Early Morning Open Thread
Since it’s the weekend, finally…
(Note to the purists: Yes, the ‘song’ is sufficiently bad that I considered using the tag ‘Assholes’ instead of ‘Music’. But the visuals made me LOL. And if you look at the last couple posts… there are some things innocent blog-readers shouldn’t be greeted by, first thing on a summer morning.)
June 26, 2010 4:34 am
Posted in: Music, Open Thread
42 Comments
42 Responses
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 4:44 am · Link
Yeah, that song is pretty much overproduced Autotune cwap. The vid is nicely pieced together though. Shame it’s wasted on that.
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 4:52 am · Link
Song sucks, and I am not a Star Trek fan (understatement of the year), so this is definitely on my list of things that should not be seen (or heard)—at all.
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 4:56 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN: Oh I could do worse than this. I believe I shall refrain for now, but oh yes, I could definitely do worse.
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 4:59 am · Link
@Yutsano: I know you can. But, if you want to partake of my fluffy pillows, you will not.
Anne Laurie, if you’re up, thread broken in aisle three (dog shit thread).
Steeplejack - June 26, 2010 | 5:00 am · Link
Okay, so apparently when I really get into commenting on a thread you guys just all pick up and move to a new thread?! Well, fuck you all with as many rusty pitchforks as it takes. I’m going to bed. But first I bring you fire.
Something Fabulous - June 26, 2010 | 5:04 am · Link
@Steeplejack: Ok, now that one’s just weird. Do you have these all queued up in youtube just in case, or find them by accident, or what??
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 5:11 am · Link
@Something Fabulous: The answer to this question may just shock and disturb you. I caution you to consider carefully before you ask this. And remember this:
“Fame is fleeting…but the Internet is forever.”
– Phineas & Ferb.
@asiangrrlMN: And this is precisely why I always use my powers for good. With great power comes great responsibility. A lesson a few of our oligarchs would do better to understand.
Steeplejack - June 26, 2010 | 5:12 am · Link
@Something Fabulous:
Hey, that is my musical heritage you are talking about. I just think of a song from my youth, I do a YouTube search and—voilà!—90 percent of the time it pops right up. I love the Interwebs.
Like, for example, wouldn’t it be cool to see a really tight Texas Latino band dressed up as sinister Muslim A-rabs? You got it.
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 5:13 am · Link
@Steeplejack: Getting a complex, are we? And, that video reminds me of Manos, Hands of Fate. Night!
@Steeplejack: You had an interesting childhood, methinks.
R-Jud - June 26, 2010 | 5:16 am · Link
I’ve been unwittingly exposed to the whining of this Kesha creature through my gym. Now whenever I see its songs mentioned, I break out in hives.
Thanks, Anne Laurie. Thanks a lot.
Steeplejack - June 26, 2010 | 5:16 am · Link
@Yutsano:
I thought Phineas and Ferb was “I know what we’re gonna do today.”
Anne Laurie - June 26, 2010 | 5:17 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN: Looked fine to me, but I took your suggestion and ‘corrected’ the wayward less-than carat. Better now for you?
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 5:26 am · Link
@Anne Laurie: Thanks, Anne Laurie. It looks perfect to me now. I’m in Google Chrome.
Something Fabulous - June 26, 2010 | 5:30 am · Link
@Steeplejack: Now that was just hysterical. All the years I’ve known that song, I’ve never seen the band! Lead singer looked like he was cracking himself up the whole time. And the perfectly immobile ladies in the pucci dresses. Fantastique.
JMC_in_the_ATL - June 26, 2010 | 5:30 am · Link
The song is horrible, but whoever put the video together really knows their classic Trek. So it is impressive in that regard.
stuckinred - June 26, 2010 | 5:47 am · Link
Look, actual people here in the morning!
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 5:50 am · Link
Incidentally, I don’t know if I ever posted this, but it is just too much of teh cute to not be shared. And they say nothing good comes out of Ohio!
@asiangrrlMN: Moi aussi, although that situation may be changing here very shortly.
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 5:50 am · Link
@stuckinred: It’s still night to me because I haven’t gone to bed yet.
@Yutsano: I saw this before. It’s so so so so cute. I love the otters!
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 5:56 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN: I’ll have to keep that one in my file registry for next Mother’s Day, so when anyone asks if moms matter, I can just go, “ahem”.
@Steeplejack: They actually split that quote, with Phineas leading and Ferb finishing it off. Oh and did you know Wayne Newton sings Perry’s theme song?
asiangrrlMN - June 26, 2010 | 5:58 am · Link
@Yutsano: Yeah. No kidding. It’s pretty damn amazing, innit?
And with that, I am actually gonna try to get some sleep. Night/morning, ya’ll!
Yutsano - June 26, 2010 | 6:01 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN: I’m right on your heels hon.
stuckinred - June 26, 2010 | 6:04 am · Link
You guys are NO fun!
