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Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:22 PM Jan 2024

David Johansen

Last night I watched one of my favorite old sci-fi movies, Freejack. I think Mick Jagger was brilliant in it. Both my wife and I wanted to know where we saw Brad before. A quick search on IMDB pulled up David Johansen, known for Scrooged and a few other movies we hadn't watched, so why did he look so familiar?

And then I got it. Buster Poindexter. Specifically, the song that is the bane of his existence:

As Poindexter, he scored his first hit song, "Hot Hot Hot",[8] which, in an interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, he called "the bane of my existence" due to its pervasive popularity


Delving in to his Wikipedia page further, wow. I honestly never connected him to the New York Dolls, or really, any of his other projects. I am now on a quest to listen to his works. But in the meantime, here is the bane of his existence:

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David Johansen (Original Post) ZERTErYNOthe Jan 2024 OP
geez, you are young. Ha ha. Red Raider 85 Jan 2024 #1
a very recent documentary on him DBoon Jan 2024 #2
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