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...laser discs to live action performances backed by the Georgia-based indie rock group Of Montreal, Raftery has sung it all. TIME talks to him about his obsession, his fondness for an obscure Ghostbuster's II song, and why he doesn't want to die while singing along to R. Kelly...
...this song even existed. You've never heard "On Our Own?" It's a pretty amazing song. There's a great video, with Rick Moranis and Donald Trump. That song combines a number of things I love, which is a really ridiculous and poorly done rap, a really goofy R&B chorus, and the memory of Bobby Brown at the most ridiculous point in his career. "Sister Christian" is my favorite karaoke song, but "On Our Own" is in a tough battle for the number two spot...
Really? Last year my friend and I became obsessed with singing R. Kelly's "I'm a Flirt" every single night that we went out. And that song has R. Kelly, it has T-Pain, it has T.I. It's a pretty long song, and we don't do it well at all but you have to have a little bit of stamina to get through. And definitely at the end of the song I'm winded. I get to the point where I hear the first few notes and I'm like oh man, I'm not gonna make...
...That was 1939, when Ackerman and his friend Myrtle R. Douglas attended the first World Science Fiction Convention in Manhattan - both dressed in space suits. (Trekkies, now you know who originated that imaginative eccentricity.) In a 1996 interview with Ed Grant of the New York City cable access show Media Funhouse, Ackerman recalled that 165 people attended the confab. "We had a banquet so expensive that only 29 of us could afford it," he told Ed. "I couldn't even afford to lend the money to Ray Bradbury, 'cause it was one dollar a plate. Of course no food...
While the debate did not declare a winner, many audience members said that Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Andrea R. Flores ’10 were the victors, while Michael C. Koenigs ’09 provided the best comic relief...