as i have mentioned before, i was a really gay little kid. i liked to dance and sing. i loved unicorns. i also loved pegasus. i used to get annoyed that pegasus couldn't breed with a unicorn to create the perfect hybrid of a unicorn with wings. but i digress...
i watched A LOT of MTV as a child. (hey, it was the 80's, what was a gay kid supposed to do?) i would keep my nose glued to the tv, imitating every shimmy, every crotch grab, every spin-kick possible. when i was ripped away from the top 10 countdown and forced to go out in to the real world, everything around me would become a sound stage where the video for my latest hit single would be filmed.
i had a particular fondness for fog machines in 80's videos. i would use whatever devices i could to create the "fog" effect. for instance, my grandmother had a humidifier in her living room and i would crank it full blast and slowly "tiger-crawl" into the mist why singing "only in my dreams" by debbie gibson. other times i would be grazing the fruits and vegetables aisle with my mom at the grocery store and bust into the zombie routine of "thriller" when the produce spray would come on. the most effective "fog machine", however, always happened in the driveway. i would belt out stevie nicks' "stand back" while doing the running man in back of the exhaust pipe of my parents' station wagon. my mom would get really pissed at me for that one. she didn't understand art.