SiubhanDuinne - June 26, 2010 | 7:01 am · Link
Gail Collins has a really nice column on Nancy SMASH!! this morning.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/art/.....=Columnist
After all the Weigel/Goldberg/Drudge shit of the last few days, Collins was even more a pleasure to read today than usual.
harlana peppper - June 26, 2010 | 7:25 am · Link
I was hoping it was a William Shatner song, what a tease.
flukebucket - June 26, 2010 | 7:32 am · Link
Well done. Well done indeed. I loved it.
But the “steppin’ in dog shit” post my go down as my all time favorite. Probably because I can relate to it so easily.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko - June 26, 2010 | 7:37 am · Link
Why y’all hatin’ on the song? Make it sound like we’re all deep in “get offa my lawn” territory.
jon - June 26, 2010 | 7:53 am · Link
Since no one seems willing to do it, I guess I’ll throw this particular hand grenade on the fire.
Patriot 3 - June 26, 2010 | 8:15 am · Link
@Ivan Ivanovich Renko: Ivan’s right…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6UfMyBsaV8
WereBear - June 26, 2010 | 8:27 am · Link
Well, it is a hideous song. But I do like the little clips; it’s like a chip of my childhood, when I realized my mind could expand with ideas.
I’ll forever think fondly of Star Trek for that.
mclaren - June 26, 2010 | 8:27 am · Link
If you really want to LOL, check out this Palin speech—they accidentally left the mics on and the press shredded her.
Sample quotes from reporters:
“I feel like I just got off a rollercoaster.”
“She didn’t finish a statement.”
“I don’t know how you’re gonna make a story out of that.” “Well, that’s the story.”
“Did she even make a point?”
“Lots of Reagan.”
“Just put as many random quotes in as you can.”
Yummy Reaganesque senile goodness!
Live mic left on, reporters call Palin `Dumbest of the dumb.’
It’s allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll a librul media p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-plot!
Wag - June 26, 2010 | 9:06 am · Link
I would call that vid “The Dance of the Expendabe Crew Member.”
vtr - June 26, 2010 | 11:08 am · Link
Ke$ha – Sheeesh. She disgusts Caligula.
elmo - June 26, 2010 | 12:11 pm · Link
Does it make me a hopeless nerd that I could identify every episode that each clip came from? By name and season?
C’mon, nobody else? Just me?
justinslot - June 26, 2010 | 12:23 pm · Link
@elmo: Those were all from the actual show? Some were so goofy I assumed they were outtakes.
Anyway, Ke$ha is awesome. If you disagree I question your pop music love.
elmo - June 26, 2010 | 12:55 pm · Link
@justinslot:
Nope. All from the show. Some of the goofier ones (dancing, playing invisible instruments) were from “I, Mudd,” and “Plato’s Stepchildren.”
Star Trek was my major adolescent obsession, and I had a passion for memorizing useless trivia when I was young. Much of it stays with me, like fungus.
Upper West - June 26, 2010 | 1:09 pm · Link
I’m with Ivan. Tick tock is a classic, morally reprehensible lyrics and all.
Comrade Mary - June 26, 2010 | 2:01 pm · Link
I love the song and the video, even though it gave me a complete earworm last night (and my going-Galt co-conspirator was moved to deep pity for me).
I feel kind of bad for Ke$ha. Her drunk-girl schtick is depressing, and from what I hear, her whole career was built on a joke rap she performed within earshot of record excess. She was working for years to become a successful country singer, but she got slotted into this box instead and—ka-ching!
Anyway, this kind of disposable pop is less offensive to me than whatever pop-country she could be doing.
Hob - June 26, 2010 | 3:05 pm · Link
@elmo: I’m afraid there’s no hope for you. There’s still a little hope left for me, because I can’t actually name them all, I just know that I’ve seen them all and more or less what was going on…
kdaug - June 26, 2010 | 3:41 pm · Link
@vtr: Heh
kdaug - June 26, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
@Hob: I’m kinda between you guys – I can remember the episodes, maybe the title, no idea on the season.
The outtakes on the original Trek were great, though – there’s one where Nimoy is looking at Shatner on the elevator. The audio guy makes the “door opening” sound (I guess they didn’t do audio FX in post back then) but the guy pulling the rope to open the door misses his cue. Nimoy walks into the closed door looking at Shatner, bangs into it, and his ear falls off.
Ken J. - June 26, 2010 | 6:01 pm · Link
@Anne Laurie – Music – in the unlikely event you see this… did you get the note I sent you about Smoke Fairies (two UK women with sizable “Americana” influence, two electric guitars, harmony singing)?
Ten weeks after discovering them, I still play their stuff almost every day.
(Anyone else, peek at their MySpace page. Amazing minor-key melodies and guitar lines that go somewhere, that have logic, tension, resolution. Possible comparisons would be Fairport Convention before Sandy Denny, or maybe Jefferson Airplane before Grace Slick.)
Rarely Posts - June 26, 2010 | 8:25 pm · Link
In (limited) defense of the song, it’s a fun song to hear when you’re trashed and just finished grinding with two or three hot guys at 1:00 a.m. Nothing provides a better justification for having another tequila shot (in all seriousness, it was written just to played an hour before closing, right?). However, I do strongly prefer this music video to the original.