Lance Manion Sings Понимающее and Other Uzbek Classics!
First, some exposition. Penetrode, like most software companies, has a pretty international group of employees. In addition to your basic Americans (of all sorts) we've got Russian nationals, Chinese nationals, Indian nationals, Japanese nationals, a scattering of EU countries, and a few others I can't recall.
"So what, Lance?" you're probably saying. Well, having a lot of different cultures working in close contact has had some interesting results. And I'm going to share a few of these with you. Today it's music. So put your hands together.
Anyway, For the official Penetrode Holiday Party this past year we all got video iPods. Not a bad gift, all told. And it's had an interesting side effect. People have been bringing in their MP3 collections and putting them on the network.
The results are surprising and educating. I've been listening to the contents of one developer's iPod. Unbeknownst to him - that's the great thing about being a security company. We have lots of ice and ice cutters - mad props to mah boy William Gibson. But I digress.
Alekseyev's iPod is loaded with Russian rock and pop. This isn't surprising given that the developer hails from the town of Chelyabinsk, in beautiful downtown Siberia.
The Russian rock scene is pretty eye opening. One tune, Понимающее by сердце sounds like some guy is taking a dump sideways while being given the heimlich maneuver. I have no idea what the lyrics are, though it seems to be an uptempo number. Maybe he's focussing on the song being over. I dunno. And Russian pop has a startlingly high accordion content. Who knew? Also, the word guitar is the same in English and Russian. No kidding.
One tune (Понимающее for those of you who care) has a reeeeaally weird spoken word bit with a guy who sounds like he smokes twelve packs a day.
I can also tell you that Alekseyev really likes Пикник. They (or possibly he) sounds like an Uzbek Marilyn Manson. He's got four albums by these guys.
To be fair, all of this beats the hell out of Tomoko's Japan-pop. That stuff sounds like kittens being pulled through a strainer.
So consider yourselves culturally broadened.
LM
PS. I don't want to get into how many language packs I had to install to get the cyrillic to render properly.
"So what, Lance?" you're probably saying. Well, having a lot of different cultures working in close contact has had some interesting results. And I'm going to share a few of these with you. Today it's music. So put your hands together.
Anyway, For the official Penetrode Holiday Party this past year we all got video iPods. Not a bad gift, all told. And it's had an interesting side effect. People have been bringing in their MP3 collections and putting them on the network.
The results are surprising and educating. I've been listening to the contents of one developer's iPod. Unbeknownst to him - that's the great thing about being a security company. We have lots of ice and ice cutters - mad props to mah boy William Gibson. But I digress.
Alekseyev's iPod is loaded with Russian rock and pop. This isn't surprising given that the developer hails from the town of Chelyabinsk, in beautiful downtown Siberia.
The Russian rock scene is pretty eye opening. One tune, Понимающее by сердце sounds like some guy is taking a dump sideways while being given the heimlich maneuver. I have no idea what the lyrics are, though it seems to be an uptempo number. Maybe he's focussing on the song being over. I dunno. And Russian pop has a startlingly high accordion content. Who knew? Also, the word guitar is the same in English and Russian. No kidding.
One tune (Понимающее for those of you who care) has a reeeeaally weird spoken word bit with a guy who sounds like he smokes twelve packs a day.
I can also tell you that Alekseyev really likes Пикник. They (or possibly he) sounds like an Uzbek Marilyn Manson. He's got four albums by these guys.
To be fair, all of this beats the hell out of Tomoko's Japan-pop. That stuff sounds like kittens being pulled through a strainer.
So consider yourselves culturally broadened.
LM
PS. I don't want to get into how many language packs I had to install to get the cyrillic to render properly.
posted by Lance Manion at 4:30 PM
2 Comments:
At least it's not Tatu. I listened to some of their stuff for a week and now I'm a lesbian. True story.
Least it's not "It's Hard To Be A Pimp".
I don't care what the nice people at the Oscars say.
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