Radio Free Jezebel

[unpredictablebijou]

hey hey...

GOD is. that's gotta count for something.

and i have a thang for men of a Certain Age. God's only one of them.

the sets in here have been stunning. tungtied, thx for all of it, and the kate especially. it's one i haven't heard in a while. and angeline - how cool are you with the beck and lenny bruce and sun volt all in one set? TZ, i like the velvet underground particularly. yummy.

Minervous: welcome! your poetry is astounding, and I loved the didg set, but i must be purely facetious for a moment, please forgive me: what is ethnic music?

Is it like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX0mb9VqBe8

or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n-x6djaZVU

or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgCdAPkSSnA

or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdA-32LmEaw

wait, I know. It's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afuJnsWRkwE

Have you ever noticed that in the word "facetious" all the vowels appear in order?

bijou

 

[bogusbrig]

Einstuzende Neubauten

Rammstein

Tarmac

Pigalle

Jacques Brel

Serge Gainsbourg

Les negresse verte

Souad Massi

Mano Negra

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Einstuzende Neubauten

Rammstein



Tarmac

Pigalle

Jacques Brel

Serge Gainsbourg

Les negresse verte

Souad Massi

Mano Negra

rockin!

been a fan of Falling New Buildings since the 80's.
Manu Chao is like a cross between Adam Ant and Flogging Molly with some salsa on top.

bj

 

[bogusbrig]

rockin!

been a fan of Falling New Buildings since the 80's.
Manu Chao is like a cross between Adam Ant and Flogging Molly with some salsa on top.

bj

Amazing aren't they. Those Germans are crazy when it comes to being creative but they do deliver some amzing stuff.

I forgot about Kraftwerk too, I don't know if you like them as well. They are just too much.

 

[tungtied2u]

I got rhythm....

Big

steel

balls

on fire

extinguished

 

[Tathagata]

I got rhythm....

Big

steel

balls

on fire

extinguished

Nice set!
Love the taiko drummers, I've seen a few documentaries on their training.
It's a spiritual thing (as is almost every kind of art in Japan)
the stamina and power they display is, at times, almost super human.

and I'm a sucker for a good steel band

 

[Tathagata]

Olatunji

 

[unpredictablebijou]

It's been a rather ridiculous week. So, a special episode of RFJ in honor of conflict and snittiness of all sorts.

Never make me go here again:

hammond organ

a flu-ridden 5-year-old named Tiffany

a tuba

Them

ale bottles


Euphonium - brilliant cinematography on this one.

There now. Behave yourselves. I'm warning you, there's plenty more where that came from.

 

[Tathagata]

Euphonium - brilliant cinematography on this one.
.

Beethoven just rose up and died again

 

[TheRainMan]

Music from the Jersey shore.

Thunder Road

4th of July, Asbury Park

It's Been a Long Time

Tender Years

Jersey Girl

 

[Angeline]

Beethoven just rose up and died again

It put me in mind of hearing my son practice an equally bad version of Claire de Lune on the clarinet about 300,000 times.

Bijou, it's a comfort to know somebody out there in the digital ether is watching even weirder YouTube videos than me.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

It put me in mind of hearing my son practice an equally bad version of Claire de Lune on the clarinet about 300,000 times.

Bijou, it's a comfort to know somebody out there in the digital ether is watching even weirder YouTube videos than me.

it was rather torturous, believe me. Do you know how many versions of Kum ba yah are out there? but well, it was necessary. i am willing to suffer for my art.

bj

 

[Eluard]

Take a listen to this: a Frank O'hara poem.

The City

 

[tungtied2u]

I miss just knowing he's around....

set on you

end of the line

acoustic weeping

watch out now !

 

[Angeline]

I miss just knowing he's around....

set on you

end of the line

acoustic weeping

watch out now !

Oh I miss him, too, tt. And I so miss this other guy, who would've been 66 in just a few days.

Beautiful Boy

Stand By Me

Jealous Guy

Cold Turkey

Number 9 Dream

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I miss them too.

When Lennon was shot, I was riding in the back seat of a drivers ed car, with the bastard pig coach who ran drivers ed that semester. We heard the announcement over the radio. The teacher, whose name I refuse to remember, changed the station and went on a diatribe about how Lennon was a disgusting hippie and he was glad the useless pussy was dead.

