Picturing Bianca

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Yes I do remember it--the song's called _Close to the Edit_ I believe. 
The band name (_Art of Noise_) describes their music pretty well.  The
video showed the young girl as described and the band members destroying
instruments such as a piano and some horns I think with chain saws and
other things. Every attack on an instrument generated music rather than
the actual sound you would expect. A very striking video, it never really
disturbed me.  I never saw it as sexual at all but rather perhaps as sort
of a group of wild people finding these instruments and discovering a new
way to make music.  Interesting stuff.  I'm sure I've still got it
recorded on an old video collection, haven't thought about it in years.  I
never made a Bianca connecton. I guess if I was to picture Bianca it would
maybe be as Brooke Shields in _Pretty Baby_--a _very_ disturbing movie
that presented, unfortunately, apparently commonplace true facts. 

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joe Varo wrote:
> In my attempt to get through with my re-reading of GR before M&D comes out
> (and hopefully re-read Vineland before that time also), the other day I
> got to the Anubis episode and the Slothrop-Bianca sex scene.
> 
> The whole scene makes me shudder and Bianca brings to mind a music video
> from many years ago.  I think it was by a band called The Art of Noise and
> the video features this little girl, definitely pre-teen, but perhaps
> younger than Bianca's supposed 11-12.  She is dressed up in a leather or
> vinyl mini dress and has gaudy purple and green (or was it magenta and
> green) make-up on.  All through the video she is smashing up musical
> instruments along in (if I recall) a railroad yard.
> 
> I always found this video rather disturbing.  Anyone else remember it?
> Anyone else ever see Bianca like this?  If not, how does everyone picture
> Bianca?
> 
> Joe