Cure for the Blues

Whenever I'm feeling down I find myself surfing the net for new music. Or something funny. I found something funny - hilarious actually - at the wonderful Steve Don't Eat It! Blog. Steve searches out the most repugnant or unlikely food available, eats (or drinks) it, and tells us how it was. Examples include breast milk, Cuitlacoche (a black fungus that infects corn fields) and Beggin' Strips (bacon shapes for dogs). Steve is a very funny writer doing a very strange thing.

After that, I did a stumble on 'music'. I found something that may be old hat to you but is not to me. Leekspin.com. It's an animation of a girl spinning a leek. That's right, a leek. Go on, I dare you. I couldn't stop listening. Totally addictive.

Then I tried to find out WHAT it was. Clearly I'm behind the times. She's the Loituma Girl. She's "a Flash animation set to a gibberish section of the traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" (sometimes misspelled Levan Polka) sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma. The animation of Loituma Girl is taken from episode two of the Bleach anime series. In the clip, Orihime is twirling a Welsh onion (negi) while talking to other characters. The scene is an instance of a recurring joke surrounding her character, in which she wants to cook something so unusual that it seems almost inedible."

Then, of course, I go find this Finnish Loituma group. Here is the best vid of them I could find, and I think they are stunning.