A valuable lesson: you can never overestimate people's tendency toward the lowest common denominator.
Saturday night's special Low-Life was a rousing success. Thanks to everyone for coming out to support Secret Squares and hero of the evening, Redboy. Why was Redboy the hero? Because people were standing around on the packed dancefloor until he started dropping the drum-machine 80s hits. Erasure. People wanted to hear Erasure. Only after their desire for infinitely danceable chestnuts was sated were they willing to dance to excellent music that they didn't already know by heart. The traditional DJ approach -- start slow and build to a crescendo -- apparently only works when people go to a giant club on lots of drugs for the express purpose of dancing. This evening followed a more "casual" trajectory: get 'em drunk and play the hits. Redboy cracked the code within about six songs... that's why he's a professional. Anyhoo, assuming we're asked back, next time you can expect to hear a shitload of Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Hey, you asked for it.
This is weird.
The one band that will never, ever reunite is reuniting.
You know how we feel about zombie movies around here. Why in hell isn't everyone freaking out about George A. Romero's upcoming Land of the Dead? It opens in two weeks! Let's just hope this isn't the Phantom Menace of zombie sequels.
Ready to feel old?? Wal-Mart is going to stop selling VHS cassettes. That's right, VHS is going the way of Betamax and Laserdisc. Will VHS become an underground trading phenomenon like 8-Track? All signs point to "NO."
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