From: ddrewc@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net   
      
   On 2007-04-13 1:46 a.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:   
   > Of Montreal:   
   > 	- From 'Hissing Fauna: Are You The Destroyer?', and with special   
   > video effects.  And a full-size LP.  While I can find the CD on Amazon,   
   > I can't figure what song title they were doing:   
      
   Improbably, it's called "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse." The only   
   way I figured that out was by listening to sound clips one by one until I   
   found a match. (Fortunately it was the fourth track on the album.) I think   
   I've heard the song before, but I'm not sure where. Anyway, it's a real   
   upper of a ditty, sure to shift your mood ``back to good again'' with its   
   seemingly inexhaustible stream of synth-pop hooks and catchy (if a bit   
   kitschy) sing-along vocals. At first I thought the lyrics were about drugs,   
   but according to some stuff I read online, the group's leader struggled   
   with depression while writing the album, so the "chemicals" he addresses in   
   the song may be simply his own neurotransmitters.   
      
   > 	- I believe they're trying to get a part in the 1975 movie   
   > version of 'Tommy'.  That's a very good thing, although it does make it   
   > really hard to be typing furiously at the computer, then look up, and   
   > see a twelve-foot tall guy in white robes with a lobster claw and clown   
   > makeup on.  Good performance, and the music's fine too.   
      
   Yep, the histrionics were amusingly outlandish. Quite a show. I missed the   
   glam-rock heyday of the '70s, so I can't really say how much this group   
   evokes that era. But I'm glad to see someone in the entertainment world try   
   something a little out there ("outré" as the French call it), even if it   
   may not work for everyone.   
      
   I think that's why I started watching Conan in the first place -- the   
   show's humor either made me fall over laughing or fell flat on its face,   
   but it was unlike anything I'd seen before. The sketches have become less   
   inventive and more repetitive as the show has matured, but I still find   
   most of it entertaining enough to keep watching. I think some turnover in   
   the writers/actors every couple of years is good for the show, though, to   
   keep it from getting stale.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)