Vanilla, Strawberry, Knickerbocker, Glory...

I'm not sure what that means, but it rhymes with "I saw the ghost of Lena Zavaroni," who, in an unintentional theme that's emerged on this blog this week, is a former child star whose life came to a bad end. I hadn't heard of her until I started paying attention to the words of "Knickerbocker," the deadpan Kraftwerk jam on Light Bulbs by Fujiya & Miyagi, the British threesome partly named for the Karate Kid sensei. Of course, all of Fujiya & Miyagi's songs are deadpan Kraftwerk electro-funk jams, usaully accompanied by cool looking videos, like the one for Knickerbocker below or the domino-dancing clip for "Ankle Injuries."  And I'm not sure if any of their songs make literal sense, or if "Knickerbocker" drops the name of Zavaroni, the Scottish singer who sounded like Ethel Merman when she was on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show when she was 10, and who died in 1999, for any other reason than that it sounds good. This is a roundabout way of saying that Fujiya & Miyagi are at the Troc tonight, along with School of Seven Bells, the indie-prog trio consisting of Ben Curtis of Secret Machines and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza.