that is the refrain uttered in the bestest 60s girl group song ever. nay, the greatest pop song of any era, period! "egyptian shumba" by the tammys is my favourite song at the moment, but i believe in 10 years time i'll still think it the most brilliant work of pop music. the last time i wrote about a song in my blog it was "past the moon" by feathers. while i loved that song because it was simply gorgeous and gave me all these feelings of hope and love for humanity, my love for "egyptian shumba" is about nothing more than my love to "dance, dance, dance". ever since i first heard it i've been daydreaming about dancing with mummies. if the "shimmy, shimmy" bits aren't enough to make you fall in love with this sing, then perhaps the bits where the girls screech like monkeys will win you over. yes, i said screech like monkeys. one of the weirder girl group songs i've ever heard and i can only imagine how bizarro it sounded in the 60s. i'd kill to hear this song on the dancefloor! anyway, here's the link so you guys can have a listen for yourself.


egyptian shumba

i haven't updated in a while mostly because there hasn't been much to report. with the exception of the four days a week when i go to work, i haven't really gone anywhere or did anything. there were a couple of shows that i wanted to go to but ended up deciding against because they were on weeknights and i have to get up early in the mornings now, and when you work with kids you really can't go through the day in zombie-mode.  

yesterday there was this indian fest at tallahassee community college that i'd been looking forward to all week, but ended up changing my mind because i was in a foul mood since i lost my wallet and have to get up early in the morning on my off day to get new id, plus going to events like that is absolutely no fun at all without your mates. though i didn't get to experience india fest, i did happen to catch a special on the travel channel yesterday called "jeremy piven's journey of a lifetime" in which he went to india. i've always had a minor crush on jeremy piven, but after seeing his india special he just might be bumped up to major crush status. not only is he cute and funny, but he's also a yoga practitioner and is into indian spirituality! i wonder if he's a vegetarian. surely he must be, right? i cried during the bit where he had satsang with his holiness pujya swamiji. he attended an evening aarti with swamiji in which there was a yajna and bhajans being sung by all of these beautiful indian children that it was impossible for me not to be moved to tears.  anyway, after watching that special i want to visit india more than ever.

i spent my easter sunday doing absolutely nothing celebratory. the majority of my day was passed watching mythology miniseries on scifi channel, the first two parts of the lord of the rings trilogy on tbs, and researching indian comic books online. can i get any geekier? if i have a few more weekends that are as fun-filled as this one has been, i'm sure to be a shoe-in for queen of the geeks. though i am reluctant to make any friends here in tally (partly because my attempts in the past have failed and also because i'm hesitant to form any attachments here when i hope to be leaving in a year's time), i just might have to because i'm going mad without having anyone locally to talk to.

the tbs commercials for fellowship of the ring and the two towers were pretty funny though. one was about frodo and sam and how it seems that they're more than friends and it played that atlantic starr song from the 80s, "secret lovers" in the background. the other commercial was about gandalf and it played that 80s song about riding a white horse and they made gandalf dance in the commercial. both were super gay and made me laugh everytime i saw them. 

