RifRaf Cover

[NoRifRaf]

RifRaf 171:

[Dee.]

Now I don't know what the website's saying, but it's fun to pretend.  :)

http://www.rifraf.be/nl-home.htm

What's this mean?
"Straffe band! Frontman Jim James aan het woord! Snel!"

[dragonboy]

I think the article says something like "My Morning Jacket pretend to be bums hanging out in a dark alley!"  ;)

OF COURSE, I'm SO kidding!!! That is SUCH a cool cover!
Jim's beard in this picture has some fantastic growth to it, does it not?
Man, I miss my facial hair  :'(

[Meddle]

i agree with the growth... how do i make this-- '' Jim's beard in this picture has some fantastic growth to it, does it not?  '' appear in the grey box so i am responding to your comment>?

[dragonboy]

how do i make this-- '' Jim's beard in this picture has some fantastic growth to it, does it not?  '' appear in the grey box so i am responding to your comment>?

Click on quote above that persons post instead of reply.
You can then edit whatever is in the brackets to quote certain parts if you don't want or need everything that is written.
Does that make sense?
 :)

[ali]

he looks almost lost in his facial hair... must be the angle of the photo, but it almost doesn't look like jim...

i put "Straffe band! Frontman Jim James aan het woord! Snel!" into google to translate & this is apparently what it means...

Straffe link! front man Jim James speaking! Rapidly!"

that helped didn't it!?!?!  :)

[ali]

gotta love internet translations - the first paragraph on that website reads:

Not only change the composition of the link, also the sound of the group was firmly taken under hands. My Morning jacket are no longer the lofi seventies countryrockband of the debuut ' The Tennessee Fire ' nor the softcowboygroep of the morning plate ' ate Dawn '. What we on ' z ' have heard, did you ask? Beach Boys-harmoniëen, spun out gitaarjams, a song which on an album of The Flaming could Lips stand, dopy kozakkenwals, ingetogen slotsong which burst open entirely and skank-track those in a perfect manner The Clash and TV tune-gitarentune-gitaren tune-gitaren lets abound in instrumental, dubby pink Floyd-outro. Straffe link! front man Jim James speaking! Rapidly!

i've no idea what "dopy kozakkenwals" is, but it sounds great!  
any dutch speakers out there?? ;D

[dragonboy]

Sorry to go off topic but this is pretty funny.
The parents of my students sometimes write me notes or send me emails that have been put through a translator.
I get stuff like "Fall has turned deeply & come hard with coldness. Today Shunsuke is failing to sickness of the ear, nose & throat and will today be not coming to Mr. Andrew's Class. With great sadness & reget, Mum of Shunsuke"
 ;D

[ali]

do the kids call you mr. andrew too? that's pretty funny ! :)

[Dee.]

Fall has turned deeply & come hard with coldness.

That's poetry!

:)

[CC]

any dutch speakers out there?? ;D

actually it's belgian, one of my favourite languages. it's dutch but with a lot of wacky changes thrown in, just to puzzle their neighbours.

'straffe band' - in dutch it would mean something like 'punishing band'. see? they're puzzled. in belgian however it means 'this band kicks ass as hell'.

'dopy kozakkenwals' means 'dopey russian gypsy waltz'

[tomEisenbraun]

hhahaha, gypsy waltz. frickin A.

[ali]

do you mean flemish? i don't think there is actually a language called "belgian" as such... as far as i can tell, flemish is a local variation of dutch

[Chills]

do you mean flemish? i don't think there is actually a language called "belgian" as such... as far as i can tell, flemish is a local variation of dutch

Right

[ali]

hey chills - is that right??

[Chills]

Yeah, it's perfect.
Dutch is the official language, Flemish is a general term for our regional (Belgian) variety, which in turn has a lot of varieties of it's own.

[ali]

cool. just wanted to make sure... how's the weather in belgium at the moment? it's rainy & crap here (melbourne)

[Chills]

It's pretty cold over here, no rain or snow though.
By the way it's 22.30 pm and pretty dark! How late is it in Melbourne?

[ali]

it's actually friday morning here 8.40am...

[Chills]

Haha, enjoy your coffee!

I'm going to sleep now, have a nice day  :)