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owimoweh, owimoweh. |
11.08.2003 |
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the only thing i remember about the seventh grade is that we sang that "in the jungle, the mighty jungle... the lion sleeps tonight" song in choir. it was kinda great. our choir was in division I, and anybody who was anybody was in the choir. in fact, we had trouble fielding a football team with all of the after-school interest that our choir generated. this year, however, the choir was forced to sing under a heavy, gray cloud. this hovering asphyxiant was attributed to two factors: one, the future of our choir (and the arts at our school in general) was teetering on the success or failure of a tax levy facing our school district, and secondly, the room we practiced in had a lot of faulty wiring and small electrical fires within the structure became a daily annoyance.
our music teacher, who we constantly nagged for his flamboyantly heterosexual demeanor, decided to prepare a program for the night before the levy was going to be voted on, to sway some parents to vote in favor of the arts. the theme on the banner for the night was: "the arts: are they good for nothing? [pause] huh?" And, the agenda for the night was a two-pronged venture: the choir would sing that lion sleeps tonight song four straight times--uninterrupted-- and the art students would take all of their pictures, tape them together, and lay them down as the floor mats to welcome people to the auditorium.
but all of this notwithstanding, i also remember this girl named wendy who was one of those wanna-be activists. a real little spark plug on our hands, she is! [eh, sorry that's my grandmother doing her yoda voice] anyway, she was upset because she thought that the lion sleeping tonight song was a call to arms for poachers. yes, she claimed it was WRITTEN and RECORDED by POACHERS. because, as she exclaimed herself in an open school forum with the principal, "why else would it be so f[beep]ing crucial that the lion is sleeping in the [while sarcastically waving her arms] mighty jungle." her argument was that lions sleep everyday, and no one in their right mind would spend the time to write a song about some animal sleeping unless it was to be used as a rally cry for poachers to assemble and hunt down a lion.
needless to say, this caused a skirmish in the cloudy choir room. first with the cloud of another one of those electrical fires, then with the mist clouds of the fire extinguisher. and then, finally, over wendy's refusal to sing the lion sleeps tonight four times in a row.
i guess i should mention that our show featured two kids in lion costumes that would progressively go from vibrant, running and pouncing lions to sleeping lions through the duration of the four renditions of the song. but, in practice... it just looked like they were slowly being drugged. anyway, my smart-ass friends andrew and shroeder, co-captains of the tenor section and the kids behind the lion costumes, devised a plan for the big night that included blood packs on their furry suits. sure enough, as our fourth time through the song began to wane, cap guns sounded, blood sprayed, and two kids in lion costumes collapsed onto the floor.
the applause was uproarious.
the levy passed.
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2003 Milwaukee Brewers favorite post:
XANDER'S "Owimoweh, Owimoweh."
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