The Vapors - Turning Japanese

"Turning Japanese" is the most popular song released by the English band The Vapors from their album New Clear Days, and the song for which they are best known. The song's lyrics mainly consist of the singer talking about pictures of his love. Musically, the song features an Oriental Riff played on guitar.


The song was believed to euphemistically refer to the face a male makes during the act of masturbation.[1] In a VH1 True Spin special the band denied this. Songwriter David Fenton explained: "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to."[2]

The band knew they had a hit with "Turning Japanese", so much so that they waited until their second single before releasing it, fearing that if they released it as their first they would become one-hit wonders, but they never matched its success.

The song enjoyed some sales in the Japanese charts on the back of its huge success in Australia, where it spent two weeks at Number One in June 1980.


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Knight Mare Hare 1955

Knight-mare Hare is a 1955 animated cartoon short released by Warner Bros. Cartoons in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. The cartoon stars Bugs Bunny in medieval times. It was released theatrically on October 1, 1955.

Plot

The cartoon, loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, begins with Bugs Bunny reading a book on the Knights of the Round Table under a hairdryer. While reading, an apple falls and hits his head and he is somehow transported to the times of King Arthur. When he wakes up, he finds himself at the pointy end of a knight's lance. Bugs asks him, "What's up, Duke?" and the knight commands Bugs to surrender as prisoner of his lance. The knight identifies himself as "Sir O of Kay, Earl of Watercress, Sir Osis of The Liver, Knight of the Garter, and Baron of Wooster-cester-shister-shyster-schuster-shister-sister-shire...sher." Ready to take Bugs' challenge to tilt with him for the insult of Bugs' friends Duke of Ellington, Count of Basie, Earl of Hines, Cab of Calloway and Satchmo of Armstrong after Bugs peers down into the knight's helmet, who are called "upstarts and rogues", the knight offers Bugs a too heavy sword, then begins to charge at him, during several comedic attempts by Bugs to get the sword off the ground. At the last second, Bugs puts his leg out tripping the knight's horse. The horse falls and the knight pole vaults on his lance over the castle wall and into a high window of a castle tower, falling loudly to the bottom inside the tower.

Bugs is later chased by a fire-breathing dragon. He manages to defeat it by spraying seltzer into the dragon's mouth. With its fire lost, the powerless dragon whimpers and flees.

Bugs later goes to another castle, the residence of a warlock named Merlin of Monroe. Merlin changes Bugs into a pig with some "magic powder" -but Bugs simply unzips the "costume" into his normal self. He later tricks the warlock into becoming a donkey. Merlin tries to change himself back to normal by also "unzipping" - but ends up with the same donkey appearance, no matter how many times he unzips the costume. To try to return to the present, Bugs Bunny throws an apple in the air to hit him on the head ("Well, why not? After all, they laughed at the man when he discovered penicillin"). He is successful in this attempt, and walks down the country road, thinking that his adventure was just a dream...until he hears a farmer call his donkey "Merlin".

Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics - Spiritual Jazz

Lloyd Miller

Lloyd Miller (b. 1938) is an American musician who is well known for his research work on Persian music.

Lloyd Miller received a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Utah. His thesis was entitled "Music and Song in Persia". While writing his thesis, he spent 7 years in Tehran as an arts writer for several publications and a PR person for the Center for Preservation and Propagation of Iranian Music.

He is native in English and fluent in Persian and French. During the 1950s and 60s, Miller played with top jazz artists in Europe like Don Ellis and Eddie Harris.Miller was interested in eastern culture and music. He moved to Iran and mastered Persian music as well as Iranian folk music genres under the supervision of masters Dr. Daryush Safvat and Mahmoud Karimi.

Dr. Miller is also known as Kurosh Ali Khan, a name he used while hosting a prime-time television show in Tehran, Iran in the 1970s. The program was known as Kurosh Ali Khan va Dustan, or Kurosh Ali Khan and Friends, a variety show with music.

His mother, Mrs. Maxine Adams Miller, was the author of Bright Blue Beads: An American Family In Persia, and Dr. Miller is the author of Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz published by Curzon Press London and also by University of Utah Press.

Lloyd's recording Oriental Jazz, produced in the 1960s, was re-released recently as a CD and is a current popular item in Europe and the UK and features many amazing selections of jazz and oriental music blends

The Rolling Stones - Turd on the Run

Culture - Riverside

Culture - Riverside

Where is the love to be found, oh People?
Nowhere around...

For I woke on Saturday morning
Feeling sticky and dirty after work
Took a walk down a riverside

I roll a little spliff
Sat down on a stone and start to cool off
With my burden down a riverside

For I check around the youths
And I try to teach the truth
Lay their burden on the riverside

I walk through every corner
Try to find someone to talk to but I have to
Lay their burden on the riverside

For I walk and I talk
And I linger and I search
Lay their burden on the riverside

And I walk, I met the youthman pocket
And I try to search around them
Lay their burden on the riverside

And I sat down quietly
Watch the fishes circle around the little stones
Lay their burden on the riverside

I cup my ears and I heard the little birds
Whistling in the tree like so
Lay their burden on the riverside

Live good among your neighbor
Like sister and brother and
Come with me a riverside

All you need is pray to Jah, quality
You see secret shall be revealed
Lay their burden on the riverside

(solo)

Jah provides for the birds in the air
And the fishes in the sea so what about me
Lay their burden on the riverside

Look at the crow they toil not neither do they spin
Yet father provide far them
Lay their burden on the riverside

Let us walk and talk
And pray quietly in search
Lay their burden on the riverside

Look at the color of those clothes, oh Jah
Make each and every one individually
Lay their burden on the riverside

Where is the love?
Where is the togetherness too?
Lay their burden on the riverside

I can't take the war and I can't take the shooting
Neither the looting, just
Lay their burden on the riverside

I tried around Rema
Even in The Jungle
To find a quiet rest

Round there in a Nannyville
My heart come to a trail
Lay their burden on the riverside

And I knock, and I search
And I whisper and I preach
Lay their burden on the riverside

Where is the quietness
And the love to be found in some corner?
Lay their burden on the riverside

Let us walk, let us search
Let us examine and let us see
Lay their burden on the riverside

Dr. John, The Night Tripper - Zu Zu Mamou