I sat in the back seat and tried to hide the fact that I was crying. He was the sort of teacher who'd flunk you if he didn't like you, and so I waited till class was over, shading my face with my hair so he couldn't see my red eyes. Then I went to the math team coach, who liked me, and asked for a pass out of my next class. He took one look at me and wrote me notes for the rest of my classes that day, and I sat in the back of the algebra room for the rest of the school day and cried, quietly so I wouldn't disturb his classes.

I try not to wish anyone ill. But I hope that motherfucker coach is still alive, and i hope he is reaping all that he has sown. I think John would be sad to hear that his death has inspired any sentiments like that, but I think he would understand.

bijou

 

[bogusbrig]

I don't miss Lenon but I do miss George Harrison who for my money, is the most interesting and talented Beatle.

Here Comes The Sun

Bangladesh

My Sweet Lord

When My Guitar Gently Weeps

Something

with Ravi Shankar

 

[Angeline]

I miss them too.

When Lennon was shot, I was riding in the back seat of a drivers ed car, with the bastard pig coach who ran drivers ed that semester. We heard the announcement over the radio. The teacher, whose name I refuse to remember, changed the station and went on a diatribe about how Lennon was a disgusting hippie and he was glad the useless pussy was dead.

I sat in the back seat and tried to hide the fact that I was crying. He was the sort of teacher who'd flunk you if he didn't like you, and so I waited till class was over, shading my face with my hair so he couldn't see my red eyes. Then I went to the math team coach, who liked me, and asked for a pass out of my next class. He took one look at me and wrote me notes for the rest of my classes that day, and I sat in the back of the algebra room for the rest of the school day and cried, quietly so I wouldn't disturb his classes.

I try not to wish anyone ill. But I hope that motherfucker coach is still alive, and i hope he is reaping all that he has sown. I think John would be sad to hear that his death has inspired any sentiments like that, but I think he would understand.

bijou

My almost ex (then boyfriend) called me and told me. I tried to sleep but I couldn't and I called in sick to work the next day because I was crying and couldn't get myself together. It really felt like losing a family member. Definitely like losing my hero. He's still my hero.

 

[TheRainMan]

Connect the dots

if anyone can connect these dots, i'll really be impressed (that means you, Seattle). some are rather obscure.

of course, i am in the throes of intense nicotine withdrawl, so there may be no connection at all . . . hard to say, really.

i'm going to curl up into an embryo now, and moan.

• Baby, Please Don't Go
  
• Llorando
  
• Only the Lonely
  
• Cold, Cold Ground
  
• One Time, One Night

 

[MTVM]

if anyone can connect these dots, i'll really be impressed (that means you, Seattle). some are rather obscure.

of course, i am in the throes of intense nicotine withdrawl, so there may be no connection at all . . . hard to say, really.

i'm going to curl up into an embryo now, and moan.

• Baby, Please Don't Go
  
• Llorando
  
• Only the Lonely
  
• Cold, Cold Ground
  
• One Time, One Night

Here's one possible connection trail. There are others:

• Baby, Please Don't Go by Them is on the soundtrack of David Lynch's film Wild at Heart

• Llorando is a clip from the Lynch movie Mulholland Drive. The song (Crying in English) is most closely associated with the late, great Roy Orbison, who co-wrote it.

• As is Only the Lonely, here performed by the man himself. This clip is from a filmed production known as Black & White Night.

• Tom Waits is one of the performers in Black & White Night. Cold, Cold Ground is off Waits' Frank's Wild Years album. David Hidalgo plays accordion on the cut.

• Hidalgo is the leader of Los Lobos.

 

[Tzara]

A Connect the Dots for the Jersey Boy, to occupy his mind while he resists demon tobacco. There are only a couple hairpin turns here, but they are like really obscure.

I think.

Prove me wrong. The Internet knows everything.

• MC5: Lookin at You
• PSG: Because the Night
• Manfred: Blinded by the Light
• Andrew: Lonely Boy
• "Natalie": I Feel Pretty
• Van & Chet: Send in the Clowns
• Luciana: from Die Zauberflöte
• Troggs: Wild Thing

 

[TheRainMan]

Here's one possible connection trail. There are others:

• Baby, Please Don't Go by Them is on the soundtrack of David Lynch's film Wild at Heart

• Llorando is a clip from the Lynch movie Mulholland Drive. The song (Crying in English) is most closely associated with the late, great Roy Orbison, who co-wrote it.

