STEEEAMMMY SUMMMER...MmmmmmmmmmMMMMmmmmm...oh yeah baby...Mmmmmmmm...HOT!

When I was a kid I was TOTALLY obsessed with Robbie Robertson's video for Somewhere Down the Crazy River.
I'd just...stare at it. Totally amazed. A tiny bit disgusted too.
Something about him, sweaty, greasy, his bedroom eyes...his cheesy poetry - which was kind of cool...the weird red and blue lights...the strange bizarre mexican singer dude...it just hypnotized me.
I must have watched this video 10,000 times - it's one of those things, kind of like the Polka Dot Door - when they would like, show you what a crayon factory looked like...that I just had to stare at, I was unable to turn away.
While it is horrifically cheesy...something about it...resonates. Just a little.
Something works.
I used to love the part when he just flat out makes out with the chick at the end, if you don't watch the whole thing - at least fast-forward to the 3:08 second mark...i swear, it's the stuff soft-porn heaven is made of.
I remember thinking it was shockingly, unspeakably dirty...his big orgasmic "scream-sigh" as he starts like, sticking his tongue down the slutty juke box girl's throat...I had never seen ANYTHING like it.
I seriously thought it was the dirtiest porn ever.
And his delivery. His dead-in-the-eye stare at the camera while he lip syncs to his poem...and yes...that Mexican dude...who just keeps popping up...his strange, fragile stare at the camera...
And the whole black-magic thing...the voodoo mind-reading references...so unusual...I swear, this video and song left SUCH a mark on me.
I'm not even sure why it's on my mind so much today.
It's just spoken word glory, with zero bars up for shame.
Fucking great.
Oddly enough - You Tube does not allow the ENTIRE video to be embedded in blogs, so - here it is, with the intro cut off...
Enjoy it...just for old time's sake.
It's one of those "hidden gems" that is too good to be "bad" - and too fucking HORRIFIC to ever turn off.

PS - better turn on the A/C...we don't wantcha to get burned...
*sizzzzzle*
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....