NOTE: Another Sunday, another Tiny Mammoth Concert.
A couple of years back I was vaguely obsessed with Driver’s Seat, the one hit of a one hit wonder band with the unlikely name of Sniff ‘n” the Tears. You probably know the song; though it hasn’t been on the (American) charts since 1979, it’s had what the statisticians call a long tail, by which I mean that people still play it. Though usually not as often as I did that year.
Here’s the song. It’s pretty catchy, you’ve got to admit.
It turns out that I’m not the only person obsessed with the song. Back when I was most interested in it I poked around YouTube a bit in search of videos related to the song and discovered that one woman had filmed herself doing a little improvised dance to it, something (it turns out) she has done with a wide variety of danceable songs, mostly oldies.
When it occurred to me recently to do a little post on the song, I went back to YouTube to find her video. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that she had done another nine videos of herself dancing to Driver’s Seat in an assortment of outfits.
Here are five of them, picked out mostly at random; you should be able to find the rest fairly easily if five aren’t enough for you.
And in case you’re wondering, I’m pretty sure the paintings in the background of all of the videos are by her, and that they’re for sale.
I would send her a fan letter or something but it turns out she’s a MAGA.
Not even ten Driver’s Seat dances can make up for that.
Oh, by the way, my headline today was inspired by this.
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There are giant plot holes in Back to the Future part 2 and part 3. In 2, when they were worried about Jennifer running into her older self and Brown said “oh no, the skyway is jammed”, they seem to have forgotten what kind of vehicle they were traveling in. The sort that could jump back 10 minutes or so to compensate for the traffic jam and arrive at the house in Hilldale right about the same time Jennifer did.
Of course, had they done that, the whole rest of the plot wouldn’t have happened, since they’d have been there and gone again before Old Biff could have arrived there.
And in 3, they could have siphoned the remaining fuel from the DeLorean that had just been buried in the mine (which fuel would have evaporated away by 70 years later anyway, so would otherwise have gone to waste, and so taking it wouldn’t have altered events in 1955) and into the one whose fuel line had been damaged (and, presumably, repaired), and been on their way back to 1985 a few hours after McFly arrived.
I mention this only because these Tiny Mammoth threads seem to need an ice-breaker to get going …
Another musical snapshot of a specific time; in my case, “10-9-8” by Face to Face in the summer of 1984. I can’t help wondering if the aesthetic of black and white with isolated accents of neon color might have influenced Sin City:
@Full metal Ox
Back in the 60s kid’s comics like Beano would have a full-colour cover, but most of the inside was black and white. Maybe 4 pages inside would be black and white and red.
@Full Metal Ox:
Black and White and a single highlight or ‘spot’ colour is an art technique I’ve seen in a few places, usually as a way to really make what’s highlighted stand out. Unsurprisingly, in a portrait often the only thing that’s coloured is the eyes. I’ve also seen it done the opposite way in an odd form of silhouette, where the background is in variants of a single colour (often an explosion or neon lights) while the foreground character is purely black and white.
Sin City may have been the main mass media exposure of the idea for a lot of people, but it’s been around as an artistic style for a long time.
@Shelia:
And, of course Sin City was a comic book first. Printing limitations made this particular art style an easy thing in comic books, and a lot of the style probably goes back to early movie posters which would have had even stricter limitations. Particularly doing blood red as the only spot colour is very much a Noir thing.
Since we’ve already brought up Dark Horse via Sin City, they also did Grendel: Black, White, and Red with similar spot colour work.
Manga often also has a few colour pages and then the rest of it being just line work; that’s an artifact of the binding process as much as the printing process, as the first signature would often be better paper to show off the art while the more internal pages would be cheaper newsprint.
#Sheila, Full Metal Ox:
The B&W with a tint was a fairly common thing in Japanese Manga Magazines also– I’m referring to the classic “Telephone Book” Manga, where in the most popular publications (such as Shonen Jump or Nagayoshi) page counts could reach 300, 400, even 500 in some cases. I don’t know if that’s as common in our age of electronic press, but back in the day I used to have a few huge magazines as thick as a Bible.
