tracking down odd songs and videos online

[garmonbozia]

A few weeks ago, I heard a song on the PA system in a Denny's.  Just some folk song with alot of whistling.  Afterward, I started wondering who sings it, what the lyrics were, and if I'd ever hear it again.  A few weeks later, I heard it again in a grocery store.  This time I made it a point to remember some of the lyrics.  Then when I got home, I did a Google search on the remembered lyrics and found that the song is called "Season Song" and is by a band named KaiserCartel.  I then went to songmeanings.net to read the lyrics and see if anyone has commented on them.  Not the kind of thing I'm likely to spend money on (e.g. CD or MP3 download), just curious what it was.  I'm more into stuff like Talking Heads and Devo, but this one caught my attention for some reason.  All the well, because the lyrics of this "Season Song" are all about appreciating seemingly mundane and minor stuff like trees and Jack-O-Lanterns, the kind of stuff you might not remember to stop and appreciate in the present (distracted by things like debt, job stress, etc.) but will probably wish you had more time to appreciate when you're on your deathbed.

For a greater challenge, I tried to track down a short film that I remembered seeing a long time ago when I was a kid and HBO still showed short films between movies.  It's about a guy who goes into a room for an appointment.  There's nobody there, but oddly there's an open-reel tape deck playing music.  Suddenly, the tape jumps off the reels and forms a huge blob of tangled tape, when then chases the guy all over the house (whilst making the sound you hear when you're fast-forwarding a tape).  The tape eventually devours him and then gets back onto the reels.  I had always wanted to see that film again, and had even tried to track it down online before with no success.  But the other day, I remembered it again and punched "short film attacked by tape" into Google.  That lead me to some videophile forums, where I read and found out that the film is called "Recorded Live" and was a student film of one of the people who went on to make the Tremors movies.  (It's a bonus feature on the Tremors 4 DVD.  Don't have it yet but plan to buy it sometime, just to have "Recorded Live" in my video collection.)

[garmonbozia]

Another interesting find.  There was one rock song I heard back in middle school, and all the way through high school and into college, I kept wondering what it was and who sang it.  This one relied on synthesizers and had a repeating set of three notes throughout.  In my last semester of college, I either saw the band on Saturday Night Live or I heard it on the radio (I forget which) and finally heard the band and song identified afterward (Mister Mister's "Kyrie").  I got the CD soon afterward.  That was in 1996.

A couple years ago, I did some poking around on the web to find out the meaning of the word "Kyrie".  (The monks who made the "Chant" CDs also have a track named "Kyrie".)  Turns out that Mister Mister is only one of many artists who've worked on the Kyrie theme, and the repeating triple note has major religious significance (meaning "father, son, and holy ghost").  I am not a religious person at all, but I still found the whole history of it very interesting.

[garmonbozia]

For your reference...

Recorded Live:


Kyrie:


(I tried to find Season Song, but there were several artists in the results.  I'll have to try again with the proxy server that I sometimes use, otherwise my firewall blocks YouTube videos.  I couldn't even watch the two that I linked above.)

[El]

Lol, clearly you hadn't been to many Catholic masses; I think the Kyrie Elaison (sp?) is a standard part of them.

[garmonbozia]

I've never been to a Catholic mass.  (I'm agnostic.)

[Blasted]

^I envy you.  I'm atheist but I must have gone to at least 700 masses in my lifetime  

Edit: Because I have no life I actually counted.

[Callaway]

I wondered what "Kyrie Eleison" meant, so I looked it up.  It's Greek for "Lord have mercy."

So the song is essentially a prayer.

Kýrie, eléison, down the road that I must travel
Kýrie, eléison, through the darkness of the night