Like when Greg walks past his house and Fregley’s head is on top of a snow man body and Fregley asks “wanna finish ‘building’ me? The mind reels. One of the weirdest characters in the series is Fregley. ![]() But its hard to believe there can be quite so many kids on one street. It’s fun for Kinney to create and mock a whole bunch of new characters. The book then details a ton of kids who live on his street. I think this is the first time we’ve head that Greg lives on a hill–half way up Surrey Street. Parents always say it’s fun to play out in the snow, but you don’t see them doing it very much. Screen-free weekends mean that he has to spend most of his time outside, which he doesn’t like. He plans to be on the robots’ side when they eventually take over. Greg’s mom has been implementing screen-free weekends which obviously sucks. Yes, he forgot to do his project but the reason the whole room descends into chaos is because Brazil and Bulgaria get into a fight. What’s interesting in this book is that a lot of the bad things that happen aren’t Greg’s fault. ![]() The punchline, that a kid in his class is from Malta, is a pretty darn funny His “authentic” clothing is picked from the lost and found box and the “authentic” food comes from the cafeteria: a hot dog wrapped in meatloaf. So he tries to whip up a project on the day it is due. Of course, he knows nothing about Malta–but then neither does anyone else. But so does everyone else, so in a lottery, he wound up with Malta. There’s a side story about Greg forgetting to do his presentation for International Day. Despite the genuine concern for global warming, Greg’s take is always a little warped–he’s concerned that if the ice caps melt there could be a giant monster hiding in there. ![]() The book begins with some environmental concern about global warming (it is unseasonably hot that winter). And snow means snow days from school, sledding and snowball fights. I find Greg’s family dynamic to be the funniest part of these books and his family doesn’t feature all that much in this one. But I felt like this one wasn’t quote as laugh out loud funny as some of the others. I was looking forward to reading this book after really enjoying Book 12. This show sounds massive too, yet it’s all confined to a tiny room. When I saw then live, their show felt massive. The melody is great and with the pace slowed a bit it makes the song a bit more memorable. They end the set with “Patience” a fantastic 2019 single that for some reason, didn’t make it to The Slow Rush. “Is It True” is similarly dancey and Parker’s soaring falsetto rides over the top of the song nicely. They open with “Breathe Deeper.” The most interesting part of the song comes at the end when Parker starts messing around with the mixer in front of him and he starts generating drum beats and manipulating the sound of the entire song. They play two songs from this year’s The Slow Rush. ![]() There’s even a guitar (most notably on “Is It True”). So the three of them are in a room with banks of keyboards and all kinds of buttons to push and knobs to twist. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while and thought Tiny Desk would be the opportunity to do it. For the live version, Parker is still front and center but surrounded by a host of musicians who interpret his recorded work almost to a tee.įor his Tiny Desk (Home) Concert or his “Tame Impala Soundsystem” Parker brought Jay Watson and Dom Simper together toĭo this kind of electronic jam with heaps of equipment around us and we’ll recreate the songs with samplers and sequencers. The studio version of Tame Impala is pretty simple on paper: All songs are written, produced and performed by Kevin Parker. With so many artists that I’ve never heard of doing really long Home Tiny Desk Concerts, why on earth did Tame Impala, one of the biggest bands around, only play for 16 minutes? SOUNDTRACK: TAME IMPALA-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #69 (August 24, 2020).
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