den | (no subject)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

(no subject)

jowles82 writes in

aussielj

"And about the Cars with Kickass Sound Systems:
My ultimate dream (in relation to cars and stereos) is to hire a supra, or skyline, or one of those sooped up cars, with a mega sound system, and go crusing in every city and town, playing good ol' DIXIELAND JAZZ, with the bass system pumping out the tuba, and the tweeters screeching out the lovely sounds of the BANJO.

anyone want to fund this well worthwhile scientific expedition?"

I wish I'd thought of that. Give the rice-powered boom-boyz something to complain about.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

They do that here.

Only it's mexican polka stuff. Fear.

Same here. *twitch*

argh. I think my brain exploded

oooh! or bagpipes!

YES! Bagpipes would work!

Wow, that's not a US-thing only? I'm . . . so sorry.

Dixieland jazz, great idea. :) I've been known to boom Pablo Cruise or Beethoven, but my speaker system can't compete.

Toots Thielemens!!:D

All you need do is remaster the music using a sound board (you can fix channels that way)..I think. I'm not a pro at it but I've heard enough Beatles channelized outfakes to see the music could be fixed easily.

My stepfather is always threatening to do that with Chinese opera. You know, the high-pitched, atonal wailing stuff that, while probably deeply meaningful within context and not without a certain charm, at high enough volume can kill cows at twenty paces. It'd be fun to see...while wearing earplugs, of course.

That would be interesting to watch, but not hear.

SBS here broadcast all 135 hours of a Chinese Opera called something like "The Red Lotus Flower", or "The Cherrywood Box" or "What I did last summer" or something. (Woman misses her soldier husband and dies, goes to heaven, decides that she doesn't want to die, is sent back, not recognized by her lover. Hilarity ensues.) The actors spoke/sang is a high-pitched wail that dragged words up and down.

SBS provided subtitles, but to my uneducated western ears it went something like this:

*subtitle: "Who is this woman?"*

*subtitle:"She is my wife."*

(audience laugh)

Things would have gone badly but I was saved by having to rescue a wallaby.

if your in BNE give me a call

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only