• As is Only the Lonely, here performed by the man himself. This clip is from a filmed production known as Black & White Night.

• Tom Waits is one of the performers in Black & White Night. Cold, Cold Ground is off Waits' Frank's Wild Years album. David Hidalgo plays accordion on the cut.

• Hidalgo is the leader of Los Lobos.

i knew you could do it, Mr. Bill. . . . probably took you all of about a minute and a half with that big, old brain of yours.

those were the exact connections that ran in my head as i listed the songs.

you're the man, man.

 

[TheRainMan]

A Connect the Dots for the Jersey Boy, to occupy his mind while he resists demon tobacco. There are only a couple hairpin turns here, but they are like really obscure.

I think.

Prove me wrong. The Internet knows everything.

• MC5: Lookin at You
• PSG: Because the Night
• Manfred: Blinded by the Light
• Andrew: Lonely Boy
• "Natalie": I Feel Pretty
• Van & Chet: Send in the Clowns
• Luciana: from Die Zauberflöte
• Troggs: Wild Thing

ok, here goes. -- the last one is a real reach . . .

• Fred "Sonic" Smith, rhythm guitar player for the MC5, is the husband of Patti Smith.
  
  
• "Because the Night" by The Patti Smith Group and "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann were both written (co-written, in the case of "Because the Night") by Bruce Springsteen. So he had a hand on both.
  
  
• Andrew Gold sang covers of the Manfred Mann songs "Doo Wah Diddy" and "Stay" on his album "What's Wrong with This Picture."
  
  
• Gold is the son of singer Marni Nixon, who was the singing voice of Natalie Wood on "I Feel Pretty" in "West Side Story."
  
  
• "Send in the Clowns" was written by Stephen Sondheim, who was Leonard Bernstein's lyricist on "I Feel Pretty."
  
  
• "Send in the Clowns" is from Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music." The title is a reference to Wolfgang Amadeus' Eine kleine Nachtmusik, another name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525. Mozart also wrote Die Zauberflöte.
  
  
• Die Zauberflöte means "The Magic Flute." In The Troggs "Wild Thing," there is an ocarina solo. The ocarina, in some circles, is also called the magic flute.

I am going to rest now.

 

[Tzara]

ok, here goes. -- the last one is a real reach . . .

• Fred "Sonic" Smith, rhythm guitar player for the MC5, is the husband of Patti Smith.
  
  
• "Because the Night" by The Patti Smith Group and "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann were both written (co-written, in the case of "Because the Night") by Bruce Springsteen. So he had a hand on both.
  
  
• Andrew Gold sang covers of the Manfred Mann songs "Doo Wah Diddy" and "Stay" on his album "What's Wrong with This Picture."
  
  
• Gold is the son of singer Marni Nixon, who was the singing voice of Natalie Wood on "I Feel Pretty" in "West Side Story."
  
  
• "Send in the Clowns" was written by Stephen Sondheim, who was Leonard Bernstein's lyricist on "I Feel Pretty."

Absolutely bang on to this point. From here, we diverge a little, but you actually make more sense than I do:

• "Send in the Clowns" is from Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music." The title is a reference to Wolfgang Amadeus' Eine kleine Nachtmusik, another name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525. Mozart also wrote Die Zauberflöte.
  
  
• Die Zauberflöte means "The Magic Flute." In The Troggs "Wild Thing," there is an ocarina solo. The ocarina, in some circles, is also called the magic flute.

I am going to rest now.

My sequence was:

• Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music is based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night. Bergman also did a quite famous film of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
• The Mozart clip is the hyperfamous Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen aria sung by the Queen of the Night. Elvira (cough) is the "Mistress of the Dark."

I like the ocarina connection better, especially since it seems to related to the video game The Legend of Zelda, which was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, which can get me, oh, here or here or even here.

 

[Tzara]

Remember, there is only one G - L - O - R - I - A, and it isn't this, or this, or even this.

Accept no substitutes.