January 19, 2006

OOOooooo--I want a front row seat!

You know you've really done something in this ol' blogworld when someone manages to get to your site by searching for Screaming Trees movie about obsessive compulsive disorder.

My first inclination was that it had to do with Jack Handey's immortal deep thought: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

You know, that is just so true.

However, Chet the E-Mail Boy says it's probably some kind of reference to a peppy '90s orchestra flannel-clad deadbeat youngsters occasionally listen to. He says they are hip, and I take his word for it, because if anyone knows hip, it's someone who's had two hip replacements.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2006 02:59 PM
Comments

I admit the opening sentence made me notice:

"Where many of their Seattle-based contemporaries dealt in reconstructed Black Sabbath and Stooges
riffs"

I can't say I noticed that many grunge playing, lumberjack-shirt wearing, coffee drinking bands repeatedly singing "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk,", but then again I always thought the Seattle Sound involved torturing large mammals with cattle prods. So I may not be the best judge of these things.

Posted by: skinnydan at January 19, 2006 03:17 PM

That's why I have to rely on Chet--he's so much more in tune with what the young people crave.

As for not noticing that many grunge-playing, lumberjack-shirt wearing, coffee drinking bands repeatedly singing "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk," I guess you missed Nirvana's seminal work, "I'M A VICTIM OF SOICUMSTANCE!"

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2006 03:23 PM

Followed, presumably, by Poil Jam's "All Those Yesterdays, Knucklehead"

Posted by: skinnydan at January 19, 2006 03:34 PM

And, of course, Widespread Panic's album "HEYYYY, SPREAD OUT!"

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2006 03:37 PM

Thank goodness for the internet - I don't actually know the names of any other grunge bands.

Mind you, I think we've exhausted the possibilities of this line of "reasoning" anyway.

Posted by: skinnydan at January 20, 2006 11:56 AM