October 26, 2003
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Random …
Lili: – THE CLAMATO
Today at the supermarket my curiosity could take it no longer. I bought a bottle of Clamato and tasted it for the first time.The Clamato is another bizzare American invention: tomato juice mixed with clam juice. yes. CLAM JUICE. It sounds positively gross but really, the salty component doesn’t register as clam… unless you pause to think about it. Read this story of the Clamato … My sentiments exactly! Now all we need is a dash of vodka to make it a Bloody Clamato Mary.Eddie: – LOS ANGELES
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One thing that strikes me about LA, is the city’s current love affair with the 1980′s. Seriously, 80′s music is everywhere – even the current fascination with Electroclash bears this out. We stumbled into The Lounge at The Standard Hotel on Sunset (a producer friend from Sydney was staying there) and our ears were assaulted with everything from ABC to Trio (remember ‘Da Da Da’?). And Falco. Aaaarg!!! Falco!?!? Then Men At Work came on. Cheezus! And people ask me why I’ve never become an Australian citizen…
So we got outta there, pronto, and headed for the congested, yet comforting surrounding of the Tiki Ti, where we took comfort in our Chi Chis and Kactus Kulas. It did, however lead me to seek an explanation for the current affection for ’80′s music and fashion.
If memory serves me correctly, America spent most of the eighties clinging to the seventies. Most of what the rest of the world was listening to, probably didn’t make it to mainstream US radio. Am I right? Anyone out there remember Trio and Talk Talk the first time ’round? Currently everything that’s a little bit of a fashion risk, or a little left of centre is being labelled ”eighties”. This was brought home to me today, while I was in a clothes shop in Silverlake. As I was admiring this very cool, very Mod pinstriped suit (Hey, I got a wedding to go to!), the sales assistant (who must have been all of 18) said: “Yeah this is a really eighties suit – I can imagine Johnny Rotten wearing one just like it…”
Okay, this statement was just SO wrong on SO many levels, and illustrates why no one under 23 should ever be allowed to work in retail under any circumstances, but it did help to illustrate the current obsession with that tacky little decade we all went through, last century…
Comments (2)
Haha…I love the 80s…they are definitely “in” right now, but I love 80s music before it was popular again. I listen to the 80s radio station all the time! Haha!
Hey, I liked ABC!
As for the retail thing, I’m still reeling from standing in a record store while they played “Brown Sugar” and hearing some teen ask, “Is this the new Lenny Kravitz?”
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