If I had emigrated to Austria from, say, Turkey, or some more desolate region in the Middle East, I would think that some of the natives of my host country had gone mad.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made from vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini vibrators (sic), cucumberphones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe...One could easily leap from here to a Get Out of Europe trope, and a Bring The Troops Home theme. Maybe I just did. Russian tanks charging through the Fulda Gap is a remote possibility, because what is there to seize?
Forty years ago, in opposing American military defense of Western Europe, the otherwise reprehensible Norman Mailer speculated that the Russians would occupy it, and [the Soviet Empire] would "die of indigestion".
Music experimentation with vegetables is a novelty, not an innovation (there is an enormous difference), and the dour conservative knows that art is about two things - discovery and recognition. What about a cucumberphone?
In some important way, humans are meant to be better than this.
Rhod, I post the following to remind you of America's version of this.
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Price of musical instruments,,,It's the economy stupid.
(Just joking, could not help myself,,lol)
Rhod,
Your xenophobia is showing. I have yet to hear you criticize Memphis' renowned Turnip Tunemakers. You barely made mention of Larry Zanelli and his Zucchiniacs. And, of course, you conveniently avoid any mention of Captain Kangaroo's irritating Banana Man. I've added video as a reminder.
Lighten up!
That Capt. Kangaroo video has to be the most annoying thing I have ever seen or heard.
Nick, anyone who approved of the violent use of a banana by the Nairobi Trio, like you did, has loose morals.
The Tunemakers, Larry, and the Banana Man can't redeem you.
Rhod is that a turnip, or are you just happy to see me.
Chris, don't you remember Peter Jennings? Curt Gowdy? Now THEY were annoying!
Easy, Rhod. Ernie Kovacs was a God in my house.
I hear that a lot, Opie, and not just from you. Most of the time it's a turnip.
Nick, that video was so irritating I forgot all the other things I was pissed-off about.
Nickie,
True , but I was speaking in the context of supposed entertainment directed towards adults and or children.
Lame stream media however ludicris do not qualify in this category.
Mr. Moose is lining up the airstrike as we speak. The Stagehands Union made a oopsie though, and instead of ping pong balls, they "mistakenly" loaded bowling balls instead.
Captain Kangaroo rocked. It was my favorite show when I was little.
I didn't remember this bit though. For a good reason it seems...
Toasty, I know how you feel. It took years of therapy to get me over the Louis Prima & Keely Smith lip-sync performed by the Captain & Greenjeans.
You gotta play some of the Howdy Doody and Cpt Kangaroo sound tracks backwards to understand how evil Keeshan/Clarabell/Cpt Kangaroo really was. Makes your hair stand on end.
..or SPELL some of the names backwards, like Chief Thunderthud's tribe, the Ooragnak Indians, which is Kangaroo spelled backwards.
This stuff was pure evil. Mr. Rogers was one of Keeshan's demons.
By the way, Flub-a-Dub was sewn together from eight animals, in a Dr. Moreau kind of experiment.
I understand Mr. Moose was the frightening product of a liaison between the Banana Man and the Doody clan's Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring. Just a little timely behind the scenes Show-Biz gossip.
Yours truly,
Weegee Goomba
I was going to question the dude playing the cuke, but Decided to comment about Bob or Capn Kangaroo:
Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 at age 76 , which is odd, because he always looked like he was 76. (DOB: 6/27/27 ) His death reminded me of the following story.
Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, is buried in a grave alongside 3- and 4-star generals at Arlington National Cemetery ... His marker gives his name, rank (PVT) and service (USMC). Nothing else. Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time, why the heck does he rate burial with these guys? Well, following is the amazing answer:
I always liked Lee Marvin, but didn't know the extent of his Corps experiences..
In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country in the armed forces often in rear echelon posts where they were carefully protected, only to be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war bond promotions, Lee Marvin was a genuine hero. He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima . There is only one higher Naval award... The Medal Of Honor!
If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery..
Dialog from 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson': His guest was Lee Marvin, Johnny said, 'Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely
wounded.
'Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the bottom and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi. Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting' shot hauling you down. But, Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew.... We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. That dumb guy actually stood up on Red beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by, with mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gunfire so that he could get his men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because his men's safety was more important than his own life.
That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, 'Where'd they get you Lee?' 'Well
Bob... If you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!' Johnny, I'm not lying, Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.
The Sergeant's name is Bob Keeshan. You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo.'
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