Today at the Red Cup, I “braced” MCARP for promoting the “earworm” (I’m also trying to overuse punctuation in hopes of getting onto the blog I mention below) “Total Eclipse of the Heart” for posting a UTube vid of Lucy Lawless of hit TV lesbian fame doing the song on some celebrity talent contest. I even offered to whip his ass behind the church after school.

Well, he thinks he’s getting back at me by posting several videos of same by various, often hilarious, mimics, pretenders, wannabes and whatnots. There’s ironic, there’s German, there’s dance mix, a wide variety available. Every now and then, watching them, I would fall apart.

The one thing he doesn’t do is post the original 1983 video with its “Children of the Damned” eyes and a lot of other totally goofy 80s shit. Like, why are there ninjas dancing to this song in an English boys boarding school?

I especially like the irony and deconstructivism of the Pink Fuzzies, but the Hurra Torpedo version is the only one I passed onto another correspondent (I sent it to Rush in L.A. because I thought he’d appreciate the sensibilities of that particular “group” {I’m using all the unnecessary punctuation I can muster!}.). Los Diggas got hilarious from 2:30 to 1:00 to go to the end, the absurdity finally got to me. Eva and Jurgen (whatfreakinever) was mainly notable for the guitar break, some old long hair blonde guy rips it up. The dance remix and the little girl, not so much, by my lights, but feel free.

Am I the only one to notice that Ms. Tyler has a freakin’ speech impediment? Oh. Nevermind.

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This is my personal favorite: