jb@home Rockstar Choices

by on December 16, 2008 in jonobacon.org

A few weeks ago I wanted to thank the top three jonobacon@home comment posters at the time (Adam Williamson, Ethan Anderson and Vadim Peretokin) for their contributions to the site. I offered to buy them a DVD or CD. Well, I figured it would be interesting to show what they picked, although I am not going to say who picked what.

So the choices were:

Mamma Mia! The Movie

DeVotchKa

Wall-E

I have no idea what in the name of all that is sweet and furry is DeVotchKa. Some kind of Progressive Vegetarian Grindcore? :P

Thanks guys!

  • a

    devotchka = “girl” in Russian, FWIW

  • http://linuxoutlaws.com Fab

    LOL! Mamma Mia! I must say while I absolutely hate ABBA, Pierce Brosnan can only rule in everything, right? I think I’ll have to see this myself… :lol:

  • Vladimir

    Devotchka is Russian word Девочка written using Latin alphabet. It means a girl.

  • http://meanmachine.wordpress.com/ Mean-Machine

    Wikipedia says: “DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, Bolero, Mariachi (and many more styles) music with American punk and folk roots. They take their name from Anthony Burgess’ Nadsat word for “young girl,” which is itself derived from the Russian word (девочка) of the same meaning.”

    I have the “A Mad & Faithful Telling” Album, it always puts me in a very good mood

  • http://www.qdh.org.uk Karl Lattimer

    WALL-E is enchanting… Yeah mate, that’s coming from me, it is actually enchanting… Now don’t make fun of me for thinking that. I’m still a tough geordie at the end of the day.

  • http://www.stefanoforenza.com Stefano F. (tacone)

    Jono, seems to me you want to encourage comments on your blog.

    This is worth nothing if commenters can’t choose to get updates on the comment thread via email. In fact, even if you reply to this comment, I will never know :-) .

    Imho the Rss feed is not effective. Get the ‘Subscribe to comments’ plugin for WordPress.

  • http://gordallott.blogsite.org Gord Allott

    how come i don’t get a dvd? i have posted at least once (including this post) and there have definatly been a few times i thought about posting but was lazy. they count too! all in all i think i deserve 20 dvds. sincearly, me.

  • http://www.jameshooker.com James Hooker

    “Vegetarian Grindcore” Gave me images of Quorn mosh pit… and in turn made me spit lemonade over myself. good times.

  • Miles

    Devotchka was used as the background music for a “Gears of War 2” commercial, a Microsoft game on Xbox 360.

  • jono

    Gord:

    how come i don’t get a dvd? i have posted at least once (including this post) and there have definatly been a few times i thought about posting but was lazy. they count too! all in all i think i deserve 20 dvds. sincearly, me.

    Nice try, pal. :)

  • cagey

    Devotchka is Russian word Девочка written using Latin alphabet. > It means a girl.

    Something you’d know if you watched Clockwork Orange, and if you haven’t, well that says something about you.

  • Mats Taraldsvik

    I’m with tacone. The option of subscribing to the posts is very much needed. My Opera session has enugh tabs open already.