Friday, July 31, 2009

chili rooti and scooti o rooti lango bowto



Once upon a time there were hipsters. I’m not talking about the people who moved to your neighborhood and are killing you softly with their ironic bad taste. Hipsters had good taste and were actually hip. Slim Gaillard was a hipster of the highest order. Jack Kerouac knew this and wrote books about it. In On The Road, Sal and Dean go to see Slim play in San Francisco and have a drink with him after his set. “Bourbon-orooni...thank-you-ovauti...” Slim said.

7 comments:

Rita Hennessey said...

The first time I heard Slim Gaillard was in Canada, and I was determined to buy a CD ASAP. It actually took a while to find one (by the way, the song was Potato Chips. Couldn't find a video with Slim singing it, but you can see someone in a fez singing it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLacvKCNv0Q

christopher said...

Why am I not surprised to find this here?! Great clip. I discovered Slim at Vesuvios in the early 90's. LOL Hipster indeed. FYI His daughter was Marvin Gaye's wife.

Charles said...

Louis Jordan did some GREAT food songs. :)

Had to google Vesuvios, I see it is a saloon across from City Lights Bookstore. Back when hipsters had a natural cool, City Lights was a big proponent of free speech.

Nowadays hipsters try really hard to be hip, and never stop reminding you they are oh so hip - and City Lights bans books by certain authors, Orianna Fallaci is a recent notable example.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted....

Rita Hennessey said...

A bookstore boycotting authors? well that's 1) censorship & 2) bad business.

Charles said...

The left censors, they can't help themselves. The end game is the abortion and eugenic elimination of the undesirables and the euthanasia of the old and infirm.

Check the recent NY Times interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg where she actually came out and said the purpose of Roe v. Wade was population control, a stunning admission. And John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, carried it further. Here's a sampling Holdren's scientific beliefs.

http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/

Charles said...

Christopher has posted Potato Chips on youtube.

Rita Hennessey said...

Great, now I'm just dying to get my hands on Slim Gaillard's Vout-O-Reenie Dictionary...