watch it: “Martini Ranch - Reach - directed by James Cameron”
It’s like a pop culture perfect storm: In the late 1980s, James Cameron directed a music video -- the only one he ever made -- for Bill Paxton’s band (for the one album they made). It features, among many Cameron players of the time including Paul Reiser and Jenette Goldstein, his then-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, as a bad-ass chick:
Brian, your phrase works without the strikethrough. "Most embarrassing entertaining" is a rather effective and accurate description of that ambivalent decade, I think.
Your phrase also tempts me to seek out a good portmanteau word, but sadly those efforts rarely work out so well as I had hoped. In this case I can't even seem to find a halfway decent one.
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posted by t6 (Thu Feb 18 10, 10:11AM)
Um...
oh.
Huh.
::boggle::
Bill Paxton is not the best singer.
Katheryn Bigelow is super bad ass.
posted by Brian (Thu Feb 18 10, 11:03AM)
This is '80s cinema and music at its most embarrassing entertaining.
posted by Brian (Thu Feb 18 10, 11:05AM)
Whoops, I guess I didn't use the HTML "strike" tag correctly. There goes the (lame) joke.
posted by Lisa (Thu Feb 18 10, 1:58PM)
lol I've seen this before but I dodn't know it was his band!!!
posted by Victor Plenty (Thu Feb 18 10, 7:07PM)
Brian, your phrase works without the strikethrough. "Most embarrassing entertaining" is a rather effective and accurate description of that ambivalent decade, I think.
Your phrase also tempts me to seek out a good portmanteau word, but sadly those efforts rarely work out so well as I had hoped. In this case I can't even seem to find a halfway decent one.
Embarrasstaining?
Enterbarrassing?
Erm... no. No, that simply will not do.