i thought it was like scott storch or something
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 May 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
This isn't a newly discovered fact so much as a realisation of my own lack of attention to detail:
Since our oldest son was a child (he's now 20) we've been reading an illustrated book named Gorf's Pond to him and then his brother and sister and eventually his little cousins.It's a bit like The Ugly Duckling meets The Fly where lonely fish Gorf in his little pond is increasingly disturbed by the growth of lumps then limbs and by his tail falling off until he eventually realises (SPOILER) he's a frog.
After 20 years I just noticed last week that Gorf is Frog backwards.
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781858543765-uk.jpg
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 3 May 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
xpostThe Piano riff is Torch's, yeah.And the lyrics are from Jay-Z. Which is kinda funny since it's all about bragging how he (Dre) is best in the game !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 3 May 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Also, the Pointer Sisters sang the famous pinball countdown song from Sesame Street
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Wow.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
That pleases me greatly.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
Once you realize Dr Dre has never written lyrics, it’s fun to listen to individual songs and guess who the writer was. I mean, 90% of the time it’s one of the guest artists on the track, but not always
― mh, Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Right, I didn't know that either!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
That Satyajit Ray wrote young adult science fiction as well as directing films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Shonku
― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Sunday, 3 May 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
xposts The Pointer Sisters sang the most well-known number song from Sesame Street but there was another one that my fellow olds might remember which was sung by Grace Slick.
http://www.youtube.com/-WSHvbGM6oE
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Sunday, 3 May 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Up against the playground wall motherfuckers?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 May 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Guy Debord shot himself.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
the ultimate spectacle
― silby, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Once you realize Dr Dre has never written lyrics
As a teenager, I once rang the radio annoyed after the classic-rock-announcer-and-morning-TV-host-who-had-moved-to-the-youth-station back-announced Express Yourself with "Ice Cube there, out front of N.W.A." Ten years in broadcasting had apparently failed to impress upon him that (bracketed names) under a song title on the back of a record jacket meant writing credits, not a helpful explanation of who the lead singer on each song was. The Pinball Number Count got a 12" release on Ninja Tune in 2003, c/w the Larry Levan remix of C Is For Cookie:
https://imgur.com/a/YiyI5qw
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XL5OHnI.jpg
keith jarrett is a white dude
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
well I'll be damned
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/3/3b/Darryl.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20120415174020
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
yeah I remember years ago seeing a picture of Keith Jarrett nowadays, having only seen pictures of him in black and white from the 70s with an afro or a natural and being quite surprised that he was an old white man
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Huh, did not know this either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Nor I, but wiki says French or Scots-Irish father so maybe there's some North African ancestry.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
Whereas Davey Graham was not a white dude.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
MR. JARRETT: Yeah, Ornette Coleman. One of the earliest times I was in the same room with him, he said something like, `Man, you've got to be black. You just have to be black.' I said, `I know. I know. I'm working on it.'
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
lmao
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
His brother, who is also a pianist, looks like a white Keith Jarrett.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
As a teenager, I once rang the radio annoyed
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:20 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
You've always been like this!?
― silby, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
I used to be but they kept stealing my backpack and throwing it in the girls’ restroom in high school
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
who is Keith Jarrett?get me Keith Jarrettget me a white Keith Jarrettwho is Keith Jarrett?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
I also called up when an announcer played something off dubnobasswithmyheadman and said "Nothing to do with the group that had a #1 single with Underneath The Radar! Completely different band."
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Lol, GD.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I was quite delighted when after living in Vancouver for a year or so - having lived in Scotland all my life - I spotted a hummingbird out my window while doing the dishes. my ex-wife was very amused at how delighted I was as she'd seen them hundreds of times
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
we just minutes ago had our second visitor of the season. they don't always sing, but when they do around here, it is a very very high-pitched, non-directional trilling combined with the wing buzzing and it is _magical sounding_. it sounds very much like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROT6cM3wY0Eat seconds 0-20. that is how i even knew to look at the feeder this evening-- i heard the sound in the house.
if you go into a field with multiple hummingbirds sounding it is wonderful. because they are so very very tiny it just looking for needles in a haystack.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
Dr Dre has never written lyrics
Well, I feel like this is my new entry for this thread. Like, that's something I should have known, right?
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
It's possible he wrote some of his lines circa 1984 when they were things like
I'm the physician who's gonna start dishin'All them things that you've been missin'If it's for answers that you have been fishin'Take a bite of this for your nutritionI'm the real doctor, that is finalAll you other suckers are made of vinyl
and
I'm Doctor Dre, that's who i amCome with me and your body I'll examDon't try to fight it, you can't resistI'll hypnotize you with just one kiss
― Elon's musk (sic), Saturday, 9 May 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
This and Dr. Dre tbh.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes was a cover song
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Saturday, May 9, 2020 1:57 AM (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Bathed in Lightning the biography that came out a couple of years ago was an interesting read.turned up a lot of stuff i hadn't know about him before
― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 May 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
sarahell is a 6th generation Californian!
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 May 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
"Funeral Blues" AKA "Stop all the clocks" by W.H. Auden was originally written as "a satiric poem of mourning for a political leader, written for the verse play The Ascent of F6, by Auden and Christopher Isherwood"
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:25 (four years ago) link
That Jerry Stiller was Ben Stiller's dad.
― Alba, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
The once-popular saying "real men don't eat quiche" was originally meant satirically and was the title of a bestselling book.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Always struck me as odd - quiche lorraine is eggs, cheese, bacon and pastry, if it didn't have a French name it would be a greggs staple.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it came to mind after having quiche for breakfast this morning and remarking that it was actually pretty hearty.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
I am dimmer for having skimmed through this 'article':
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/14-manliest-foods-ever_n_55e5d720e4b0b7a9633a56d2
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
I remember that book. There was also a sequel called "Real Women Don't Pump Gas".
All these years later, I didn't realize it was satire!
― pplains, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
That not only was Roman Polanski born in France and not Poland, but his birth name was Raymond Thierry Liebling.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
ONly discovering on watching a bit of the 1970 Roberta Flack video I d/lded last week that it was an episode of Boboquivari. I'd only come across the title in relation to a nearly 1/2 hour performance by Tim Buckley and teh Starsailor band taht I wish would be released in full somewhere instead of being excerpted for My Fleeting House. It is a continuoyus performance with the horns picking up at the end of each song so it becomes more of a medley than a sequence of songs taht start and stop.So hadn't realised it was a series of performances. Haven't found a list of what the individual ones are yet.seems from what is popping up on the screen as text mid perfomrmance that somebody retransmitted at least this Roberta flack edition so wonder if there are any others being shown. Flack may have been more significant since her first Take lpjust got a 50th anniversary edition released. BUt great to hear shows like this still exist and can be reshown.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
How to play pinch harmonics
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link