Beginning with the palindromatic title, this 2003 homage to Subterranean Homesick Blues by Al Yankovic (previously) is brilliantly hilarious with all the lyrics reading the same forwards and backwards, soundly cryptic enough to be Dylanesque, especially with the delivery of the pseudo-poetic rhymes with harmonica accompaniment. Judging at an inaugural palindrome competition, along with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants (I Palindrome I), Yankovic mentioned his favourite line as “Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo” as one of his proudest moments and that. The winner was “Todd erases a red dot.” A dog, a panic in a pagoda.* * * * *
synchronoptica
one year ago: nostalgia for the dark (with synchronoptica)
seven years ago: lanterns of the dead plus diabolical engineering
eight years ago: the Berlin Airlift headquarters, functional Transformers plus the 1937 Paris World Expo
nine years ago: a visit to Salรฒ, the Italian capital during the puppet government under Nazi control, plus crossing the Alps
ten years ago: Rome’s nemeses, a visit to the memorial park at the former inter-German border plus education in the Empire
