My son Del pointed this video out to me last night, hoping I wasn't quite as creepy a boss as the one on the vid. This is very funny stuff, and hey seem to have dozens more on You Tube...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Video/lyrics: The Beatles - I Am The Walrus:::::speculations on Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul and The Beatles and Beach Boys mutual influence
And we are all, in fact, The Walrus. At this juncture in rock music history, everyone was influencing everyone. It gets pretty circuitous here. . .not all that long before this, Bob Dylan hooked up with The Beatles in London and introduced them to marijuana. But more importantly, he influenced John Lennon with his new work. He was no longer a folkie, but a singer-songwriter creating imagistic, and often, surrealistic, and even Da-da-istic lyrics, densely packed with images, allusions, humor, and callbacks to other musics, past and present.
When McCartney and Lennon heard Pet Sounds, they were stunned. Paul McCartney said: “ It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John [Lennon] so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favourite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favourite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine. ”
Eric Clapton said that "I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one."
Elton John thinks that "Pet Sounds is a landmark album. For me to say that I was enthralled would be an understatement. I had never heard such magical sounds, so amazingly recorded. It undoubtedly changed the way that I, and countless others, approached recording. It is a timeless and amazing recording of incredible genius and beauty."
Beatles producer George Martin said that that "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds." After Sgt. Pepper was released, Wilson was so despondent that he went to bed for months. Uh no, he went to bed for years. But that's a story for another day.
Once again, I have taken an ostensibly simple subject--a video of The Beatles I Am The Walrus--and turned it into a bramble of shredded wheat. This is an example of music influencing music influencing more music. Nonetheless, as great as Sgt. Pepper is, I happen to like the follow on album more, while in no way detracting from Sgt. Pepper's monolithic and lasting influence (likewise for Pet Sounds).
The Walrus
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
MAN, you been a naughty boy, and let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo
Mister City P'liceman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing,
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl and let your Knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo coo coo c'choo
Expert texpert choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? (ho ho ho, he, he he, ha, ha, ha)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide.
I'm crying.
Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo, coo coo coo c'choo, coo coo c'choo, c'choo coo c'choo c'choo
(rhythmical speaking along with juba's).
Juba juba juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba juba. Juba juba.....
(speaking)
--Repeat (eventually juba's will stop) and fade until end.--
during the fade out background vocals:
[Simultaneously:] 'Everybody smokes pot' and 'Oompa, oompa, stick it up your joompa' [jumper]
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I am in the minority, preferring The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour over their 8th album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I'm not denying the massive critical and popular acclaim the album achieved. It was innovative, from its structure to the recording techniques to the fantastic cover collage covering a broad range of pop culture heroes and villains. Sgt. Pepper's influence was massive and almost monolithic, and it actually changed the way other musicians did business.
One of the inspirations for Sergeant Pepper was The Beach Boys' masterpiece Pet Sounds. Interestingly, Pet Sounds was inspired by an earlier Beatles' album, Rubber Soul. When Wilson heard that album, he launched into making an album that cohered the same way as Rubber Soul.
One of the inspirations for Sergeant Pepper was The Beach Boys' masterpiece Pet Sounds. Interestingly, Pet Sounds was inspired by an earlier Beatles' album, Rubber Soul. When Wilson heard that album, he launched into making an album that cohered the same way as Rubber Soul.
Brian Wilson said about Rubber Soul: "I really wasn't quite ready for the unity. It felt like it all belonged together. Rubber Soul was a collection of songs ... that somehow went together like no album ever made before, and I was very impressed. I said, "That's it. I really am challenged to do a great album."
When McCartney and Lennon heard Pet Sounds, they were stunned. Paul McCartney said: “ It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John [Lennon] so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favourite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favourite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine. ”
Eric Clapton said that "I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one."
Elton John thinks that "Pet Sounds is a landmark album. For me to say that I was enthralled would be an understatement. I had never heard such magical sounds, so amazingly recorded. It undoubtedly changed the way that I, and countless others, approached recording. It is a timeless and amazing recording of incredible genius and beauty."
Beatles producer George Martin said that that "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds." After Sgt. Pepper was released, Wilson was so despondent that he went to bed for months. Uh no, he went to bed for years. But that's a story for another day.
