My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is “Ook” and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I’m not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only “ook”

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I’m not a music expert but here goes.

    Paul Simon is most identified as folk. The act Simon and Garfunkel is basically pure folk if such a thing exists.

    Listen to the opening of Late in the Evening. He’s singing folk, but there is no guitar (to my ear). Instead it’s a bass guitar playing funk. Later some horns come in. They sound like mambo to me.

    There are two songs on Graceland that he recorded with a South African band. This was during apartheid. He heard a bootleg tape from this SA group, and had to travel to a part of South Africa that he was banned from doing business in.

    Does he make it some powerful statement? No, that would be a stunt. He just wanted to make music with them. “I Know What I Know” is about the insipid-ness of show biz party-networking culture. It’s wild.


  • I’ll sum up some answers that made things click for me

    1. She writes songs spanning many emotions.

    2. Her albums span multiple genres. (I’ve only heard pop and country, but I’m not a fan.)

    3. She is hard working, prolific, and puts on a show.

    So with that combination it seems she has something for everyone. Personally, I only know one TS song, but it’s catchy as hell. So there’s no song that I hate that happens to TS song either.

    About point 2.: I’m a Paul Simon fan and he spans multiple genres, but I wouldn’t expect non-fans to know that.