An unsettled wandering through other people's conversations about music, creation, and found inspiration.
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This has always been one of my fav Sesame Street parodies. I love when they bring up the sound of screaming girls in the background. This is so awesome in so many ways. Give it a shot, especially if you're a Beatles fan. You'll "B" glad you did!
Alice - Jersey girl -
Red shoes by the drugstore.
Step right up.
Come on up to the house 'til the money runs out.
Anywhere I lay my head, please wake me up.
Please call me, baby.
T'ain't no sin.
Lie to me.
Poor Edward - telephone call from Istanbul...
Better off without a wife.
Fumblin' with the blues, bad liver and a broken heart.
The piano has been drinking:
Drunk on the moon.
Annie's back in town... Hang on St. Christopher!
Pasties and a g-string (at the two o'clock club) -
Watch her disappear way down in the hole: Johnsburg, Illinois.
Danny says Annie's back in town.
So it goes.
Chained together for life, the wages of love, drunk on the moon,
This one's from the heart.
Watch her disappear.
A good man is hard to find.
Buzz Fledderjohn - in shades - 9th & Hennepin.
Oily night.
In between love.
Gin-soaked boy.
Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis,
Nighthawk postcards (from easy street),
16 shells from a 30-ought-six,
$29.00,
A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun,
Old shoes:
A sight for sore eyes.
I'm still here Lucinda, Bride of Rain Dog, Big Black Mariah, all you zombies,
This one's from the heart.
Misery is the river of the world;
God's away on business;
Everything goes to hell - cemetery polka.
The ocean doesn't want me.
I want you.
Picking up after you, I wish I was in New Orleans.
No one knows I'm gone.
We're all mad here.
Closing time.
Hang me in the bottle.
So long I'll see ya.
Looks like I'm up shit creek again.
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Wow! I remember seeing this show while growing up. Talk about feelgood, up-with-people, saccharin, I-want-to-stab-myself-in-the-eye advice. Sure, I know, it about a time and a place and trying to fill three minutes of Saturday morning kids programming to contrast the cartoons, but I can't help but laugh when a question about a girl not developing is turned into:
"Development is not a race.
We each have got a different pace.
There's nothing wrong, so don't you fret.
Your body's gonna get there yet.
And while you let it take that ride,
Develop who you are inside."
Thankfully the network gods realized I my mind would turn to mush after more than three minutes of this and reverted back to the New Shmoo, Laff-a-Lympics, Superfriends and Scooby Doo in quick course.
Can you survive through three minutes?
Spent a couple of evening's mashing up this video to an old parody song I've had lying around for years. Mashup includes a karaoke mp3 of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", my words and vocals, and a strange mix of pics from around the web.
Since I've been getting some nice responses from the two installments of Sesame Surrealism, and since it's too late to post a long and rambling lovehate about the minutae that is my pop cultured life, I give you Sesame Songs.
To refresh you on the basic concept, so many of the animated clips on Sesame Street, completely normal within the context of the show when we were kids, are odd to downright bizarre when watched on their own years later. The songs, however, were sometimes completely groovy and endlessly catchy.
Sunny days sweepin' the clouds away... I hope you are inspired to Do The Pigeon... that sounded dirty and probably illegal.