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==Samples/Lyrics==
 
==Samples/Lyrics==
 
* Contains a crackling campfire coupled with a short synth line to transition into the next song. It has been used several times a sort of theme song to [http://www.fat-pie.com/ David Firth]'s "[http://www.fat-pie.com/salad.htm Salad Fingers]" flash cartoon series.
 
* Contains a crackling campfire coupled with a short synth line to transition into the next song. It has been used several times a sort of theme song to [http://www.fat-pie.com/ David Firth]'s "[http://www.fat-pie.com/salad.htm Salad Fingers]" flash cartoon series.
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==Cultural References==
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* The 'Friendly Stranger' is mentioned, as the name of a bar, in "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". It's in the chapter entitled "the second trip, or chokmah":
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<blockquote>Then I met Mao Tsu-hsi. &nbsp;It was April 30, Walpurgasnacht (pause for thunder on the soundtrack), and I was rapping with some of the crowd at the Friendly Stranger. &nbsp;H.P. Lovecraft (the rock group, not the writer) was conducting services in the back room, pounding away at the door to Acid Land in the gallant effort, new and striking that year, to break in on waves of sound without any chemical skeleton key at all ...</blockquote>
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* [[Image:Beware-the-friendly-stranger.jpg]]
 
* [[Image:Beware-the-friendly-stranger.jpg]]
 
[[Category:Released tracks]]
 
[[Category:Released tracks]]
 
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]
 
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]

Revision as of 14:51, 28 August 2008

Beware The Friendly Stranger
Running time 0.38
Appears on Geogaddi


Samples/Lyrics

  • Contains a crackling campfire coupled with a short synth line to transition into the next song. It has been used several times a sort of theme song to David Firth's "Salad Fingers" flash cartoon series.

Cultural References

  • The 'Friendly Stranger' is mentioned, as the name of a bar, in "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". It's in the chapter entitled "the second trip, or chokmah":
Then I met Mao Tsu-hsi.  It was April 30, Walpurgasnacht (pause for thunder on the soundtrack), and I was rapping with some of the crowd at the Friendly Stranger.  H.P. Lovecraft (the rock group, not the writer) was conducting services in the back room, pounding away at the door to Acid Land in the gallant effort, new and striking that year, to break in on waves of sound without any chemical skeleton key at all ...
  • Beware-the-friendly-stranger.jpg