This is even better than calving glaciers. I now fucking love Fomalhout too.
"anyway, there ought to be a lot more rock songs about Fomalhaut, don't you think, or is that just me?"
And what would the lyrics be?
"Screw humanist religions, there's life on Formalhaut!!!"
I'm not certain if that would be a punk tune, or folk.
Definitely Dylan. Too many syllables for the Sex Pistols.
what if they spitted them out really fast?
I just hear "Rolling Stone" as I read, sorry.
Why would the folk or punk band be calling Fomalhaut "Formalhaut"?
Fomalhaut
Really hot
a robot
went to
Fomalhaut
123 go!
[chugga chugga riff here]
Fomalhaut
My girl's not
too keen on
Fomalhaut
oh-ohhhh-ohhhhh-oh-oh
Fomalhaut
oh-ohhhh-ohhhhh-oh-oh
Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut
Hot to trot
My girl's not
on Fomalhaut
[outro]
Oi!
Boobsalot. Holy Modal Rounders and Grateful Dead.
I believe that there was significant Fug / HMR personnel overlap. The HMR were like the Dead, except less commercially-oriented and more screwed-up.
LB & I went to school with the son of a member of the Fugs.
So we did. Wonder whatever happened to him. I should really have gone to our 15th year reunion -- I am so out of touch with everyone from high school.
Son of Fug is editing bad genre fiction and writing on the side, or was as of 1999. He and I were very chummy that year, but haven't heard from him since.
Re: 8: And you even took into account the alternate pronunciations of Fomalhaut!
[Hmmm... apply that to Paris Hilton's "That's hot!" and one gets "That's ho"...]
OK, people: Who can name a rock song that incorporates the Lorenz-Fitzgerald Contraction and Einstein's time-dilation?
There was a young fellow named Fisk,
Whose stroke was remarkably brisk.
Through the speed of his action
Fitzgerald contraction
Diminished his dong to a disk.
Doesn't answer your question, but seemed apropos.
There's actually a whole album about Fomalhaut, by the Mexican experimental/RIO band Decibal. It's called "Mensaje Desde Fomalhaut", which I assume means something.