A Spiritual Journey With Michael Sembello

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He's a maniac!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

what the christ.

he's 80% yanni, 20% george clinton!

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 13 March 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm completely stunned. This blows away "Kenny Loggins, cult leader" in the middle-aged psychosis race.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

or carlos santana!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

hasselhoff.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

unfuckingbelievable.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my lord god in heaven. This is BEAUTIFUL and WRONG.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

OMG RON HOWARD!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

CECIL!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'm... still.. speechless. I was just about to stop it until Ron Howard showed up. Then everything went... not right.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

Love the talking dolphins too. Very Wayland. Of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

Damn thing has crashed my browser twice towards the end, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

As a young boy MICHAEL SEMBELLO studied music with the same mystical awe and desire of a Zen monk. Instead of chanting sacred mantras for hours, or spending years trying to snatch a pebble from a masters' hand, his disciplines consisted of hours of intense "musical Vedas," and sacred scales, cosmic chords and flying feats of harmonic wonder that would have had the God Thor of Valhalla working up a big sweat.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

You gotta love the Philosphy -- please look at the top of your browser window, my misspelling is intentional.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

And here I thought we were all steeltown girls on a Saturday night.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.michaelsembello.com/img/mikeheadf.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

"i like to think of myself as a musical christopher columbus... a trader of musical spices."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

aka, "Wow, I liked that one Tool video."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

Er, x-post.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.westcoast-music.com/images/cd-pictures/image440.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

I have duly alerted ILM to this wonder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

Getting to Know Your Inner Soul With Englebert Humperdinck

Healing the Manchild Within With Glenn Danzig

Lamaism and the Third Eye With Fred Durst

Irene Cara's Mantras for Moving On the Inner Planes

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

It also doesn't help that that picture of him with the globe makes it look like he's engaging in carnal activity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

F.T.W.!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

atlas fucked

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

i fear that in all this melee the hasselhoff link is being neglected

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

i've never wanted a mento more

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago) link

Mentos fresh and full of chi

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago) link

jesus fuck this is unbearable!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago) link

"cosmic" eeurdalskfja ;lskmdnb;u hkn

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago) link

ok this song is great

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

no really! fuck that rubicon shit

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

“Singing Around the World in 80 Languages and Dialects” followed this undertaking. Before the end of the decade, Michael was the first artist in history to sing in every possible language.

Making him the first man to suck in Klingon.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

"It's Over" is good but it's no "Godzilla"!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

from the Salon Article:

Carlos "Mr. Grammy" Santana wants the world to know that a Santa Claus-resembling angel named "Metatron" is responsible for his hit album "Supernatural."

http://unexaminethis.lunarpages.com/676/archives/pix/rickman-metatron-2-web.jpg
"And Mr Santana hasn't paid me my cut of the royalties yet. I think I should fly him up close to heaven...and drop him."

― Lord Custos Metatron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

Superman.

as you stand at the edge of existence
and the world has forgotten your name
after life
after life you remember
the secret

he's as fast as a speeding bullet
change the water into wine
and the last time he came
they cursed his name
with a kryptonite cross they cut him down

superman
are we ever gonna see you again
if we do
will you teach us how to fly above the sky?

some say the end of the tunnel
there's a light that will show us the way
it's a light that belongs to the people
of every nation color or creed
i can't speak for all of the sinners
i don't know any saints i could ask
it's been two thousand years since we've seen him
we need you please come back

superman
are we ever gonna see you again
if we do
will you teach us how to fly above the sky?

all of the pain in your life
how can we every repay?
and the answer you sent
is in the life that you led
superman

superman
are we ever gonna see you again?
if we do
will you teach us how to fly above the sky?

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

Just noticing...

http://www.westcoast-music.com/images/cd-pictures/image440.jpg http://columns.icomix.com/letter/images/tryandstopus.jpg

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.westcoast-music.com/images/cd-pictures/image440.jpg http://elcoleccionismo.com/images/cineposters/amehx.JPG

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.goodbyemag.com/nov97/lavey2.gif

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

Michael Sembello IS Rob Zombie:

http://www.michaelsembello.com/photo%20Gallery/Head_Shot3.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

THE SIDEBURNS

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

uh huh

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.michaelsembello.com/photo%20Gallery/Head_Shot3.jpg http://crazy4cinema.com/Actor/imgs/JohnCReilly.jpg

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link

that is a grave disservice to muttonchops everywhere

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 13 March 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago) link

I'd lay down some huge cash that that isn't his own hair in the video.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

I am a little late to this party but I just want to say HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, strange universe we live in. But still not as strange as the one Michael Sembello lives in.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

That is the only reasonable response, J0hn!

I think this is the reason Ron Howard went bald.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

And starting wearing sunglasses and looking like Lars Ulrich 1996?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

I had to go back and watch it again. It's just...mesmerizing.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 13 March 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

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Halloween gift. Ghostly sum resurrection. The ghouls and goblins.

