First, I’m off to Electric Machine Studios to do the “session musician thing” and lay down some smokin’ accordion tracks for some band’s single, and then it’s off to Kick Ass Karaoke at the Bovine Sex Club, where the ladies will be throwing their underwear at me ’cause I’m the Filipino accordion-playing Tom Jones. Or so I hope.
I was reading my entry from Friday last night, and when I hit the part about the hip-hop version of The Lorax, I remembered something about Dr. Seuss. During World War II, he was quite a hawk, and you can see all his cartoons at the Dr. Seuss Goes To War site. It seems at odds with his better-known later work, The Butter Battle Book.
If the Bad Poets from Friday night had read Seuss’ war ‘toons, would they still have performed The Lorax? Activist politics, whether left or right, often calls for an ideological puritanism; disagree on one tiny detail and you’re out of the club.
The photo looks real to me, but real or not, it’s funny!
I can already hear the hits:
(Do this to the tune of the Beastie Boys’ Fight for Your Right To Party)
You want to have weapons and Bush says “No way”
That hypocrite builds two MOABs a day!
[Thanks to sateh from Freenode.net’s #infoanarchy IRC channel for the tip.]
Here’s a nifty little tune by Vangroovy-based band Hot Hot Heat’s Bandages. Imagine The Cure’s Robert Smith leading Elvis Costello’s Attractions (especially organ genius Steve Nieve) and you’ll get an idea of what they sound like.
by Hot Hot Heat
from the album Make Up the Breakdown
These ban – da – ges
Co – ver more than scrapes
Cuts and brui – ses from
Re – grets and mistakes
I’ve been hopin’ you’re mopin’ around the street again.
I’ve been trippin’ from sippin’ the drippin’ dirty water tap
I’ve been pokin’ a voodoo doll that you do not know I made.
These ban – da – ges are
Anonymity
I’ve been shakin’ from makin’ an awful de – cis – ion
I’ve been runnin’ and runnin’ — feels like my head is spinning
Round and round all round around around around arooooound!
Bandages on my legs and my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Up and down on my legs my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
I’ve been hopin’ you’re mopin’ around the street again.
I’ve been trippin’ from sippin’ the drippin’ dirty water tap
I’ve been pokin’ a voodoo doll that you do not know
I made
For you
Of you
Let’s see what needles do
I’ve been shakin’ from makin’ an awful de – cis – ion
I’ve been thinkin’ I’m drinkin’ too many drinks all by myself
I’ve been runnin’ and runnin’ — feels like my head is spinning
Round and round all round around around around arooooound!
Bandages on my legs and my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Up and down on my legs my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Bandages on my legs and my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry ’cause it’s all under control
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry ’cause it’s all under control
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry ’cause it’s all under control
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry ’cause it’s all under control
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry now
Don’t worry cuz it will all turn around, around, around, around, around, around, aroooooound!
Bandages on my legs and my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Up and down on my legs my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Bandages on my legs and my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
Up and down on my legs my arms from you
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
(Bandages, bandages, bandage-e-es…)
(Bandages, bandages…[can’t figure out these last lyrics])
…er, no, in fact it was quite unbloggably good.
But thank you for your concern.
Girl from Fargo: “Go Bears!”