A Movie in the Can is just a Commode Away?

The VH1 jingle is beginning to bug me. VH1 is not exactly our favorite channel, but we have friends come over all the time and the dog ate the i-Pod. And that makes VH1 our last refuge.

VH1 is the latest spawn of the MTV network. MTV, you’ll remember, was once a station that broadcasted groovy music video’s, then discovered Beavis and Butthead and swiftly regressed into a colorful crypt of never-ending adult cartoons. That didn’t sit well with music-lovers, and aiming to please, MTV begat VH1.

And VH1, even more than MTV, repeats the same jingle every twenty minutes, and has been repeating the same darn jingle since time immemorial. And in that jingle occurs a dude, and that dude sings something that sounds very concerned. It lasts only a few seconds, so I didn’t have much to go on. Because who is that dude? His clip is monochrome, his music is kinda rough, but he’s obviously trying to be some kind of clown, prancing about with his long dreadlocks flopping. I honestly thought his song was a spoof. Because, quite clearly, he expressed his concern about technology taking over our most sacred and peaceful places.

I understood his two-second message to be, “A movie in the can is just a commode away,” and interpreted it as an objectionable installation of a movie player in the restroom. It took some Googling, but I found the dude. He’s White Zombie, for crying out loud. The song is called Black Sunshine, and it’s not funny at all. And he isn’t singing “A movie in the can is just a commode away” but “Move me in the Silence baltic motorway.”

Well, I liked my version better.