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Music Video of the Day: First by Lindsay Lohan (2005, dir. by Jake Nava)

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I actually forgot, up until about 20 minutes ago, that I needed to do one of these for Sunday so this is going to be rush job.  Sorry!

Speaking of forgetting things, do you remember when Lindsay Lohan was a big star and was viewed as being a wholesome role model?  This video is from that forgotten era.  This song was written for Herbie: Fully Loaded, which starred Lindsay.  The video features Lindsay with not only blonde hair but also violating countless safety rules by performing while a race goes on around her.  That’s our Lindsay!

This video was directed by Jake Nava, who directed the videos for Lindsay’s Rumors and Over.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis (2002, dir. by WIZ Andrew John Whiston)

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The title of this song is for a lot of people today.  It’s time to move on.  It’s time to stop crying and complaining and yelling and it’s time to just move on.

I actually prefer the Leona Lewis version of this song but that wasn’t doesn’t seem to have a music video.  We’ll make due with the Oasis original.  This video was directed by a man who calls himself WIZ.  Not the best nickname in the world but if it makes him happy being the Wiz, that’s all that matters.

Not the same Wiz.

The star of this video is Michelle Roman.  This is the only credit that I could find for her.

Again, I want everyone to remember this title.  Stop crying your heat out.  Stop obsessing on what cannot be changed.  It’s time to move forward.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: Say You’ll Be There by Spice Girls (1996, dir. by Vaughan Arnell)

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I promised Lisa that I would post at least one video from Spice Girls this week and I picked this one because, when it first came out, we used to drive our mom crazy by trying to duplicate all of the flying jump kicks at the start of the video.

I guess the idea behind this video is that the members of the Spice Girls are a bunch of international assassins who hang out in the Mojave Desert and tie up men.  The man in the video is played by Tony Ward.  The idea behind the video was Geri Halliwell’s.  At the end of the video, the girls kidnap an ice cream man.  Ice cream!

This video was directed by Vaughn Arnell and it was nominated for the Viewer’s Choice Award at the MTV Music Awards but it wasn’t nominated for anything else because MTV sucks and they couldn’t handle the Spice of it all.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: The Call by Backstreet Boys (2000, dir. by Francis Lawrence)

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In this video, a man cheats on his girlfriend after he meets another girl at the club.  He gives his girlfriend a call where he lies about why he’s going to be late getting home.  Each Backstreet Boy takes a turn playing the cheater.

What the Hell, Backstreet Boys?  You’re all cheating on the same girl?  That’s not cool!

Check out that phone that AJ’s using at the start of the video.  Feel old, yet?  According to AJ, it was during the filming of this video that he tried cocaine for the first time.  Don’t worry, though, AJ’s been sober for a year now.

Enjoy!

 

The Adventures of Steve Harragan and His Eye Patch

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Who was Steve Harragan?  He was a hardboiled private investigator who was the main character of a handful of paperback detective novels that were all published in 1952 and 1953.  Though his adventures were not much different from those of any other P.I. of the pulp era, Steve Harragan has a cult following for two reasons.

First off, the author of Harragan’s adventures was also named Steve Harragan.  Did the author Steve Harragan name the character after himself or was “Steve Harragan” just a pseudonym for another author or perhaps several authors?  No one knows for sure, though all of Harragan’s novel were written in the first person.

Secondly, Steve Harragan the Detective only has one eye.  In almost every cover, he’s featured wearing an eye patch.

Here are a few of the Steve Harragan covers.  As always, the artist has been identified when known:

Author Unknown

Author Unknown

Author Unknown

by Bernard Safran

by Walter Popp

Author unknown. I’m not sure which one of these men is meant to be Harragan but you’ll notice that the eyepatch got left out of this cover.

Music Video of the Day: Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson (2005, dir. by Alex de Rackoff)

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug and it’s the main reason why Since U Been Gone is today’s music video of the day.  Whe I hear this song, I’m immediately zapped back to 2005 and I remember how Lisa and I got on everyone’s nerves by singing it at the top of our lungs every day during the holiday break.

I also remember really liking this video when I first saw it but now I realize that it actually doesn’t go with the song’s message.  The song is about how much happier Kelly is after getting out of a toxic relationship but in the video, Kelly’s destroying her ex’s new girlfriend’s apartment and acting like she’s got a fatal attraction going on.  She should have at least trashed her ex’s place and left the new girlfriend out of it.  This is still a good video, though, because we all have someone in our part whose apartment we would like to trash.

Enjoy!