Normally I am quite the wordsmith. I don't post pictures or videos, because I am lazy, and hate having to watch things online. There is nothing worse than when someone IMs me a video and I have to stop everything I'm doing to click on the link and watch it, and usually not enjoy it much.
But sometimes, when I'm blue, and it feels like all is lost and there is no hope in the world, and nobody can be trusted, I remember that there is one person I can always count on: Rick Astley. And so I've decided that now is a good opportunity to share him with you. He is there for ALL of us.
It doesn't matter how bad a mood you're in. It doesn't matter if you've just been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's, if your Grandma had a heart attack while backing out of the driveway, died, and backed over your pregnant puppy in the process, or if there is a sudden rise of neo Nazis who begin a new Holocaust - unless that Holocaust includes the destruction of all Rick Astley music videos to make the world pure. Then we're doomed.
Because unless that happens, I can always count on this video to entertain me in ways that few things can. Seriously, every single second of it is wonderful. ("Never Gonna Give You Up" is pretty amazing, too - if only for the one singular dance move that Rick has mastered, the arm-shaking thing. It LOOKS easy, but it's hard to perfect. This video is the more traditionally kitschy of the two, more cheesy than godawful - but just when you think you're over it, the bartender starts doing backflips.) I know, I'm hardly the first person to call out the over-the-top 80's ridiculousness of Rick Astley, but for any of you who haven't seen it - or have forgotten - it is the perfect antidote to...well, anything. Whenever you need somebody...
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ReplyDeleteShit! I think I just got Rickrolled. Mostly b/c I didn't know Rick Astley's name, just that song/video. I'm claiming cultural disadvantage on that one.
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