It's too good too let die.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the best thread i've ever started.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

C'mon, what's not to get about 'cold connective heat?'

https://www.asseenontvnetwork.com/vcc/coldheat/coldheat/121315/

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

hehehehee

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

crate diggers take note: there are at least TWO different record covers of sembello's epochal _bossa nova hotel_. the first (and i'm guessing original) looks like this:

http://www.bluedesert.dk/cd3cm/sembello/bossa.JPG

that's michael behind the desk on the right in black/white face reading a godzilla comic. then there are two oiled-up pieces of beefcake rising off the floor (?), a dark one in a speedo with a huge shiny log-chain around his neck (??), the blond one in a sumo-diaper thing and what looks like christ's spear wound on his ribs (???). michael is on the back side in white shorts similarly floating off the floor with two suitcases.

the second (i'm guessing, for gay-squeaming audiences) puts the floating-suitcase michael on the front cover, and EXCISES COMPLETELY the stigmata-chain-diaper-south-beach-titty-tan-angels. so don't get that one!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

good to know

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

please tell me there's a larger image of that original cover online.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

a little bigger

meanwhile, "squeaming"??

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Still one of the greatest threads ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

what the?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

the movie linked to seems like it's gotta be a comedy... like there's even jokes and stuff in it! but the rest of the site, and people's reactions on this thread, make it seem totally serious. so i am confused.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the movie WANTS to be humorous, but it's unironic in ways perhaps sembello and howard don't even realize.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean it's definitely... jokey. and ron howard is def'ly acting like he's in a comedy.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

fuckin scientologists

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

And now you know the mysteries, Mr. Slocki.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i think about ron howard in this clip WAY more often than is probably normal/safe

― jones (actual), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

may..june..july..august...REVIVE! I did this once and I SWEAR it will never end. For the newbians y'know.

― cs, Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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― online casino, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, keep it up buddy!

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I just laughed out loud at the last two posts here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"keep it up"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a feeling this is all down to the Sembello cult.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, these drugs are definitely being flogged by singing dolphins with access to gmail.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd believe it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

nine months pass...

time honored tradition----REVIVE!!!!!!!

― one triple scoop (cs appleby), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Still genius.

― chap (chap), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

And again.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

In retrospect I appreciate how Ron Howard's bit with the sunglasses is a tribute to David Caruso before his time.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

six months pass...

I needed the laugh.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link

god god the god blessed the true name of fun.

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link

the man is my avatar pic at the dubstep forum. lol...must delete?

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

NEVER!

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link

YOU MUST HONOR SEMBELLO WITH EVERY LAST BREATH

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link

he really needs to release a quality mp3 of the rap theme to Monster Squad. that shit is something else.

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link

my employees at work speak almost no english so tomorrow i am going to say sembello in almost every sentence to throw them off.

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

New website.

He has apparently recovered his sanity -- although the list of recent production credits suggests he never truly lost it.

And I have to confess I really like the smooth-jazz version of "Maniac" that auto-plays.

― My head is full of numbers from the internet! (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/sqD8Z.jpg

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

^actual album art

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Years-Michael-Sembello/dp/B004JKLTWU

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

Wow. Is he...um...cornholing the earth right now? Should we avert our eyes?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link

looks like brazil's taking the brunt of it.

-- g®▲đұ, Sunday, June 3, 2007 9:34 PM

― gershy, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:40 PM

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link

I was seriously just thinking about this thread and that album cover today. Mr. Sembello must have fucked the planets into alignment, huh?

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

Pick a song!

1. Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore
2. Tear Down The Walls
3. The Winter Of Our Love
4. Black Rain
5. Heavy Weather
6. One Planet, One People
7. Maniac (New Version)
8. The Life Of My Broken Heart
9. Where Are We Now
10. Rub The Stone
11. Voodoo (Bonus Track)
12. What You Really Want (Bonus Track)
13. Burn It Up (Bonus Track)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link

Rub The Stone ooo er

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

Didn't realize that he co-wrote Saturn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHI-Y_RJGA&feature=kp

― how's life, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_kBTbbulQ

― goole, Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link

And I have to confess I really like the smooth-jazz version of "Maniac" that auto-plays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpK-4PM639Q

― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

Underrated.

― x-post. shut up. (monster mash), Monday, 14 December 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link

As a kid, I had this generic "BMX Freestyle" VHS in addition to various contests and BMX Plus! and Team HARO and the like. Most of the footage was old and corny by the time I picked it up in the early 90s. But sometimes, 25 years later, I'd still find myself with the corny-ass songs stuck in my head. Finally stumbled on it on youtube the other day and whaddaya know? Michael Sembello!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l84/trilogyz28/BIKES/LOOKY1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYUSDghZh6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbXnUr-K50U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uABkEr3UyIA

― how's life, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link

domain is available for purchase now

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link

On a related note, I spent last night figuring out how to play that Beat Farmers song from the RAD soundtrack.

― how's life, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link

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