campaign managing is FUN.

[minkhollow]

Added yet another point to that in the comments - little to no campaign-fund necessity. (The icon is essentially what the signs would look like, after all.) And the suggestion of putting Vimes up for the office first was a really good one. As was just going straight to the entire planet, but it's really best if you take these things slowly.
In other news: mumblemumblejohnnydeppshould'vegotbestactormumble. But at least RotK cleaned up.
Watched animated!Wyrd Sisters between yesterday and today. Not bad, all things considered. Those of you who haven't seen either - if you have to pick one, go with Soul Music.
After first period an entire hallway of the school smelled like toast. This was apparently to do with someone's how-to project. Even so, that overwhelming of a smell that early in the morning... just. DUDE. Give me some toast, yo!

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[justjohn.livejournal.com]

Just barging in, having seen your post in discworld, and stared at the icon, wondering "What's a pic from Daria have to do with that quote?" and then "minkhollow? As in Hermit of ...?"

So forgive me, but how the heck did a person of your generation acquire your musical tastes? Harry Nillson and Warren Zevon, even!

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[minkhollow]

Congratulations. I think you're the first person to get the source of the user name without me telling them. Your award will arrive in approximately ten business days. XD
The icon you were talking about is bringing two of my obsessions together, and also because I couldn't remember the name of that start thingy from LotR in order to go Googling for a picture. This one is the obsession thing again - I've done icons for the whole song.
As for my musical tastes, they're largely the fault of my parents, if you choose to look at it as blame. I thank them for it. (Seen Todd in concert four times now. Love that man's music to PIECES.)

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[justjohn.livejournal.com]

I saw Utopia's "Ra" show, before the tour went bankrupt, Todd solo in 1988 or so (he had an original Macintosh on stage, so that's why I think '88) and the time when he toured with 11 or so singers.

At the solo show, there was a guy behind me hollering "WE WANT TODD!!" Even after Rundgren came on stage, he still shouted it. I wound up shouting at him, "We HAVE Todd!"

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Oh, I know the feeling. There was some idiot at the last show (last April) who got so annoying that Todd pronunced him 'the biggest ass in Cincinnati.'

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[justjohn.livejournal.com]

What are Todd's shows like, these days? I have to admit, I'm kinda nervous about going to a show of somebody with such a long-time cult following. (It's also an excuse I give for being scared to play live. (Insert plug for my own cruddy music here. (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/justjohn.htm)))

Sort of like going to see PDQ Bach; everybody else there seems to know all the in-jokes ahead of time.

Hey, if your family has the interests you mention, like Rundgren and TMBG, what do you guys think of the Bobs or Brian Eno or Sloan*?

* Okay, Sloan is newer, and I confess to plugging them gratuitously.

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Other than the ass, it was BRILLIANT. Just Todd, the whole time (unless you count the opening act, but he was good too). I think I appreciate his stuff a lot more now than I did at the first concert (I was in first grade at the time - my parents started me young!) due to understanding more of it.
And... I don't think I've heard of any of those others. Except possibly Brian Eno by association with the Talking Heads (maybe?).

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Yeah, Eno did stuff with Talking Heads and members. His "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram. He and David Byrne did the My Life in the Bush of Ghosts album, which I hated at the time, but presaged a lot of hip-hop.

My tastes have changed over the years, tho I've always loved the Who (and the Beatles and other Brit Invasion bands.) I used to hate soul and disco, but that's changed. Probably the medley on A Wizard, A True Star helped with that.

I mention it because of you talking about seeing TR when you were that young. I used to like to say that I should have gone to Woodstock: I knew it was happening, I was nearby, I had the money and my parents were gone for the weekend. But realistically, I was a 13 year old suburbanite brat, and I would have hated all the mud and messiness.

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I still hate disco, but I love all kinds of things, including a probably inordinate amount of '80s music. My favorite band hands down is Barenaked Ladies - has been for several years now, and for many of the same reasons I like Todd.
...Woodstock? Wow. Pity it isn't chronologically possible for me to see Hendrix or Janis Joplin live. (But I've seen the Who twice!)

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I'm of the no band without Keith Moon can be considered "The Who" school of thought.

