{"id":12675,"date":"2011-07-10T22:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2011-07-10T22:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:07:58","slug":"list-the-direct-references-of-stereolab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12675","title":{"rendered":"List The Direct References of Stereolab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just started reading \"100 Years Of Solitude\" (just started, first time, no spoilers!). On the 8<sup>th<\/sup> page is a bit of dialogue in which a speaker speaks these two phrases:<\/p>\n<p>\"Incredible things are happening in the world\"<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>\"Right across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living like donkeys.\"<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I read them, bells went off in my head. Those are lyrics! Who...? Stereolab! Yay! One on my favorite Stereolab songs!<\/p>\n<p>\"Peng! 33\"<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6993BdVL_0k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCuriosity was far greater than our fear<br \/>\nIt felt so simple and so prodigious at the same time<\/p>\n<p>Incredible things are happening in the world<br \/>\nMagical things are happening in this world<\/p>\n<p>Across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments<br \/>\nWhile really we keep on living like monkeys<\/p>\n<p>Incredible things are happening in the world<br \/>\nMagical things are happening in this world\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'll go ahead and assume the first two lines are quotes from something, too -  though maybe not from the same book ? The song title, the album title (\"Peng!\") and the cover are from an unrelated <a href=\"http:\/\/stereolab.koly.com\/exhibits\/images\/clifforig.gif\">comic strip<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this song, it sounds like they've swapped \"monkeys\" for \"donkeys\", but that's OK. Intrigued, I did a tiny bit of Googling to see if they were just fans of this one book, or if it's just quoting, or if there's a some deeper link between the two, etc., and I found this a blog thread where people listed all the literary and artistic references in Stereolab's work: <a href='http:\/\/www.ilxor.com\/ILX\/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=59964'>List The Direct References of Stereolab<\/a>. There are tons. Wow. <\/p>\n<p>My kind of geeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just started reading \"100 Years Of Solitude\" (just started, first time, no spoilers!). On the 8th page is a bit of dialogue in which a speaker speaks these two phrases: \"Incredible things are happening in the world\" and \"Right across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}