another iPod mini-joy: vindaloo by fat les just came on. i feel the need to reproduce the lyrics for you, because this is a nearly perfect example of the football (by which i mean soccer) pep song. this guy disagrees with me.

vindaloo the official song for the england team in the 1998 world cup. things you need to know: the 1998 world cup was held in france. english people have wholeheartedly embraced the cuisine of their ex-colony and partner in cricket, india, to such an extent that curries are only half jokingly referred to as the national cuisine of england. spectators of football games are nearly always drunk off their ass (making easy-to-remember lyrics such as "na na naaaa" helpful).

where on earth are you from
we're from eng-a-land
where you come from
do you put the kettle on?

kick it
na na naaaaa
na na naaaaa
na na naa na na naa na naaaaa
na na naaaaa (bonjour)
na na naaaaa (monsieur)
na na naa na na naa na naaaaaa

na na naaaaa
na na naaaaa
na na naa naa naa naa naaaaaa

we're eng-a-land
we're gonna score one more than you
ENGLAND!

can i introduce you please
to a lump of cheddar cheese
knit one pearl one
drop one curl one

kick it
na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naa na na naa na naaaaa
na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naa na na naa na naaaaaa

na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naaaaa (na naa)
na na naa naa naa naa naaaaaa

we're eng-a-land
we're gonna score one more than you
ENGLAND!

me and me mum and me dad and me gran
went off to waterloo
me and me mum and me dad and me gran
and a bucket of vindaloo

bucket
vindalooooo
vindalooooo
vindaloo vindaloo na naaaaa
vindalooooo
vindalooooo
vindaloo vindaloo na naaaaa

vindalooooo
vindalooooo
and we all like vindalooo

we're gonna score one more than you
ENGLAND!

na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naa vindaloo na naaaaa
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naa vindaloo na naaaaa

vindalooooo (na naa)
vindalooooo (na naa)
and we all like vindalooo

we're eng-a-land
we're gonna score one more than you

na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naa vindaloo na naaaaa
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naaaaa (vindaloo)
na na naa vindaloo na naaaaa

vindalooooo (na naa)
vindalooooo (na naa)
and we all like vindalooo

we're eng-a-land
we're gonna score one more than you

ENGLAND!

note: they did not, in fact, score one more than argentina, who booted them out of the cup that year.

moments

21 January 2005 - 1:21 pm

it's cold here (um, 15� right now, at midday). on my walk in this morning, i noticed the beginnings of the snot freezing in my nose, an experience that never fails to bring back vivid memories of walking up the hill to uni in kazan, russia on an icy sidewalk, trying not to fall down, and enjoying the crackly snot in my nose), and karl and i had our first real homeowner moment when he went out to shovel the sidewalk in front of our house. this is homeownership 101. i mean, we have 16 feet of sidewalk and 3 steps up to the front door. not like it takes more than a few minutes. not like the longass driveway at my mom's house that absolutely must be shoveled immediately upon snowing because it runs downhill away from the street so if it snows and the car is in the garage at the bottom of the driveway, you are NOT getting out until the driveway is shoveled.

and the day before that homeowner moment, i had my first iPod moment, when "i want to be sedated," covered by Shonen Knife (official page here, super cute fan page ("heartfriends of shonen knife") here) shuffled up and i smiled all down the street at their "i wanna be sedarie" pronunciation. thanks iPod! thanks Shonen Knife!