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| Vincent Vega |
""Misirlou" (Greek: Μισιρλού < Turkish: Mısırlı 'Egyptian' < Arabic: مصر Miṣr 'Egypt') is a traditional song from the Eastern Mediterranean region.
The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko / tsifteteli composition influenced by Middle Eastern music.
There are also traditional Arabic (belly dancing), Armenian, Persian, Indian, and Turkish versions of the song.
This song was very popular from the 1920s in the Greek American and Armenian American communities who settled in the United States of America as part of the Ottoman Empire diaspora.
The song was a hit in 1946 for Jan August, an American pianist and xylophonist nicknamed "the one-man piano duet".
It gained worldwide popularity through Dick Dale's 1962 American surf rock version, originally titled "Miserlou", which popularized the song in Western popular culture.
Various versions have since been recorded, including other surf and rock versions by bands such as the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Consider the Source, and the Trashmen, as well as international orchestral easy listening (exotica) versions by musicians such as Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. Dale's surf rock version later gained renewed popularity when director Quentin Tarantino used it in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction, and again when it was sampled in the Black Eyed Peas song "Pump It" (2006).
The Martin Denny cover also helped the song resurge in popularity, when it was sampled in the Season 2 episode of Mad Men, "The Jet Set".
A cover of Dale's surf rock version was included on the Guitar Hero II video game released in 2006."
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| TALKING THIRD EYE SPIES WITH LANCE MUNGIA |
Palm Pictures?!
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| From Jake Kotze's Instagram feed |
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| From Jake Kotze's Instagram feed |
I'm Looking Through a Hole in the Sky
Starsailor Margot Robbie, Sirens, Surf Gurus and Cheeky Monkeys in the Year of the Pig?
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| Luke Perry as Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier in Oz |
UPDATE: March 9th, 2019
I saw this Vega news story today in the Oz national press -
How did it come to this? The astonishing downfall of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Sorry, Johnny, but as much as I'd like to cheer you on, a siren will drown you in the end, so my money is on Amber in this one.
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| Jason Momoa and Amber Heard in Aquaman (2018) |
She wasn't a mermaid after all it seems;-)
"It marks the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by plopping into the Atlantic.
Apollo 9 splashed down near the Bahamas on March 13, 1969."
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