b'My Five Faves END FRAME: That Shot We GotMUSICAL FRUITShe asked Johnny,Director Francis Delia on the most memorable shot of Are You Queer? in 1981. Now, we askher JoSIe CoTToN to name her veWall of Voodoos Mexican Radiofavorite music videos.SOME VELVET MORNING W e were goingStan was underneath this to shoot twotable with his head in the videos, onebeans, and we found a Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra for Mexicanplastic garbage bag stuff to I like any video that looks like a feminine hygiene commercial, which this video does in spades.Radio and one forput around his head that Nancys weird white pantsuit and Lees odd vocal stylings aside, the truth is I am mesmerized byFactory. Incidentally, thekept the beans falling the poetry of his songwriting minimal and unexpected. I might not understand it but Im prettybudget was $1300. Wedown. Theres no sure he was banging Nancy Sinatraor should have. had an Eraserhead typeforeshadowing or setting treatment for Factory, andup for a reveal, really. We Stan Ridgway was saying,created some anticipation what if we had somewith a slow push-in. You IN THE LONG RUN strange old woman in acan see his nose sticking The Carrie Nations kitchen and something isout so you he could Ok I cheated. These are actresses lip synching, drum synching and guitar synchingburning, and then she wasbreathe. It was constructed in a fake video. BUT they were coached by Russ Meyer to be the very best at itandto go over to the stove, pullin such a way that, on cue, this video appeared in his epic movie Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls which you oweopen the oven, and on theId say, Okay now! and yourself to see if you havent. The reason I picked it is because something magic happensoven rack there would behed just push through. It hereand as magic disappears from the world I think you have to hold on to it whereverStans face protruding fromjust shows that you have to you find it. Even in a fake video with a fake band. a meat loaf. When wetry new things and trust the realized we would bepeople you work with to shooting a video for justcome through.one track, Stan is going, THE MESSAGE "Frank, what about the- Francis DeliaGrandmaster Flash and the Furious Five meat loaf, weve got to I remember hearing this for the first time and being riveted by it. There was no anger but you couldhave the meat loaf!" "Well, feel the intensity, and you knew in your gut he was right. Considering everything going on right nowI said, "its not going to be in this country, we are right at that edge, and its been a long time coming. This song is importanta meatloaf. Thats the bad and the video seminal a living window to the streets and faces and rawness. And here we are. news. The good news is, were going to still have your head in support, but since its Mexico, and they seem to like their beans WHIP IT down there, its beans!" Devo even though clearly these When I cant understand something I like to call it postmodern. This is like that. Like an S&M sessionwere not refried beans. My in Pee Wees Playhouse. I like this video because when I met [DEVO co-founder] Mark Mothersbaughgoodness. It would have at a party in Hollywood and told him how inspiring I thought the song was, he looked at me like I wasbeen quite a mess. Yeah, insane. I suppose thats postmodern too. so, kind of strange. So then its like, okay, now how are we going to do this? Well, we get Ann Marie Bates, a lovely lady, NASTY as the woman. Paulie Janet Jackson Peterson found that large Janet nails it to the wall in this video. Shes the baddest of the bad and her performance issingle steel bowl and put a untouchable as well as the other dancers. But her asides, the look on her face, her attitudinalhole in the bottom of it.fierceness made me proud . Respect, Ms. Jackson!Keep up with Josie at https://josiecotton.com/82MVTMISSUE #1 ISSUE #1MVTM83'