It seems I forgot about something this week – Fancy Notions’ fifth birthday. This blog is now old enough to do all of the adorable things David Bowie sings and pantomimes about in this video. I certainly hope it doesn’t.
Party toes are next on the list
I’m so excited that Prince has new music coming out that I’m going to start wearing salad eyelashes.
You don’t believe me. I’ve done it before.
Banana wobble
The Swedish office for Tori’s company sent her a rather interesting promo for a music festival just now:
The premise is interesting to me, of course, but the actual experiment is bullshit. It was nice of them to hang the keyboard upside down for it, but is a two-toed sloth even a monkey? Disqualified. And why do the pygmy marmosets get the Bleeptronic 5000 while the baboons are stuck with the Casiotone? Who can blame that guy at 1:51? Then again, maybe he was just emulating Art of Noise:
I say give that guy some samples and see what he can really do.
Today at lunch
Los Angeles – what a cultural wasteland of a city. This “Public Pianos” thing is a complete failure.
Yes, that is a nine-year-old. Piano is outside of the Variety building at Wilshire and Fairfax.
Kindercore
Benny made me watch this video of these amazing kids covering Rammstein. That Cornelia on the drums. AND THE HARP. I love you, Children Medieval Band.
Please do not cover this song:
Thank you.
Just lay it at my feet
I don’t know – I thought that halftime show was pretty entertaining. Here it is again in case you missed it. Lynda Carter still looks fabulous, doesn’t she?
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Word of the day for Thursday, January 26th and Friday, January 27th
Today’s word is one of those words that makes me feel like kicking things and flailing around, in a good way. That makes sense, right? Like Adam and the Ants (but not throwing a car alternator through a pub window Adam Ant) and Pee-Wee Herman (but not Nurse Nancy Pee-Wee Herman, even though that was totally a railroad job). Kick things and flail around and make some noise, because you are:
Damn it – I find what I think is a new great glitter text generator, and then I can’t get rid of that gigaglitters tag, and it doesn’t even fit on the damned page. I feel like kicking things and flailing around in a bad way right now. But never mind that.
Callithumpian is what we’re here for, and callithumpian is what we’re going to talk about. Yeah! If you’re callithumpian, you’re a band of noisy and discordant instruments. It used to mean in general “a social disrupter.” Some people say you have to be a kid to be truly callithumpian. That makes sense. And then there are some people who say, “No, it’s actually ‘calathumpian’, or maybe ‘callothumpian’, ‘carathumpian’ and even ‘calisthumpian’.” And I guess heckling someone about callithumpian is pretty callithumpian. Stop kicking me.
Two for Tuesday
As will happen from time to time, the new local lost pet notices have a common theme. The current theme is rock and roll.
Do you remember that time when Ozzy Osbourne had that shag haircut with the Frost-n-Tip highlights? After “Crazy Train” but before “Mama I’m Coming Home“? No? You may be too young. And dang, it’s hard to find photos on the internet from that time. I’m thinking it might be because it was before Sharon got all that plastic surgery. That is one powerful woman, folks. She can erase the public record like nobody’s business. Oh, but wait; I think I found something:
Maybe this isn’t the same fellow. I seem to remember Ozzy having satanic power over young boys which would probably include the power over their eating and sleeping, but I don’t think this is the same Ozzy. I don’t see any smiley face tattoos on this guy’s knees, for one. Eh. Let’s go to our next lost rocker:
Dude, you’re a dude! I thought you were a bunch of chicks from the ’90s with barrettes and lunchboxes and shit. Dude! You’re late for your gig at Spaceland The Satellite.
A history lesson
Today’s intended post will have to wait, as I just found out that Jimmy Castor has died. Rest In Funk, Jimmy.
The bible tells me so
You know what we don’t have enough of on Fancy Notions? We don’t have enough religious hymn singalongs. Let’s get to fixing that right away.
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