Mr. Lee / The Disketttes
One day my boss says to me, "Jeremy, I have the best life in the world!" Taking the bait, I ask, "What makes your life so good?" (Beat.) I suddenly realize that he is being sarcastic. Even though he said "I have the best life in the world," he actually meant "I have the worst life in the world."
This all being quite complicated, I decided I would just give him a cheery song to make him feel better. I chose "Mr. Lee" by the Diskettes because his name also happens to be Mr. Lee. As I handed him a burned CD with only one song on it, I was fully aware that he might not enjoy it. Mr. Lee, the boss, is a 40-year-old Korean man with a wife and a son; Mr. Lee, the song, is a sock-hop clapfest appropriate for birthday parties in which the guest of honor is under 7 years old. Fortunately, the CD did not go to waste. Mr. Lee's son happens to be well under 7 years old, and he has recently fallen in love with "Mr. Lee," transferring it to cassette in order to listen to it on a Walkman everyday at school. An elementary school in Seoul. Just where it most belongs.
A number of other songs by the Diskettes and their friends can be found here. The band is also often happily featured at Said the Gramophone.
February 23, 2006
Put On Your Party Socks
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2 comments:
Luckily for us, David from the Diskettes is also David from Popsheep. A man of many talents, indeed.
I forgot about that. He's a physicist too, right? Art and science hand in hand, reminding us all of the days when "renaissance man" was still appropriate... in contexts other than, "Sabbath began a renaissance, man."
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