OK so I was looking for the blondie song about Giant Ants From Space. I couldn't find it but I found some other Blondie videos that I love so fuck it. I don't care about the ants destroying computers in Texas anymore:
I had this album and listened to it obsessively when I was fifteen. I had a huge crush on a girl named tanya that worked at a Chinese food place a few miles from my house. I rode my bike up there three or four times a week. I didn't have a lot of money so I would order boiled rice and coke from her. On my way to and from I listened to this album on my headphones. I findally got her number, and she even said yes to me! and then I got grounded or something equally perverse and stupid and so I couldn't go and couldn't even call her to tell her why I was flaking on her. Then I was just too ashamed to go and tell her all of this because she was like two years older or something and certainly would have thought I was a total fool.
This video and the way Debbie Harry looks reminds me of what a friend of mine once wrote about Jodie Foster. My friend wrote that after the revolution we are all going to be a bit more like Jodie Foster used to be. Jodie Foster has always been so tough, and beautiful and smart and dangerous, but also has had infinite amounts of class. Why, just take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OClsC17XRk
[embedding disabled fucking bastards]
but hey there IS this:
That is what the revolution looks like.
(psst: she finally came out. I don't know why, but it never once bothered me that Jodie hadn't come out publicly. For some reason I accepted her quiet queerness. Maybe it's because she's the face of the revolution, and the revolution, in addition to being all about love, is ambiguous, and thrives on ambiguity).
Also, just in case anyone is wondering, yes, I am in fact depending on the revolution to take care of my student loans.
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