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:

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Um...

oh.

Huh.

::boggle::

Bill Paxton is not the best singer.

Katheryn Bigelow is super bad ass.

This is '80s cinema and music at its most embarrassing entertaining.

Whoops, I guess I didn't use the HTML "strike" tag correctly. There goes the (lame) joke.

lol I've seen this before but I dodn't know it was his band!!!

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.

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