D.A.F. - Kebab Träume (1980)

Every once in a while I'll listen to a song that just restores my faith in music. Just another happy accident. The band is called Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. For some reason they sometimes shortened it to D.A.F. This single is from 1980 and I think it's their first ever. I'm not sure. YOU have google, too, so YOU look it up.

According to my last.fm, I had listened to this only once sometime ago, but I have no recollection of this, so I'm pretending I just discovered it. (I HAVE, however, listened to "Der Mussolini" an unhealthy amount of times and Alles ist Gut is  a damn good album. Sing it with me: "Der Rauber und der Prinz...")

"This girl is UP when the pressure is on."

It's okay to be shaken up a little, to be under pressure for a thousand different reasons, to be sensitive and emotional.

As long as you get back up again and prove that you're really a motherfucking badass. (And it's damn more awesome if you do it in a little pink dress.)

Shit. I'm gonna go listen to "What a Feeling" and watch this again.

If anyone asked me right now when's the last time I cried, I could give them a fairly recent answer.

She'd Run You Down

 

Exactly.

The Grand Poobah

The Golden Girls is my favorite sitcom of all time. My DVD boxes are falling apart because I've seen every season so many times.

Nobody could deliver a line like Bea Arthur (Dorothy, in the middle) and this clip shows how amazing she was. When she died two years  years ago I cried as if someone close to me, like my own grandmother, had died. I've been watching the show over ten years now and I can watch marathons still. It just never gets old. (Although the ladies did. All are gone except Betty White. And as much as everyone loves her these days, Bea really was the center, the rock of that show.)

This is the type of sitcom I would love to write for. You just needed a living room, a kitchen and four amazing actresses to deliver one great line after the other. They were able to engage an audience with zero gimmicks. You can close your eyes and STILL laugh. I think all great sitcoms are like that, great radio shows in disguise.

Here's my favorite Dorothy clip:

You could say she was the Grand Poobah of the Golden Girls.