Maybe it’s due to social influence that I’ve grown up to be a teenage boy trapped inside a 18-34-year-old female. That’s got to be what’s happened to my Aunt M., who lives in a family of Weird-Al-and-Dr.-Demento-listening-Star-Wars-toys-collecting-Lord-of-the-Rings-obsessing-Magic-card-playing boys and who, as my faithful filter of the great TORN news, sent me the following juicy links a couple months back. I relish them still.
First is an extremely strange (yet so catchy!) ode (turn on your speakers) to one of my very favorite scenes in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy: Sam and Gollum debating the coney stew. I have no idea who did this, but the folks at TORN do.
Second is a sort of "Frodo’s song", lovingly composed and performed by the Moist Biscuits. They must like the coney stew scene too, for it won a line in their loony synopsis of Frodo’s quest.
Not being a huge fan of those ring flicks, bar none, that potato song has got to be the funniest parody/inspiration from these movies I’ve seen/heard yet! (except of course for the lotr comic strip drawn by ms. pedestrian saga herself–i would love to link to it, but she hasn’t digitized it yet).
That tater song stuck in my head ALL day. So to get rid of it I naturally had to cave in and do up some taters in my stew pot. However, taters alone weren’t good enough so I turned to other inspiration from Pedestrain Saga and made dinner into split pea and tater soup. You know you’ve spent to much time reading blogs when they start to determine what you will have for dinner…