"TALK TO THE HAND HOMEGIRL...."

"Is It Real -- Is IT Fake? Is It Really Happening"
Street smart 5 year olds taking to the streets!

This is an amazing clip because this kid is incredibly foul mouthed. He is hypnotic in his verbal delivery. Someone has mentored this kid in the fine arts of bullying and intimidation. If this is a real clip then it reflects this kids environment. In short, its a social workers dream come true.

Just in the news a few a weeks ago some stoners were on CNN caught on tape sneaking a joint to a todler. Then there was something about putting beer in a baby bottle and feeding it to a two year old in our local papers.

Maybe this is just a hoax and no cause for real alarm. But maybe it goes a little deeper than this. Maybe, this is what is happening to our youth. I remember reading about Capone when he was a kid and how he used to mouth off to Navy officials in Brooklyn. Of course they could never give him a proper beating because he would taunt them from behind a very tall fence. This later led to bolder bragging rights. Some of those greater offenses included murder.

It is interesting to see just exactly how this sort of thing starts.

But perhaps a better observation is.... "What are you going to do about it?"

Cantu 2007

MCDONALDS - 1969

"MCDONALDS - THE MUSICAL !!!"

Why don't they make commercials like this anymore? The new commercials that center around McD's really are not very good. They are rap influenced and hip hop flavored nonsense about how hot the people are eating this... food.

I like the goofy musical versions better. This theme song is familiar they used to run a jingle of it before all the Bob Hope holiday specials in the 1970's. There was a great mood that generally surrounded television advertising back then. It was entertaining.

Nobody is walking around with this suppresed violent tone about them. There are no rap or heavy street themed people in this clip. It comes off looking like the I Love Lucy Show.... And thats good. This shows America as a happy, non-depressing place. That may have not been the case in the grand scheme of things, (Manson went on his killing spree in 1969) but yet the media front painted a glorious picture of happy times.

Speaking of Good Times.. check out the black guy dancing around with the hot mop -- thats John Amos who playsed the dad on Good Times.

DYNOMITE !!!

cantu 2007

THE FIRST RONALD MCDONALD

"I Like To DO Everything That Boys and Girls Like To DO !!!!"
ROnald McDonald, aka WIllard Scott

THis is a very creepy commercial. When they find actor Willard Scott dressed up as Ronald they find him in the dark watching himself on television... go figure !! Then he tells us that a perfect meal consists of hamburgers and potatos fried in oil and milk shakes.. (pffffft).

The part when they find him in the dark is kind of eerie. His costume is peculiar. I am not sure if that works but it is interesting. He is wearing the food.

This was the very first rendition of Mc Donald on television.

Cantu 2007

MCDONALDDS -- HAVE IT MY WAY !!

"THIS IS NOT COMEDY -- ALTHOUGH IT IS CURIOUSLY ENTERTAINING?"

This is beyond cruel and its very depressing but yes... entertaining. The overall effect for this is one of absolute horror and there is no excuse for it. This is self explanatory.

If the food won't kill ya the... guy on the left will do his best to remedy that situation.

Cantu 2007

STYX - MR ROBOTO - EVERY REDNECK NEEDS A FRIEND

"THEY SWALLOWED IT DOWN - IN DROVES, LIKE FINE CHAMPAGNE... even though in years to come, it would bring hearty bellows of great laughter....."

This is a strange video to watch. Even after ... 2o odd years or more.... The thing was... nobody asked for it. The music... market... never really asked for it either. We were all lost in an age of flying V guitars and campy hairdoos and endless solos. It was the age of bullshit.

We had these rock stores in the east coast that glorified, "rock and roll" to the point of parody. There were more licensed rock and roll products than there were rock and roll albums! In the early 80's there was a lot of schlocky posters, buttons and must have collectibles. Getting a girl to wear your .... Iron Maiden Eddie keychain or this or that meant SERIOUS BUSINESS.....

Thats why this sort of thing with Styx didn't raise a whole lot of eyebrows. It was supposed to be considered a monumental leap in their career. Circus Magazine made a big deal out of the robot song by Styx. It was talked about in hush hush fashion in my high school. When I moved down south to Virginia it was heralded as the great messiah of rock and roll.....

The yokels loved this stuff.

Behind the scenes it was a different story. Styx took this thing on the road and almost got lynched when the crowd got restless during a rock festival. The drummer in this band drank himself to death shortly after. The whole thing was just weird.

But everyone came out with a robot song after this. There are lesser known songs and quite frankly even though I never wrote any of them I did buy them inadvertantly on other albums. I chortled to Cheap Tricks, "I Want Be Man" which was pretty hysterical. There was some other ones too that popped up on some of my other LPS. I think Cheap Trick actually wrote two robot type songs on the album, "One on One". There was another band who tried this too but the results were so forgettable or.. maybe I just successfully forgot all about them.... which is good too.

This song was part of an opera and an elaborate stage show. It spawned a live album. Some of the tracks on that album are pretty hilarious. Some of them are kinda interesting. But there are only a couple. If they were all by themselves they would be OKAY. But wrapped around this silly robot motif i have no idea what this whole thing was trying to accomplish. I know the story..... Dr. Righteous Rock and Roll... and the Robot take over and Kilroy is an escapee.. and Rockin the Paradise, etc. But STILL... man, this is pretty silly.

I was glad when Echo and the Bunnymen showed up when they did. Weren't you?

Cantu 2007