'real version' remakes of some early MTV videos

[thrihyrne]

I'm hooked. I admit it; I became a fan of doing laundry in 7th grade solely because my mom said I could watch MTV if -- and only if -- I was folding laundry. Some of these literal remakes are genius and show just how awful some of the original videos were. This one, of Billy Idol's White Wedding, I have to embed. In fall of '83, I was the last one in my household to go to school. My sister and brother went off, and my mom went off to grad school. Once I had the house to myself, I would illicitly turn on MTV and then call my then-best friend, Kelly Killingsworth, with whom I shared a birthday, when this video came on.

Yes, it's Thev trivia. And the literal remakes are glorious camp. Any others born around 1970 or thereabouts... welcome to parodies of our early adolescence.

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[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

(((hugs you close)))

I miss you! I need to write you a proper letter, now that I'm situated though I have a cold. No excuse for not writing, however.

Isn't it funny how songs can bring back such memories? I took blank cassette tapes to the U.S.S.R. when I went to Vladimir in 1991 to study, thinking that people there would want them. But of course they didn't; they wanted tapes with music on them! What a mess. And coming back via Helsinki after a month in the Soviet Union, I saw my then-boyfriend going through customs; I about had a heart attack because I knew he had a full army suit in there: jacket, trousers and knee-length boots. He wasn't searched. I was. :P All I had was a bottle of Soviet Georgian vodka, which they let me keep.

I have no idea what would be on MTV anymore. Not so sure that I'm not sorry about that!