A few years ago Aimee and I travelled to India for the wedding of one of my coworkers. We had the privilege of taking part in one of the wedding traditions known as a Barat. Dictionaries will tell you that a barat is a procession lead by the groom with his relatives and friends to the place of the wedding ceremony. It involves musicians, dancing and general celebration as the wedding party makes their…
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To fully appreciate the humor here, being a reader of the Packers blog on the JS Online web site helps but I found this little tune kind of funny. The lyrics are filled with references to excuses for the poor Packer play this year taken from press conferences after most of the losses. Listen after the song ends for “Osseo”, a Wisconsinized version of the Beach Boys’ tune “Kokomo”.
Leave a CommentWhile eating dinner this evening, the advertising industry displayed the omnipresent need to put snippets of famous music into a commercial to sell whatever the latest it is they think we must absolutely have. Even a couple hours later the product itself escapes me but I’m struck by the sad touch of irony the experience represents. The commercial used some music from Boston and I remarked to Aimee that as a band they had…
Leave a CommentAimee’s been a long time Frank Zappa fan. Not so for me. Quite honestly I’ve never really had much exposure to Frank’s music beyond the times Aimee’s playing it. Even then I guess I tend to notice only the more humorous lines and tunes from his work. Tonight we went to the Zappa Plays Zappa show at the Paramount theater. Dweezil Zappa is taking his father’s music on the road in this show–both trying to…
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