last night i went to the of montreal show at club downunder (club located on the fsu campus). i debated whether or not i'd go because i didn't feel much like going to a show by myself. i've done it in the past, but this time with being so homesick for my miami friends, i just knew i'd feel lonelier than ever being there by myself. i had to go though because i needed a distraction from worrying about a friend of mine who has been in an extremely dark place lately, and also to forget for a little while about the fact that it looks like david and i just aren't cut-out to be friends and will likely never move to brooklyn together and i don't know if i have the guts to move that faraway by myself. sigh. additionally, i missed of montreal last year when they played miami and i knew i'd never forgive myself if i missed them a second time. danny kept me company via mobile while i "oohed and ahhed" over boys for the majority of the time pre-show, but it was so not the same as having him there. there were several things that made me think of my friends at one point or other. these two indian guys that caught my fancy made me think of jeannette, who shares my love of indian men and would have been ogling them with me if she was there. there was one girl who somewhat resembled mariela and she seemed a pose(u)r to me, which is kinda funny since i used to think the same thing of mariela when we were in high school. sometimes i'd see other lone folk and wish that i could approach them and just strike up a conversation like kristina did with me my first night at west liberty, but i'm incapable of that. i thought her crazy at the time for just talking to me like that, but last night i wished like hell for there to be someone willing to do the same. in addition to feeling lonely, i just felt really old among all those younguns. i think i might've been older than the majority of the audience, but what can one expect when attending a show on a college campus where students get in for free. at least the band members were my age or older. both of the supporting acts were also members of of montreal. james husband (a.k.a. jamey huggins) had this boyish quality about him that i found adorable. with the exception of two songs in which he had accompaniment from kevin and dottie from of montreal, he played solo, alternating between acoustic and electric guitars. though i liked his set and was amused by his banter in between songs, mostly i recall really digging these colourful stripey socks he wore that went well with his tee and long-sleeved colourful stripey shirt. the late b.p. helium (a.k.a. bryan poole) and his so-called psychedelic drunks backing band were enjoyable, but i don't know if like them enough to really ever listen to them again. for me, it was a mixed bag of hits and misses. i like the numbers that had a psyhedelic pop sound to them, but didn't care for the ones that seemed bordering on jam band-ish to me. because i don't play any instruments i can never really tell if someone plays well or if it's something even beginners can do, but i marvelled at the keyboard player and drummer's performances. when it comes to drumming, if the person plays really fast and goes back and forth between the diffrent drums with ease, basically i'll think you're a pretty good drummer. haha! i mostly watched him during the band's performance because i found him attractive. he's the "balding on top with glasses" sort that i seem more and more attracted to as i get older. aaron (i think that's what the drummer's name is) wore an elephant 6  tee that i thought was neat. the keyboardist, neil(?), was bloody amazing to me! i don't know if it's his normal disposition or if he was affected by the bottle of scotch or whiskey or bourbon (obviously, i don't know my alcohol) he'd take the occasional swig of (i was in the front, to the left side of the stage directly next to the speakers and in front of where the keyboards were positioned), but he seemed kind of gone to me, like not really there, yet somehow this guy played the heck out of that keyboard. i even bent my head down a little several times so that i could see what fancy work his fingers were doing. he was fantastic! finally, of montreal took the stage, and boy did they take it! seriously, i can't gush enough over their performance. all but one of them sported glittery eyes, but matt made up for it with this furry russian hat he wore. kevin barnes. where do i start with kevin barnes? oh my goodness, he was simply too sexy for words! and oh, how he knew it! he came out on stage wearing an unzipped wedding gown and silver sparkly collar with white jeans underneath and dottie played the wedding march on the keyboard while kevin wed himself to the tally audience. he even gave a ring with a blinking red light to some lucky person in the audience. kevin then took the dress off and said he had to slip into something "more comfortable", and he changed into this short denim rhinestone jacket which he wore with no shirt underneath. let me tell you, this boy was conjuring up some serious feelings of lust for me, and i know it wasn't just me either. with his cool dance moves (sometimes synchronised movements with b.p. and matt) and sexy, slithering snakehips, and hugging and singing to girls in the audience, he kept the audience enthralled. such showmanship! they performed mostly songs from their sunlandic twins and satanic panic in the attic albums and i think a new 7" of theirs, plus two covers (the supremes' 'you keep me hangin' on' and the kinks' 'tired of waiting'). even though i was by my lonesome, their show was such fun and my only regret is that i didn't really dance. should i ever get the pleasure to see them play again, i won't make that same mistake. prior to seeing them play i simply liked of montreal, now i adore them and feel comfortable with counting them among my favourites. so even though i had to put up with these two teenaged girls yapping in my ear about how they were cheerleaders and on the dance team in high school and how the one girl's sister steals from hollister all the time and never gets caught and peter gabriel's "in your eyes" from say anything is her all-time favourite song, the awesomeness of the show more than made up for it. of montreal is doing an extensive tour and i strongly encourage all of you to attend if they're in your town or close by. oh, and in case i didn't mention it enough, kevin barnes is positively droolworthy!

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