Here's Tadjik Jimmy:



Here's Parvati Khan:

How is it you know so much about Eastern European culture? I'll vote later when I've seen the vids. Can't watch them from home.


Aloha...

Oh my Ford, that is one international trip I don't know if I want to take again. I'm laughing though, if that means anything. Dude, the first video, yeah, is that the Bobbie McFerrain of whatever country that is from? It is really funny. As listening I thought, that dude is able to sound like Minnie Mouse. Then when I watched that disco scene, and realized that is how the girl sounds singing the song, oh shit, dude, I can't take that high pitched helium voice. So is that where disco goes to die? Sorry if I'm offending you. I wouldn't be suprised if one day that dude is living it up in his fifteen minutes of fame. And wots the deal with poor Jimmy? His tail between his legs looking all dejected. Does he not know how to disco?


I do kinda dig this though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAPZZcYd5cs


Discohoa...

OK, the DJ Slon one isn't that bad relatively speaking.


Now try this on for size. She can't be beat for that type of sound or that type of dance. She has lost her way with her lastest effort. I've only heard one song though, but it is enough to make me gag and descry her betrayl of her musically talents. She is hot to boot.


http://video.filestube.com/video,e4a34e5aa34bda6003ea.html

Dude, the Disco Dancer vid is sooo funny. I'm in the library and people are looking at me laughing. F'off, you bookish people!


And when I hear her sing "jimmy, jimmy, jimmy," I expect her to sing "chimi, chimi, chimi/chimi, chimi changa." Hahahahahahaahhaha...Have to turn that into a song about the chimichanga.



Axloha...

So your vote goes for Tadjik Jimmi--mine too. Uzi might disagree, though. Jimmi (his real name is Baimurat) is from Tadjikstan, by the way. All the spoken words in that clip are in Russian, so I don't know how he learned the words that he's singing.

I'll give you the jist of poor Jimmi's predicament in the old movie. He was a rising star, playing electric guitar and doing disco dancing at the same time. Much of his inspiration to become a star came from his mother (sense of foreboding here). Then, one day he was upgrading his guitar to a higher voltage, and his mother was electricuted in a freak guitar accident.

In the scene shown in the clip, it seems like the girl is singing "Come to Bed Fred," but she's really trying to get him to pick up his guitar and start dancing again. But he can't bring himself to pick up the guitar after what happened to his mother.

I generally find Shakira very easy on the eyes, but I agree with you about her latest effort.

Wow, you know the Shakira. Nice. She is an international gal: She tours all over the globe. She knows twenty different languages. 1/2 Columbian. 1/2 Lebanese. Shake her up. Mmmmm, mmmmm, goodness. That is a treaty I'd like to sign.

OK, enough of the wishful thinking of a leg humping dog. Tell me, Chimi, who or what really tore down the Berlin Wall (and the Iron Curtain)?

Was is the costly arms race between US and USSR--a race that bankrupted The Bear? Was it Ronnie the Cowboy with his tuff words to Gorby? Perhaps it was the Beatles.

There is a documentary on the Paul M concert in Red Square video where a Russian thinker posits that they wanted freedom to see the Beatles, to buy their records, to wear their clothes, but alas, they couldn't, so they fought for it (something like that) which led to perestroika...

Perhaps a mixture of all three, and other variables yet not known by me.

Tell me Chimi, who tore down the Wall? And, which one is Pink?


Axloha...

I'm not sure how canned spam infiltrated it's way so far into the Eastern Block during WWII, but the Soviet writer Viktor Nekrasov, a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad, described it in a book he wrote about the siege.

I was struck by the care he took in describing the colorful labels on the can. We don't always know what might be delivering good PR for us.

When you're in Stalingrad under siege, that's the time you can really appreciate canned spam. It's been in decline for a generation or so, but there are still lots of spam-based recipes in faraway lands.

I have no fear of Iran or any Middle East country having Nukes. Why should I? I think it is just more pretext to invade. Give me a good reason why I should be concerned. Back in the 80s this movie, The Day After, was required viewing by the middle school I was attending in Hawai'i. The teacher asked everyone in the class would they seek shelter underground if attacked and then reemerge to start anew, or would they stay above ground and let the Nukes kill 'em. There were only two people in class that said they wouldn't seek shelter, and I was one of them.


Oh take me home...

A-ha, the poll is a trick question. The correct answer is Googoosh.