The Music Video That Turned Me Into An Author
The first time I saw this video, Todd Harris and I were watching the California Music Channel -- a terrible little Bay Area music video show from the early 80s hosted by a rat faced mustachioed & permed VJ named Rick Kurkjian, a man whose screen persona was somewhere between annoyed and ashamed, with a dash of confused and alarmed, as I recall -- on the floor of his family room. It was 1983. And it was awesome. Vowels meant a lot to me, even then...
You'd think the blond guy would be the one who's dead now, and you'd be wrong! It's the other one!
Posted by: erin | September 07, 2007 at 06:07 AM
Damn I want some yellow pants.
Posted by: Antoine Wilson | September 07, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Wait. Isn't this one of the "This sucks" videos from BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD?
Posted by: Jim Winter | September 09, 2007 at 03:42 PM