss Partner is very moved.... anonymous July 10 2006, 01:50:26 UTC

...and has a proposition. How 'bout I walk down the aisle to the "The Rainbow Connection" or we make it our first dance? This is the first time I've really *listened* to the lyrics, and its about faith without being about religion. I like that ( ... )

Re: The Bliss Partner is very moved.... realmilkbrother July 10 2006, 18:53:47 UTC

As the words to the Blur song go:

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love

Gender-bending and androgeny has a relatively long tradition in pop music, starting with David Bowie and the New York Dolls in the early 70s. It made the 1980s safe for straight boys to wear makeup too.

Re: The Bliss Partner is very moved.... vivasinatra July 12 2006, 01:54:09 UTC

Trouble is, it's a waltz, and the bliss partner's bliss partner has, like, at last count, fifteen left feet. (Brother, just think oom pah pah, Oom pah pah, OOM pah pah, and try not to tread on the BP's feets -- nah, scratch that. Just think of a dozen callow trombones blaring the not-so-dulcet tones of "Home on the Range" and you'll do, um, fine).

I must admit I don't get the whole "gender is a performance" thing. Maybe I haven't spent enough time at: http://blog.wired.com/princessleia/

Re: The Bliss Partner is very moved.... realmilkbrother July 12 2006, 20:16:08 UTC

I must admit I don't get the whole "gender is a performance" thing. Maybe I haven't spent enough time at: http://blog.wired.com/princessleia/

Actually, I'm guessing you probably have...