mondrian’s neon fantod

Oh yes. It’s Feelies time!

Gerry Todd would live this:

post-punk.com’s Classic Post-Punk Music Videos.

Expect individual videos to be posted here as time goes by. And maybe sooner.

I’m not sure what floors me most about this. I think it might be Cindy’s hair. But the unexpected cameo of a not-directly-related Austin musician caught me off guard, too (Hi, How Are You).

Anyway, it’s Zeitgeist (I mean, The Reivers) c. 1985. And it’s Austin how it was even before I got here full-time. Check out Croslin’s Rangers shirt. It just goes to show that sincere underground rockers loved baseball long before pitchfork put together a fantasy league.

Oh, and… MAD DOG AND BEANS! The best burger you probably never got to taste. Sigh.

Continuing with the “old man basks in the music of his youth” theme, I’m delighted to share Scruffy The Cat.

Bastards Of Young and Kiss Me On The Bus.

Dig Bob Stinson’s outfit.

24 years ago, almost, I saw The Police on the Synchronicity tour. It was a birthday present from two very good friends.

This year, one short week after my birthday, I’ll be seeing them again. It’ll be interesting. I admit that I’m totally geeked out at the opportunity, even if they might have sold out a bit or something like that.

The good news is that Sting won’t be wearing this ridiculous-ass outfit this time ’round. The bad news is that I don’t think they have the marching band uniform-wearing backup singers on this tour. Oh well. It’s enough just to see them live once more.

To quote a different lyricist altogether… “Happy birthday, Whosever birthday it is today”