One of my bosses holds out his arm and says “Talk to the hand!” when he’s concentrating on a technical problem and can’t be interrupted. I’ll use the same expression here to say that I won’t be posting anything for few days.
I’ve managed to trigger a very annoying bug in WordPress that makes it much more difficult to edit posts before publishing them. I’m going to update WordPress and do some studying about its inner workings.
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I listened to the audio commentary on the “Gojira: Godzilla” DVD, and besides King Kong, the then-recent movie “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” is cited as having been a major inspiration for Godzilla. So let’s watch a few beastly minutes from that. Look at those great old cars!
[flv:/Video/2008/APR/ShatnerCommonPeople.flv 440 330]As promised, here’s the remake of Pulp’s Common People, narrated by the shameless William Shatner of all people, with Joe Jackson in excellent voice, doing the heavy musical lifting. Somehow, the combination works! Who’d a thunk?
The video is from The Tonight Show, of all places. ‘Would have expected SNL. The studio recording is on the audio player.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/NOV06/CommonPeople.mp3]Old habits die hard. I’m going to play DJ again.
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Besides the previously-mentioned Common People, another 90’s song that caught my aging Boomer brain ten years after-the fact is “Creep” by radiohead. This is the cleaned-up radioplay version. The word used in the original before “special” isn’t “very.”
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/NOV06/Creep.mp3]A couple of years ago I became quite taken with the song “Common People,” by a British band called Pulp. I had never heard it until my sister Marianne gave me a CD for Christmas that included a surprisingly effective remake by the unlikely pair of William Shatner and Joe Jackson. Hearing that made me want to seek out the original.
Although my upbringing was decidedly middle class, not working class, I can definitely relate to having a girlfriend in college who made me feel as though she was slumming just by going out with me.
What’s Gary Larson doing these days?