Once again, I have taken an ostensibly simple subject--a video of The Beatles I Am The Walrus--and turned it into a bramble of shredded wheat. This is an example of music influencing music influencing more music. Nonetheless, as great as Sgt. Pepper is, I happen to like the follow on album more, while in no way detracting from Sgt. Pepper's monolithic and lasting influence (likewise for Pet Sounds).
The Walrus
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
MAN, you been a naughty boy, and let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo
Mister City P'liceman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing,
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl and let your Knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo coo coo c'choo
Expert texpert choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? (ho ho ho, he, he he, ha, ha, ha)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide.
I'm crying.
Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
coo coo c'choo, coo coo coo c'choo, coo coo c'choo, c'choo coo c'choo c'choo
(rhythmical speaking along with juba's).
Juba juba juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba juba. Juba juba.....
(speaking)
--Repeat (eventually juba's will stop) and fade until end.--
during the fade out background vocals:
[Simultaneously:] 'Everybody smokes pot' and 'Oompa, oompa, stick it up your joompa' [jumper]
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Alien Lore No. 111: UFOFs over Haiti
Is it real, or from a Halo 3 commercial, or composed in VUE 6? This video was allegedly shot August 6, 2007. It seems to be controversial, but then isn't every video we've ever seen of a UFO or a grey? And really, as Ken Kesey once wrote "it's all true, whether it happened or not."
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
September 12 is The Day of Conception
The former Commies are getting a day off to procreate, and win prizes while they're, literally, doing it. For the third year in a row, the Russian region Ulyanovsk is once again celebrating Sept. 12 as the Day of Conception, and is giving couples time off from work to procreate.
The state hopes for a population explosion next June, on Russia's national day. Couples who "give birth to a patriot" during the June 12 festivities win will money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.
The number of competitors, and the number of babies they produce, has been on the rise since Ulyanovsk began the holiday and prizes. Russia, has one-seventh of the entire earth's land surface, but only 141.4 million citizens. . .and the population has been declining since the 1990s.
President Vladimir Putin's last state of the state address called the demographic crisis the most acute problem facing Russia and announced various efforts to jump start Russia's birth rate, including cash giveaways.
The Governor of Ulyanovsk, Sergei Morozov, tossed a few more incentives into the kitty for the campaign by handing our prizes. The 2007 grand prize went to Irina and Andrei Kartuzov, who won a UAZ-Patriot, a sport utility vehicle. They also gave away video cams, TVs, refrigerators and washing machines.
Two Joe Jackson videos - Stepping out, and It's different for girls
Joe Jackson was often in my music mix in the early 80's. I remember him putting on a great show at Woolman Rink in Central Park in about 1979 or '80. One of the things I like about Joe is how girl-centric these tunes are. . .for a gay singer-songwriter.
Quotes of the day
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
- AE Housman
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Stephen King, Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
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- AE Housman
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Stephen King, Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Too good to leave in the comments: Scooter and the Hell's Angel Heavy chug-a-lug
Scooter, 1980
Responding to a story I wrote about him, Scooter, as always, comes up with some pithy insights and anecdotes. I can't let this tale merely languish in the comments. Here is even more information on the summer of 1973; this time, Scooter goes head to head with the Hell's Angel Heavy:
Scooter, the anonymous reader
Scooter writes:
I don't think the Dart lasted a week after Mel registered it. Yes, it met an immovable object during a foggy Seattle night with similar interior cabin conditions. Mel, the future Cap'n Vic, and I tooled around Wallingford's side streets when out of the fogs appeared a great slab of retaining wall. We weren't traveling all that fast, I'd guess about 20mph, but Mel didn't have time to pull his foot from the gas pedal, just *%!* and BLAM. We backed off the sidewalk and heard the clank of the fan beating against the radiator. Mel limped the car home to your garage and he learned later that the collision had bent the fan pulley's crank pretty badly. Estimates to repair were much higher than the few hundred bucks he had paid for the car, so off to the scrap heap.
Yeah, there is no shortage of stories about this crew. Is there a statute of limitations on roguish indiscretions of the young and the embarrassment they may cause our families?
