August 3, 2008
Your story has become tiresome...
Yesterday's Sitemeter fiasco made this seem appropriate. It's a homemade video of Kraftwerk's title track Computer World, with some kind of Muppet-characters. Pretty funny stuff, if you're a geek like me.
I miss the heady days of 1981, when you could drop a tab and put on some Kraftwerk. Primitive techno dance/electronica. Strangely, only blacks seemed to embrace these Aryan freaks. Every shamming lowrider in town was playing this tape then.
Dieter from Sprockets, of course, sprang fullborn from Kraftwerk's loins. The last decent thing Mike Meyers did.
Excuse me while I go feed Klaus.
Oh man, did you see the snake game in that vid (it looked a little like Tron)? I always wondered what happened to that game. Otherwise...the fuck did I just watch?
Posted by: Erica at August 3, 2008 4:21 PMIn the heady days of 1981, you were only 24. You can still drop a tab and put on some Kraftwerk, you just won't feel too good.
Posted by: Jack Straw at August 3, 2008 6:31 PMTo build on Hunter Thompson's old quote about Circus Circus Casino - "what the whole hep world would be doing on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war" - Kraftwerk would probably have been the soundtrack.
Ahh, the memories. Elektronischen Tanz-Musisch!
Posted by: Elisson at August 4, 2008 11:59 AMExcuse me while I go feed Klaus.
At least you didn't say, "Touch my monkey."
Computer World pretty much pre-figured everything that was to follow--musically, technologically, fashion, et al. I remember dropping a tab with Jack Straw one night, listening to this, then greeting the actor Vincent Gardenia that morning as the sun came up over the quad, blazing a jernt, preparing to go crash while he went to his job starring in an lame TV show then being shot on campus. His look of disdain has stayed with me to this day, albeit without as much profundity as Kraftwerk.
Posted by: rankin' rob at August 4, 2008 8:19 PM