Yes, that dude is hurtling through space crotch first on the outside of a flying saucer without a space helmet. And yes, he is wearing silver pumps. Now, everyone knows that on December 15, 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection . And, naturally, we all know that Parliament is The. Funk. Band. of funk bands, and also the better half of P-Funk , the conglomeration of 70's Funk bands made up of members from the seminal bands of P-Funk , namely: Parliament and Funkadelic (both lead by the musical genius George Clinton). And it goes without saying that Mothership Connection is the Everest of that Himalayan genre we call Funk, and gave us the very anthem of groovey: "Give Up The Funk." Even the exceptionally blocky clouds of Nepal agree: Parliament rocks. I won't even insult you by mentioning that the album's A-side famously opens up with a perfect concept-album first song, called " P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) ," f
You may not be familiar with creative-type Mo Willems. The Emmy-winning Seasame Street writer/animator created Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City and wrote plenny episodes of Codename: Kids Next Door . Nowadays, he is rightly recognized in connection with his excellent award-wining children stories, including Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the Elephant and Piggie series. Willems is obviously the love child of Doctor Suess and Genndy Tartakovsky. However, he is also far more than a mere children's media auteur. A post-modern metaphysical radical whose work not only frequently comments on itself, breaks the forth wall, and implicates the viewer/reader in the action - he is also a freer of minds. His work subtly and elegantly puts forth theories of reality that forever open people to thoughts previously unthinkable (again, this is the guy who did Sheep in the Big City ). It's not hard to imagine that, somewhere out there, some anal-retentive white dud