Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Tuesday Videos

I'm not really of a mind to joke about this FISA business, by the way, but I still thought this was clever (based on the '80s dance hit by Rockwell)...



...Kasabian ("Empire," a logical progression for a society that tramples on the rights of the individual, including the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution)...



...and now, let's set the wayback to the late '50s-early '60s for this bit of kitsch; the "Jeno's Pizza Roll" commercial brought to us, along with many other clever ads and great comedy bits, by Mr. Stan Freberg, who celebrates Number 81 today (the Lone Ranger and Tonto were played by Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, of course)...



...and Nancy Sinatra performs "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on "Hullabaloo" (once again, not Digby's great blog, but the '60s T.V. show from the Dippity-Do, "yeah baby" Austin Powers era, introduced by the Righteous Brothers), a song written by the king of "cowboy psychedelia" Lee Hazelwood, songwriter and producer, who died on August 4th).

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