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imomusThis morning, sleeping late, I dreamed a song. I was watching a film, and the final title sequence had Boy George crooning a languid little number called "Your Own Private Gazelle". When I woke up I could sing the first few lines, the melody and chords into a tape recorder. I love it when that happens; manna from heaven!
Talking of Boy George, doesn't the fellow on the right of this photo look like him? It's a scan of the cover of some forgotten Japanese teenpop magazine from 1984, a mag called Rio. The man who looks like Boy George crossed with David Bowie is in a band called Seona Dancing. This past week I've been oddly fascinated by a track they made, a remixed b-side called "Bitter Heart". You can download an mp3 of the song if you follow that link. It's almost a parody of English mid-80s shiny Simmons synth-pop, very Tears for Fears, very Pet Shop Boys, dark and sparkly. The band never had any hits, though they did quite well in Japan and (it says here) the Philippines.
Well, twenty years later that Bowie-Boy George fellow shot to fame as quite a different sort of animal. His name is Ricky Gervais, and he devised, wrote and acted in a TV sitcom called "The Office". Watching David Brent, I always did suspect he was a man who knew his way around a make-up box.
Talking of Boy George, doesn't the fellow on the right of this photo look like him? It's a scan of the cover of some forgotten Japanese teenpop magazine from 1984, a mag called Rio. The man who looks like Boy George crossed with David Bowie is in a band called Seona Dancing. This past week I've been oddly fascinated by a track they made, a remixed b-side called "Bitter Heart". You can download an mp3 of the song if you follow that link. It's almost a parody of English mid-80s shiny Simmons synth-pop, very Tears for Fears, very Pet Shop Boys, dark and sparkly. The band never had any hits, though they did quite well in Japan and (it says here) the Philippines.
Well, twenty years later that Bowie-Boy George fellow shot to fame as quite a different sort of animal. His name is Ricky Gervais, and he devised, wrote and acted in a TV sitcom called "The Office". Watching David Brent, I always did suspect he was a man who knew his way around a make-up box.
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Date: 2005-11-25 01:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 01:37 pm (UTC)Neeters. Are we gonna get to hear it at some point?
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Date: 2005-11-25 02:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 02:22 pm (UTC)"...and that young man's name was...Ricky Gervais."
Date: 2005-11-25 02:25 pm (UTC)Wow. He almost looks like a young Edwyn Collins there. Interesting! I'd have never have guessed, except for the eyes.
He did manage Suede in their early career, so I guess his glam-radar (glam-dar?) was still functioning in the 90s...
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Date: 2005-11-25 03:28 pm (UTC)Ah, c'mon. What about doing something because you love it , then?
Everybody's so obsessed with money and duty versatility nowadays. We're all expected to bloody well 'transcend'.all over the place instead of playing to our strengths and what comes naturally. Soon we'll have no more butchers and bakers. We'll have transcendants and shapeshifters instead.
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Date: 2005-11-25 03:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-25 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: "...and that young man's name was...Ricky Gervais."
Date: 2005-11-25 05:27 pm (UTC)As a manager he was apparently quite efficient and well connected, and therefore not very much at all like David Brent.
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Date: 2005-11-25 06:42 pm (UTC)Yes, Seona Dancing's "More to Lose" became really famous here (Philippines). and is still played on mainstream radio whenever they have new wave hours/spots.
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Date: 2005-11-25 07:38 pm (UTC)to top it off for some reason we ended up in a desert in the middle of America and I was walking barefoot, you happened to remove a scorpion from my leg with a peice of paper very very carefully..
wierd..
..the Ricky Gervais thing works with this... I usually dream very very strange things anyway but this all was just too much because of all the people in the world, I certainly thought I would be afraid to dream of you.
I wonder why...
Date: 2005-11-25 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-26 07:12 am (UTC)Licky Gelvais
Date: 2005-11-27 08:06 am (UTC)Following some splurt of dyeatribe at my conveyencer this week, he quipped that I'd never make an actor, but a comedian maybe. Do you think it was a compliment or was he taking the piss?
Robert
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:19 pm (UTC)http://www.vistaprint.com/vp/gateway.aspx?s=9171591673
boy george
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