(Usually I would edit this blog, but I'm not going to today. What you read is what you get today.)
When I was a kid all I cared about was music videos. Most kids have better interests, they're really good at a sport or they have great grades. I just cared about music videos...and music and playing bass. It was my brother's 19th birthday today so I took him for drinks with his sister in the afternoon and now I'm kind of drunk and it's 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. So what do I do? Continue drinking. Not excessively, but if you stop once you've started you'll feel worse later. So what do you I do when I have to pass time, buzzed and alone for the moment? I pull out the twelve VHS tapes that I filled with music videos in the 90's. I guess the whole point of this blog is nostalgia and there's nothing more nostalgic to me than these tapes. I chose video tape number two which was was fall of grade nine, a great time for me. Green Day "When I Come Around" is the first video on it, I used to have hair just like Tre Cool, bleach blond with an undercut and spiked out to the side. If you didn't understand that description just watch the video on youtube, that was literally what I looked like in high school. The first set of video's on this tape were on the Much Music Countdown which was on every Friday night. This was my life at this point, going to someones house on Friday, hanging out and watching the countdown. I must have been in Collins Bay at Colleen McKracken's house during this because I remember holding hands with Erin Jacobi on a floor watching the Black Crows "Be My Conspiracy." I can't believe how influenced by the 70's the 90's were while I watch these videos The Black Crows and their affinity for psych rock and Skynard and Green Day with their Clash cribbing.
Oh my god Moist is on the screen! I not embarrassed, "Believe Me" was a great song and Moist were popular so I'm not a loser for having taped their video. And Bif Naked is in the video all the west coasters stick together don't they.
And this is where I'll end it because Weezer "Buddy Holly" is on now. One of the greatest videos of all time of course by Spike Jonze. I saw this video, ordered the CD on Columbia House and never looked back.
