12 Replies to “Monday Music Video [Darleen Click]”

1. Danger says:

   January 25, 2016 at 10:48 pm

   Anyone know what Silverlight is? My computer keeps asking me to update it when I visit this site.

2. McGehee says:

   January 26, 2016 at 9:02 am

   It’s Microsoft’s media engine, a counterpart to Java or {{{shudder}}} Flash.

3. palaeomerus says:

   January 26, 2016 at 9:25 am

   Back in high-school I used to think this was a song about culture-wide imposition of a tendency towards self censorship on people who perceive themselves to be provisionally members of important groups, and how it makes us all vastly more vulnerable to advertising and content TV when we are afraid to talk things over with our peers for fear we’ll be excluded or attacked or made fun of for it.

   Now I’m pretty sure it was a prediction of the coming world of Smart Phone Zombies always tweeting and checking their tumblrs for signs of heresy.

   We need a sequel called the “fulminating color-storm of noise”

4. palaeomerus says:

   January 26, 2016 at 10:01 am

   Hello Silence, I was wrong
   The nothing prospers with you gone
   Conversations without meaning
   Touching letters, we are leaning
   And the knowledge will not nest in these words we carve
   Our minds shall starve with nigh a trace of silence.

   In crushing mobs I flowed alone
   Weighed by sins I long thought atoned
   Passing chili dogs and flat screens
   My eyes slid by the blurry night scenes

   Oh my eyes were myopic
   So the text was all I could see
   Read emptily
   Beyond the reach of silence

   And round this vapid scrawl I heard
   The song of man and car and bird
   An ersatz choir with no rhythm
   A toneless shudder in my ear drum

   People singing sounds
   Their ears strain to ignore
   Drown out this bore
   Wailing though dumb as silence.

   “Fools” I thumbed, “you do not know
   Our network lines us up in rows
   Quote this post that I am sharing
   Not the meme at which you’re staring”
   But my voice, like pebbles in a bowl
   Had no control to appeal for silence

   And the people flowed and slogged
   Along the avenue some jogged
   And the network dropped to two bars
   So I glanced up at the old cars

   The drunken pressure of the mob slurred:
   “The lights of the city
   have blotted out the distant stars
   to aid these cars”
   That search in vain for silence.

5. 11B40 says:

   January 26, 2016 at 10:09 am

   Greetings:

   Wow, that was an experience. Especially since I was around when the original first showed up. Kinda like the manly men replacing the pajama boys. Similarly in these days of the triumph of the Prog-Borg, undertones of Orwell’s “rough men” defending their borders.

   But now, I have to get back to my fantasyland.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upbAbcTCDwA&list=PLAai7AXwvr5LpfFpFlSfoBumaUJyOjivB

6. McGehee says:

   January 26, 2016 at 11:13 am

   I dunno. A manlier voice just makes it seem more emo to me.

   Hello darkness my old friend
   I’ve come to skulk in you again
   I will not answer to a bat signal
   Because it wasn’t in the original
   Still Gotham’s criminal element will meet its end
   When I descend
   With vigilante vi’lence…

7. McGehee says:

   January 26, 2016 at 11:52 am

   I saw Emo Hipster Batman open for the Sex Pistols in 1947.

   But to be serious for a moment…

8. palaeomerus says:

   January 26, 2016 at 1:48 pm

   I saw Emo Hipster Batman open for the Sex Pistols in 1947

   Sid, Glen, Steve, Paul and Johnny were giving an implied performance since none of them would be born for another 8 years.

   Yeah, Hipster Emo Batman opened for them almost a decade before they were born. BEFORE THEY WERE COOL JUST WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH for Hipster Emo Batman.

9. happyfeet says:

   January 26, 2016 at 3:47 pm

   i don’t hear anything

10. McGehee says:

    January 26, 2016 at 4:31 pm

    BIFF! POW! URK!

11. LBascom says:

    January 26, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    I’ve never equated manly men with earrings and face jewelry myself, more like, well yes, disturbed.

    Unless you’re a pirate of course, then an earring might be OK.

    Otherwise, kinda reminds me of this: https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=ir5ocINR7eg

12. epador says:

    January 28, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    Well, I must say that writing this after noting Jan 27, 1967 in a different thread whining about Challenger, and anticipating the non-Democratic Mud Wrestling contests scheduled soon tonight, I felt moved.

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