Jamiroquai weren’t just concerned about the digital world. You’ll be glad to know JK remains fully-hatted in the “Virtual Insanity” video below though… The “Cosmic Girl” video was the first time I’d seen his head above the eyebrows. The most shocking thing for me about the “Cosmic Girl” video wasn’t seeing JK nipping around in expensive sports cars…his love of those was reasonably well-known…but seeing JK without a hat on. It’s a little bit ironic that JK (real name Jay Kay) was so against new technology, because when that new technology came in the form of a powerful new sports car, he was all for it (as Jamiroquai’s video for “Cosmic Girl” proves here… ) That’s your script for a post-apocalyptic disaster movie, right there… Although I realise I’m one of the lucky ones…just occasionally my children glance up briefly from their iPads to grunt their answers to my questions about how their day at school has been.įutures made of virtual insanity now Always seem to be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting our new technology Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground Whatever JK… Jamiroquai’s lead singer and co-writer of “Virtual Insanity” … thought of people being too immersed in the digital world of the late 1990s, I suspect he’d be considerably more concerned now. (That search engine became known as Google…those two students did pretty well out of it…) “Virtual Insanity” was released a decade or so before Facebook and Twitter got fully into their stride, a decade before the first iPhone was released and about the same time two students at Stanford University were setting up some weird new search engine based on their doctoral research to take on the might of Yahoo and Alta Vista. This song is over 20 years old now, but even in the early days of the internet…and even before the dot-com bubble got fully under way… “Virtual Insanity” set out to warn us of the danger in becoming too immersed in our digital lives and not connected enough to the real world. The DVD commentary mentions that Sarah's performance was the end result of a joke following previous Buffy actor Nathan Fillion's appearance, and by Alyson agreeing to be on the show.Back in those far-off days when MTV played music videos, rather than seemingly endless tacky reality TV, the “Virtual Insanity” video was one of my favourites. Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the role of Phyllis, reuniting with her old Buffy co-star Alyson Hannigan as Chelsea.Working on his own face in this episode, he has to ask Francine for help. In the same episode, Stan teaches Steve how to shave by practicing on Principal Lewis' back. Here, in the home movie, Hayley is there, but not Stan. In " I Am the Walrus", it showed a flashback where Stan was there for Steve's birth.Stan says that he slept with Francine on his first two dates with her, yet in " When a Stan Loves a Woman", he says that he didn't sleep with Francine until they were married."Get Low" by Eastside Boyz, Lil Jon/featuring Ying Yang Twins plays at the school dance.Despite it being the highest grossing film at the time of broadcast, Francine has no idea what Avatar is.As he and Francine speak, Fernando was recording this with Roger present without a disguise on. When Stan thinks he was recording the film, Francine explains that wasn't him but their family photographer, Fernando.Although Hayley makes an appearance in the episode, she has only one line.The license plate on Roger's limo reads "BIGNLNG", readable as "Big and Long".Two Terminator-like endoskeletons can be seen in the background at the CIA lab.
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