Peter Godwin's "Images of Heaven" video - C/D

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This plays on VH1 Classic's "The Alternative" all the time. I guess it's a pretty typical '80s video, but I get such a kick out of it.

He sits in his sparse living room, watching the white TV set -- she's posing and holding a candy bar! He poses moodily, looks at the screen again -- she's applying lipstick close-up! Everything's white, the lighting is diffused! He reaches down to touch his white-tiger rug -- it turns into a prone model! (The camera is turned off and then turned back on to create this effect.) He poses against the ceiling -- he's handsome and melancholy! "And there's NOTHING-I-CAN-doooo... the media made you..." It's the commodification of desire! The frustrating, empty eroticism of media images! It's the '80s! Everything's white! The TV set is white! "Images of heavennnnn... of something to sell..."

morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Very Gary Numan.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

He also looks like a guy I know from work.

morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

only seen once, don't remember too well, but classic for informing me of the song's existence, which is a total wow.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...
You can watch the video at youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN9nIq5G03o


Yoko Sakamoto, Saturday, 27 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Comments (7) ... Godwin had a bit part in "Eyes Wide Shut," but he's in the masked ball promenade, so you can't tell which one he is.

!!!

morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 27 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm intrigued to learn there's an "R-rated version" of the video.

morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

he's kinda foxy in this video. love the nagle-drawings-come-to-life eating candy bars and cereal, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUI8bGCVQ0&feature=PlayList&p=89BB4922A1AEFBCE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=52

xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Thursday, 3 September 2009 06:22 (sixteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Nothing is sacred
So give me your soul

Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2022 16:18 (three years ago)


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