I've apparently buried myself in a non-posting hole as of the last two months. I still read, and I still comment, but I've been awful about posting. So I'll do this meme here in the comments, while I think about posting something and breaking this odd silence.
The Ethnomusicologist is a character from The Lady Vanishes, my favorite Hitchcock movie. His real name is Gilbert, but he's an ethnomusicologist. He's just about the perfect man, funny, smart, interesting, supportive of Iris, even when everyone thinks she's insane. They never actually call him an ethnomusicologist, which makes it kind of a weird inside joke.
Sladies is a nickname to the very one dimensional, and often whiny women on Starsky and Hutch. In the Season 2 DVD set the episode Starsky's Lady is misprinted as Starsky Slady. Ever the nitpickers, zaneetas and I took this and ran with it.
My interest in self-referential music started with funk. I realized that in very few genres, songs actually told you what they were. In funk, it's all over the place. From James Brown's "Make It Funky" to Parliament Funkadellic's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," funk artists consistently tell you what you're listening to. Other genres do this too, and it never fails to make me smile.
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The Ethnomusicologist is a character from The Lady Vanishes, my favorite Hitchcock movie. His real name is Gilbert, but he's an ethnomusicologist. He's just about the perfect man, funny, smart, interesting, supportive of Iris, even when everyone thinks she's insane. They never actually call him an ethnomusicologist, which makes it kind of a weird inside joke.
Sladies is a nickname to the very one dimensional, and often whiny women on Starsky and Hutch. In the Season 2 DVD set the episode Starsky's Lady is misprinted as Starsky Slady. Ever the nitpickers,
My interest in self-referential music started with funk. I realized that in very few genres, songs actually told you what they were. In funk, it's all over the place. From James Brown's "Make It Funky" to Parliament Funkadellic's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," funk artists consistently tell you what you're listening to. Other genres do this too, and it never fails to make me smile.