The unfocused, intermittent, and borderline incoherent thoughts of Chris Roberson, a science fiction writer.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Flight of the Conchords' "Ladies of the World"
We've been listing to a lot of Flight of the Conchords in the car lately, with the release of their new LP. The other day, while Allison was out of town on business, Georgia and I were on our way to her preschool, listening to "Think About It," when she told me that she wanted another song. She wanted to hear "The Laters." Well, I'm thinking, which song is that? I skipped through a few tracks, trying to figure out what she'd latched onto in giving a song that name, and when I failed to hit the right one, she started singing it for me.
As you watch this new video for Flight of the Conchords "Ladies of the World," try to imagine a four-year-old girl singing "lay-ters.... lay-ters..." every time Bret sings the chorus.
Chris Roberson’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, and the forthcoming End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, and The Dragon’s Nine Sons. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, The Many Faces of Van Helsing, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of the Adventure anthology series. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times—twice for publishing, and once each for writing and editing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”).