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Are you following WD-40 on Twitter? You should be; their account is an utter delight."
- Help! How Do I Get That Old-Man-Pee Smell Out Of My Bathroom?
I live in hope that someday someone will make a comment like this about a brand I work for.
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That time when a promotional email just reminds you that you don’t have any vacation for another month.
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To be fair…
I still very much need to see this episode in its entirety.
VALID.
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Sheila E doing “Glamorous Life” at the American Music Awards in 1985. This performance is bonkers. For the first third she sings lead while standing and also playing the lead percussion part. Then she takes the mic and dances around. And then the lights on stage go dark and she solos on drums in the dark with glow-in-the-dark sticks.
Two things occur to me watching this, and recently revisiting Sheila E’s first two albums. One, Prince in the 1980s was the kind of pop genius that comes along every 20-30 years, maybe. The amount of brilliant, boundary-pushing, but still accessible music he was responsible for, as both a solo performer or, as with this song, as a writer/producer, is simply astonishing. It’s honestly like talking about Albert Einstein in 1905, that’s how in the zone he was. It was a decade of a true and lasting genius by an artist at the height of his powers who was given all kinds of resources. A rare thing.
The second thing is what a talent Sheila E was (and probably still is, though I haven’t heard anything she’s done in some time). She had a few big hits, two good records, and came from a remarkable family of musicians (she had several first-call percussionists of note in her family). In the late 1980s she was Prince’s live drummer and also was also the leader of his backing band (you can see her considerable skills behind a proper kit in the Sign O the Times film). Imagine what it takes to be Prince’s musical director in those years, for him to hand over the keys.
Put down whatever you are doing and make sure you watch this video.
Also before the drum solo somebody comes out and puts a white fur coat on her.
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER.
Damn girl. You play the cowbell.
Also: the eye makeup
Also also: the mismatched earrings
Also also also: the outfit of the keyboardist behind her.
Everything basically, on point.
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Why do tumblr spam bots keep telling me to go on a diet?
sad?
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Say hello to my new favorite thing - @projecteo. A teeny tiny, no bigger than a berry Instagram slide projector. #mini #nofilter #kickstarter #rad
Projecteo is the smallest, coolest thing we’ve seen since Josephine & the Roach introduced us to the mini-New Yorker.
WANT
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[Image: Two gifs of Miles and Molly O’Brien hugging.]
O’Brien would be a cool dad to have. Also I just had an idea for a downton abbey/star trek crossover comedy titled O’Brien and O’Brien.
He’s a big softy, she is hard on the outside, slowly the become friends and…solve crimes? Needs work, admittedly.