Okay, maybe if -- when JE was still alive -- they'd recruited Ginger Baker, that might have come close. But he's more of a leader than Moon was, so the mix of the band would have been different. I listen a lot to his 1990s instrumental album Unseen Rain ...

Let's see ... When I think of 80s, I think of B-52s, REM, Laurie Anderson, U2, the Police, the Bears ("Fear is never Boring"), the more poppish Ramones albums, Kate Bush ... Most of them started earlier, of course. Madonna, not for music so much as how she made it so far on sheer force of personality. Some metal, like Voivod and Faith No More.

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HOLY CRAP YOU KNOW 'FEAR IS NEVER BORING'! That's got to be a first. (Of course, the version we've got at home is the Raisins, but since Raisins = Bears = Psychodots for the most part it counts.)
And to continue with the 80s thing while I'm here, I mostly get into the one-hit wonder side of things, with a healthy dose of Peter Gabriel. "Take On Me" is one of my favorite songs ever, not to mention the video.
Anyway. Back to the Who. First time I saw then was the Quadrophenia tour in 1996, so that's three-quarters of the band and really not too shabby considering most of my generation thinks you're asking them a question when the band name comes up. ::rolls eyes:: The other was not very long after John died (one of two or three celebrity deaths that's really gotten to me).

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One hit wonders? Y'mean, like Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"? Don't know if Gary ("In Cars") Numan counts, since he seemed to have a career. (But wow, did I loathe Ah-Ha.)

I saw Genesis in the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, which was Gabriel's last tour with the band. (Phil Collins is another drummer I quite like, as his stuff with Brand X shows.) I have a bunch of Gabriel albums, including the first three, which were all eponymous. (A different record company for each.) I loved the bit in "South Park" where somebody tells Stan the most romantic thing he could do would be to stand outside Wendy's window with a boombox playing a Peter Gabriel song, and he does so, using "Shock the Monkey."

So, do you have Smash Your Head Against the Wall? I played that elpee ragged. I have the CD, and enjoy the ultra-faithful cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl." (Young's Everybody Knows this is Nowhere is also a lifelong fave. (By that you can extrapolate that yeah, I liked Nirvana and I lo-o-ove Radiohead.))

considering most of my generation thinks you're asking them a question when the band name comes up. ::rolls eyes::

But what's wonderful about that is it's back to the original intent of the name!

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Dad loves "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - I think it's all right. And I've heard bits and pieces of "Cars" (primarily thanks to VH1's one-hit wonders countdown) - odd little song but really not too bad. The way I see it, anything released in the 1980s was either hit or miss, and that varies from person to person. Michael Jackson, for example. If you ask me, MISS.
I don't think we've got that one. It's entirely possible that we've got it on vinyl or cassette, but I rarely dig into either of those (the vinyl more often - Simon Townshend, 'Fear is Never Boring,' Quarterflash, Hermit of Mink Hollow before I got it on CD, a few other things I'm forgetting at the moment...).

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Dad loves "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

If he's anything like me, his appreciation of the song probably got a recharge seeing Cate Blanchett dancing around and lipsynching it in Bandits. Best moment of the movie.

To round out my description of How I Spent My 80s, I also listened to a lot of jazz, especially Miles Davis and James Blood Ulmer.

Hey, ever listen to the Rundgren-produced Tubes album Remote Control? It was in the late 70s, before they had a real hit.

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...Not to my knowledge, but I did notice at one point that he produced something for them. ("She's a Beauty" - there's another for the '80s-music list.) And then I sort of filed the fact away in the back of my mind.
I've always been completely bowled over by the amount of work Todd did himself on his albums - all of it, in some cases. Just... wow.

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Hey, all my stuff on all my albums was done by me ...

Okay, yeah, now it's a lot easier to do, partially thanks to Todd's trailblazing ways.

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So you enjoyed the animated Soul Music? Personally, I thought it was disappointing, but on the other hand, how could it not be? I haven't watched it again since it first came out. Perhaps I should.

[minkhollow]

Well, obviously there were bits I had issue with (most notably the lack of Vetinari), but the music was GREAT.