3-6-08 The Scrantones – The Pennsylvania Polka

Aw, look, it’s Thing in a Halloween costume. Well, you know of course what we have to do with a severed-Carl-hand-wearing-a-Garfield-puppet: VOODOO RITUAL! Booga booga booga!

(Godzilla roar)

Ah! Lun! Lun for your rife! It is Hando no Caru Kaiju!

Well, I have the perfect soundtrack to play while the monstrous animated zombie hand of Carl – in a Garfield suit – rampages down the Strip and knocks over the Stratosphere (yes!). That’s right, everyone…

HOW ABOUT A NICE POLKA!

This is The Scrantones doing that Frankie Yankovic classic The Pennsylvania Polka, and no, I don’t know why I did this terrible terrible thing.

Now someone get some goddamned midget twins to sing this giant zombie hand – in a Garfield suit – to sleep!

Atomic Puppets

All right, well, I thought I’d post – what’s this?

*bends down and picks up a hand*

Isn’t this Carl’s hand? Oh well, may as well put it to some use.

*Puts a puppet on it*

Anyways, here’s a video from a band that I’ve always found fascinating, They Might Be Giants. A band with strange lyrics that tend to stay in the mind, part of their distinctive sound is due to the fact that for quite a while, they were recording all their music on an answering machine.

They also were responsible for the “Dr. Evil” theme on Austin Powers 2, incidentally. This song is “Put your Hand Inside the Puppethead”:

And my second pick for today is a singer that Sean introduced me to, Adam Goren, or Atom and His Package. He is actually a Chemistry and Physics teacher, who, until 2003, would go on tour with his guitar and synthesizer (his package).

He sings (a bit off-key) about many bizarre and everyday things. Not too unlike They Might Be Giants in that way, really. Here he is singing a song titled “Pumping Iron For Enya”: