Fireworks
Apparently three weeks ago, there was some expectation that municipal fireworks displays would be happening today.
(Let’s not even discuss why Id would have 4th of July fireworks: Id and BC-land exist outside of rational space and time, and we just have to accept that)
¿¿¿Qué???
Boom
Firecracker was loud.
It hurt his ears.
And the joke is…?
The Revolution’s Happening in New York!
B.A.: [May 21, 2020] Please queue this up for the morning of July 4. Hopefully by then the Great Quarantine of 2020 will largely be over and “Music to Get Us Started During the Lockdown” will have gone the way of ChadWatch and While We’re Waiting for the Download, and this will just be something fun to listen to a Saturday morning.
I find this version infinitely more appealing than the one in Hamilton, because there’s no sense of “Look how cool we are, and I bet you’re glad you paid $1200 for your ticket.”
I also like the idea of Peggy, an adult (historically accurate) who seems to act like a child (probably not historically accurate), being played by an actual child.
As King George III said on July 4, 1776, “Oy!”
Submitted by Andréa
Submitted by Bob
Submitted by “Nemo”: Oy for the first panel, LOL for the main panel.
Submitted by B.A.
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I don’t want the moon
J-L: An Italian song from the 1980s: It’s called “Non Voglio Mica La Luna” which translates to “I don’t want the moon (at all).”
Hoot
Landslide
Bob: So nice to see kids today covering the music of their grandparents’
generation.
(The barely pubescent lead singer is the baby of this group. The
drummer who is also the background singer in the striped sweater is
about 20 y.o. and I don’t know the approximate ages of the other two
beyond appearances.)
CIDU Bill: Not really “wake-up music,” but worthy of being included as an Honorable Mention.
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