Wednesday, May 28, 2008

visual synergy: the revolution will be synthesized

This Korg Poly-61 kills fascists! New wavers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your oversized shoulder pads!



Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing (from The Politics of Dancing, 1983) - Are you now doing, or have you ever done, the hokey-pokey? I have in my hand a list of 57 highly-placed individuals who have put their left feet in and shaken them all about.



Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday (from Seven and the Ragged Tiger, 1983) - So the moral of the video is that the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Prague Spring in late 1960's Czechoslovakia would have succeeded if the pro-democracy forces had access to Simon Le Bon's pouty lips and Nick Rhodes's groovy hair?*

*Providing that the counterrevolutionary forces were armed with neon vibrators and not Kalashnikovs and Soviet tanks, of course.

3 comments:

Baal said...

I had an epiphany about the hokey pokey a while back: All it is is standing there with one finger extended, going up and down. If turning yourself about were actually part of the hokey pokey why then would the song say 'do the hokey pokey and THEN turn yourself about'?

planet mondo said...

I'm a terror for a synth Micro Korg, Kaoss Pads and the mighty Roland SH 32 but apparently plugins are the way forward from those in the know.

JerseyCynic said...

The Hokey Pokey

Theme song for Restless Leg Syndrome!