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On Monday Houstonist posted about Stick Em Up a blog and documentary about the art of wheat-pasting in Houston. Just a few days later, MyFoxHouston ran this hilariously un-ironic story about the "new" form of graffiti plaguing the town, complete with hip music and cheesy color-saturated montages of what must be the sloppiest spray-painting in Houston.
If the name Alfonso Ribeiro doesn't ring a bell, it's probably because most Houstonist readers know him better as Carlton Banks, the dancing, Tom Jones-loving cousin on the .
Daniel Dumile, better known by the stage name MF Doom, was born on this day 38 years ago to a Trinidadean mother and a Zimbabwean father. And although he was born in London, Dumile moved to Long Island as a child and later became one of the most interesting and exciting voices in American hip-hop.
Today's Friday Afternoon Video takes a trip down memory lane to 1989, when Madonna was at her peak -- both musically and artistically -- before the long, sad slide into The English Roses, Kabbalah and excess botox. Houstonist remembers the release of Like A Prayer as if it were yesterday: the haunting organ and gospel choir, her strikingly beautiful brunette hair in the video, the evocative images of a black Christ, and -- of course -- the Pepsi commercial controversy that nearly overshadowed the song itself.
Happy Halloween, dear readers! For today's Friday Afternoon Video, we're taking a trip down memory lane back to one of our fondest Halloween memories from our youth: dressing up like a demented French maid and singing along -- loudly -- at midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In a dental-floss-thin segue from last week's Friday Afternoon Video, Houstonist brings you a rather infamous song from Ben Folds, who will be rocking Warehouse Live tonight with Missy Higgins.
Most of our recent Friday Afternoon Videos have been blasts from your 1980s past. Today, we're going even further back to a time when music was still a pure and sacred pursuit, a time when musicians -- in the words of Lester Bangs -- had "the courage to be drunken buffoons, which made them poetic."
Since there won't be any moonlight to brighten the late nights of the upcoming Labor Day Weekend, Houstonist dug up an oldie-but-goodie to provide you with The Whole of the Moon on this Friday afternoon:
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