I was heartened to see that comments have been disabled for the video.
That is good. She's so great, though. We can comment on her greatness here.
WHAT'S SO GRATE ABOUT HER?!1?
I can't watch the video here at work, but I'm willing to stipulate, based on heebie's avowal, that Avery is great.
4: You think so? I almost had the opposite reaction.
5: Wise move. You won't be disappointed.
6: I should have been specific about what I think has changed - it's the material goods. Of course, we did have tvs back in my day and there's no way I would have been allowed to have one in my room, so maybe it was just my parents.
I thought it was the brushing your teeth with Jack that was new.
Hells Yes to 1. I feared that the Youtube commentariat's first response to the her eyes' appearance through her heavy prescription might not be quite the Martin Jay-via-Lady Gaga thing I was working on.
Sight is a palpation with the eyes. Fact.
Oh man, I remember choreographing elaborate dance routines to songs that, years later, I realized were about prostitution. Lord only knows how my parents made it through our backyard performances straight-faced.
"Lady Marmalade", and "Lovely Ladies" from Les Mis?
I cringe again to admit it, but: "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car".
We certainly sang along with Tone Loc with no idea what he was on about, but I believe nothing in his oeuvre was granted the full choreographic treatment.
17: I'm pretty sure I'm going to forever associate that song with License to Drive.
Okay, now I'm googling to double-check my memory of the Billy Ocean lyrics, and what the hell has happened to lyrics sites? Suddenly they're all sketchy fronts for ringtone downloads and don't let you see the actual lyrics? I disapprove.
Avery's "Bad Romance" vid is cute too.
Okay, now I'm googling to double-check my memory of the Billy Ocean lyrics, and what the hell has happened to lyrics sites? Suddenly they're all sketchy fronts for ringtone downloads and don't let you see the actual lyrics?
Welcome to 2004, GabBath!
Being able to find song lyrics is one of the things that was much, much easier on the internet in 1998 than it is now.
19: We SO BADLY wanted to see that movie. Both Coreys!1!! Thwarted by maternal taste. I've still never seen it; ten-year-old me is agog that so many years of movie-selection autonomy could pass without my doing so.
Also CD reviews and book reviews.
Nowadays if I google "advance and vanquish" "reviews" what I get is 500,000 things that are either fraudulent ads for streaming services, or actual ads for places where I can buy the CD. I have to use something other than searching to find reviews, and I don't know what that thing is. Metafilter, maybe.
14-18.---For me it was INXS, Prince, and Wham! songs. I had all of the verses to "Raspberry Beret" and "One of My Kind" memorized by the time I was like 8.
We all knew that "Darlin' Nikki" was a naughty song, though. It's a little hard to miss that one.
I really missed the boat on "Papa Don't Preach" for a long time. I thought the baby she wanted to keep was her boyfriend.
Liscense to Drive! But it wasn't his fault! The dad from Fresh Prince put the cup of coffee on the dashboard and told him not to spill a drop and he didn't!
Don't forget She Bop.
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This may be the first time that a candidate's predilection for goats becomes an issue in a campaign.
27 gets it exactly right.
I didn't realize what She Bop was about till college when a friend told me, and even then I had to listen to the lyrics. 'Huh, she's right'
Oh man. I hadn't realized that Mickey Kaus had been associated with goat-blowing because of his rumor-mongering after the Edwards/Rielle Hunter story.
#33. And you see, the Edwards/Rielle rumors were true, so what does that say about Mickey and his osculatory passion for goats?
Huh, googling around for the Kaus/goat blowing connection, I've discovered something else I didn't know, but apparently everyone else did: That internet tradition of saying "Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to" comes from a real article by the real Peggy Noonan where she really said those words in all seriousness, after speculating that Clinton was blackmailed by the Cubans into launching the raid to return Elian Gonzales to his dad.
Wow, what a fucked up thing to say.
At least there's no more masturbating to the Senate candidacy of Harold Ford.
35: That is a seriously, seriously stupid article.
I'll sort of miss having Harold Ford to kick around.
At least there's no more masturbating to the Senate candidacy of Harold Ford.
You have caught me at a bad time.
You have caught me at a bad time.
I would not have pegged you for an investment banker.
19: Worst movie I have ever seen in a theater.
Actually, if you could ignore the fact that Corey Haim's drunk date (who I've just learned was Heather Graham!) was locked in the trunk of the car for most of the movie, it had moments of teen buddy romp fun. Wait...
Oh, the "Bad Romance" one is pretty adorable.
I'm still surprised by people who like a song but don't know the lyrics. This despite going on 30 years of knowing that it's pretty common - somehow it just doesn't register that there are people who listen to music in a whole different way than I do.
Last night I saw Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer from Human Giant host a show at Upright Citizens Brigade in which they showed Avery doing this very number. Sadly they didn't get up to too much beyond "Is she retarded?" "No, I checked to make sure, she's not." But the show overall was good.
They also played chat roulette with the whole audience on the screen, which went through about a dozen bored dudes who disconnected as soon as we could be established not to be a hot chick, one penis being stroked, and a dude wearing a helmet who recognized Tig from the Sarah Silverman show.