Friday Relaxed Random Ten Again

A fairly relaxed, low-key random ten today - almost putting me back to sleep until #6 & 7 suddenly hit and I had to crank it up and thrash around. #9 also pretty upbeat, but the rest, either lugubrious or "spacy." No clunkers, and a few here that I barely know.

So, from the iPod - currently at 20,652 songs, 72.94 GB, and dropping as I cut stuff every day:


1. "Cadillac" - Combustible Edison - I, Swinger
2. "The Cycle Set" - The Hondells - Beach Blanket Bingo
3. "Private Eye" - Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
4. "The Ring Cycle" - Glen or Glenda - Reasons in the Sun
5. "Invisible Horse" - Euro Boys - Long Days Flight Til Tomorrow
6. "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes - Elephant
7. "Quand Tu M'embrasses" - Danielle Denin - Ultra Chicks Vol 4: Yé Yé Girls!

Hot little French version of "I'm Looking Through You!"

8. "Nothing More to Look Forward To" - Betty Carter - 'Round Midnight
9. "The Pogs' Theme" - The Pogs - Before Birdmen Flew - Australian Beat, R&B & Punk: 1965-1967
10. "25 O'Clock" - The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball

And R.I.P. Bobby Byrd and Willie Tee.

Vile Foamy Liquids

Oh, yeah . . . I had those videos to put up, in a kinda sorta stream-of-consciousness order . . .

First, here's Little Jodie Foster doing a Serge Gainsbourg song with Claude Francois on a French variety show sometime in the 70s - the original was by Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, and when I saw the title I expected that Foster would be doing the Bardot part. Nope. Here's "Comic Strip:"

(and HERE's more of Foster on that show, doing a solo number, shot in classic William Shatner, "Rocket Man," 70s variety-show-style, though without nearly as much cheese)

And from the first thought ("songs in foreign languages") we move to the next one ("songs in foreign languages with subtitles"), with this song in Flemish from a Belgian kids' show:

(oh, right, I didn't say the subtitles would be accurate, now did I?)

And continuing along that "inaccurate subtitling" thought, Hitler has some car trouble:

(this original video led to another video that is funnier - if you follow video games at all - but has already been linked to and embedded everywhere, so I went with this - if you haven't seen the sequel, follow the link . . .)

And continuing with the fine theme of Hitler humor, who else but Mel Brooks knows how to find the yuks in Nazis, with this video that actually wound up "banned" from most TV in the USA when it was released to tie in with his To Be Or Not To Be movie (I have it on Beta tape somewhere from when it was shown in the USA Network's Night Flight, surrounded by warnings that it might be "offensive"):

Enjoy.

NECROPOLIS 1 - photos

I'm still going through all the photos I have from the August shows and fixing them up in Photoshop, but I have the first batch done. These cover the first part of the two-part NECROPOLIS 1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed.

I still think I'm missing some that I should have . . . I'm positive we set up and shot scenes that I don't seem to have any pictures of -- such as the backlit shadow band from the club scene. The closest I have to that are a couple of behind-the-scenes shots, like this one of Art Wallace blowing his two-dimensional cardboard trumpet:

So, inside the cut (which I hate, but I keep being reminded that cuts are "polite"), the first part of the show.

( 14 fragments of a World Gone Wrong )

Ah, yes . . . and here's Mateo, Art, and Alyssa (hidden behind Mateo) doing their number behind the scrim.


More soon.