Iconoclaticy!

[captainsblog]

From believeitup, et al:

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee!

Yawell,....



I wasn't that much of a Muppet Show fan in its ITV/US syndication days, but I've more than made up for that in the years since, especially since Emily came along and we began collecting tapes of the show. In addition to Animal in the icon for this entry, I've always been fond of Dr. Teeth- partly for his reckless musical abandon, partly because of his ever-present ability to iconize posts about the horrid dental history on my (and, sadly, Em's) side of the family.



Several of you dragged me, with relative kicks and screams at first, into the musicology of Carbon Leaf, a bluegrass band with serious appreciation of the Celtic avenues leading to such venues. While Rachey was the first to bring them up and many others have added to the chorus, the icon, and most of the early love, came from thunderemerald, who had damn better let me know if she's making yet another IG pilgrimage when they're here at the end of the week.




Haven't used this one in awhile, but it was quite au courant around the beginning of the year, when oh so much of my Flist was bemoaning just how much, and how badly, 2008 sucked for them.  This was a cover image from our local alt-weekly, which also picked up on that theme, in keeping with the motif of the classic old horror films, punning its way to The Thing That Two Thousand Ate! ::cue the spooky music and dry ice::



Shamelessly stolen from the awesome sauce source of princesskraehe, it's become my preferred signage for an entry where I'm funning or punning on someone's mis-speaking or mis-understanding.




Ahh, Frank. The cover of Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti, which I won from WICB-FM in Ithaca in some kind of trivia contest around, maybe, 1980 and which contains some of the evillest and dirtiest lyrics ever placed upon the planet. Although Dancin' Fool is the most famous, Jewish Princess the most ethnically offensive and I Have Been In You the best answer song Peter Frampton will ever receive, my personal favorites among the lyrics are the coda-ish collection at the end of the song Flakes:

I'm a moron, 'n' this is my wife
She's frosting a cake with a paper knife
All what we got here's American made
It's a little bit cheesy, But it's nicely displayed
Well we don't get excited when it crumbles 'n' breaks
We just get on the phone And call up some Flakes
They rush on over 'N' wreck it some more
'N' we are so dumb; They're linin' up at our door

Well, the toilet went crazy Yesterday afternoon
The plumber he says *Never flush a tampoon!*
This great information Cost me half a week's pay
And the toilet blew up Later on the next day-ay-eee-ay



So gwon. Send me yours. Icons, not plumbers:)

Comments

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

The plumber he says *Never flush a tampoon!*

Wow, I wonder if this is factual information? Good to know, if so!

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as someone who comes from The Sticks, I think that most, if not all, bluegrass has roots in Celtic music. While I don't always appreciate the genre, seeing it performed live (which one gets the opportunity to do often in the southeast) is quite a sight to behold. Even if you don't love the music, you've gotta respect the talent and ability that it takes to play that stuff.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Yup, bluegrass definitely has roots in Celtic stuff. The Irish people claim bluegrass as sort-of-their-own with pride!

Now, if only Carbon Leaf actually WERE that sort of band (right now they're kind of a Dave Matthews ripoff band), that would be way more awesome.

(Alas, not going to Buffalo for IG. Albany tonight, NYC tomorrow, and Hartford on Saturday, but Buffalo's too far away.)

Icons!

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Iko! Iko! an de'

Jackomo fe no nane' , Jackomo fe nan e'

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I've not heard a lot by Carbon Leaf, but didn't think they were especially bluegrassy. I guess bands like Nickel Creek are probably more what I think of as a "bluegrass hybrid." I live in Northeast TN, so we're right in the thick of the country/bluegrass hometown, not far from Nashville and Kentucky, so let's suffice to say, we get lotsa bluegrass bands playing 'round these parts. ;-)

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I LOVE Nickel Creek. And yeah, I'd never call CL a bluegrass band -- but their third album seemed very heavily influenced by bluegrass music. They were halfway between alt/indie and Celtic at that point, so I guess it was a natural place to land! But you're totally right. I'd never lump them in with even the "newgrass" stuff like NC or Alison Krauss or whatever. ;)

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

Heh... I'm not sure if Allison actually attended ETSU (my alma mater), but Kenny Chesney did, (he actually asked me out when we were like 21), and the two of them evidently used to play together some there back in the day. Also, we are the only school in the country where you can get degrees in bluegrass or storytelling. ;-)

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool!