Kewl. Snuff vids on BoingBoing! Got any crush video links? Something with puppies or kittens? That'd be keeeeeewl.

True story: 10 years ago I was in the midst of drafting up a book outline that might be pitch-able on her life story. I'd already done enough research on her prior and found some great angles - but they all were to lead up to the big question - "did she really take herself seriously - always - or did it happen later".

Last I checked (and this was a while ago) the sales of ALL of the Plasmatic's records COMBINED never broke 100,000. The "fame" was from the (manufactured or not) PR storms that broke out from time to time (was hoping to dig up what People magazine had going on since they were among her top attackers of the day).

The story as I'd had it was - New York porn merchant get's a whiff of the Sex Pistol's story and tries - note for note - an American knockoff. The theatrics were heavy on the camp (the bass-player in the TuTu was a nice touch - particularly his studio audience moshing on the Tomorrow show) but the whole thing reeked of a mix of 12-17 year old demographics skewed around trailer-park punk. None of the smartness of the Sex Pistols or Iggy Pop (or the New York Dolls) came through and I doubt that was ever the intent. WOW said as much on the Tomorrow show as well. It was all great circus.

Then - for some strange reason - she "seemed" to start taking the whole package as product and acted as if she had talent. From her film outing - to the format change to Heavy Metal (produced by Gene Simmons) it started to go from camp - to desperation.

If this sounds like I'm reaching it's the only reason I can think of why she would try to change to a RAP format at the end of her career.

I wasn't looking to hound her or cast a negative profile, but wanted to seriously ask whether the Circus came to town - and STAYED - or whether this was show-biz that even John Waters would find sublime.

About a week into the early draft of the outline when I thought I might actually have the makings of a great way to help out and connect, and bring some well deserved limelight to an early 80s sensation - she left the party early. Tragic as any suicide is - this one in particular - gave me the heavy-creeps.

Oh btw the Brits made some nice film of what a disaster of this type would look like - however unlikely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vKisefsuI

re:" The earth is regularly hit by cosmic rays that are far more energetic than anything the LHC will be able to produce."

The New York Times mentioned this - but also mentioned - that unlike cosmic rays - which pass through the earth at the speed of light - the results of the collider stick around here.

Black Holes - MEH - let's see some stranglets! Every atom on earth converted into alternate matter - woot!

re:" As I understand it once you check your bag in, be it at the train station or the airport its self, no human comes into contact with your bag till it is off loaded at your destination."

Denver International - that was a greeaaaat robot system. Only it never worked.

WOAH - reformat this post! I thought I'd bookmarked an FAQ page and my links were screwed up, or I'd hit an errant link by mistake. Not very home-pagey.

When you have a sofa in the office, full-screen is actually quite decent from across the room. This reminds me of the fancast.com site where I've been picking up the entire run of classic Star Treks and sizable chunks of other shows (WKRP and Sliders are my faves at the moment). They also have movies like David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

Even with single-commercial breaks this is far better than losing massive chunks of hard-drive for once-off viewings and - far far better than doubling my cable bill for the sake of TV.

THIS is why I love broadband - and is the logical outcome when internet usage grows beyond 30% of down-time for people. It's refreshing to see the content-providers getting a clue with some decent initiatives rather than the RIAA's war on P2P. This isn't a small point because until now it seemed all the content providers were more interested in criminalizing everyone through arcane laws and knee-jerk reactionary politics. It only took 4 years of wide-spread broadband access for the models to emerge.

Geez this sounds like suck-up blathering - but this is the model everyone was agog about in the early 90s. The whole idea of "interactive TV". Now I can leave my TV for games and DVD's exclusively, get content on demand, and leave the reality shows for the dustbin.

Well with Warhol another appendum is the fact that while the artwork could depict trademarked products as editorial, use in promotional material had to be done under permission. That's why if you look at the promotional materials for Warhol's exhibition in 2004 at SFMOMA you'll see permission legal copy at the bottom.

Content law is fun!

Thank you for the link. It's pretty comprehensive on the people and the animation and post-production houses but unless I'm overlooking it - I still didn't see the Agency on record. Doubly strange since most title-cards would have that at the top of the list. The assorted Canadian references don't really indicate clues either because the office I worked at vendored-out all over North America - IE: just because we post-produced a tape in Portland OR, didn't mean we were 800 miles near them.

Good background info tho. Wonder if it aired in the US or if it was for other markets (as Tyler mentioned).

When was it made? The last ad related awards (apart from CA) was the Cleo - and that was a long time ago so that jives with all the testimonials on the net that place this in the early 80s.

Well, at least it was for a benign product. Not beer or cigs - although given his tunes that wouldn't exactly be out of character.

Curious what ad agency decided to go with his tone for the spot tho. I mean apart from the song "Nighthawk Postcards" which includes a reference to Purina Checkerboards and it was done in 1975 so it still works with the time period of the commercial (as does the color palate of the spot - tre's 80s). Think he did one for Foster Grants?

Must have been the spillover from the whole Chiat-Day is artier than us movement. That didn't wane until 1995 near as I can tell. And for credibility's sake - I worked for those goobs (TBWA Chiat-Day) so I get to heckle them in public forums.

I'm not too surprised tho. After he did "Fernwood Tonight" anything goes with Mr Waits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0E7x3Nqys

I prefer popsuckits other takes on literature. Particularly Andrew Keen :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQqlDrw19E&NR=1

#155 - homes have banks - not landlords. Difference.

So Amsterdam doesn't want American tourists. That's fine. I'll stay the fuck home.

re: rentals - you can rent with bad credit as long as you have income and a good rental record. My rental record is spotless, and I haven't had any problems getting apartments. My general credit rating is slowly getting back to health.

I'm guessing the people who think otherwise have either jerked their landlord around or haven't rented to any large degree.