Sunday, February 28, 2010

You should probably know who Wizzard is

Now that that backlog entry is done (it had to be the first) we can get this show on the road.
Wizzard is a great band. They really should be more famous. It all started when Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne were both in the band that would become ELO (If you don't recognize the name ELO look up some of their songs, I can almost guarantee you've heard "Evil Woman" and/or "Turn to Stone"). ELO is formed and start doing their classical/Beatles/prog rock thing but Jeff Lynne ends up putting himself totally in charge of everything and makes it the band it is today. Roy, undestandably, gets annoyed at this and leaves and takes half the band with him. Add in some saxophone, an insane visual style, and the Wall of Sound and you have Wizzard.

Objectum Sexuals

Maybe everyone has seen this already and it's passe, but if you haven't, super interesting. It's a documentary about people who are in love with objects. On one hand you want to just let people do their thing, they're not hurting anybody. On the other hand these people have were abused and have obvious issues in interacting with real people and you've gotta wish for them to get help. On the third hand the woman is speaking sexually about a carnival ride and smearing it's grease all over her face and that's just good weird TV.

Is there a reason why they're all big metal public objects? Is it at it's core a fetish for good engineering? They're pretty phallic I guess which is something. In any case check it out.

Main documentary, but edited to be less exploitative (ie less trying to make them look crazy) and annotated by some Youtube user that claims to represent the "Objectum Sexual Community"
Part 1

Part 2


I'm having having trouble finding both on Youtube but here's the clips that were edited out of the other version with a follow up story.

Nutty or what?