is coming (Combing?) to Melbourne!
He sent a bulletin out on MySpace to say that he s gonna be in town from May 13-29, and possibly doing some uni or pub shows.
I ll definitely be going along for a laff if he does end up doing something. Maybe I ll finally be able to find out what the hell a knucklebone face is oh, what s that you say? It s knucklebone phase ?
Well, that makes sense, I guess.
Seriously though, did anyone else used to think those lyrics were I m like a yo-yo face, I m like a marble face, I m like a hopscotch face etc ?
Since I posted something from Motown 25 the other day, I wanted to share my other favourite moment from the special.
It s a battle of the bands style medley with The Temptations and The Four Tops. Enjoy:
I think The Temps sealed it when they busted out My Girl , although technically The Four Tops should win simply because it s actually The Four Tops, and not a bunch of replacements.
I love how the audience goes nuts just when the instantly recognisable tunes begin, before the groups actually start singing.
Ah, the magic of Motown!
And check out the sweet bass on Otis Williams. He should be the conductor on the Soul Train.
Remember this little ditty?
It s not the actual video clip for the song, and the guy wrongly credited it to MC Hammer (who did the similar Addams Groove for the Addams Family movie). It s by Partners In Kryme.
Such an awesome song. It was everywhere in 1990.
Ironic props to the Partners In Kryme for coming up with some ridiculous, overwrought rhymes.
( They didn t say we d be there in half an hour! )
Whatever happened to blockbuster movies getting rap track tie-ins? This, The Addams Family, Men In Black it was great!
And to think it all started with Prince s song for Batman.
The TV special is best remembered for Michael Jackson introducing the world to the , but to me the most interesting thing about that night (I speak as if it wasn t aired two years before I was born) was when Lando Calrissian joined the Jackson 5 on stage for their reunion performance.
Marlon Jackson wasn t available for the reunion, so the General (an old friend of the Jackson family) came along to help out.
Check it:
Amazing how General Calrissian found time to learn all the Jackon 5 s songs and dance steps in between waging guerilla war on the Empire and feeding his gambling habit.
(Behind-the-scenes photo of father Joe Jackson guiding Lando the stage, under threat of violence).
More random 80s Aussie crap on YouTube.
Check out this clip from Countdown in 1983, featuring Ross Eagle Rock Wilson s one-hit wonder wife:
Oh, I probably should have warned you to avert your eyes for the first few seconds. Sorry about that.
Did you catch Molly Meldrum doing what he does best (acting like a total tool)?
Gotta love Molly.
I like how the song has nothing to do with aerobics, but that s the theme they went with for the dancers. Olivia Newton-John must have cancelled at the last minute, so they were stuck with an aerobic dance troupe.
And you get a few seconds of a K-Mart ad The Swingers at the end. Bonus!
As a huge Michael Jackson fan, I was naturally PUMPED to hear that he s heading back to the studio for a 2007 album release.
I was just as PUMPED back in 2001, of course, and Invincible turned out pretty shit. But still, there s always a part of me that hopes the King will return.
Anyway, I hit up Youtube for some footage I had heard about of MJ in the studio with will.
i.am of the Black Eyes Peas, and as so often happens with Youtube I went on a merry journey through videoland. One of the things I found was the following bit (origin unknown) where Michael Jackson is answering fan questions in an Internet chat room, back in 1995.
World Wide Web! The future!
Some idiot asks the standard if you could be a superhero, which one would you be and why?
Insightful, probing questions here. Anyone would expect MJ to come back with something weird like I am a superhero , or Peter Pan is my superhero , but instead he proves himself a closet comics fan by talking about how much he likes of the X-Men, because he can become all things and is very mysterious .
Seeing as this is 1995, I think Michael s exposure to the X-Men probably comes from the X-Men: The Animated Series (in which Morph was a recurring secondary character) rather than the comics.
Still, it s nice to learn that MJ s an X-Fan, even if it does conjure up images of him and Macaulay Calkin in their PJs on Saturday morning, eating Cap n Crunch and watching cartoons.
McDonalds latest attempt to pretend that they re concerned about kids health and well-being is the Music Happy Meal , which comes with a little iPod-looking thing called a music stick containing 30-second song clips.
When I heard about this, I just expected a bunch of crappy pop songs by the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Ashlee Simpson, but I was surprised and awe-struck to find that one of the songs available is the 1994 smash hit I Like To Move It by Reel 2 Real.
It s good to see that they re introducing kids to the classics. They re only missing Boom Boom Boom by The Outhere Bros, and Whoomp! There It Is!
by Tag Team. I can actually see why they used I Like To Move It , cos it was featured in that movie Madagascar last year, but one of the other music sticks inexplicably contains Lou Bega s Mambo No. 5 (a song I d hoped never to have to hear again).
The music sticks themselves are pretty cool for Happy Meal toys. They re fairly loud, and come with a clip so self-loathers can proudly display them on their belts and walk around getting beaten up.
I do like the idea of being able to blast I Like To Move It from my hip at any time, though.
If anyone gives me any guff throughout the day, I can just push the button and give them a dose of Reel 2 Real.
McDonald s and dancing, historically, have not gone well together. Anyone who s seen the 1988 E.
T. rip-off Mac and Me will know what I m talking about. The movie features a bizarre 10 minute breakdance contest scene in a McDonald s store, all while a group of men in black chase down the little alien who needs to drink Coke (not just any soda, only Coke) to live.
I will review Mac and Me for Retro Junk someday, and it will be the best thing ever written.
Since I can t dance, here s Spider-Man to show you how it s done
(That s his ride in the background. One does have to represent, after all.
Spidey rolls with Barbie dolls.
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