Maybe we can it a whole month with the Leningrad Cowboys? Here’s their take on “Smoke on the Water”…

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veOz9CjTedU]

Yep, it’s time for more of them freaky Finns, this time singing “These Boots Are Made for Walking”

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkIiXqNwTU]

Well, after watching, and re-watching, the previous post (since I hadn’t kept up with my posting), I decided to go find some more Leningrad Cowboys videos. We’ll start off with the movie that started it all, The Leningrad Cowboys Go America:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D5alggJP5Y]

What happens when the Leningrad Cowboys team up with the Red Army Choir (yes, the old Soviet Union army choir. Yes, they still exist)? You get some funky music. Now grab some vodka and listen to them sing Sweet Home Alabama…

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014]

From the YouTube note:
“The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.

Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as ‘vodka’, ‘tractors’, ‘rockets’, and ‘Genghis Khan’, as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour.

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The Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that served as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union’s Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias and popular music.
In 1991, The Red Army Choir participated in Roger Waters’ The Wall concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. They performed an anti-war song “Bring the Boys Back Home”.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Red Army Choir has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia.”

Sorry for missing the post on Monday, my grandmother passed away Monday morning. We’ll return to our previously scheduled frivolity next week.

And a Spam recipe!

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5tFKMXc9JM]

Spam Fajitas
1 can Spam
1 sweet onion
Worcestershire sauce

Quarter onion and cut into strips. Warm a little bit of oil in a frying pan and sautee onions until they are limp. When you think they’re done, douse with Worcestershire sauce and fry for another minute. Set aside. Cut Spam into strips 1/2″x1/2″x2″ or so. Fry in a until it starts to brown then douse with Worcestershire sauce and fry for another minute. Combine onions and Spam together and fry for a couple more minutes. Serve on flour tortillas with your choice of fajita toppings.

1 can serves 2-3 people.

No, not computer spam, real Spam, Monty Python-esque Spam. These were some different ads:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QBzNnvzdw]

A walrus dancing to Michael Jackson… who said that Neverland Ranch was going away?

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDg7kWgs5e0]

Pontiac is catering to the geeks now, with their commercial for their G8. The blurb from YouTube says it all very well:

“On Selection Sunday (March 16th) “Spy Hunter” will run nationally, and pop culture enthusiasts everywhere are sure to rejoice, as the :30 is largely inspired by the massively popular action/driving game of the same name from the early 80s. (The object of the game was to drive an armed sportscar and destroy enemy vehicles while protecting civilian vehicles.) In the Pontiac spot, the mission is the same, with the G8 starring as the hero car. The :30 enjoys several of the same top-down vantage points as the original game — and gives people a look at what this “world” would look like in 3D from other angles. Perhaps most enjoyably for enthusiasts, the “Spy Hunter” music (an arrangement of the Peter Gunn theme) plays a major role in the spot as well.”

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6ER2K65sE]

Pics are up in the gallery from the Ft. Worth trainshow. We all had a lot of fun!

[http://greeneggpage.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4]