[Update: As always, there’s no blog post too trivial to send someone off on a moral superiority lecture. Good thing I didn’t write about pole dancing.]
I was spending some time today watching Julieta Venegas videos instead of working, as is my wont, and found to my delight that CRN reader and proprietor of the noted science blog Pharyngula, PZ Myers, seems to have landed himself a nice bit part in one of Venegas’ videos, posted below. He first shows up at about one minute ten seconds in.
Congrats, PZ, and if you ever want to introduce me to Julieta, please feel free. Like you, I’m a sucker for a woman that can play accordion.
Note:Many old comments were lost in a database crash in 2008. Some conversations may seem to make less sense than they would have. A few will make more sense now.
12 comments on "PZ’s big break"=v= Move over, the Village People!
If more dancing nuns appeared in music videos, maybe it would get that unfortunate Catholic Church pedophilia thing out of people’s minds.
dancing nuns has been done. sister act, with whoopi goldberg. but i have to admit, no overt cephalopods appeared in the original or the II. [quit looking at me that way! my daughter liked the music, ok?]
As someone who saw both Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Fatal Beauty in each flick’s first week of release, I am not allowed to cop an attitude about anyone’s Whoopi-viewing habits.
As long as you didn’t see “Burglar,” you still have more street cred than me.
“Mr. Hefler, we’d like to ask you some questions. But first ... we’d like you to brush your teeth.”
hey bro, check your Amazon tip jar link. i think it’s broken.
on your update…did you m ean just that one commenter? because there’s a whole discussion of people talking about music..some agreeing some disagreeing. did you mean the whole discussion? bieng off topic or something? or just that person? i guess i don’t get how they are being “morally superior” or “lecturing”...they just seem annoyed that shakira represents their gente to everyone else? when they feel other artists are more talented? or i’m missing something. does it have to do with whoopie?
Damn. Who knows how many thousands of dollars of donations I might have gotten? Thanks, Nez.
As for your question about the update, it did turn into kind of an interesting discussion, if only for the comment about all those centuries-old traditions of music not having the staying power that rock has shown ovver the last decades. I was just talking about the first complaint. I get impatient with people who 1) think I’m not as cool as they are and 2) complain, even mildly, about my acting as if I’m not as cool as they are. I’m like, you just said I was uncool, what do you expect?
“Moralistic” may not have been the right word. I felt moralized at, tho. “Your one chance to link to a Spanish-language music video and you wasted it on TRIVIA!” But, you know, that’s more about me than the person who wrote it.
This was interesting:
A Google translation of “Eres Para Mi,” the song she’s singing:
http://tinyurl.com/24nbbv
Sucky translation, but at least it gives us Spanish-duffers some idea of what’s being sung.
And the original Spanish lyrics:
http://tinyurl.com/2c8nw5
God, I love Tiny URL.
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On the question of cool-critics, my attitude (which I think is the only grown-up one) is “I’m not cool, okay? I’m ME. Deal with it.”
some people are sadly missing the goofiness-appreciation gene. nobody ever represented this video as the pinnacle of spanish-language musical achievement.