Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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   Bethany said on 10.02.09 at 03:50 PM • [link]

   The literal videos are great - if you haven’t had a chance to see the Total Eclipse of the Heart literal version ( Bonnie Tyler) and the literal version of Meatloaf’s I Would Do Anything for Love… it’s worth a trip to YouTube.  The Bonnie Tyler one had everyone in stitches here.

   Glass56:  I believe they broke 56 glass danglies on the Chandelier in Meatloaf’s video.

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   Deb said on 10.02.09 at 04:18 PM • [link]

   Don’t want to spoil your memories of the perfect wedding, Sarah, but Blue Suede (or was it Swede?) did not do the “original” version of “Hooked on a Feeling.”  That honor goes to B.J. Thomas.  It was quite controversial at the time (mid-1960s) because there was a belief there “hooked on” was a drug reference.

   Man, I feel old!  But the Hoffster makes everything better.

   Spam filter:  Seems66.  Well, not quite yet.

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   ks said on 10.02.09 at 05:09 PM • [link]

   Holy crap that was brilliant.  The best one so far (although the Take on Me one is a favorite).  I really needed that this morning.  Thanks.

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   SB Sarah said on 10.02.09 at 06:40 PM • [link]

   I don’t know what’s more awesome: that yet again I have been schooled by the Bitchery (thanks Deb!) or that one of my favorite songs was originally recorded by a guy who went by “B.J.”

   I can take my after lunch nap with a big smile on my face now. All is awesome with the world.

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   Deb said on 10.02.09 at 07:09 PM • [link]

   Even better—after a successful pop music career (the high point being singing “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” for “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid”), B.J. Thomas became a gospel singer.  I think he won a couple of gospel grammys.  Still goes by B.J. too!

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   Sybylla said on 10.02.09 at 07:45 PM • [link]

   :)  “Take on Me” is still my favorite, but this is at least as good as “Penny Lane.”

   “It’s like the Nothing never was!”

   I lost it at that point.

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   MicheleKS said on 10.02.09 at 11:26 PM • [link]

   Thanks be to the Hoff. That was mega-cheesey with a side order of serious laughs.

   Though I will say ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ is by far the funniest literal video I’ve ever seen.

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   Paul said on 10.03.09 at 01:08 AM • [link]

   They’ve taken a great thing and somehow made it better.

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   j said on 10.03.09 at 06:57 PM • [link]

   I like the crazy original version, too!

   My take is he did the video for his wife, put in their two daughters, and gave it to her as a prezzy. It’s full of family in-jokes.

   And the vid got leaked.

   They broke up in the end.

   I don’t know if the vid tribbed to that.

   I’d sure hate for my home movies to wind up on YouTube.

   Just ask Rob Lowe about that kind of thing. ;>)

   
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   Good grief, the word on the image below thing is “wrong67.”

   BWAHHHH!

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    Deb Kinnard said on 10.04.09 at 06:05 PM • [link]

    Totally worth the 3.5 minutes it took away from writing a synopsis. I’d rather have Hoff as a houseguest than write a synopsis…they’re that bad.

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    Laura said on 10.05.09 at 03:25 AM • [link]

    You don’t know me, but I just had to write and says that this just made my Sunday. I cannot believe that something like this even exists. Drunken cheeseburger eating is clearly the least of the Hoffster’s problems.

    The spinning video cubes just about did me in.

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    Kit Donner said on 10.05.09 at 10:56 PM • [link]

    I love this song! (not the Hoff version) We played it at my wedding too. I thought I was one of the few people that remembered it!  Why doesn’t the Hoff go to Australia and stay there?  I mean, maybe he’d like it.

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