Next week, the duo, who only go by those kooky names by the way, will make their biggest splash yet by flying to Berlin to record at Hansa Studios -- the infamous place where U2 made arguably their best album Achtung Baby! and David Bowie put together a pair of his Berlin Trilogy albums.
The next day, Mrs. Obama wore a teal blue Jason Wu dress with a kooky cardigan by the Japanese avant-garde designer Junya Watanabe.
Both start off with a sense of fun, where Rodman gets to trade off his self-consciously kooky image by doing something unexpected in return for acres of publicity.
The funny thing is, that a lot of what Vallejo has in those kook—I call them kook boxes because a lot of stuff is just kooky, sent by people who think they know who the Zodiac is or think they've solved the code.
And then there's Something Wild, a tricky little movie that seesaws back and forth between light comedy and genuine violence as affable Jeff Daniels gets swept into a world of hurt by the kooky siren played by Melanie Griffith.
Its sweet-and-sour story line is simple: The cranky hero is seduced out of his emotional cubbyhole by a visit from a kooky urbanite, played by Ms. Vigoda, who goes door to door selling "special full-spectrum holiday light bulbs" geared to keep New Yorkers from succumbing to seasonal affective disorder.
Almost Famous primly distinguishes between the exploited women and a higher class of girl called a "band aid" - more like a sweetly pretty and largely platonic muse on the tour bus - personified by the kooky yet gorgeous Penny Lane, played by the fantastically irritating Kate Hudson, who is perpetually laughing with transcendentally blonde flower-child wisdom.
Tommy Hilfiger gave preppy style a kooky Hogwarts twist by layering up houndstooth, Prince of Wales checks, and pinstripes.
She modeled them after several paper dresses she owned, including a kooky one made by the Campbell Soup Company, a 1960s marketing gimmick that embodied the Pop Art motif of consumer culture.
It contains a lot of arch, ironic humor, including a famously kooky dance performed by the titular teenage character to help his hapless friend win a student-council election.
