Wow, I wasn’t expecting my half-assed Phil Collins write-up to stir up such a heated debate.  Honestly, my only true beef with that particular video, besides the fact that the song sucks, is that no matter which way you look at it, be it from the point of view of the band or that of the person who thinks Phil Collins sucks, there is a gaping hole in the logic that simply can’t be ignored.  From the band’s perspective, they’ve played all their shitty songs that nobody wants to hear, then closing with their one “good” song.  Who the hell does that?  Seriously, open with your good song(s), then by the time you get to your shittier stuff, hopefully everyone will be too drunk to care.  Looking at it the other way, one must wonder why they are actually playing something cool at the opening of the video, then immediately launch into an orgy of 80’s synth-pop bullshit.  It’s pretty much a lose-lose situation.

Anyway, enough about that.   I want to talk about something else that’s equally inconsequential and will inevitably piss off most of Buddyhead’s readers who would rather read about Travis’ aventures in homelessness or whatever.

I like David Lynch’s stuff.  Some people think he tries too hard to be weird simply for the sake of being weird, but to me, he seems like a guy who is genuinely on his own planet.  He does whatever the fuck he wants, and if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.  He’s a master of creating situations that can be simultaneously creepy, tense, and sometimes hilarious.  Not to mention downright terrifying, as seen in this particular scene from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that still scares the ever-loving shit out of me even after seeing it hundreds of times:

That being said, the purpose of this isn’t to simply talk about how cool David Lynch is.  I want to talk about Sesame Street.

Anyone reading this who grew up in the 70’s and/or 80’s most likely watched Sesame Street.  I know I sure did.  Man, I watched the hell out of that show.   My favorite regular character was probably Oscar the Grouch, as I felt (and still do) that I could truly relate to him on a deeper personal level than I could with the others.  I was also a fan of the Yip Yip aliens, who would beam themselves down to Earth and become fascinated by rotary phones and Apple II computers and shit.  Big Bird was an annoying little bitch, though.  Never cared for him.

Now, I know it seems like I just made a hairpin turn from one topic to another for no particular reason, and to be fair, I do do that on occasion, just because I’m a dick.  But this time I actually have a reason.  I guess I missed this when it originally aired, but Sesame Street actually paid an homage to Twin Peaks at one point, with Cookie Monster playing Kyle MacLachlan’s part.  While the bit is pretty innocuous in and of itself (there’s no murder or incestuous rape, unfortunately), when you consider what it’s based on, including the above clip, it’s pretty fucking weird.  Please enjoy.