Lion pop
All hail, Nathan Jay, who has made a disco record out of me talking about Lion Man on the podcast and posted it on YouTube. Anyone who didn't hear this anecdote earlier in the year may be baffled, but it's just me telling Richard about a man I saw on a train, which actually stunned Richard into silence. Nice work, Nathan. I am flattered to hear my Laurence Olivier-style voice set to a lazy summer beat. The animation is eerily accurate too, which I put down to my evocative descriptive powers.
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I see the drawing of you is eerily accurate too, with your 'skater-boy' long shorts (or are they short longs?).
:-)
Doug
That is well banging. It makes Andy sound like a sort of non-Scotch Bill Drummond.
That's really smart!
I can't believe Richard Herring has been courting and not told you. What must she think of all his anal rape threats.
How rude.
It's the 'Little Fluffy Clouds' for our generation, and no mistake...
I think I can honestly say that's the best thing I've ever heard in my entire life!
Great! It's had the opposite affect of a Karl Pilkington-style pisstake for me, as I'm not starting to think of the lion man think less as ha-ha-Andrew-being-odd and more of a genuinely interesting anthropological observation you shared with us!
there a programme i keep seeing listed on one of the disital station, called Lionman. I never have or will watch it, as it can never be as good as i imagine it to be.
backtoblack
what an immense song it's legitimately not been off my ipod all day.
life is sweet!
Where can I download the mp3? I'm with Keir on this. Through the medium of echoey, wibbly, atmospheric house music, Nathan Jay has turned Andrew's whimsical observations about a chap on a train into something rather moving and profound about the human (and leonine) condition. It's all rather lovely.
Yep, that's brilliant. You see, Andrew, you were right to talk about Lionman. What does Herring know anyway?!
Evangeline
That......is well funny
(Tho' I'm secretly slightly envious of the amount of spare time some people have!)
Hurrah! I decided to upload the video, keep fairly quiet about it, and see how long it took for my fellow Nerd Army soldiers to discover it and send on the link. Only 6 days, not bad!
The "Little Fluffy Clouds" comment is interesting, I'll have to do a more ambient/chilled version and see how that comes out.
Cheers!
Nathan
That's excellent! Is the mp3 on itunes yet? I'd buy a copy.
I would never have imagined that this would work. What a brave little project!
I really wanted to like this but I couldn't get past the headache-inducing drumbeat. Sorry. Personal thing.
I'm the kind of idiot who slices speech clips into 'Tequila' by The Champs, though, so probably I'm not to be taken seriously.
Nathan this is just amazing - the lion man episode has been my favourite so far and to see it get the animation treatment is so cool! Thanks!
Tubesock is a nice bit of software for nicking mp3s from youtube sources...
Hi Andrew. In case you're not already familiar with it, there's a programme on some Sky channel or other about an actual Lion Man:
http://tinyurl.com/5sc9zj
I am never watching Lion Man on Sky - it will taint my memory!
Damn, I was hoping you would adopt the song as your official personal theme tune. Have it playing from tinny mobile phone speakers on a constant loop whenever you're on public transport, that kind of thing.
just for clarification, in my previous comment 'not' was a typo for 'now'! But I think Mrs Slide read it as now judging by her comment!
Love it.
This is fantastic. I really liked the Lion Man story too. I think that Lion Man was one of a kind of people that my girlfriend and I call "Manes". A Mane is an alpha male with long, flowing locks, whose hair is the source of his strength, like Samson. It is possible to be a Mane without having long hair, by sheer force of personality, but this is difficult.
The best Mane was one I saw often when I lived in Singapore and usually had dinner at the same hawker area most evenings. He was a middle-aged Malay man, slightly portly, with the most magnificent, golden locks fanning out to cover his shoulders. He evidently spent a lot of time looking after his hair. Singaporeans seem to be paranoid about their hair and prone to hair loss - there are ads everywhere for hair loss treatments - so to have such a mane there must have been especially impressive. He would always sit at the same table in a rather splayed out fashion, surrounded by admirers who seemed to be his court. He wasn't eating or anything, just holding court with his followers. I wondered if he actually owned one of the stalls or something since he didn't have the air of a customer at all, but he never seemed to do anything. He always had precisely the attitude your Lion Man seemed to embody: I am the Mane, and all is right with the world!
One day, however, we saw another Mane, sitting on a nearby table. He too had long, golden locks, and the same alpha male aura to him. But I don't think he had any followers, or at least not so many. The tension in the air was palpable. It was like when a new lion joins the pride and the old lion feels his position being threatened. I don't recall whether any literal strutting up and down, and ritual mane displays, actually occurred, but they certainly did in spirit. The following day, the pretender Mane was gone, and I never saw him again. The chief Mane was, if anything, even more Maney than he had been before, and he continued to rule. For all I know he's still there, still ruling, and still surrounded by his pride.
Thought I'd see a new post about the Gaunt / Chakrabarti pact, as featured in today's G2. It's like a love story. Get onto it, Collins!
Andrew should drink coffee again.
Ha ha, that's amazing.
Gary Sparrow might be better than the Mitford Sisters, but Herring has got nothing in his locker to match the might of Lion Man!
It reminds me of 5mm barrel by Bomb the bass(was it called that) I think it was Will Self who narrated on that one, I could be wrong.
Hearing this music has prompted me to buy the clear album by Bomb the Bass, It was actually called 5ml barrel(nearly right) and it was Will Self who narrated it. It was released in 1995, man, how time flies.
The new Ambient version is complete.
I was trying to think of a humourous way to present the link, but instead I'm just going to let the video to the "talk"ing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRqdSjskXQ&fmt=18
The Herring mix at the end is amazing.
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