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Beach.
Today, I went to the beach and flew my kite.
I love the beach. And kites.
You can tell I'm as mellow as I get when Beatles songs spontaneously start echoing in my head.
The tragedy, of course, is that there are no Beatles songs currently on this computer. So I had to go looking. That eventually led, by a bonny road, to me finding the original Sesame Street version of Mahna Mahna on youtube.
Great Shub, that's disturbing.
I -- it's just *disturbing*. Somehow, a song that's only deranged when performed by two pink muppets and a caveman and just kind of silly when introduced by Kermit the Frog is *really effing wrong* when it's sung by two little girls and an escaped convict.
...and that's the version that was on the preschool show. You know, I used to complain about how insipid Sesame Street is these days compared to how it was in my day, but I am more and more learning that my version of the show was but a *pale* imitation of the real thing. When do the DVD sets come out, again?
Then, of course, I found the Star Wars OT vid to the song, and got all mellow again. Mmmm. First off, how did I not know that Cake had covered Mahna Mahna? Second of all, I'm more and more realizing that that's the kind of vid that I just love, unreservedly. I have a list of favorite vids that I like because they're clever, or deep, or pretty, or technically elegant, or make a good point, or wrap canon around their sticky little fingers. But I'm realizing more and more that the vids that I just *love* are the ones that don't have anything more (or less) profound to say than "this story has a song in its heart."
I will never, ever, ever be able to make that kind of vid.
Anyway, I now have a shiny new "Feelin' Groovy" playlist. Pardon me while I try to figure out where I left my mp3 of "A Horse With No Name". (I suppose to balance the karma the next playlist I need to make is a "Revolution" one.)
I love the beach. And kites.
You can tell I'm as mellow as I get when Beatles songs spontaneously start echoing in my head.
The tragedy, of course, is that there are no Beatles songs currently on this computer. So I had to go looking. That eventually led, by a bonny road, to me finding the original Sesame Street version of Mahna Mahna on youtube.
Great Shub, that's disturbing.
I -- it's just *disturbing*. Somehow, a song that's only deranged when performed by two pink muppets and a caveman and just kind of silly when introduced by Kermit the Frog is *really effing wrong* when it's sung by two little girls and an escaped convict.
...and that's the version that was on the preschool show. You know, I used to complain about how insipid Sesame Street is these days compared to how it was in my day, but I am more and more learning that my version of the show was but a *pale* imitation of the real thing. When do the DVD sets come out, again?
Then, of course, I found the Star Wars OT vid to the song, and got all mellow again. Mmmm. First off, how did I not know that Cake had covered Mahna Mahna? Second of all, I'm more and more realizing that that's the kind of vid that I just love, unreservedly. I have a list of favorite vids that I like because they're clever, or deep, or pretty, or technically elegant, or make a good point, or wrap canon around their sticky little fingers. But I'm realizing more and more that the vids that I just *love* are the ones that don't have anything more (or less) profound to say than "this story has a song in its heart."
I will never, ever, ever be able to make that kind of vid.
Anyway, I now have a shiny new "Feelin' Groovy" playlist. Pardon me while I try to figure out where I left my mp3 of "A Horse With No Name". (I suppose to balance the karma the next playlist I need to make is a "Revolution" one.)
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Just in case you can't find it. (http://www.sendspace.com/file/7oxx6r) :)
NOT THAT I ENDORSE SUCH PRACTICES OF COURSE.
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(I actually suspect that most of the songs I'm missing - including the entire beatles back catalog - are on my old desktop computer, which doesn't have a working cdrw drive or usb port or connection to the lan , so when I get around to hooking it up again I will probably end up megauploading huge zip archives of music. Meanwhile I'm being mellow about it.)
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.. how did *I* not know Cake covered Mahna Mahna??
(I thought you were supposed to be working every school day?)
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Oh, they covered it as part of a "For Kids" compilation, so it wouldn't have made it to radio or whatever. Cool. *downloads*
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d-: here. (http://katycat.net/01%20Mahna%20Mahna.m4p)
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(thanks!)
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(The book was better. It didn't have disturbingly psychosexual overtones.)