Waka-waka

[Tod Mahony]

>From the Holy Modal Rounders list, via Ted Samsel...
> Subject:  Someone Ought To Set This Poem To Music -Reply
>
> >>> Guillaume le Mechant <sirwill1 at netaxs.com> 05/29/97 11:43am >>>
> ....and then use it on an album with printed lyrics.
>
> The background story is that a poll conducted among INFOCUS magazine
> readers had established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the
> angle-bracket characters "<", though some readers held out resolutely
> for
> "norkies." Appropriately, the following poem by Fred Bremmer and Steve
[snip]

Maybe that 
Pychon-lovin' curmudgeon David Lowery will forgive my comparison of his old
band to DFW, if I mention the kick-ass Camper van Beethoven song, "Waka". 
It's an instrumental, no doubt to avoid this whole 'waka versus norky'
issue.

Tod