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I don't know how long you'll have to listen to hear the Thai-language disco cover version of Trio's "Da Da Da" that I'm listening to right now...

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

...but even if you have to wait forty days while wandering in the wilderness and living on locusts and wild honey, it'll be worth it. Like, whoa.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"How long you'll have to wait," I meant to write.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

damn.

if only i weren't on a 56K dialup connection. tried listening and it keeps dropping out.

would be fun, too---reading a great section of this Thai cookbook i've got detailing the history of Thai food. :)

― janni (janni), Saturday, 3 May 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, John, for the last few days I have desired your presence here again in SoCal. There's this wonderful Thai restaurant that Chris Barrus discovered and I've been there twice now -- it's over in Norwalk -- and both times I've been there they've been playing the most fascinating mix of Thai pop. I've heard everything from straightforward ballads to stomping Eurotrance combined with Thai duets (best idea ever, I think) to this pure what-the-fuck combination of eighties post-punk, constant key changes and staccato vocals.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

In Norwalk! You know I lived in Norwalk from '89-'92 roughly, it was where my present musical concern was born

there's a Mexican restaurant there called "El Taco Locco" (spelling as I've given it for no discernable reason) that just rules the skool

obThread: yeah Ned I tell you that Thai pop gets better every year, it's like J-Pop without the brain-taxing layers of reference, or Bollywood soundtracks with the groove shifted over about two notches closer to "mellow"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In Norwalk!

Yes, Norwalk indeed. It's called Renu Nakorn, on Rosecrans, and prompted the outbursts of delectability of its pork on that one ILE thread from Chris and I, so you are warned. ;-) Hadn't heard of this Mexican restaurant, hmmm...

And that's a great comparison, some of those songs weren't mellow -- I'm not talking explosively crazed and you have a good point of comparison, but they knew how to crank up the arrangements. ;-) But Momus says it's all about Mexico now, so T-pop will have to suffer. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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