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It’s worth noting the album version of “Borderline” is a full 1:20 longer than this version, which forsakes several “keep pushing me’s” to the ultimate detriment of the song, IMHO.

Previously: Madonna’s Holiday: Who’s that dude in the background?, Madonna’s white wedding, Madonna burns up, Madonna goes from a dinky club to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

by on Tue, Dec 18, at 1:57
Madonna’s Holiday: Who’s that dude in the background?

Part of an ongoing series of tributes to Michigan’s own Madonna, who enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 10.

Madonna’s third single off of her self-titled 1983 debut was “Holiday,” which would go on to become a standard in her catalogue. But the video was such a disaster it was never officially released.

This clip finds Madonna and two background dancers — one of whom looks like Chris Parnell — dancing in front of a wall, where an Ebenezer Scrooge lookalike is taking a nap. she briefly wakes up in the middle of the clip and then returns to his slumber, and it’s unclear whether or not she knows he’s in a music video.

This video was a step back for Madonna after the pseudo high art of “Burning Up.” But it would be the last time a video of hers would land with such a resounding thud, because “Borderline” was just around the corner.

Previously: Madonna’s white wedding, Madonna burns up, Madonna goes from a dinky club to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

by on Mon, Dec 17, at 5:19
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — More Reader Reax

Here’s one You forgot, one of my favorites too: “My most glaring omission is Daryl Hall and John Oates,” wrote Lamont Corbin of Detroit. “They are the highest selling duo in history and many groups with far less credentials are in the hall.”

Matt Fasang wrote in: “If you have Genesis and Yes based on sales and popularity you gotta have….sit down….Journey and ELO. Iggy Pop should have been one of the first in.”

I have been able to identify the Bushtit since early in my bird watching life, but this was the first chance I had ever had to observe them at length. As one chanced to fly in or another to fly out, I was most taken with the observation that their flight is like no other bird I know. In the first book of his History of Animals, Aristotle wrote “Of land animals some are furnished with wings, such as birds and bees, and these are so furnished in different ways one from another.” I have long pondered Aristotle’s work on classification, and this passage ce to mind while watching the Bushtits. Although he had never seen them, his association of birds and bees for this exple is most appropriate to these little birds. Their flight is more like that of a bee than another type of bird. Toyota Picnic Toyota Prado Toyota Prerunner When a Bushtit takes to the air, it does not do so with quite the mastery of the element as a hummingbird, for whom the law of gravity is a mere suggestion, yet it does so with more grace and less apparent effort than other birds who seem initially to force themselves free of the terrestrial force seeking to pull them downward. The Bushtit gently arises from the place where it perched as does a bee, seeming to be of slightly less than sufficient mass for the entire force of gravity to effect. It then momentarily hovers and with a slight initial sideways motion proceeds forward to its desired destination. The entire effect is one just beyond the appearance of reality.