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Some people get neat surprises in their potato chips, all I got was a fish head. LOL


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Wow.   :D

EDIT: I'm sure if you were to mount it in some artsy way, you could pawn it off as postmodernist neo-expressionism or something equally profound...especially if you were to give it some cryptic title like "Jonah's Dream". ;)

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6 minutes ago, Deuces said:

Looks like a piranha head....???

Oh definitely. Art critics could go on an on as to how it represents the corporate culture that drives mainstream consumerism devouring the common man in the name of ever-increasing profits based on producing things that are essentially unhealthy.   

You need to run with this.  B)

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12 minutes ago, Badluck 13 said:

 

I remember this from Dr. Dimento radio program back in the late 70s. Never saw the video until now. Bizarre!

Thanks for sharing. 

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1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Oh definitely. Art critics could go on an on as to how it represents the corporate culture that drives mainstream consumerism devouring the common man in the name of ever-increasing profits based on producing things that are essentially unhealthy.   

You need to run with this.  B)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How do you not already have your own show on NPR or Public TV? You could write it all as parody, but their listeners/viewers would take it as enlightened gospel! Fabulous stuff! B)

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On 11/3/2018 at 8:30 AM, Oldcarfan27 said:

I remember this from Dr. Dimento radio program back in the late 70s. Never saw the video until now. Bizarre!

Thanks for sharing. 

If you are interested, he is still doing his show, but now it is online and you have to pay (not much) if you want to listen. I pay about $14 a month I think. Best part is there are lots and lots of old shows available to listen to. You get like 4 shows a week with the monthly subscription.

https://www.drdemento.com/

Russ

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Man, this just gets better and better. Turn the potato chip fish-head into a full-blown installation piece. Mount it all by itself and lonesome on a sheet of transparent material, with a continuous loop of the Fish Heads song running behind it. 

Then the critics could really get some traction, opining about how well the essentially non-music celebrating something commonplace but disgusting helps to break the old-fashioned bounds of traditional art, by rebelling against the concepts of "pleasing melody", "beauty", or "skill" when creating anything, and profoundly challenges the notion that any individual or group can actually "create" anything anyway, as everything is based on what went before it, and so every "creation" is really of no more lasting value than a stinking fish-head. 

And in typical today's-culture style, said critics would likely be completely unaware that the song dates from 1978, and would smugly assume it was of recent manufacture, judging from how the guy's pants-legs fit. Of course, if they DID bother to research and date the song, a case could be made that it was utilized to demonstrate that absolutely nothing of any value has occurred in the culture-free Western world, other than the continuing rapacious behavior of the evil profit-driven capitalist corporations represented by the potato-chip fish-head in the foreground.

I see a Nobel Prize for Art in the making. Wait...there is no such thing. Well, it's about damm well time there was.  ;)

 

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44 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I see a Nobel Prize for Art in the making. Wait...there is no such thing. Well, it's about damm well time there was.  ;)

I see you as eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize. You're at least as qualified as many who have won it in the last couple decades, and far more qualified than several. :lol:

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From Wikipedia...

Actor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look. The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on December 6, 1980 and the following week. Dr. Demento had a cameo as the bum.

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In my head and under my breath now and then, I've always heard Bill Murray doing his Lounge Guy doing Frank Sinatra doing Fish Heads. "Fish heeeeaaads. Those roly poly fish heeeaads. We like to eat them! Oh yeahhhhh. Shoo be doo be dooooo."

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1 hour ago, Lunajammer said:

From Wikipedia...

Actor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look. The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on December 6, 1980 and the following week. Dr. Demento had a cameo as the bum.

Fish Heads make a hilarious cameo in this wonderful little film, at around 2:45. 

 

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