She also sent me "In These Shoes?" which I also like.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Polter-Cow - May 13, 2011 6:33:17 pm PDT #4504 of 6436
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - May 14, 2011 6:10:41 am PDT #4505 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fun, short interview with Bootsy Collins at AVclub.
Do read the comments to see an outpouring of pure Bootsy love and adoration. Dude is beloved. Bootsy's got to be the nicest genius to ever work in music. I remember when Lynda Barry needed an angelic figure in one of her comics and she based it on Bootsy.
Jon B. - May 14, 2011 12:02:33 pm PDT #4506 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Anyone else watching Eurovision? I'm rooting for the Moldovans. Crazy conical hats! A unicycle!
DavidS - May 14, 2011 12:03:16 pm PDT #4507 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wasn't but now I'm rooting for the Moldovans based entirely on their hats and unicycles.
Jon B. - May 14, 2011 12:19:27 pm PDT #4508 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There were a few good ones (relatively speaking). David, I think you'd have dug the Serbians. An all female vocal group with great mod outfits doing modern Motown-ish number.
smonster - May 14, 2011 3:56:39 pm PDT #4509 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I'm rooting for the Moldovans. Crazy conical hats! A unicycle!
Was this Zdob si Zdub? Because they are legitimately AWESOME.
Jon B. - May 14, 2011 9:23:25 pm PDT #4510 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I had to look it up to check, but yes, it was!
smonster - May 15, 2011 3:04:49 pm PDT #4511 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Wow, that is... not one of their better songs. I'm not sure it's possible to really appreciate their charm and brilliance unless you know the originating culture(s). They really excel at taking traditional Moldovan themes and music and updating them, like this song - "Buna Dimineata" (Good Morning). [link] The video incorporates actual Soviet propaganda films with footage of the band playing in the back of an old truck*. Then there's "Videli Noci," which was a major part of the soundtrack of my time in Moldova. It's in Russian, but I think it's about drinking all night with your friends. [link] And then there's the classic Hardcore Moldovanesc (Moldovan Hardcore) which lists a wide variety of leisure time activities, all followed by "...and drank some wine" [link]
Even those wacky hats they're wearing are just Moldovan traditional hats taken to extremity [link] - made from sheepskin, I think.
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* by the way, those old trucks and carriages and wine pressing by hand and all that stuff in those videos is still done, all over the country.
smonster - May 16, 2011 6:09:59 am PDT #4512 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
And on the off chance that anyone liked what they heard in that post, Zdob si Zdub is now available on iTunes! I left my Agroromantica cd in Moldova when I left, and I've missed it so. But I'm downloading it right now, AIFG!
le nubian - May 16, 2011 7:11:28 am PDT #4513 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."