Went googling for the Black Eyed Peas and this is what I found. Love the internet. It turns out that for the mildly technologically challenged people like yours truly, the site meter homepage is a treasure trove of totally useless information. Like where in the world is Carmen Sandiego accessing your blog from. Or which site is she visiting that has a link to the blog. Now since, even my superinflated ego will not concede that I'm famous (I can be both deluded and insightful) it turns out that I have been accessed most randomly from google. when people searched for CBSE, Vodka Watermelons, and Maslow's. Which makes google in my humble opinion the best search engine ever. A friend claims that all his hits are off google when people search for him, but I figure everyone's deluded.
Of course the question that should be burning in the back of your minds should be why are the black eyed peas being googled. No, it's not because Fergie is the hottest creature of God I've seen in a long time (that search has been done...). I was intrigued by the fact that Beep by the Pussycat Dolls (yes the Pussycat Dolls) was playing in my head for about a week. And that's only after listening to the song and not watching it. Then some little research revealed that it had Will.i.am from the BEP doing about 80% of the musical work and contributing to about 2.3% to the appeal of the video. Turns out that the hook that keeps repeating after the 'I'm a do my thing while you're playing with your ... ha ha haa" is from the Electric Light Orchestra's Evil Woman. So started the hunt for the sources of samples that Will.i.am uses...
It's amazing where they hunt out those bits of music and the way he puts them together. The elephunk theme, which unfortunately isn't on the album of the same name is almost entirely from an ilayaraja song from Raghavendra... loosely translated the song runs thus "joy for you and me (yenaku unaku anandam)... Don't phunk with my heart begins the same way a song from BigB's Don. And most recently Pump it is all Pulp Fiction. I'm not hip-hop's biggest fan and don't think it's the future of music but the band has something that keeps it in my head and not in an irritating Govinda-song (I was doin' Teri Naani mari to mai kya karoon for months) or Himmesh (or Himmesh-bhai as the choms do it). And where's the love is a song that can be used in the best of situations at the risk of grave physical damage from the people fighting.
In other happenings, the sudden showers are throwing a wet blanket (very literally since I left a window open) on all possible plans. The paterfamilias got pelted by hail too. I just got pelted at work for saying that I was hungry in the middle of surgery when we pulled a gall bladder out. It really wasn't a cannibalistic or a degenerate thought, it was simply a temporal mismatch.
Trivia for the day is the BEP song Let's get it started (that star world stole, I actually liked Absolutely Everybody better) was initially titled Let's get retarded... Political Correctness raises it's ugly head after it changed Star Trek's "where no man has gone" to "no one has gone before"
PS why did Cap'n Kirk pee on the ceiling?
He wanted to boldly go where no man...
