BY LORI CULWELL
I have been meaning to post this cool video that we made a couple of weeks ago– it was during one of the big snowstorms on the east coast, and it also happened to be the day (or so) after the new Depeche Mode single came out, so we were playing it and watching the snow at the same time. It goes together! Check it out:
Yes, this is what we do for fun in our house.
Oh, also, and I'm going to try to make this as NC-17 as possible because I try to make this blog family friendly and all. Stephan and I have this running joke about Dava Gahan from Depeche Mode, that he's just been so many places, and (ahem) done so many things with such a large variety of people, that it probably is very hard for him to be satisfied, either sexually or in real life. In fact, once after a Depeche Mode concert, we started improvising a (fake) list of demands that would need to be met, and if they were not met, (British Accent) "Dave can't get off."
This list has gotten progressively more baroque and funnier over the years, and we break it out again every time DMode comes out with a new album or we see one of their shows (we are both big fans). The scenario would go something like this:
Dave: "I'm just so…..bored. I'll need you to get me 16 midgets, and I'll need to watch them swim in a tub filled with banana pudding that is exactly body temperature…..or I can't get off."
"Sigh– yes, yes, you're beautiful, right, it's so boring. Can you and four of your friends perform a water ballet, but on rollerskates? If not….I can't get off."
"I need an incredibly rare type of wood-leaf mushroom fungus that will cause me to hallucinate, and then I'll need you to shoot a synringe of glycerine into each of my nostrils while all the original members of Dexy's Midnight Runners play the song "Come on Eileen" in the key of G sharp minor, backwards….or I can't get off."
And so on. THEN we were listening to SiriusXMU, and Jenny Eliscu made reference to the fact that our funny list might not be so far off, because (this part makes Stephan cringe so much)– apparently Dave Gahan has his scrotum pierced (or, specifically, the space between the scrotum and the anus), and this piercing is called a "geish," but then I Googled this, and it turns out he HAD this piercing, but he took it out after his kids saw it.
Let's just let that one sink in for a minute, shall we? Stephan (when he stops cringing) says: "WHY WAS HE SHOWING HIS CHILDREN HIS BALLS?"
…..And also….my question— HE HAS CHILDREN?
I just think the word "geish" is so funny, and so gross at the same time. Let's consider all this while we watch the actual video for this song, shall we? Pre-order the album— it comes out on the 26th!