And a Good Day to You

Happy Tuesday!

Funny how things happen... I was just talking about Kula Shaker the other day with some friends -- the recent Rock Band: Beatles has KS heavy on my mind again. And then today Will was happy to pass on that they're releasing two Kula Shaker songs for RB 2! /squee!

Before I was obsessing over weird Finnish bands, I was obsessed with a weird Brit-pop band who was, in turn, obsessed with the Beatles and Indian spirituality. The whole thing also re-sparked a cyclical interest of my own in Hindu mythology, and, as it happened, helped me work through my own issues as I watched a good friend die of cancer. This year, 2009, happens to be the 10-year anniversary of both D's death and the last Kula Shaker album before they split. (The band is back together, now, but they've lost a lot of the original magic, IMO.)

So. This week I'm happy to report we're getting "Hey Dude" and "Knight on the Town," both off the album K. I'm very pleased by the selection of "Hey Dude," honestly. It's a fun song. I really hope we'll see more of the old stuff in the future. I don't know how well they'd translate for the other band pieces, but I'd love to sing "Tattva" and "Govinda" off of K and "Great Hosannah," "Timeworm," or "108 Battles" off of Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts. Actually, I suspect they deliberately chose some of the least Indian-influenced songs ... most of their lyrics aren't terribly subtle. Ah well.

In other retro-awesome news, I saw Monica's post on FlamesRising.com -- ABC is rebooting the "V" series. Remember? Leezards with stylish black shades and an appetite for rats? Robert Englund playing the bumbling vegetarian Visitor? The unsubtle manipulations of Diana and Lydia? Robin's half-Visitor baby? Yeah ... I loved that series. Sadly, my father saw an episode where the Visitors locked a patsy in a coffin with a dead body and ejected it into space. After that I could only watch it when neither parent was home. /sigh

--
Qwertial aphasia edit: It's Robert Englund, not William. Don't want Freddy Krueger bugging me about that one. Nope.