The women of Mad Men “sing” the Supremes classic “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” A very good combo of clever editing and pointed commentary.
1. Trudy.
2. Peggy’s Ma.
See also Dolan Morgan’s awesome poem “The Inheritance,” which consists of lines from Mad Men, in The Believer this month. Dolan’s going to be the first friend to be drawn by Charles Burns one day, I know it.
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Every day on my way home from work I pass a building called Robo-Lube, and I sing the chorus of this song.
(NSFW, if you couldn’t tell.)
Had this song in my head for two days now.
Someone told me 30 Days of Biking started today, and even though this song reminds me a little too much of Len, I really love the anthropomorphic bicycles and the girls biking in skirts.
It is very hot in my apartment, and I am blasting this song out at the ice cream truck because the only song it plays is the first 12 bars of “Home on the Range,” and I hear it every single day. People are writing about useless 90s nostalgia this week, and I only care, sort of, when I think about how my 90% of my conception of sexuality can probably be traced back to watching the “Today” video in the summer, when my mom was out on errands because I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV.*
This video is all about the time Billy Corgan drove up to the Wisconsin Dells during senior week. (Do people go to the Wisconsin Dells for senior week? Do they have senior week in the Midwest?) The entire Smashing Pumpkins experience—from Gish to Jessica Simpson— will be recreated in brief this weekend when urbanfoodie and I take a similar road trip to the Second City.
Is this my favorite music video ever? If only I could embed it, then it would be.
And Corgan was such a better tween crush than Bieber.
* I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV because my sister had been watching season one of The Real World and in one episode Eric was talking about a penis. Also, it probably has something to do with the Smashing Pumpkins.
Scrapertown from California is a place.
Do you want to look at some sweet bicycles from East Oakland made by superrad kids who would totally call your bike out as busted? Duh, yes you do.
Via the Always Incredible Alex J. P.
So I haven’t feminist media cornered in a while, and I guess that Liz Phair thing could count for something, but plus this video maybe it adds up to half a thought on my own. Granted, I laughed as hard when the intro said “underpants” as I did at the politically oriented jokes, but that’s the way the dentata bite.
