Old Spice of Life

[jack_babalon]

Shout out to mlfoley for hipping me to this: Bruce Campbell doing a cover of Duran Duran's Hungry like the Wolf.

By the by, Old Spice was just one of my many 'Pimp Names' when I got out of the Navy. Ahhh to be a young man working the piers again, setting up lonely longshoreman and drunken Squids with a brevy of transgendered punk rock Geishas. I remember paydays when my 'Ladies' would see me coming down the docks in my beaten up peacoat and eyes shadowed by a Greek sailors cap pulled down low. The click-click-clack of running high heels as they'd come up on me cooing 'Heyyyyy Old Spice...', peppering my cheeks with kisses while pressing blood stained ten dollar bills into my hungry fist of love. Those were some good times and everyday was like living in a Nick Cave song.

Then came the Transgender Punk Geisha Crash of '01 when the market dried up and there was nothing for me to do but go legit. I got a job working the door at a Terminus City Fetish Club. I was paid in cheap beer and cheaper aftershave. The 'ladies' did alright though. Stilleto Sally went back to college, Baby Boi cleaned up and is now a congressmans wife, Dharmaneisha plays stand up bass in a Stray Cats cover band ('The Struts') and Betty Rumble still stays in touch - occasionally i'll get a postcard with burnt edges from 'Interzone' with her distinctive scrawl telling me about some freelance 'wetwork' she's doing for an undisclosed American Umbrella Corporation.

Still it's nice that they stay in touch.

Comments

[mlfoley.livejournal.com]

I had no idea there was a Transgender Punk Geisha Crash in '01. A damn shame!

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Yeah I should've put my assets in Blue Chips like my accountant suggested but I was a sucker for what seemed like that endless supply of Trannie Punk Geisha money... then the bubble burst once the go-go dot.com/Clinton years ended and now here I am working down in the Cube Farm.

Two things:

[hellblazer.livejournal.com]

1) That commercial is very probably the pinnacle of human civilization thus far.

2) It's a very weird revelation to have after seeing an Old Spice commercial, but...

If they ever need the character for, say, an Avengers or Captain America movie, Bruce would make one hell of a Nick Fury.

Re: #2

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I know it's obvious, but to me Nick Fury always looked like a late 40's/young 50's Clint Eastwood. Whenever I read an appearance by him my brain automatically gives him Clints growl/rasp. Oddly enough though I could picture Bruce Campbell (if he dyed his hair blond) as Clint Barton aka Hawkeye (though I think he's Ronin now?)