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I’ve always been a fan of Lou Bega’s classic “Mambo No. 5”, but that fondness has been boosted in recent years by the fact that hearing it reminds me of arriving in the lobby of our hotel at Disney World at the outset of my family’s vacation in high school, whereupon I was greeted by a version of that song Lou had recorded about Disney characters.
So today I thought “Instead of just being reminded of that by the original song, why don’t I seek out the Disney version that enchanted me so in that hotel lobby, where the sun was shining through the vast windows at the far end?”
So I found it on iTunes, which I still use because I just like the feel of having the files on my phone. But I had to buy the whole album to get that one song despite the fact I’ll probably never listen to any of the other tracks, which also seem to be Disney-focused covers of pop songs. Bega’s might be the only one by the original artist? Anyway, it was a worthy purchase.
Bonus Question!
Favourite Disney song?
On Tuesday afternoon, I get this message on Facebook from someone I don’t really recognize. But she’s real. I think she came to one of my shows in the past or something? She wants to know when my next performance is, and then she says she’s looking to join a band. I say our roster’s full at the moment, but since our drummer’s next few weeks are quite busy, it’d be nice to have a spare drummer to sit in on the occasional rehearsal in that time. She’s excited, and we discuss details. Of course, I ask her if she’s been taking necessary pandemic precautions, and she assures me she has.
Later in the evening, she starts sending me random but harmless messages. I assume she’s bored and possibly drunk, but that’s fine.
Then I wake up early on the following morning to find this.
And that’s what I get for humouring unsolicited requests to jam.
Bonus Question!
Best jam!
Probably strawberry.
I saw that, which led to this.
Fieri-Man! Fieri-Man!
Does whatever a Fieri can!
Eats some meat! Any size!
Puts some ice cream on his fries.
Check out! Here comes the Fieri-Man.
Is he hype? Listen, dude.
He can show you the wildest food.
Can he find new ways to keep you fed?
He puts chocolate mousse on bread.
Hi-yeaow! There goes the Fieri-Man.
In the heat of the day at the scene of good eats,
With streaky hair, he pumps up the beats.
Fieri-Man! Fieri-Man!
Friendly nation-wide Fieri-Man.
Wealth and fame are pretty nice, but have you tried churros on rice?
Life is a great big cookout. Wherever food gets took out,
There goes the Fieri-Man!
Fun story behind this new song. When we play it live, there’s usually a third verse about the Ultimate universe version of Gwen to follow up the first verse’s classic Gwen and the second’s Spider-Gwen.
But on record, that felt too long for the kind of song this is. A verse had to be cut, and it made sense to cut the Ultimate verse since Marvel eventually decided to do away with the Ultimate universe. The reasoning even seemed similar: it was just too much.
Also, no one knows how we got the guitar tone we did in the studio. Our producer accidentally had two separate amplifiers running, but it somehow worked out for the sound.
Gwen! Stacy!
We're going out for coffee. She's counting every bean. I'm dreaming up a movie, and she's stealing every scene. She walked into my story just to write a whole new part. She lets me crawl across the walls of her spectacular heart. She's banging on my mind like a spider on the drums. She's a dextrous danger when her rhythm comes. She's set up in my soul, and she's swinging from the ceiling! She's got a sting in her song, and she's spinning up a feeling.
Bonus Question!
Gwen Stacy!
Hearing about the coronavirus death of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger was weird for me.
The day began for me by listening to a podcast from earlier in the week. That episode happened to mention that he’d just been confirmed to be sick with the virus. Within a few hours of listening to that, I heard elsewhere that the disease had just claimed him. Not a lot of lead time for me.
Anyway, I learned that he was actually the dude who wrote the title song for “That Thing You Do!”, which was the one hit the fictional band in the movie was known for. That movie, starring fellow COVID sufferer Tom Hanks, was made in the 90s, the decade before Adam’s own band became, in the minds of many, a one-hit wonder with “Stacy’s Mom”. Personally, I preferred “1985”, but that’s basically where my knowledge of them ends.
Although they also did the music for and camoed in that MTV cartoon about an intern at MTV that was written by an MTV intern with the same name. I think his name was Greg? It was definitely a part of the title.
Bonus Question!
Best one-hit wonder?
I legitimately love Smash Mouth even beyond “All Star”. I think they qualify, though some might say “Walking on the Sun” was big enough to disqualify them. Anyway, that still seems like a fair answer.
I was riding the subway a few weeks ago with a friend when this poster caught my eye. Apparently, it’s a rock musical with time travel, trains, and bears. How could I not immediately decide to see it with no other information? The last play I saw was near the beginning of the year, and that was also inspired by a random subway poster for something I wasn’t previously aware of, but this new one, “Ghost Quartet”, also intrigued my brother enough to convince him to come along. And we had a time! Light on plot perhaps? But heavy on ambience. And some banging songs too. I really liked the one where the protagonist rattled off a list of different types of dead creatures and stated the one she’d like to be was a singing ghost.
Bonus Question!
What dead creature would you be?
Vampire’s the obvious choice. My brother went with mummy, and I could make that work too.
Everyone knows I'm a big fan of Richard Curtis. Or they don't. But I am. "Love Actually" has a particular place in my heart after its introduction to me during a hospital stay at the end of one summer break led to endless viewings.
At the end of this summer, there was nothing in theatres I really wanted to see, which pushed me to finally give "Yesterday" a shot after I'd let it pass by for months. And then I realised it was written by Richard Curtis.
So. I thank you, September movie drought, for pushing me back into the warm embrace of Richard Curtis.
Bonus Question!
Favourite Beatle?
Paul. Dude just likes to be on. I feel that.
I just had this dream where some producer I was thinking about working with maliciously acquired the rights to my songs, and I didn't know how they could have been sold to him by someone else in the first place. Then I did some investigating and discovered that the rights were somehow held my Charles Xavier, and I didn't know why I would have given them to him. Like . . . I like the guy, and I trust him to a point, but I'm holding the rights to my songs till I die.
Maybe that was it. Since this is a world with Charles Xavier, death is less permanent. I probably died with a will that transferred the song rights to him and then got resurrected but forgot to go through the legal processes that would revert the rights to me.
Anyway, when I woke up I briefly dislocated my shoulder, but I'm fine now.
Bonus Question!
Trustworthiest X-Man?
On the whole, I'm inclined to go with Sam Guthrie, the Cannonball. He's a good kid. And nigh invulnerable when he's blasting.
