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A Rose by Any Other Name

According to Dad,

"Pirooz means victorious one. I name you this, because it is a true Persian name. Arabic does not have the letter 'P.' "

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According to Wiki,

Pirooz (Persian: پیروز "the Victor"; Chinese: 卑路斯; Hanyu Pinyin: Pílùsī) was son of Yazdgerd III the last Sassanid king of Persia. Most of what is known of Pirooz is written by his son, prince Narsieh.

Prince Pirooz was very young at the time of the reign of his father Yazdgerd and never exercised the imperial power of the Sassanids. After the Arab conquest of Persia, Pirooz and much of the imperial family escaped through the Pamir Mountains in what is now Tajikistan and arrived at Tang China, which was more supportive of the Sassanids.

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According to Me,

"I want to be sprayed by pheremones from Mars. I want to be sprayed by sodium hydrochloride..."

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The Slipshod Swingers and Korean Cuisine

I'm having fun rehearsing with a new lineup of The Slipshod Swingers here in Seoul. We have been practicing a few times a week, and although we only have a percussionist and one incredibly smoking, hot singer thus far, I have no doubt some additional members and a dozen songs will show themselves before our record release party in September.

Last week, we worked on a fun ditty, entitled, Korean Cuisine. Sarah Glinski wrote the lyrics in like 10 seconds. I was like, "That is cool. Write more." Then she did. It was only a jam and a lot of laughing later, before we had the cutest song I've ever seen. Read and listen for yo'self:

Korean Cuisine

Pickled veggies
On a plate
Gives me gas
That I hate.

Baby octopi
Small and wriggly
Dances down
My throat so joggly.

Noodles, noodles
Slurp them up
Eat them quick
From a cup.

Soju is
A nasty drink
Makes you drunk
Makes you stink...

The chorus** needs better lyrics to match the verses, but, all in all, I'd say we're off to a good start. If you want to catch the rest of these fantabulous lyrics or hear a rough version of the song, click the yummy strawberry below.

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Vocals: Sarah
Guitar: P.
Percussion: Elena

*The guitar painting above was created by yours truly and photographed by Thomas Henwood, Copyright 2005.

**The German translates into "You drive me crazy."

Don't Bite

The hand that feeds you.

Another version of Golden Ashtray is now available. It will be for sale on Amazon within the week.

Sean Lennon and Cibo Matto

The first time I ran into Sean Lennon was at Zipperhead's in Philly. His album, Into the Sun, had just been released, and he was doing a mini-set with Yuka Honda of Ciba Matto. Afterwards, we talked about The Beach Boys' song, Sloop John Bee. Then I offered him some bubblegum.

"What's this?" he asked.

"Bubblegum," I said. "You chew it."

"Are you sure this is just bubblegum?"

"Yeah," I said. "Bazooka."

"I don't believe you," he said. "You look shady to me."

"No, it's Bazooka," I said.

"I'm just messing with you," he laughed.

Sean was immediately loveable. Just like his songs. "Sci Fi Wasabi" is one of my favorites from his former band, Cibo Matto. You can hear his beautiful sense of harmony on the chorus. Mino Hatori and Yuka Honda tear it up as well. I loved this band when they were together. Right now I am trying to do something similar with Slipshod in Korea. We'll see what we can up with. Hopefully, it'll be as tasty as this.