IFILM - Viral Videos: When The President Talks To God
I'd never heard of Bright Eyes before my boyfriend and I stumbled on this video from Jay Leno at IFILM where we were browsing through their top 100 looking to be entertained. But, I have to say I'm becoming a quick fan. The song he sings in the video is brilliant (and why it's been snaking its way around the blogosphere), but when I went to the Saddle Creek website and listened to a couple of other songs, I was also quite pleased. The cowboy hat made me think he was a country singer, but he's actually an indie rocker with rich, textured songwriting that almost kinda reminds me of Paul Simon or Bob Dylan, well, the acoustic stuff at least.
P.S. Note that at the very end of the song in the video he says "fil mishmish." It was a bit jarring for me to hear because immediately my Arabic turned on. "In apricots?" I thought to myself. It took me a bit but then I remembered that it's a colloquialism -- from Egyptian Arabic I think -- which means "sooooo not gonna happen." Though, how this Nebraskan boy learned Egyptian Arabic has me puzzled.
3 comments:
we Nebraskans can shock you
P.S.
we have one of the worlds best underground scense: Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, Blue October (though not originally from here)Grasshopper Take over, Pomeroy, the Faint... just a tiny few that u might want to look into ;)
"its not bad here in Nebraska"
LOL -- I believe you!
Yeah I noticed that there's a big music scene there when I was surfing around for info on Bright Eyes. And can sorta relate to the underappreciated music scene of native cities. Portland is quite often overlooked in favor of Seattle, or worse, lumped in with Seattle. Sigh...
I'm so proud to see that so many young people are taking on this monster they call BUSH!
I listed this song and also one by Joe Stampley (I'm takin my country back) on my blog too.
Also, www.worldcantwait.org is doing great things.
We need to take our country back!
mark
www.wantmycountryback.blogspot.com
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