This is post #1010, and this entry from the venerable Police axe-wielder (and the film 2010) was about the most appropriate one I could find.  OK, so I'm off by one digit.  Sue me.  Pay me to write this bobamathingy before I give an ass's rat about such things.

This will likely be my last post for a while, tomorrow I jet off to Portland to hang with Pat and play Scrabble.  You know the drill.  Enema nurses-blah-blah-blah-bondage-blah-blah-blah-blah-bikini wax-blah-blah-blah-blah-hey piss off you prog-hating beatnik twerps, Dream Theater is awesome-blah-blah-blah-blah-see you in a week.

Watch the music video for "2010" on YouTube.

Remember when I used to put up 80s post-punk tunes by the bushel and then effectively ran out of them?  Well, here's a great one that originally fell through the ever-proverbial cracks and I happened to think of it just now.  In a previous post, I talk about that old English sketch comedy show called The Young Ones.  Every episode featured a lip-sync musical performance, and that's how I first found this kickin' gem from Nine Below Zero.

Early 80s British bands in suits rocked.  They just did.  Period.

Hear "Eleven Plus Eleven" on YouTube.

Watch the Young Ones segment.

Nine Below Zero official website

Had Joe's Garage playing at rather high volumes in the car this morning.  I dig on that record like no one's business.  So, with this being Funky Friday, here is... OK, this is not an actual full-on funk tune.  But it does have some funk elements, there's slap bass like a sumbitch.  So go crazy folks, go crazy.

Oh, and I think there's an actual law that dictates that any online mention of Catholicism requires a picture of sexy girls in Catholic school clothing.  And it should make for a nice boost in traffic.



There, don't say I never give you anything.

Hear "Catholic Girls" on YouTube.  Make haste, weary Intarwebz traveler, Zappa's studio recordings tend to disappear from NotMeTube rather swiftly.

Joe's Garage weekee

Once again I use the front page of YouTube for song ideas.

HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA!!!!

Gee, that was easy.

Hear "Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead" on Der Tube von Du.

Quick entry today with an old school prog fave, a classic, epic Yes song.   That was covered by Dream Theater.

Music critics, English majors and coffeehousers need not apply, as per usual.

Hear "Heart of the Sunrise" on YouTube.

Live performance

Hear Dream Theater's cover

Yes, I'm still going through those South Park season sets on the Netflix streaming, so here's a rousing number from the full length 1999 film Bigger, Longer & Uncut.  This was nominated for the Best Song Oscar that year, losing out to the vomitory, syrup-laden Phil Collins tune "You'll Be In My Heart."  The drubbing Phil took in the succeeding "Timmy 2000" South Park episode seemed to make it all worth it, though.

At the time, being a Best Song nominee meant a live performance of the song during the Oscar show.  I don't know if they still do that, I never watch the Oscars so it's not like I'd know.  I just remember them being uniformly awkward and awful.  Catching Kim Cattrall's "performance" of that Starship dreck from that dumb Mannequin movie pretty much guaranteed I would never want to watch another live rendition of a song during an Oscar show.  Well, "Blame Canada" was done by (among many others) Robin Williams.  Guess what?  It was awkward and awful.  Normally I hold Robin Williams in pretty high regard, but that was just unwatchable.

"Noooothin's gonna stop us... nooooooow" Ugh, why on Earth did I voluntarily exhume THAT horrific memory?

Watch the film segment on YouTube.  Some F-bombs within, but if you're really concerned about such things, chances are you actively avoid South Park anyway.

If you're feeling masochistic, watch the Oscar performance.

Just in case you were wondering what I was referring to on last Friday's post.

Not that anyone actually was wondering...

Hear "Theme from Shaft" on YouTube.

I recently picked up one of those little Roku players.  It lets you stream certain Internet content directly to your TV, such as Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand and MLB.TV.  What have I been using it for?

South Park.  Lots and lots of South Park.  Most of the season sets are available on the Netflix streaming, so I can watch pretty much any episode I want at any time.  God, I've been watching so much South Park it's not even funny.  No, I mean the show itself is funny, it's the fact that I've been watching so freaking much of it that's not even funny.  So with that show on the noggin, and with this being Funky Friday, here is "Chocolate Salty Balls" from the Chef Aid album.

The vocals for this were performed by the late, great Issac Hayes, who also provided the voice of Chef on the show.  You probably know that Hayes, a Scientologist, had a falling out with the show's creators after an episode lambasted Scientology.  Well, if you have that Netflix streaming service, I heartily recommend the season 10 episode "The Return of Chef."  It was made right after Hayes left South Park, so the character was quite obviously voiced by previously recorded, disconnected snippets of dialogue, making Chef out to be a raging pedophile.  "I wanna make love to... the children."  God, I was dying.

Issac Hayes died a couple of years ago, and he would have turned 68 today.  You damn right, he was a bad mother... shut yo' mouth!

Issac Hayes
1942-2008

Hear "Chocolate Salty Balls" on YouTube.

Live performance

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