Friday, February 15, 2008
WTF?
1. As noted in a talkback, Dr. Lao's blog is back and active. If you delve through the past month or so of archives, you'll find out why it was dormant.
2. Okay, this just doesn't get any weirder.
So, I'm watching the end of the snowboarding episode of THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR and their theme song plays over the closing credits. My eyes bugged out of my head when I saw that it was co-written by....
wait for it...
this is really weird...
as in, cue: Rod Serling...
William Saroyan.
No shit.
The real William Saroyan. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE.
William Saroyan wrote about grapes and cakes. What the hell was going on?
The music is by his cousin, Ross Bagdasarian. They wrote it in 1953 for Rosemary Clooney.
Now, guess what Ross Bagdasarian later changed his name to?
Dave Seville.
As in, "The Chipmunks."
Same guy.
This is all so weird that I can barely wrap my brain around it.
1. As noted in a talkback, Dr. Lao's blog is back and active. If you delve through the past month or so of archives, you'll find out why it was dormant.
2. Okay, this just doesn't get any weirder.
So, I'm watching the end of the snowboarding episode of THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR and their theme song plays over the closing credits. My eyes bugged out of my head when I saw that it was co-written by....
wait for it...
this is really weird...
as in, cue: Rod Serling...
William Saroyan.
No shit.
The real William Saroyan. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE.
William Saroyan wrote about grapes and cakes. What the hell was going on?
The music is by his cousin, Ross Bagdasarian. They wrote it in 1953 for Rosemary Clooney.
Now, guess what Ross Bagdasarian later changed his name to?
Dave Seville.
As in, "The Chipmunks."
Same guy.
This is all so weird that I can barely wrap my brain around it.
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# posted by Doctor Lao @ 2:38 AM 
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Let me get this straight; author William Saroyan and his cousin, who recorded with singing chipmunks, wrote the theme music for a show starring George Clooney's aunt? And it's now the theme song for a reality show about Playboy playmates? Whiskey tango foxtrot indeed.
I don't know if it was for a show starring Rosemary Clooney. She was also a recording star, so it may have just been a single for her. But yeah, they wrote it. And now it's been funked up for THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR. Which is technically not about Playmates. Strangely enough, my more intelligent female friends got me to watch the show, which is wittier than I ever thought it would be... in its own bizarre way. The show's about Hef's three girlfriends, although it's clear that only one is a girlfriend and the other two are pals. In an odd way, it's one of the more wholesome shows on TV. Explaining that would take a month. But it is the exact opposite of the train wreck called THE ANNA NICOLE SHOW.
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