I saw the greatest 80's video ever made on television last night. It was so good that I thought the whole time it was making fun of the 80's, but it was in fact genuine laughable 80's garbage from 1986. The song was simply called "Geil." It was off "The Geil Album" by Boris and Bonker. Geil is a German word which until now I thought was synonymous with "cool" or "awesome," but it actually has a double meaning: geil means horny, esp. if you apply it to yourself. So there were these shaggy faced German guys with Axel Rose party hair in the back singing
I'm so geil,
you're so geil,
everybody's geil.
Geil!
and I got this feeling that the word geil was just coming into it's own in 1986, in order for an entire song to be structured around the utterance of this one word in different contexts. If you can imagine a song based solely on the word "radical," back when "radical" hadn't been added to our language yet, and it was fun just to say "radical" for the sound of it or even to make a dumb song with an even dumber video that relied on it, I think you're close to the feeling "Geil" gave me.
What would happen if I suddenly started averaging more than 6 hours of sleep a night? Or if I stopped drinking coffee? Or listening to alternative music constantly? I should try this and see. One of these days normality is going to be so far back in my forgotten past that it will once again seem exciting to be normal.
Posted by Alan at August 8, 2002 01:35 AM