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June 24, 2003
Operatic, funky techno-pop
These were the words an anthropology professor used to describe Klaus Nomi. This particular professor's polymathic propensities perturbed me (sorry about that). With Klaus Nomi I thought I had found pop music so obscure I could stump him at last. I failed. It was in this way I learned the value of studying canon law before bedtime while channel-surfing to stay au courant rather than thinking of academic and popular cultures as mutually exclusive.
This Klaus Nomi tribute is thinking along the same lines (via b3ta).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 24, 2003 08:21 AM
Comments
Didn't this guy appear as a backup singer/performance artist with David Bowie on Saturday Night Live circa 1979? IIRC, Bowie was singing "TVC15" from "Station to Station".
Oh yeah, I'm not Canadian, but I've seen "The Starlost". And B5.
Posted by: Fred Kiesche at June 24, 2003 10:20 AM
Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias backed David Bowie on Saturday Night Live, December 15,
1979 (or so claims "the internet"). Well spotted.
Posted by: Nicholas Packwood at June 24, 2003 06:46 PM
I have a wonderful ability to remember totally useless trivia. However, this ability does not extend to those economically-sensitive items like stuff related to work!!!
Posted by: Fred Kiesche at July 1, 2003 09:10 AM