One more example of capitalism’s perversity:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RtoD4fVIYGsJ:https://www.businessinsider.com/ghost-jobs-why-some-companies-dont-respond-to-applications-2022-9&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-b-d
Can it just die already? :/
(The web site seems to have removed the article text recently for some silly reason. Google Cache still has the version of the page with the article text, but I don’t know for how long.)
The chorus to that Ultravox song has been stuck in my head for 38 years. I’m not complaining, mind you.
@Surplus
Thank you for that, reading now – paywall bypass is here for anyone who wants: https://web.archive.org/web/20220919024020/https://www.businessinsider.com/ghost-jobs-why-some-companies-dont-respond-to-applications-2022-9
You may recall the judge allowed Trump’s request for the appointment of a Special Master, and went along with Trump’s preferred nominee, one Judge Drearie.
Seems though Judge D is taking his job a bit too seriously. He’s set a really short time scale for the exercise (7 Oct) ; but he has also asked Trump to explain how he claims the documents were declassified.
So now Trump’s lawyers are objecting to their own special master. They want the judge to take until the end of November to report; but perhaps of more significance, they object to having to provide the explanation:
So basically “We were rather hoping we’d have until the criminal trial to cobble together a defence.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.97.0.pdf
I do quite like their slogan.
Wow, this is genuinely on the court docket for Trump’s case.
With supporting evidence like this the judge should just give summary judgment and reinstall Trump as president right now,
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.101.0_1.pdf
@David Futrelle:
(My prior attempt got spamblocked; let’s see what happens this time.)
Off-topic, but I just found an image that you might find useful next time you have occasion to deconstruct the Macho Manly Mammoth-Hunting Dayes of Olde: “Flight from the Mammoth”, oil on canvas by Paul Jamin, 1885:
http://64.media.tumblr.com/eb6f7ea7d3a7cbabe69f64f77d1c89da/tumblr_owp0i1axco1u5n922o1_1280.jpg
@John Lucas:
The chorus to that Ultravox song has been stuck in my head for 38 years. I’m not complaining, mind you.
So it means something to you?
@Alan: I always appreciate your tracking down and sharing fun legal things with us. That last one certainly is a doozy of someone who’s drunk the Flavr-Aid.
I bet the clerks and so on show these around the office to their peers right after they put them in the record and before they get to the bosses. They can use laughs too.
@FMOx: That painting is a fabulous demonstration of what the MRAs/MGTOWs would actually do in that case. Although I suspect they couldn’t outrun a mammoth at full gallop. They might be slow, but they’ve got tremendous momentum when they finally get going. Humans aren’t good against very big animals without guns. The fracture patterns seen in Ice Age men are only replicated nowadays in rodeo riders who fall off and get stomped on by big vegetarian critters.
@ gss ex-noob
This is quite interesting. Especially for what it implies about neolithic society.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prehistoric-childs-amputation-is-oldest-surgery-of-its-kind/
@ FMO
That painting is very worthy of a caption contest.
@GSS ex-noob; @Alan Robertshaw:
Here’s some background music for the Mammoth Hunters’ Retreat; for optimum effect, crank it up to 2x speed.
Speaking of legal stuff. Wellbeing at the Bar is a big thing now. So there’s loads of resources in the various jurisdictions to protect our mental health. I like the US approach.
Latest from Alex Jones Connecticut trial.
Atty: “Looks like Mr Jones will be in court tomorrow.”
Judge: “I’m calling in sick.”
@Alan: But what if they are in fact, a terrible attorney? How many times should this cycle repeat?
@FMOx: I am digging this version.
Robert Haynie:
Ahem.
Dr. Dana Mahr on Twitter: “For the manga lovers out there: „I present to you Once Piece. In, erm… *looks into notes* … one piece“. https://t.co/IZSTzePGDl” / Twitter
You may recall ‘Central Park Karen’; the lady who called the police on the birdwatcher chap.
She was fired after that. But she sued her employers for racial and gender discrimination, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional arm, and negligence.
However the judge has just dismissed all the claims.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.560923/gov.uscourts.nysd.560923.48.0.pdf
In fairness that gender discrimination claim might have had a punt. Her argument was that three guys at her work who had committed incidents of bad conduct weren’t fired.