{"id":32,"date":"2011-02-25T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:16:19","slug":"ant-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Ant Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And welcome to Bug Music Friday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Madam &amp; The Ants\" src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/hprofile-ak-snc4\/41779_59490649630_6830_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madam &amp; The Ants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Turned out in the pouring rain in SF to see the delightfully energized tribute band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Madam-the-Ants\/59490649630\">Madam &amp; The Ants<\/a> play at a beautiful place called Broadway Studios. Upon entereing\u00a0 I realized I had been there before, but over a decade ago when it still hosted A Winter Gone By! The nostalgia-inducing architecture put me in the perfect mood to hop about to their lively set. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HmkV16KOZRY\">snippet<\/a> of their show at the Eagle Tavern.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help dancing to one of the few 80&#8217;s bands who helped make singing about insects cool- in elementary school my obsession of drawing ants attracted brief popular attention, and I drew feather-headed ant portraits on many a class notebook. Hopefully soon I can share some songs from their more recent gig!<\/p>\n<p>Since ant music has set the flavor for the day, allow me to share this gem from Tom Waits, who did a spoken-word piece in 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwaitslibrary.com\/lyrics\/orphans-bastards\/armyants.html\">reciting insect facts<\/a>.\u00a0 I would love to hear a nature documentary narrated in that graveled tone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Waits - &quot;Army Ants&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lBkyaJqQ-50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>(the video from Daniel Mercadante is also quite lovely)<\/h6>\n<p>Next is Psapp&#8217;s percussive song &#8216;Mister Ant&#8217;, all about love and toil:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dfmyh0wnswk<\/p>\n<p>And finally and most entomologically, found this via <a href=\"http:\/\/myrmecos.net\/\">Myrmecos<\/a>:<br \/>\nAnt Anatomy, (sung to the tune of the classical tune <em>Jarabe Tapat\u00edo<\/em>) !<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Crazy Ant Song - Turn ON Annotations) External Ant Anatomy - AntsCanada Tutorial #24\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWolp_LolnQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And welcome to Bug Music Friday. Turned out in the pouring rain in SF to see the delightfully energized tribute band Madam &amp; The Ants play at a beautiful place called Broadway Studios. Upon entereing\u00a0 I realized I had been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33],"tags":[34,36,505,35,512,37],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insect","category-music","tag-ant","tag-daniel-mercadante","tag-insect","tag-madam-the-ants","tag-music","tag-tom-waits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}