Whitney Houston wants to dance with somebody.
Someone smack me: after 48 straight hours of humming this 80’s gem, I need some help. So what if I was three when this song was on the radio? I heard it on Saturday, and (–no thanks to my boyfriend!) it’s been lodged in my little brain like something cute and furry, hibernating, ever since.
After attempting to sing this in the shower, I realized that… I, um, don’t know all the lyrics. So, like any tune-savvy girl scout, I found the video on youtube (because, sadly, I don’t own this musical masterpiece…) and then watched the video 5 times straight.
Watching this again and again has NOTHING to with memorizing lyrics at this point; it has EVERYTHING to do with being hypnotized by her totally insane hair and makeup in the video. I think I’m high from the waves of Aqua Net wofting around her crown of wavy polymer hairpieces as she’s shakin’ it in her shoulder pads. Have I mentioned I think her eyeshadow resembles every nerf gun and pool toy I owned in elementary school? Jesus, I need some sunglasses: this woman is entirely out of control in her rainbowbrite get-up and it’s not pretty.
Good lord, Whitney– I don’t care about the coke: it’s this that makes me want to shake you… and then hug you… because you totally rule.
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Yeah, I’d dance with you.
We’ve got a thing / that’s called bacon love!
Bacon Love!
Any Golden Earring fans out there? No? OK, pay no attention to the title of this post.
Valentine’s Day is coming up, and what’s that, you say? It’s a stupid holiday that cheapens and commodifies love and if you hear Jerry Robbins say “Yeah!” one more goddamn time you’re going to send first the radio and then yourself to a watery, dye-infused grave at the bottom of the LOVE Park fountain?
Well, I’m kind of with you on that one, but I have located something that might be appreciated even by a staunch anti-Valentine’s activist. It is a heart… a heart of bacon.
Mike Geno, a Philly artist who teaches at Moore (and who we’ve mentioned before), makes these gorgeous still lifes and prints of cuts of raw meat. I’ve been wanting to get three and put them in my kitchen forever (unfortunately my kitchen lacks appropriate wall space right now). This is the first time I’ve seen this particular entry in the series; the heart shape is a step away from the straightforward still life treatment applied to the lamb chops, beef cubes and ribs in his previous work.
So take it from Robbins: When the question is “Do you love bacon more than you loathe Valentine’s Day?” there’s only one answer: Buy her a diamond! I mean, no, the answer is “I love bacon more.” Love ftw!
Bacon Love is 8×10 and $20; it and other prints by Geno can be found at (off the top of my head) Art Star, Geno’s etsy store and Mew Gallery.