Thursday, December 08, 2005

Ape Mon

I don't remember the context, but it went something like:

Julius: "It's going ape!"
Carl: "It's going more than ape!"
Julius: "It's going super ape!"

At which point the muesli I was eating almost leapt out of my mouth in surprise.

"Super Ape" by Lee "Scratch" Perry is one of the cornerstones of Jamaican dub reggae. Obviously, my efforts to provide the boys with a proper musical education is even more successful than I had hoped. (I thought we hadn't got much further than learning to play Jonathan Richman's "Egyptian Reggae", with one finger, on the piano and/or the melodica.)