ARF LOGO
APOSTROPHE(')

 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

Notes and Comments
Previous entry This Album Refs Global N&C Refs Songs Index Next entry
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  The opening songs/medley are a dream. "Dreamed I was an eskimo" Frank dreams he is Nanook of the north who goes out against his mother's wishes, yet heeds her plea to "watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow". He encounters an evil fur trapper who is attacking his favorite baby seal and does battle with him. He actually picks up the deadly yellow snow and rubs it in the fur trapper's eyes. The blindness can only be cured at the parish of St. Alphonso, which is actually a pancake breakfast (This is a dream, remember?). This leads into a tune about Father O'blivion, presumably leader of this flock of devotees to St. Alphonso and pancakes.
  To Album Refs
To Global Refs
Dreamed I was an Eskimo
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
From: Charles Ulrich forthcoming book Project/Object
  After the line "Dreamed I was an Eskimo", there is a quote from the jazz standard "Midnight Sun", written by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke, and recorded by Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra in 1947. To those familiar with the song, it suggests the Arctic-hence its use here and after the phrase "Lube from the North" in "Keep It Greasey" (on Joe's Garage). In 1973, this quote was often played at the very end of a concert as well.
  To Album Refs
To Global Refs
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TONY@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
  "NANOOK OF THE NORTH" (1922, silent, B&W, documentary by Robert J. Flaherty)
  This early documentary about Eskimo life in the Hudson's Bay region of Northern Quebec provided one of the first glimpses of Eskimo life available for mass consumption.(Remember, there was no TV then). Because of the film, the name NANOOK became the archetypal name used when referring to an Eskimo. (They are now called INUIT)
From: Charles Ulrich forthcoming book Project/Object
  The Eskimo's name, Nanook, comes from Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 silent film Nanook of the North, generally considered to be the first feature-length documentary film. The central character of the film is an Inuit named Allariallak. He was known as Nanuq, the Inuktitut word for 'polar bear'.
  To Album Refs
To Global Refs
"Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow"
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  The other day my co-worker ( not FZ fan but real fur-trapper :-) whome I tricked to hear ' ( I've just named his host husky :-))) explained me why the snow is so yellow there. 'Cose they all he said grining knowingly piss on it day and night folks and dogs. Heh.
From: Charles Ulrich forthcoming book Project/Object
  Yellow snow is, of course, snow that has been urinated on, e.g. by a Siberian husky (a breed of dog bred for pulling sleds in the Arctic).
Previous entry This Album Refs Global N&C Refs Songs Index Next entry
SOVA NOSE Any proposal? I'd like to hear!
Provocation, compilation and design © Vladimir Sovetov, 1994-2004
You could download, copy and redistribute this material freely as long as you keep copyright notice intact and don't make any profite on it.