Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

soupé opera

stop motion + vegetables + ridiculous opera singing = win
when i was a kid, the abc had a short show called soupé opera.
i just looked it up. took me a while to find it cos i had no idea what it was called and there weren't any words or characters in it. but the winning tag in the google search was opera singing.

i recommend youtubing it if you haven't seen it.
it's really cool and funny.
every episode starts with vegetables in a basket.
you hear a lady singing soupé opera in operatic tones in a middle to high register. so not too high a sound.
then a 4/4 electronic beat is played with rhythmic tribal sounding grunts. and the vegetables started moving, dancing if you will and creating an animal.
this animal would then move around doing cool stuff
and after that, a new basket of vegetables appeared and the process started again.
this repetition happened two times, so including the first, it happened three times.
every time, the opera lady would sing soupé opera at a higher pitch.

i remember thinking the fat lady would explode if she kept going and had heaps of fun trying to act it out. kids are great.

oh oh oh, and after this would be gogs. that really terrible claymation show set in prehistoric times with all the feral cavemen. the theme song was the baby crying. i remember that my ear drums would be ringing after these two songs in succession.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

forgiveness please

friends. you know who you are.

this is my apology, no? age is just a number...you fool around how you want. and i'll join even you.

i wasn't trying to offend you...did steve tell you that perchance?

.....

oh and i am a lesbian...happy?

( i am no homophobe...do not take the insult to heart)

Thursday, April 22, 2010

nighty night sweet kite...

these are my top albums to fall asleep to in no particular order:

1. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys - perfect harmonies, tear jerking stuff


2. Pink Moon by Nick Drake - a whole album of just complex acoustic guitar and the soothing voice of man. genius and envy evoking


3. Takk... by Sigur Ros - i was lucky enough to see them live...i actually fell asleep. so they must be good at it. however...it was not for but 1 or 2 minutes as they exploded confetti bazookas and banged the drums...love love love


4. Kyte by Kyte - the new Sigur Ros but not as stadium-filling and energetic. more tea in the city...watching a doco about the countryside


5. The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom - harp plus weird lispy tweety voice. sweet dreams and switch on the batman nightlight (trivia: she is the hot mum in mgmt's kids video and goes out with the hot jizz in my pants guy)


6. Anything by Enya or Declan Galbraith....NOT (I'D RATHER GRATE CHEESE FOR 73 HOURS STRAIGHT)

and surely there will be more...but for now...nap away like a cat