Word: musication
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With a half-hour to fill five days a week, the show needed musical interludes, and it got them from Pookie the Lion, a primitive hand puppet. Pookie would "lip-sync" the non-lyrics to Clark Terry's "Mumbles" or break into Johnny Standley's evangelist rant "It's in the Book" or the Animals' version of "(Boom Boom Boom Boom) Gonna Shoot You Right Down," and Sales would madly cavort along, a dervish of prepubescent ecstasy. (The show gave you a music education too.) In the mid-'60s, he had a hit of his own: a dance record, Soupy...
...African music” meant something other than “new indie-chic” and pale indie boys in cardigans and Sperry Topsiders violently clutching copies of “Graceland” like Bibles on Judgment Day. This was a time when African music was a naturally occurring phenomena that filled spaces with joyful noise, pulsing, engaging rhythms and call-and-response camaraderie. This is the time that is revisited on The Very Best’s new album, “The Warm Heart of Africa...
Ho’s unique style is not limited to his music. A self-proclaimed nudist, he is naked and painted green on the cover of his newest book. And he lovingly refers to the small patch of hair shaved on his head as his “vulva vector” or “pussy patch,” a representation of the vagina and his support of matriarchal politics...
...reasonable person, I just kept eating. I watched as he similarly unwrapped a big sandwich and started in on it. I sort of wondered where the kid’s parents were, but I decided to leave it be and continue on with the sandwich and the enjoying my music. Then I got a tap on the arm, and I took off my headphones...
...role as an actor was probably in the SNL "Dick in the Box" skit, though he's been a guest on the TV show several times and has also appeared in CSI and So You Think You Can Dance (then again, he often appears on shows mostly as a music performer and not a legit actor). So, 2 stars for now, with the caveat that he may prove himself to be worthy of a more respectable 3 stars in the Facebook movie...