Sean Daily is an English major from New Jersey now living in Las Vegas, the Other City of Lights. "I consider 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' to be comfort reading, I like the al pastor tacos at Tacos Mexico and I count among my literary influences the Chainsaw from 'Doom'. 'RRRRRR! You don't like that, do you, Mr. Undead Marine! RRRRRR!'"
Shanoah Alkire is our Discordian at large. "Born in Santa Cruz, I grew up in Grass Valley and the Bay Area, and now lurk in Las Vegas. My literary influences include Ray Bradbury,
Lewis Carroll, and Douglas Adams. I also program as a hobby,
and currently maintain the Gtk port of Angband. You can find
a rather old bio of me here."
It’s not like I wanted to give that hamster mouth-to-mouth, Shanoah. But when they get all tarted up and start throwing you hints, I mean, really coming on to you, and you’ve had maybe a little too much to drink…
Perhaps I’ve said too much.
Anyway, faux John Lennon is nice, especially when it’s with performers he probably never would have performed with in real life. But I prefer the real uncut thing. And there’s no post-Beatles Lennon song that I like better than Instant Karma.
Talk about cultural illiterates… the first place I heard Instant Karma was, of all places, another Nike ad (directed by, of all people, David Fincher of Seven and Fight Club fame). I fell in love with the song the moment that I heard it. It’s ecstatic. It’s mystical. You could even go out on a limb (and have it snap underneath you) and call it gnostic. It’s chain-busting music. What’s not to like?
But, like I said, I’d rather not steer any more business toward the corporate overlords than I have to because, quite frankly, they don’t need it.
So here he is, on stage and performing Instant Karma. As a bonus, it has Yoko doing her weirdo Dadaist whatever-it-is-she-does, blesserheart.
I suppose we could have less conversation. I tend to be good at that, really. Especially after thinking about you giving a hamster mouth to mouth.
You know, I was already familiar with that song, but wasn’t familiar with the Nike commercial. Which, I suppose is typical of me. I already had a version of it in my bookmarks, right here:
A Little Less Conversation
Of course, I have a lot of interesting things in my bookmarks, like this:
Cheese and Onion
This song, of course is from the Rutles. John was once asked in an interview what he thought of the Rutles, and as a response, he started singing a bit of this song.
And of course, have any of you ever seen John Lennon singing with David Bowie?
Fame
The answer is, of course, no, you haven’t, and you are unlikely to. All the videos in this post are of the talented Steve Riks, in one case playing two separate people in the same video. Pretty good impersonator, isn’t he? Of course, I think his Lennon impression is the best of the ones I’ve seen him do…
Shanoah, it took me three hours to put those photos up, so no guff from the peanut gallery. The hamster running my parents’ computer went into cardiac arrest twice during that ordeal. Have you ever tried to defib a hamster, Shanoah? I had to do things that I’m… not proud of.
Anyway, this post is the first of the New Year (for you non-sun worshippers out there, at least), and first things are kind of important, yes? This is a time for resolutions and change and all that.
Well, I’m not making any New Year’s resolutions this year. If my life has taught me anything, it’s that if you’re resolved to do something, then grand declarations aren’t necessary. And if you aren’t, then grand declarations just make you look like a vacillating boob. I mean, you still are a vacillating boob, but there’s no need to advertise that, yes?
In other words, for 2009, Shanoah is going to shine a little light, while I’m going to put out a little less conversation and a little more action.
That was the original version, from the 1968 movie Live a Little, Love a Little. Modern audiences, though, being the cultural illiterates that they are, may know A Little Less Conversation better as a JXL remix from a Nike ad.
Now, the JXL remix is a pretty good version. But I don’t want to steer any more business toward the military-entertainment-industrial complex than I absolutely have to (yes, it’s un-American and unfortunate).
Luckily, I have a thing for fan videos. And Marius K. Hagevik and Anders Kaldefoss Tveite were happy to indulge it, with this class project of theirs.
