I thought “Flogging Molly” was a reference to masturbation.
Apparently it’s the name of a musical group.
Me too. I came back to the states and heard people talking about something called “Miami Vice”. And what the hell was a Run DMC?
At my local offbeat video rental store in the hipster part of town down the hill, I just found out about an apparently popular (among hipsters) film genre called mumblecore. It sounded like some kind of British dream-pop/metal hybrid, but apparently it’s an American film style that’s sweeping the (hipster) nation.
But that means you probably did get exposed to David Hasselhoff’s “musical” career a lot more. I wonder if that was a good deal.
And just FYI, they didn’t name themselves after a euphamism for masturbation (which it really does sound like, doesn’t it?), but for the fact that, as a nameless band starting out, they played a club named “Molly’s” so often that they were, well, flogging Molly’s.
Does it have something to do with embroidery floss?
There was a movie called ‘The Cure’. There was a band called ‘The Cure’. They were not the same.
There was a band called ‘Rush’. There was a radio show host called ‘Rush’. They were really, really not the same.
But both more similar to each other than to the movie “Rush” (music by Eric Clapton.)
Pop Culture seems to sneak up on me. It’s alarming to suddenly notice thousands of people all talking about something so familiarly and not have any idea what they’re on about, where it came from so suddenly, and why it is that I didn’t even hear about it as it rose to prominence.
Case in point: Emo. When I grew up it was called Goth, but that somehow morphed into a sub-genre that needed defining, for no obvious reason that I can see.
I was reading someone’s profile on okcupid the other day and “the most personal thing they were willing to admit” on it was something to the effect that “if you’re a friend of P, you’re a friend to me.”
I’m praying that’s some sort of pop culture reference I don’t get, because if it’s what it sounds like, I’m really nervous about our high match number.
See the 1/16 strip for an opinion on that. 
I can’t recall the band or anything, but that’s from a song that came out in the 90s. It continues: “if you’re down with P then you’re down with me”. So I wouldn’t worry much about the waterworks.
Silly: Goth has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and the boys and girls dress in black: emo has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and high school and the boys dress in black and the girls dress in beige: hth.
Here’s something: Where the hell did Billy Bush come from? He’s apparently been on national TV for more than 5 years, and I never heard of him. Last week, I see him on TV a dozen times.
Then I realized he was actually related to George Bush…
In all seriousness, emo kids like to play old videogames too.
I believe you are refering to Down with O.P.P. Yes I have my fingers on the pulse of the hip hop subculture. Can’t you tell?
: : DMark hangs his head in shame ::
Yes, I actually thought David Hasselhoff was simply stopping off in Germany on his successful, grand world concert tour…I even knew people who bought tickets to go see his concerts.
We didn’t know any better.
And you can thank us back then for exporting German pop singer Nina’s song, “99 Luftballoons”…
(BTW, I have a great story about the American friend of mine who taught her English after that song became a world-wide hit of sorts: After her next album was released, in English, one reviewer said, “when she speaks English, she sounds like Elmer Fudd”. My American teacher friend was humiliated and we got a lot of laughs from that comment for years afterwards.)
No, it’s probably "Friends Of P. " by the Rentals.
It’s Not Rocket Surgery! is right on this one, but I did only very recently find out what “O.P.P.” actually stands for, so I contribute that in the name of missed cultural references.
A Miami Vice can be either a Cuban prostitute or an illegal cigar. Run DMC was a political campaign to get more people interested in becoming delegates to the Democratic Maneuvering Committee.
I was in a video store last week and they were playing a DVD of Lost. A woman came in to return a movie and asked what was playing. When she was told she said “Lost? Is that the name of the movie?” The clerk looked at her and said “No, it’s the TV show Lost.” And the woman said “Really? What’s it about?”
Now I can understand somebody not watching Lost. But who the hell lives in the United States and owns a television and managed to get through the last three years and not ever hear of Lost?