From BigKumquat Sent Sun, Sep 5th 1999, 18:46
From BigKumquat Sent Sun, Sep 5th 1999, 18:46
> I'm listening to Chocolate Weasel: Spaghettification. Great disc if you
> like funky weirdness ala Vibert. Anyway, on the second track "A Blue Furry
> Plughole", there's this dialogue going on the background, panning around
> the stereo field. It sounds like 2 stoners talking about the
> deeper meaning
> of cartoons like Scooby Doo, and the Smurfs. I've had this disc for over a
> year and never noticed it. Anybody know what/where that is from? Actually,
> if you've got a line on more sample ID's from this strange album... please
> let me know.
This is without question a sample from the film "Slacker" by Richard
Linklater, the man who later went on to direct the classic "Dazed and
Confused."
In the scene in question from Slacker, two stoner-y dudes are sitting at a
table in a bar discussing the philisophical underpinning behind TV cartoons.
The Smurfs, it seems, live in a "hive colony" from which they cannot escape,
a metaphor for our own society....and, furthermore, Smurfs are getting kids
used to seeing "blue people" so that when "Krishna comes about," kids will
embrace blue people...
This is a such a charmingly hilarious and unique scene (and it hits close to
home if you hang with out stoners and listen to their bizarre theories) that
I actually sampled it myself a few years back...strangely, I don't own the
Chocolate Weasel record, but I know this must be the source of the sample.
I do like funky weirdness a la Vibert, though...might hafta check it out.
- Fred Church
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