Friday, July 27, 2007

HBO's Flight of the Conchords Makes Low-Fi Rock Funny











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There's a song in the first episode of
Flight of the Conchords, a new HBO show about aspiring
folk rockers in New York, that captures the heat of courtship
better than anything by Shakespeare or Barry White: A guy
(thirtysomething, with deep social anxiety) sees a girl (blond)
across the room and makes his approach. "You're so beautiful," he
sings, "you could be a waitress." From there, the song builds ("You
could be an air hostess in the Sixties. . . . a high-class
prostitute . . . ") until its...



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