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Butt because they were designed and manufactured for non-residential applications, they can be hard to find on the yard sale circuit. The IP saw his new Gunlocke from his car as he was driving by a yard sale; after obsessing about them on the Intar Webs and turning over chairs in libraries and office waiting rooms to check the label (they are always well-marked) he can identify them from a long distance away.
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OK. It’s actually three separate names: HATZIDAKIS, THEODORAKIS, XARHAKOS. But wouldn’t that be great if it were a real last name:
HATZIDAKISTHEODORAKISXARHAKOS
Or how about mixing the letters around a bit:
DORARHAKOSTZIDAKISRAKISXARHISI
Either way, it’s still all Greek to The IP. That’s because he encountered an Olympian-sized pile of Greek records last week that must have come in to the Goodwill earlier that day. Do your thriting on the weekdays after work. The early bird gets the Loukomades!
The IP was not a big aficionado of Greek music, but he figured he oughta have at least a few Greek LPs in his collection just in case the Papadoyannis guys come over for some ouzo and conversation.
And The IP couldn’t pass up this bouzouki LP featuring Harry Lemonopoulos and Eva Styl:
Something about that bouzouki just leaning there against that fluted Greek column. It’s even autographed on the back by the singer! And after listening to Lemonopoulos wail on his bouzouki , The IP has to say he is the Jimmy Hendrixopoulos of the Greek Isles. That guy has fast fingers! WTF!
Lemonopoulos was both bouzouki player and composer, and based on some initial Intar Webs research, he was one of the best in each of those categories.
30 seconds of Googling scored the below Lemonopoulos YouTubes. It’s from a Greek movie and features Lemonopoulos playing himself as lead bouzouki player accompanying a handsome woman singer in an Athens club. It’s worth a watch.
That’s Lemonopoulos in the middle. WATCH CLIP
And if you want to see a “young gun” playing a Lemonopoulos tune on his bouzouki, check out THIS GUY.
Yasou!!
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This James Arthur Ray guy is providing a lot of good material for the likes of Maureen Dowd and Stephen Colbert. His dissembling reminds The IP of that car salesman from Fargo who, though he knows he’s in trouble, just keeps on working when he really should be catching a one-way flight to Belize under an assumed name. I wonder if he even knows how stupid some of the things he’s saying sound to others. Check out some of these quotes from his latest blog post:
“People are throwing out accusations and disparaging me and our mission.”
No way, Jimmy! Why would they do that? Just because 3 people died in one of your ersatz sweat lodges? How could they?
“One of the lessons I teach is that you have to confront and embrace adversity and learn and grow from it.”
Kinda like forcing yourself to stay in a stultifying sweat lodge despite every rational urge to get the fuck out and get some fresh air.
“I promise you I am doing a lot of learning and growing. I have taken heat for that decision, but if I chose to lock myself in my home, I am sure I would be criticized for hiding and not practicing what I preach.”
Hey Jimmy. You might want to use a different turn of phrase than “taken heat.” That’s a little too painfully ironic for the families and friends of the dead people. But we understand; those wimps that died couldn’t take the heat. Literally.
“My team and I are working with the appropriate authorities and have even hired our own investigators to find out the truth.”
Isn’t that like asking the guy arrested for robbing the liquor store to investigate the same robbery? I’m sure the authorities will defer to your team’s report. What a freaking ass!
The IP was gonna let this whole thing go, but it keeps heating up (sorry). At least one brave New Ager who was actually in the lodge has finally spoken out, noting that
…Ray continued to push people in spite of the number of participants becoming ill and weak shortly after entering the lodge. He continued to bring in hot coals and was upset when someone opened a door. When told that someone could not be roused his response was “Leave her alone, she’ll be dealt with in the next round.”
Maybe by “the next round” he meant some sort of reincarnation after her death in the lodge. If The IP died in that lodge, he’d come back with a gun and shoot the bastard.
Which begs the question: If you were this guy, would you continue to do seminars and spiritual quests? I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the family members of the dead folks shows up at one of them and introduces him to their ”little friend.”
“It means a great deal to me that so many of you have come to see me speak this week and last–that you are investing your time and energy [and inordinate amounts of your money] into creating more fulfilling, successful and productive lives.
He even said “I feel your pain.” And “I accept your anger.”
I hope he accepts a long prison sentence too. Poor guy.
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JAR is part of a cabal of asstards all associated with that “Power of Attraction” bullshit stemming from The Secret, an equally asstarded lode of filmic bullshit. One comment from a reader of the NY Post article sums it up:
Now I see that this guy should be held accountable for these people, but at the same time these are adults we are talking about. I don’t understand how people can be so easily manipulated into believing junk like this. These people who did these things are stupid. I’m sorry I know the families are mad at this person but they should also be mad at their loved ones for being so stupid as to think whatever he was saying was true.
Well, The IP is visualizing a Woodchuck Draft Cider right now, but he knows he’s gonna have to go to the fridge to get it.
Blog at ya later.
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So there The IP is, just flippin’ through some used record bins at the new location of Last Chance Thrift and what does he see? None other than an LP of Louis Bregoli!
Well, The IP never heard of Louis Bregoli either, but that don’t mean he’s nobody. Sheesh. So The IP looked up Bregoli on The In-tar-Webs and low and behold, he found the Braintree, MA Accordionist’s obituary in The Boston Globe. He also found some testimony from other accordionists that declare Bregoli as one of the best teachers of that instrument. One listen to “Dizzy Fingers” on this LP confirms that! Whoooeeee! Just think, The IP may have run into Bregoli down at Dave Dinger Ford:
“…How does Dinger do it/ I don’t know. Come on and see/ come and see!!/
> Off of Route 128/ In Braintree…”
If anyone of you pithecanthropes could find an audio clip of that original Dave Dinger (pron – “ding-ah”) jingle and send it on to The IP, that would be great.
Blog at ya later!
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THIS JUST IN (10/10/09 11:38 EST)Deleted Tweets From The New Age Charlatan From The Very Night of The “Sweat Lodge” Deaths
JamesARay: is still in Spiritual Warrior… for anything new to live something first must die. What needs to die in you so that new life can emerge?
JamesARay: Day 5 of SPW. The Spiritual Warrior has conquered death and therefore has no enemies, and no fear, in this life or the next.
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“I don’t think it’s age-appropriate for anyone. I don’t think adults should be reading that junk. It’s pornography. They’re corrupting his mind with this garbage.”
That is so over-the-top and paranoid as to seem intentionally comedic. But it isn’t. Granted, Rupert Murdoch has a sensationalistic bent, but these are REAL Conservative wingnuts; they speak for much of the FOX “news” audience. And they’re a-poppin’ up all over the place lately.
That Palin book is hittin’ the shelves soon. Great.
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So Senator Oxendine recently Twittered Pats Robertson and Buchanan quotes to his constituency on his way to give a pep talk to the Lakeview-Oglethorpe High School football team and its fans:
