2 posts tagged “european vacation”

I can honestly say that I have never watched an entire episode of "Gossip Girl". There is just something about the show that turns me off. It's probably the same reason I don't want to watch the new version of 90210. The CW in general comes off as cheap and superficial. However, I do like to watch "America's Next Top Model" so it's not like I consider my tastes to be highbrow or anything like that.

Anyway, "Gossip Girl" has a new commercial that is very well done. The song, "Ça plane pour moi" by Plastic Bertrand is played during the commercial, and images are shown very quickly to go with the pace of the song. It's all executed very well, I must say. I will still not watch the show, though.

Here is the song ...

Here is the Gossip Girl commercial ...

Here is Plastic Bertrand performing the song ...

Here is a very colorful tribute to the lyrics of the song ...

Here is a cover of the song by Sonic Youth ...

Here is a cover of the song by The Presidents of the United States of America ...

Here is "Jet Boy Jet Girl" by Elton Motello, which "Ça plane pour moi" borrows the music from ...

 
The above song is the same age as me. ;)

Here is the scene in "National Lampoon's European Vacation", where the Griswold's look at artwork in the Louvre while "Ca Plane Pour Moi" plays ...

Here is "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Hey! Ho! Let's Go!) by The Ramones simply because I think of it when I listen to these other songs .

 

I bought Grand Theft Auto 4 for the XBOX 360 at Best Buy last night. I also bought Madonna's new album, Hard Candy; the new Portishead album, "Third"; and the debut Santo Gold album, which was surprisingly on display right out in front at the store. That's pretty cool for such a mainstream place as Best Buy (the way the Santo Gold album was displayed, I mean). I will blog about all of that later.

When you begin playing GTA 4, you hear a very catchy song that is in Russian or German or both, I can't tell. I don't speak either of those languages. I know eins, zwei, drei is German for one, two, three (thanks to songs by Atari Teenage Riot about burning Berlin or something like that).

The song is "Schweine" (Pigs) by Glukoza aka Natalia Ilinichna Ionova. The song is from a 2005 album called Moskva (Moscow).

Here is the catchy song ...

You can download the song here (this link was updated on 5-13-2008). Here are some badly translated English lyrics from her official site.

You can watch the music video of the song on YouTube ...

So far the game is a lot of fun. GTA: San Andreas was the most fun I had ever had on the PS2 (until other games like Resident Evil 4 and Final Fantasy XII came along ... but those games aren't as humorous as GTA) so GTA 4 has come along at a good time for me for the XBOX 360 since I am done with Lost Odyssey, which was a really great game.

EDIT ... This song reminds me of the song, "New Looks", by Dr. John that was featured in the scene of National Lampoon's European Vacation (Chevy Chase and Bevery D'Angelo) where the whole family is trying on dated clothing in Rome. It's a great cheesy fashion montage scene that movies from the 80s were full of. I should have the video soon.

EDIT (again) ... OK, here is the video ...