The Lynnertic

Party Barbie colette at Régine, Paris, and Shara’s engagement at avec in Chicago

Collette — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:10:44 +0000

The Barbie Doll’s 50th birthday is being celebrated around the world!

Party Barbie colette

March 12th, 2009, at The Régine.

Come celebrate Barbie’s 50th anniversary at Régine this Thursday, March 12th, starting at 10pm, with Lady Bunny, Mister Rabbit, a live by Steed Lord, a warm-up by Olympia Le Tana & a dance performance by Dangerkat. The House of Dangerkat is a Canadian-based collective of arts professionals synthesizing fashion and styling with music and dance, further enhanced by video, photography and design. The House’s laissez-faire style of performance art has wowed the fashion, dance and music communities with their progressive approach to art making and rule breaking. Check out performances from Paris, New York and Canada at Dangerkat.

A very special thanks for providing champagne to Nicolas Feuillatte, for vodka to Girl By Necker and for lemonade by Lorina.

My friend Jason Williscroft saved me from getting too wrapped up in the trappings of this non-holiday by sending me the video of his evening at avec in Chicago last weekend, where he proposed to his girlfriend Shara with a self-described Barbie Diamond.** Congratulations to Jason and Shara! May you have a long and happy life together!

** It’s a Barbie Diamond because it’s pink, not because it’s tiny. The diamond, I mean, not the ring. Watch the video.

Lynner and Boydstun: I Love My Dog

Collette — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:07:27 +0000

Happy Penny Day!

Penny’s a good dog. She’s been with us for three years today, 1/11/2009.

Click to play I Love My Dog

Doug and Bill Boydstun wrote and recorded I Love My Dog in 1982, a year before Invisible Zoo was formed. It is unreleased. In 2006 I Love My Dog was added to the playlist of listener-supported Radio Free Phoenix, the best free-form radio station we can reach. In honor of Penny Day I was given permission to post the song to this site. Enjoy!

I Love My Dog
By Doug Lynner and Bill Boydstun

Me, I’m just a good old boy
Goin’ through life alone
Thinkin’ about the kind of joy
That a guy like me never knows
One more highway
One more bar
When I get tired I’ll go sleep in my car
And I’ll be dreamin’ about the the only thing….
That I’ve ever had to love

Things have been pretty hard
Livin in a whiskey bar
Life never got too far
Sittin in my Chevy car
One more highway
One more jar
Of old corn liquor in the
Trunk of my car
but I’m not worried
About the shape that I’m in,

Cause I know that I’ve been loved.

I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
He likes to be close to me
(bach)
He likes to hang around
(bach)
And you know ’cause he’s there
(bach)
I’ll never be down,
Oh no,
I love my dog.

I can remember when
I advertised for a friend
Hopin’ I could find someone
But I couldn’t never get me none
One more highway
one more beer
one more roadhouse
one more tear
but I won’t worry,
I’ll be doing fine,

Cause I know that I’ve been loved.

I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
He likes to be close to me
(bach)
He likes to hang around
(bach)
And you know ’cause he’s there
(bach)
I’ll never be down,
Oh no,
I love my dog.

There’s noone as Irish as Barack Obama

Collette — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:16:01 +0000

Irish TV presents Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys!

Dancing for Joy

Collette — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:38:33 +0000

We all won! The following will have to do until I find pics of last night’s celebrations.

This is Matt’s Dancing video for 2008. See his page “Where the hell is Matt” for more!

Collette - Ring My Bell

Collette — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Collette Roberts is an Australian pop artist who performed as ‘Collette’ in the 1980’s and 90’s. She claims to have started the tshirt-over-lycra fad in Australia, which might be a bit of a stretch, if I may say so myself. Today, Collette is a model and make-up artist, and volunteers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. She played out as recently as 2006.

Here’s the video of her 1989 hit single “Ring My Bell” from the album “Raze the Roof”

Collette made it to the cover of Smash Hits Magazine! From the exclusive Interview:

The impetus for "Ring My Bell" came about when our gal, a self confessed "club person" was out at various nightspots and happened to notice the great reaction that "Ring My Bell" got when the DJ played the original version… Collette decided that the song could do with being "brought up to date" and "modernized" and so went into a recording studio to lay down a demo of the song - took it to a record company and hey presto! she had a recording contract, made a single and became a star overnight!

… "I went into a newsagent to buy a lollipop - I really like lollipops - and I was just there to buy this 30c lollipop and then girl starts chucking a mental going "Oh my god it’s Collette". Here I am standing there with my lollipop and she’s going "What flavour would you like Collette?" and I’m going, "Oh, lime", and she’s going "We also have orange and raspberry!" and I’m going "No, I’ll just have lime thanks!

Did she give it to me free? Nah! I think she was too overwhelmed to ask for an autograph too!"

… "I think Collette does appeal to everyone," she insists. "It’s just me and it’s not too far away from me. Anyone can dress like me. A lot of girls out there can relate to me. I’m not wearing anything you can’t buy or copy. I’ve really begun to notice that almost every girl about eight is wearing bicycle pants and a t-shirt. It’s really funny!"