I have racked my brain about Downer escapades and the only one that comes to mind is my encounter with the lapsed Hells Angel, Heavy. He and his wife had fled a Northern CA chapter for Kent, WA in an attempt to go straight. Heavy got his moniker due to his girth. He weighed a good 290 and was about 5'7" tall. The Downer's knuckleheaded regulars were in awe of Heavy because of his affiliation with the 1%ers and his drinking prowess. When I arrived Heavy was taking on all comers in a chugging contest with 12oz schooners of beer. He was wiping people out, beating everyone by half a glass or more. Challengers were spewing brew through their nostrils and almost crying. These were actually trying to swallow the brew which just agitates the froth and overcomes the imiber. Even after the Freshman 15, I couldn't have weighed more than 165 but I volunteered to take Heavy on.
Yeah, there is no shortage of stories about this crew. Is there a statute of limitations on roguish indiscretions of the young and the embarrassment they may cause our families?
I have racked my brain about Downer escapades and the only one that comes to mind is my encounter with the lapsed Hells Angel, Heavy. He and his wife had fled a Northern CA chapter for Kent, WA in an attempt to go straight. Heavy got his moniker due to his girth. He weighed a good 290 and was about 5'7" tall. The Downer's knuckleheaded regulars were in awe of Heavy because of his affiliation with the 1%ers and his drinking prowess. When I arrived Heavy was taking on all comers in a chugging contest with 12oz schooners of beer. He was wiping people out, beating everyone by half a glass or more. Challengers were spewing brew through their nostrils and almost crying. These were actually trying to swallow the brew which just agitates the froth and overcomes the imiber. Even after the Freshman 15, I couldn't have weighed more than 165 but I volunteered to take Heavy on.
I knew I could whip him because I had actually trained with Coca Cola whose fizz was far more vicious than tap brewski's mellow buzz and I knew not to swallow. I just opened the gullet and poured. I beat him the first time out by a couple of gulps. He said that I had taken him by surprise and given the talentless hacks he'd been competing with before me, I believed him. They cued up another set of schooners for us at the end of the bar and a dozen or so defeated brew hounds started chortling that Heavy was sure to beat me in the rematch. They counted off and I beat Heavy in a bang bang close call. All the dimwits said Heavy won and I blared "that's bullshit, I won and Heavy knows I won" to which Heavy said "All right, Kid, you're faster, but let’s settle down and see who can really hold his mud." Wasn't likely that I would win that fight, a 40oz vs. a keg, so I wisely declined.
We kept drinking and I loved that Heavy copped to losing to me. Later he took me to his pad in the Chateau Padiddleeyak Apartments where he showed me his colors and lamented that he couldn't really retire from the Angels though he didn't think they would look for him in Kent. I actually liked Heavy but I don’t remember seeing him again. It was late summer and you, Phil, Jed, and I were off to B'ham and our bleak house on Iron Street where things started getting really real.
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Rudolphs Giuliani loses another supporter: his daughter Caroline
click Caroline Giuliani's Facebook profile to enlarge
It looks like Rudy Giuliani can't count on his daughter's vote. And his son's (see All This is That: Giuliani son: "I have problems with my father, but it doesn't mean he won't make a great President." ). Or most certainly his ex-wife's (the lovely Donna Hanover). In his 2008 presidential bid, he'll be going without the support of his ex-family. According to 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani's Facebook profile, she's supporting Barack Obama. Go to Slate.com to read Lucy Morrow Caldwell's story.
Other recent articles on The Mayor of 9/11 on All This Is That:
Giuliani son: "I have problems with my father, but it doesn't mean he won't make a great President."
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Monday, August 13, 2007
The Iowa Straw Poll - Romney wins; Huckabee snags second
The ex-Governor
Mitt Romney won the Ames straw poll this weekend because a) he was dogged; and b) he has money.
The Governor
With a somewhat convincing victory in the Republican straw poll in Ames, Iowa Saturday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney launched himself into the next phase of a presidential nomination battle pitting his traditional early-state strategy against a more unorthodox (a/k/a wacky) approach by national front-runner Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Romney's win in the nonbinding Ames contest, sealed by his appeals to the party's conservative base and throwing money all around the state, highlighted his attempt to focus time and people on the opening states of Iowa and New Hampshire, in hopes early victories there will give him The Big Mo. It's worked plenty of times before, but this one is looking to be a strange race indeed.
Giuliani, who is in the doghouse with the traditional GOP folks, and the Neocons, ducked Iowa and is placing his bets on the big states that hold their contests in late January and on the first Tuesday in February.
