Son of Fug is editing bad genre fiction and writing on the side, or was as of 1999. He and I were very chummy that year, but haven't heard from him since.
There's actually a whole album about Fomalhaut, by the Mexican experimental/RIO band Decibal. It's called "Mensaje Desde Fomalhaut", which I assume means something.
This is even better than calving glaciers. I now fucking love Fomalhout too.
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 6:18 AM
"anyway, there ought to be a lot more rock songs about Fomalhaut, don't you think, or is that just me?"
And what would the lyrics be?
"Screw humanist religions, there's life on Formalhaut!!!"
I'm not certain if that would be a punk tune, or folk.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 5:23 PM
Definitely Dylan. Too many syllables for the Sex Pistols.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 5:31 PM
what if they spitted them out really fast?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 5:32 PM
I just hear "Rolling Stone" as I read, sorry.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 5:38 PM
Why would the folk or punk band be calling Fomalhaut "Formalhaut"?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 5:43 PM
to play with your mind.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 7:01 PM
Fomalhaut
Really hot
a robot
went to
Fomalhaut
123 go!
[chugga chugga riff here]
Fomalhaut
My girl's not
too keen on
Fomalhaut
oh-ohhhh-ohhhhh-oh-oh
Fomalhaut
oh-ohhhh-ohhhhh-oh-oh
Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut
Hot to trot
My girl's not
on Fomalhaut
[outro]
Oi!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-29-05 7:57 PM
Boobsalot. Holy Modal Rounders and Grateful Dead.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 2:12 PM
And Fugs, non?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 4:08 PM
I believe that there was significant Fug / HMR personnel overlap. The HMR were like the Dead, except less commercially-oriented and more screwed-up.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 4:17 PM
LB & I went to school with the son of a member of the Fugs.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 6:33 PM
So we did. Wonder whatever happened to him. I should really have gone to our 15th year reunion -- I am so out of touch with everyone from high school.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-31-05 8:37 AM
Son of Fug is editing bad genre fiction and writing on the side, or was as of 1999. He and I were very chummy that year, but haven't heard from him since.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-31-05 8:52 AM
Re: 8: And you even took into account the alternate pronunciations of Fomalhaut!
[Hmmm... apply that to Paris Hilton's "That's hot!" and one gets "That's ho"...]
OK, people: Who can name a rock song that incorporates the Lorenz-Fitzgerald Contraction and Einstein's time-dilation?
Posted by DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 05-31-05 12:54 PM
There was a young fellow named Fisk,
Whose stroke was remarkably brisk.
Through the speed of his action
Fitzgerald contraction
Diminished his dong to a disk.
Doesn't answer your question, but seemed apropos.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-31-05 12:57 PM
There's actually a whole album about Fomalhaut, by the Mexican experimental/RIO band Decibal. It's called "Mensaje Desde Fomalhaut", which I assume means something.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:46 PM
The band is called "Decibel".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 12:41 AM