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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Deep + Good News for Modern Man!
« Last post by ilan on April 28, 2024, 09:35:07 AM »Looks like Gillan has a lot more hair than he had when I met him 8 years ago. Plugs, maybe?
Mötley seem to go back to their Corabi daze which were musically viable if commercially a failure:
the CGI guys had such a lot of fun with that
song was fun too, John 5 is a good fit
These sorts of institutions seem to be perfect environments for industrial-scale abuse, be it physical or sexual, as well. Weird, rigorously enforced power hierarchies, codes of silence etc.
And creepy. There is nothing more unsettling than ordained joy and happiness. It reminded me of The Book of Mormon musical somehow ... and lool & behold:
The creators of The Book of Mormon, a musical that satirizes the latter-day saint movement, cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of Mormon culture.