August 15, 2006

Classic Comic Ads - not to be confused with this CLASSIC PSOTS from the Monkeyfilter archives. And if you don't like that, here is a picture of me as a kid. [more inside] [more inside]

What's wrong with this picture? The rest of this shit is YouTube: I hated the 80s. But there were some good things about it, like this video of Whip It! from DEVO. Also, David Byrne coked up to the gills in the Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime video. He's not in the crosseyed and painless video (even though they're essentially the same song), but it's also good. Some people don't realise this last video was directed & choreographed by Toni Basil, who did the unforgettable earworm Mickey (that was a hit before your mother was born) - & then completely disappeared to become a victim of terrible cosmetic surgery (also notice how she picked *really big girls* to back her up in that video.. huh). What few people know is that she had a long career as a dancer/choreographer before any of this, & even appeared in the Monkees movie HEAD - dancing with Davy Jones. Head was a movie that is vastly underrated. It wasn't that great, but it really wasn't bad. Frank Zappa was in it, briefly. Here he is being interviewed by Mike Nesmith in another show, in which they Whip a car. The Monkees movie Head made no cash, but the Monkees made some music with Johnny Cash... Interestingly enough, HEAD was co-written by Jack Nicholson, who appears briefly at the end of the diner scene. Unfortunately I can't find a clip of that SO MY INTERNALLY CONSISTANT CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY POST IS RUINED!!!2 /sputum And like that.. he's gone!!! (until next week)

posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • Whoah a motherlode of links! BTW where can you get that addition to spinach? I've been searching hard to find frog meat here.
  • I woulda thought that the Japanese already had that one sorted out. ;)
  • Interestingly enough Japan is one of the biggest exporters of frog meat - to other countries. Not really eaten much here. Dammit.
  • That IS indeed very interesting. I really searched hard for the clip of Zappa from Head. He appears (IIRC) just after Daddy's Song or after Davy is playing a violin somewhat after that on a movie set. Zappa is leading a bull by the nose. He gives some advice to Davy (I think), then the bull says (this is the bull talkin' now) "Monkeys is the crrraziest peoples!" See, it woulda all have tied together.. sheeeit.
  • Pfft. Too many "links". Probably some of them should have warnings on them as well: "Warning: this link requires an internet browser to access". Also I don't personally approve of using the ampersand in post descriptions. Also [more inside] is displayed twice. All in all, a pretty poor post, n00b. I know you're a new member here and you're trying an' all, but you're obviously a horrible goat-molesting nazi who should be nailed to a giant's fingernail and then used to pick giant boogers out of his, or indeed her, giant nose. Please: (a) Never post here again, ever; (b) Pick me up some milk from the shops; (c) Ask tracicle to give me the giant handkerchief she cleans this place with and the nosehair clippers for Chy; and (d) Bite off your own fingers with your own teeth. I thank you. But not a lot.
  • I HAVE NO FINGERS YOU STUPID INSENSITIVE GERMAN CLOT!!! I type this painstakingly with the warts on my disgustingly bloated torso.
  • I particularly like the slogan on this one. In fact, I think it deserves to be a MoFi tagline: Monkeyfilter: The excitement comes afterward. Like a delayed-action bomb.
  • Yeah, stow it, Berek. Hope you are well.
  • And I totally dig the bling on that chicken.
  • I HAVE NO FINGERS YOU STUPID INSENSITIVE GERMAN CLOT!!! How typical - blaming the many-fingered for his own fingerless fate. I hope, newcomer, that one day you will realise that Monkeyfilter is actually the most polite and well-behaved interblog on the hyperweb. Until that day, I hope that four thousand gnomes carrying one million hammers continually beat your cranium to a bloody pulp while dancing their merry jigs in the creamy, brain-crutoned fluids that leak therein-from. I hope you take that in a constructive way.
  • FILTHY WOOLLEN MITTEN COVERED ANCHOVY BITERS!!!
  • Welcome, Chyren! Great post!
  • No sir, I don't like it!
  • Those ads are fun. All of the old comics ads I ever saw were just trying to entice me to sell GRIT door to door. I assume the grit came with grime, which enabled the vacuum salesmen to remain in business.
  • Needs more links.
  • BEST POST OF AUGUST 15, 2006!!
  • Crap! Youtube is down and I wanted to check out that David Byrne vid.
  • Why you all gots to be haters? You all just jealous of Chy's Tube Style, yo. Toni Basil looks like a living Bratz doll.
  • > What's wrong with this picture? i buy spinach and lettuce from that same company (florette) a few times a month, that's what's wrong with it.
  • Oh roryk - cool! Can you mail me the extra bonuses? Frog congee here we come!
  • Ah, Nesmith. I really liked his 'Elephant Parts' video.
  • BEST POST OF AUGUST 15, 2006!! So where's his 30 bucks?
  • Don't shoot the piano player.
  • I thought some Monkeys were also in Zappa's movie 200 Motels, but I was apparently wrong. Ringo and Keith Moon are in it, but no Monkeys. Watching the movie is somewhat akin to having a pretty weird chemical trip, though, so there's that.
  • I can't see the phrase "comic ads" without mentioning Hostess and the Comic Book Ad Hall of Fame.
  • BUT WHERE CAN I GET AN at almost NO COST MINIATURE DOG?!?!
  • *shoots piano player*
  • So, you've always had this thing for the chicks, eh? *wants to pinch Chy's little baby-soft cheeks