YouTube Tuesdays: Rhinestones and concussions, lipstick and blood

7.13.2010 @ 2:22 pm UTC by lilah wild

From way back when “FTW” had a very different meaning than it does today: the adventures of a hard-living biker chick whose quest for soulmate Crow were the toast of MTV’s Liquid Television. Mixing delightfully primitive puppetry with bits of live action, the Molotov-cocktailed theme song from this tiny little TV show meant imminent buckets of bad attitude. The first one’s above, here’s the rest of the episodes.

YouTube Tuesdays: Married With Anthrax

7.6.2010 @ 7:11 pm UTC by lilah wild


The Bundy household’s invasion by thrash is such an encapsulating snapshot of life in 1992. Charlie Benante’s haircut foreshadowing The Great Metallica Chop that was to come in a few years, Bud’s “Grandmaster B” alter ego straight out of Yo MTV Raps, Kelly’s pop-metal mall-trash outfits. (Years ago I was browsing through a website that sold costume clothes direct from TV show wardrobes. The prestige of Christina Applegate jacked one of Contempo Casuals’ tight pink dresses up into the realm of $400.)

Unfortunately the episode in its entirety comes with commercials, a weird lack of Sinatra in the theme song, and disabled embedding. But it does have Marcy Darcy gleefully frisking a worried-looking Frankie Bello. The whole thing’s here.

YouTube Tuesdays: Stay out of the daylight!

6.29.2010 @ 6:52 pm UTC by lilah wild

OK, so technically this is a Hulu Tuesday, but whatever gets the clip posted. “Goth Talk” was a Saturday Night Live skit that ran during the late 90’s, poking fun at the subculture in a way that garnered quite a few fans from the dark side. Hosted by Circe Nightshade (Molly Shannon) and Azrael Abyss (Chris Kattan), the show highlighted the trials and tribulations of trying to be children of the night in the Sunshine State: day jobs at the local food court, bullying big brothers, embarrassing pre-teen home videos, every episode brought a new humiliation that had black-clad home viewers nodding along in knowing sympathy. Remember the one with Circe bringing about Countess Cobwella’s social downfall with an Ace of Base talent show lip-syncing video? Here you go.

BTW, Leopard Moon is awake from the little nap I gave it last week during the move, and today’s post digs up more horror hostesses for your viewing pleasure, including the intro from Vampira’s 1954 TV show that started the whole phenomenon. Enjoy.

YouTube Tuesdays: GWAR on the Joan Rivers Show

5.25.2010 @ 12:16 pm UTC by lilah wild

Two forces of nature meet within the genteel environs of a 90’s talk show. This is in honor of Joan’s upcoming documentary, which I am so going to see when it opens up at the IFC – that woman has some verrrrry interesting demons – and I love how she handles this interview, no uptight moralistic scolding, no digust, just, yeah, at the end of the day, it’s really all just showbiz.

YouTube Tuesdays: Courtney Love crashing that Madonna interview

5.11.2010 @ 5:24 pm UTC by lilah wild

On the heels of last week’s vid, in which a very young pre-stardom Courtney rocks the Boy Toy look pretty hard in one of her outfit changes, this clip fast forwards to 1995, to a notorious MTV interview disrupted by flying cosmetics – coming face to face with the Material Girl herself (who by now was in her Bedtime Stories phase), catching her very off-guard in the process, and completely stealing her interview. Look how hungry those cameras are to soak up every last drop of drama, and does she ever deliver, right down to the last ass-over-teakettle second.

I have a love/hate/love thing about Courtney – from my impressions over the years (I still have yet to read Poppy’s biography, it’s sitting right here on my to-read shelf!) she’s a very complex character, not someone who comes along very often in the pantheon of female superstars – but I adore her for totally being *not* groomed into mainstream celebrity, and refusing to play the media game during the 90’s. She’s just so raw, and even though her life has gotten to be a mess, she’s still a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the women coming out of the Hollywood machine.

And I love how Kurt Loder just melts into the background, hilariously lost behind these women.

YouTube Tuesdays: This jacket is a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom

4.27.2010 @ 6:29 pm UTC by lilah wild

So this is going up kind of late today, and for that we have one of my favorite David Lynch clips: the “Love Me” scene from Wild at Heart. Laura Dern is GORGEOUS in this movie – I’m loving her early 90’s blonde-in-black getup here – Nicholas Cage, not so much. (And why is the singer from Powermad wearing a fanny pack? Ew.) This is definitely one of those WTF scenes where the surrealism comes not from sunny lawns nor glitzy surfaces, but pounding thrash suddenly turned into an impromptu ballad – and totally eaten up by the crowd. Yeah, totally implausible in reality, but the shot of the other dark-clad girls in the club swooning over an Elvis cover is priceless.

YouTube Tuesdays: Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones, with a side order of Jon Stewart

4.13.2010 @ 5:36 pm UTC by lilah wild


The bass that powered Led Zeppelin, paired with an infamous three and a half octave range – the collaboration of Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones made The Sporting Life one of the most chocolate-and-peanut-butter must-hear albums of the decade. Here they are performing “Skotoseme,” plus a very young and cute little Jon Stewart!