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 Tuesday, March 10, 2009

White Wedding, Literally

By Diana Hsieh @ 1:08 PM

A literal version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" video:


I remember being really disturbed by this video as a kid. He was marrying her, but he didn't seem to love her! He hurt her when he put on the ring! It just didn't make sense! (Okay, so I must have been about six at the time.) Now that I've seen the literal version, it all makes sense. Well maybe not, but at least it's dumb rather than scary.

Now if only I could find that horror movie about bad moonshine that my sisters let me watch when I was about five that gave me nightmares for years. (My mother was not pleased.) I still have very vivid memories: The woman's hair fell out, she went all screwy in the head, she grabbed a massive knife from her kitchen with the intent of chopping up her two young daughters, but she was stopped and killed at the last minute by the dedicated police officer. It was scary stuff for young little me!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 18:39:38 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Keath Cole

<3

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 22:58:31 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Fortitudine
E-mail: canadian.republic(at)hotmail.com
URL: http://www.thecanadianrepublic.blogspot.com

I must confess that I had a Billy Idol phase in my younger days. Looking back at that hair now it seems ridiculous but there was a time I considered that look the peak of coolness. Spike from Buffy, anyone?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 16:25:07 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Valda Redfern
E-mail: valda.redfern(at)gmail.com
URL: http://valzhalla.blogspot.com

Oh, this is superb! I especially liked the kitchen section of the lyrics - "and the sink is also not working"... Having words that match the action is indeed strangely satisfying, even though the action remains nonsensical. Integrity is a virtue. But now I'm worried, because I want to see more Billy Idol videos, whatever the lyrics.

My big sister snuck me into a showing of a satanic horror film when I was ten. I only had nightmares for a couple of nights afterwards (after all, the garlic, pentagrams and silver crosses prevailed in the end); but why don't parents seem have any idea of how irresponsible older siblings are? Don't they remember their own childhoods?

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