Did you know that Frances Conroy (Ruth, 6FU) is married to Oingo Boingo...

[Maddy McCall]

founder, and actor, Jan Munroe? Jan founded the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (other members of which later formed the band Oingo Boingo).

Is that not just the coolest thing about her? I loved Oingo Boingo in the eighties. "It's a dead man's party, leave your body at the door."

(Add's Oingo Boingo to the list of must-have CDs I need to re-purchase. :-) )

[Guaranteed]

1. Oingo Bongo's awesome.

I thought Danny Elfman really made the group, though. :(

[Maddy McCall]

2. I love Elfman, too.

To me, The Nightmare Before Christmas has the best film score of any movie on which he's worked. I do have that sound track. :D

[bliss_eternal]

11. Coincidentally I was doing research on Elfman the other day...

did you know that some in the composing community have accused him of being a fraud? Of having ghost writers write his scores for him?

I couldn't believe this. It really pissed me off! :grr:

[bliss_eternal]

13. I had a huge crush on Danny in hs.

:loveya:

The way he looked demented and rather perverse in his videos, ummmm hmmmmm!

:P

[trackfan]

3. Esther Wong of Madame Wong's just died

I read the obituary in the LA Times today. Her restaurant was an early venue for Oingo Boingo.

[Maddy McCall]

4. Wow. That's so sad.

Interesting info. I knew they started in LA, but I didn't know exactly where.

[supernova]

5. Well, now I do!

Thanks Maddy!

I'm listening to OB right now, as a matter of fact. :D

[Maddy McCall]

7. The more I learn about the 6FU cast, the more I love each of them.

Did you see my thread on James Cromwell a couple of weeks ago? He's a major liberal, a former Black Panthers Party member, and he still shows up at anti-war protests.

Here's a link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3756413

[bliss_eternal]

12. Ok...if I wasn't a fan of his before (and I was) I definitely am now!!

Whatta' man!

:loveya:

[petronius]

6. God, I miss Boingo

there's barely any point to Halloween anymore...

[supernova]

8. From my heart and from my hand

Why don't people understand?

WIERD SCIENCE!

[petronius]

9. This one seemed so relevant when it came out

It's even more so, now...

Insanity

I’m so sorry, please forgive me
Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem?
Straighten out this problem, straighten out my mind.
Straighten out this crooked toungue...
My mind has wandered, from the straight and narrow.
My mind has wandered from the flock you see.
My mind has wandered, the man just said so.
My mind has wandered, I heard it on tv.
And the flock has wandered away from me.

-chorus-
All around the world now
Like a big bright cherry cloud
Traveling from home to home
Tv sets and telephones
Here it comes just like a storm
Bathe in it and be reborn
Time to let the world know
Welcome madness, say hello
Like a wave we cannot see
Washing over you and me
Hiding here and hiding there
Madness hiding everywhere
Such a curiosity
Here it comes to set us free
Plenty left for you and me
Say hello insanity

I am the virus, are you the cure?
I am morally, I’m morally impure
I am a disease and I am unclean
I am not part of god’s well oiled machine
Christian nation, assimilate me
Take me in your arms and set me free
I am part of a degenerate elite
Dragging our society into the streeet
Into the abyss and to the sewer don’t you see
The man just told me, he told me on tv

Do you think you’re better than me
Do you want to kill me or befriend me

And the alchoholic bastard waved his finger at me
His voice was filled with evanglical glee
Sipping down his gin and tonics
While preaching about the evils of narcotics
And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin
While he mentally fondles his next of kin
My mind has wandered from the flock you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
And he waved his hypnotizing finger at me

Let’s imitate reality
Let’s strive for mediocrity
Let’s make believe we’re all the same
Let’s sanitize our little brains
I’d love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed
I’d love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head
I’d love to hear you laugh tonight, I’d love to hear you weep
I’d love to listen to you while you’re screaming in your sleep

Christian sons, christian daughters
Lead me along like a lamb to the slaughter
Purify my brain and hose down my soul
White perfection, perfection is my goal

Do you think you’re better than me
Do you want to kill me or befriend me

Christian nation, make us alright
Put us through the filter and make us pure and white
My mind has wandered from the flock you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
Let’s talk of family falues while we sit and watch the slaughter
Hypothetical abortions on imaginary daughters
The white folks think they’re on the top ask any proud white male
A million years of evolution, we get danny quayle

(chorus)

I’d love to take you home with me, I’d love to tuck you in
I wish I could protect you from the wages of our sin
I’d love to hear you scream tonight, I’d love to hear you cry
Protect you from the madness that is raining from the sky

(chorus)

I’d love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed
I’d love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head
I wish that I could keep you in a precious chinese box
On sundays I would pray for you so it would never stop
I’d love to hear you laugh tonight, I’d love to hear you weep
I’d love to listen to you while you’re screaming in your sleep
I’d love to soothe you with my voice and take your hand in mine
I’d love to take you past the stars and out of reach of time
I’d love to see inside your mind, to tear it all apart
To cut you open with a knife and find your sacred heart
I’d love to take your satin dolls and tear them all to shreds
I’d love to mess your pretty hair, I’d love to see you dead.

[bliss_eternal]

14. Found an old review that inferred that they were conservative...

Or at least some of their songs were...I thought this guy was really reaching. :crazy:

I think he was referring to their song, 'Capitalism.'

:dunce:

[bliss_eternal]

10. LOVE Oingo Boingo!!! My dh saw their very last show--

as well as just about all of their other Halloween shows. Can you tell I'm jealous he had this experience, and I did not? LOL!

So besides being a phenomenal actress, she also has great taste in music and art?

:thumbsup: