RAGE
The music video for 'What's the Story?' aired again on ABC TV's RAGE last night, Friday 26 May. Hats off to video artist, J D Young, who produced the clip. I wonder who was out there watching it at around 2.30am - teenagers stuck at home, insomniacs, or partyheads in-between clubs?
RAGE is such an Australian institution. As a teenager I was glued to the program, which goes from late-night till dawn. One video after another - no presenters, scrolling text, nothing. Just wall-to-wall music videos. You never know what's coming up next. Sometimes it'll be a classic clip, then maybe something slightly disturbing, like an Aphex Twin video. Towards morning it goes into top 40 mode, and all the gyrating songstresses and pop idols come up.
I don't have a TV at the moment. So unfortunately I didn't get to check out the broadcast. Other than that, I'm not missing out on much. I seem to get more done without TV. I used to have cable and it was filled with sub-standard music programming like American content-driven MTV. Every now and then there was a good documentary, like a Phil Spector special on the Biography channel, which I was lucky enough to catch at a friend's house. Now my past TV obsession has been replaced with the internet.
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