Correlations are key.
This is probably old news to all you hardcores out there, but I just made this correlation last night.
Ryuichi Sakamoto is awesome. I've had an MP3 of one of his songs for years, called Tong Poo. Here's a vid:
Love that Mr. Rogers-like beginning. Very lively.
Chris comes home last night and tells me that he just found about his wonderful old Japanese group called YMO and proceeded to play this song, also called Tong Poo.
IT IS THE SAME SONG. IN 70s TECHNO. Mind blown.
I love how the video is like some moving Futurist painting. And they scratched all over the film. And it just shows clips from old video games. It's all like "THE FUTURE IS NOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW."
And then the correlation occurs: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO WAS A MEMBER OF YMO. OHHHH CRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP.
As I said, chances are the majority of you fair readers already knew that, but hey, I'm impressed I figured this out with my little-more-than-casual knowledge of these things. Rock on.
Ryuichi Sakamoto is awesome. I've had an MP3 of one of his songs for years, called Tong Poo. Here's a vid:
Click to viewLove that Mr. Rogers-like beginning. Very lively.
Chris comes home last night and tells me that he just found about his wonderful old Japanese group called YMO and proceeded to play this song, also called Tong Poo.
IT IS THE SAME SONG. IN 70s TECHNO. Mind blown.
I love how the video is like some moving Futurist painting. And they scratched all over the film. And it just shows clips from old video games. It's all like "THE FUTURE IS NOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW."
And then the correlation occurs: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO WAS A MEMBER OF YMO. OHHHH CRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP.
As I said, chances are the majority of you fair readers already knew that, but hey, I'm impressed I figured this out with my little-more-than-casual knowledge of these things. Rock on.