A Pere Ubu for the modern age ?

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 Sometimes it's nice to just unhitch your brain and say

"I like that", without needing to justify it.

Pure genius, in the 2000s, to start a band that looked like a 60s cult -

based on music rather than murder.

It's been on my 'special' playlist ever since.

Always makes me smile ... and I like the way they transported

Terry Gilliam from the 1970s to drive the bus.

P.S. wow ... 20 years ... really ?

P.p.s - This teeny weeny video was literally the only decent copy I could find

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WOMAN WITH A MISSION - THE ARI UP STORY

 One of the culture shocks with moving to London

is realising that people like this actually exist.

No, it's not some 1930s B movie, or a Monty Python sketch

- these people live and breathe and stalk the modern world.

Quite a lot of them own it.

It starts when you meet your first Rupert. He introduces himself,

without even a flicker of a blush and you congratulate yourself

for not blurting out " wot ? - like the bear ?"

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TAITO - 1983

ELEVATOR ACTION RETURNS - 1994

You can play it in Britain, too, but you have to call it lift ...

Living on the promenade of an English seaside town in the early 80s ...

I often used to pop into one of the many amusement arcades to see what was new.

I discovered a very early version of this game  (in just two colours, if I remember rightly) ...

I thought it was a lot of fun, but never came across it again - until about a week ago.

Play together with the 'Straight to Hell' single in the background for full immersion ...

NAMCO - 1981

 Back in the 70s, the future seemed to take forever to arrive ... the moon landings

didn't do it ... neither did hollywood - not even pocket calculators and those awful red-screened

digital watches ... but somehow, for us teenagers - Gary Numan's first two singles and this game

made us suddenly feel modern.

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