Thursday, June 18, 2009

Buskers


...busker?

It sounds like a type of migrant field worker. There's alot of stupid words in the big book of American linguistics, but 'busker'? Really?

The following buskette was singing "Rock and Roll All Nite", but from the five minutes a friend and I were watching her sing, it seemed that all she knew was the chorus.

Essentially, her performance was,

"I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day"

(Sorry about the weak post, I spent 15 hours today doing paintings for my exhibition and I'm tirrrrrrrrrrrrrred)

2 comments:

  1. Busking IS, in fact, a term commonly used in American English as well.

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  2. I only learned about the term recently, but I find it invaluable.

    You are aware that you just quoted popular band KISS, right?

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