{"id":627,"date":"2006-12-20T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=627"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:25:04","slug":"entry-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Video Picks &#8211; Funny Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m up for writing anything particularly deep tonight, and I <em>just tonight<\/em> figured out the perfect pair of videos for my mood. So much of video making is about poses and art and such. It&#8217;s really cool every once in a while to see someone having fun in a video. Tonight&#8217;s pair are all about people that look like they&#8217;re having a lot of fun. Pretty much the only reason I love watching these two videos is for the facial expressions. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H9tEvfIsDyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince: Kiss (1986)<\/a><\/strong> The woman on the stool playing guitar is named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wendy_Melvoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wendy Melvoin<\/a>, and she looks like she&#8217;s just having a blast laughing at Prince&#8217;s posturing in the video. I think it&#8217;s a perfect counterbalance for him. By the way, you should click her linked name. She has done and <em>is still doing<\/em> some interesting stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ANEx_6mbC2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swing Out Sister: Break Out (1987)<\/a><\/strong> Nothing much to say here except that I just always get a smile on my face watching the weird faces that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corinne_Drewery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corrine Drewery<\/a> is making in the video. It&#8217;s a feel-good video for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m up for writing anything particularly deep tonight, and I just tonight figured out the perfect pair of videos for my mood. So much of video making is about poses and art and such. It&#8217;s really cool every once in a while to see someone having fun in a video. Tonight&#8217;s pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,21],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-video-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}