If what you meant is that you're shocked at the content of my contribution, you should know that it's not original to me. "Cockbucketry", incidentally, derives from the request, now classic on Metafilter, that one's opponent in civil debate choke on a bucket of cocks.
Also, world music isn't a genre, and throat singing is indeed awesome. It's like a didgeridoo, except in your mouth! And and, premier throat-singing band, Huun-Huur-Tuu, have an album called Sixty Horses in My Herd. How many horses are in this Sue character's herd? A damn sight fewer than sixty, I'd bet, if she even has a herd.
I also felt relieved of my cultural guilt when my Tajik friend, who was also at the performance, confessed that she could barely keep from wetting herself for laughter.
Mouth harps - does anyone know how to use one? Seriously. I bought one years ago and all I can seem to do is whack my front teeth with the flipping flipper.
Maybe it's the formal concert setting, but when I read this:
He was going off on this mouth organ. His fingers were flying on the metal doingers and it was like, I don't know, wild flourishy flamenco mouth organ. But I'm still not done. While he was mouth organing, he started making a noise that can not be described in the English tongue. It was so deep and guttural it sounded like the noise that comes when you turn on a stereo only to find out that a speaker has blown out and it blares a harsh painful foghorn-like bleat. This man started making that noise. Loudly, and sustained, and all the while modulating it with the doingy doingy doingy. I've never heard anything like it
I take it as a rave review. (I've heard recordings; the mouth organ especially fucking rocks.)
In some Scientific American article about the physics of throat-singing, it said that there was a cowboy singer in the 20s who throat-sang instead of yodeling. Has anyone heard this? I really really really want to hear this.
If what you meant is that you're shocked at the content of my contribution, you should know that it's not original to me. "Cockbucketry", incidentally, derives from the request, now classic on Metafilter, that one's opponent in civil debate choke on a bucket of cocks.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 11:36 AM
Also, world music isn't a genre, and throat singing is indeed awesome. It's like a didgeridoo, except in your mouth! And and, premier throat-singing band, Huun-Huur-Tuu, have an album called Sixty Horses in My Herd. How many horses are in this Sue character's herd? A damn sight fewer than sixty, I'd bet, if she even has a herd.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 11:40 AM
I defy you to be blindsided by the crazy throat noise in a genteel concert setting and not bust out laughing! I double dare you!
And I keep My Little Ponies in my head, exclusively.
Posted by susan | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 11:45 AM
Shorter Sue: no herd.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 11:47 AM
I also felt relieved of my cultural guilt when my Tajik friend, who was also at the performance, confessed that she could barely keep from wetting herself for laughter.
Posted by susan | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 11:47 AM
I was holding my shit together just fine when the throat-singing started. But mouth harps, those are objectively hysterical.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 12:25 PM
Mouth harps - does anyone know how to use one? Seriously. I bought one years ago and all I can seem to do is whack my front teeth with the flipping flipper.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 12:31 PM
Maybe it's the formal concert setting, but when I read this:
He was going off on this mouth organ. His fingers were flying on the metal doingers and it was like, I don't know, wild flourishy flamenco mouth organ. But I'm still not done. While he was mouth organing, he started making a noise that can not be described in the English tongue. It was so deep and guttural it sounded like the noise that comes when you turn on a stereo only to find out that a speaker has blown out and it blares a harsh painful foghorn-like bleat. This man started making that noise. Loudly, and sustained, and all the while modulating it with the doingy doingy doingy. I've never heard anything like it
I take it as a rave review. (I've heard recordings; the mouth organ especially fucking rocks.)
In some Scientific American article about the physics of throat-singing, it said that there was a cowboy singer in the 20s who throat-sang instead of yodeling. Has anyone heard this? I really really really want to hear this.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 5-05 3:25 PM