Tuned Out
“Randie’s Emotional Overload” might be a good title for an Ex-Bob’s tune. After all, the song “Scott Pilgrim” by the Canadian 90’s indie band Plumtree, was the inspiration for the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel… really. It’s on the movie soundtrack. I like it.
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Thank you, Mary… Thank you for cheerleading…. I had another Squiddie a while back who also cheerlead… I am grateful! You guys are awesome!
A TopWebComics vote button like the facebook one might help — if it’s feasible.
She’s totally thinking about them together, the little perv!
Fun fact: in 1962 Paul Petersen of The Donna Reed Show charted a single called “She Can’t Find Her Keys”. It was about how Paul couldn’t get anywhere with his girlfriend because at the end of every date she would search fruitlessly in her purse for said keys, and he would recount a list of increasingly unlikely and abstruse objects that she would remove from her bag. Typical early-’60s silliness.
Bad Randie – bad! Listen to the music, so WHEN he asks you about it later you can answer…. Hopefully you will have something nice to say about it. 😛
Heh – my girlfriend has latched on to my least favorite version of one of my favorite chanties…. Exactly as I expected her to…. (We disagree on some of our tastes in music – makes for some fun arguments. 🙂 ) Joseph Arthur’s Goth/Jazz version of High Barbary – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqti-G28egc a song about pirates and a British Man O’War.
I’m surprised that it took her this long to spot it on my iPod.
The Auld Grump – every now and again she goes music diving in the depths of my iPod. Lonesome Robin made her cry….
MAry… I will bug my website fella when I get back…. Smiles!
Dada… Ahem… Maybe.
Uwg…. I love it! I love sort of inane or silly ditties. There was an obscure singer called Rob Crow (I think from San Fran) who did short jingle ditties… He sang about pumping gas… And a fly on the wall. Inane for sure.
Grump… You have the most interesting musical tastes… Songs about Barbary pirates make me smile ( I’m smiling!) …
My favorite version of High Barbary is done by Bok, Trickett, and Muir – at least partly because I know Gordon Bok. Fisherman and folk singer – most famous for the story/song Peter Kagan and the Wind – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktXqcMBOG2A (another song that can make my girlfriend sniffle, and me as well, in her company) and possibly for The Brandy Tree, which he supposedly learned from an otter….
Much mellower than the Arthur version. 🙂 Sadly, not on You Tube.
I collect songs, sometimes borrowing verses or chords from multiple versions. Pete Seeger had an album series based on that practice, each LP having multiple versions of a single folk song.
I seem to have a lot of macabre songs – witches, the fae, murder ballads, ghosties and ghoulies and long leggity beasties, and things that go bump in the night.
My girlfriend is a pagan – Alexandrian Wiccan, she feels free to borrow from my collection.
Another major theme is WWI… I used to teach military history and military science – there is a lot to learn from WWI. Mostly things not to do – lots of interesting music from then as well….
My girlfriend and I are working on a set for singing in a junior high history class – she’s kinda miffed that we have been dubbed ‘educational’ but we have had three sets in classrooms so far, and only one set elsewhere, so…. 😛
The Auld Grump