Romney said the margin of victory represented a major validation of his strategy (saturation coverage of the states + big money infusions. Since three of his major rivals skipped the poll, Romney visited the state 17 times, spent big, and emerged the victor.
In a press conference, Romney taunted the missing. “It’s too bad the other guys weren’t competing here… but they ‘d have played if they thought they could have won,” he said.
Second place went to Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. “We had two fish and five loaves and it fed 5,000,” Huckabee said of his victory. Whether this enables Huckabee to raise huis national profile and raise the all important $$$ remains to be seen. Huck doesn't seem to like fund raising much, and he has virtually no internet visibility.
Several of the second and third tier candidates came close to betting the farm on Iowa and came up with bupkus. Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, had earlier said he would drop out of the race if he did not place at least second. See you around, Tommy.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Poem: Bible Stories 6/Jesus Walks On Water
After Jesus fed the crowd with the loaf of bread and fishes
He owned that audience
They were buzzing for months
About the amazing chef of all chefs
Who fed five thousand people
With a sack of groceries
His hands just started working
Faster and faster piling up hundreds of fish sandwiches
And he kept up with the crowd walking by
Piling up the heroes on the table even faster
And people came back for seconds and thirds
And when he was done there was more than he started with
The miracles were coming fast and furious now
And he needed to ice his wig down
It just didn't work consorting
With these too mortal disciples
After he'd just raised the dead or fed
A stadium with a loaf of bread and some fish
So Jesus sent the disciples ahead in the boat
And told them he'd catch up later
So the disciples started rowing
And singing foilk songs as they oared
The disciples were bobbing around
Working on their tans and telling whoppers
They pulled the corks on a few bottles
And fished for snapper
When a mighty wind rose up
The boat was thrown back and forth
And flung down into the trough of waves
Now the disciples dropped their bottles and poles
And were boohooing and wetting their pants
It was like Hurricane Bertha times seventy-seven
The wind shrieked and the rain came down in a torrent
The boards creaked and splintered
The boat shuddered and shook and was tossed around
The Sea of Galilee like a rubber duck
All of a sudden someone shouts "Look!"
And off in the distance was a smoky apparation
A great big gaslighted man in a purple robe
Was stomping across the water
And the waves parted before him
When the disciples saw Him
They thought it was a spook
Until he got closer to them
And yelled "Courage!"
"Don't be afraid" and Peter doubted him
"If that's you Lord let me come to you on the water"
And Jesus said "that's right baby! Hop in"
And Peter got out of the boat and started trudging
On the water toward Jesus but he saw the wind and was afraid
He forgot about Jesus and started to sink
'Lord, save me!'
And Jesus snatched up his hand and caught him
'You of little faith,' he said, 'why did you doubt?'"
The hands of grace pulled Peter to safety
And it wasn't so long from then
That Peter would deny even knowing Jesus.
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Question by The Old 97's lip synced by a Half Life 2 character and performed by the Old 97's as an encore
I mainly pasted this video here because I wanted to share the song Question from The Old 97's Satellite Rides album. A fan made this lip sync video using the Half Life 2 Face Poser, and the character model of the G-man. For the mostly non-gamer types who visit here, Half Life 2 is a PC and XBox video game made by a Seattle area company, Valve. Some games also distribute "mod" kits with their games where players can create their own versions of the game, from which this video is most likely derived. Beneath the lyrics below, I also put another video-- a rocky one, in fact--from the encore of an Old 97's show.
Question
by The Old 97's
She woke from a dream
Her head was on fire
Why was he so nervous?
He took her to the park
She crossed her arms
And lowered her eyelids
Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight I've got a question for you
She'd had no idea
Started to cry
She said in a good way
He took her by the hand
Walked her back home
They took the long way
Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight I've got a question for you
I've got a question for you
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Another video of the Old 97's playing an encore from a show at the Southgate House:
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Question
by The Old 97's
She woke from a dream
Her head was on fire
Why was he so nervous?
He took her to the park
She crossed her arms
And lowered her eyelids
Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight I've got a question for you
She'd had no idea
Started to cry
She said in a good way
He took her by the hand
Walked her back home
They took the long way
Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight I've got a question for you
I've got a question for you
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Another video of the Old 97's playing an encore from a show at the Southgate House:
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