I Can’t Remember Freezermas…
Can’t Tell Dissection from a CT.
Deep down Inside I Feel to Freeze.
These Wonderful Scenes of Anatomy!
Now That the Week Is Through with Me,
I’m Waking up; Ratites I see
And There’s Not Much Left of These:
Nothing remains but bones now
(digested from Metallica’s “One“, in …And Justice For All, the pummeling, slickly produced, huge-sounding, Jason Newsted-bass-playing leviathan of a thematic album (1988). It was all downhill for Metallica after this one, but it was a good year for rock! The song is about a soldier who had traumatic injuries and was left paralyzed, “locked-in” to his own mind. Themes/footage from “Johnny Got His Gun” (1939 book/1971 movie) are interspersed. Did you see this track coming? If so, you’re just as demented as I am; congrats!)
And so another year ends; we’re at the final post of Freezermas 2014: The Concept Album. We had 7 tracks involving leitmotifs of ostriches and cats and 2 vs. 4 legs, and CTs and x-rays, and epic dissections, and disturbing pathologies, and some twisted lyrics that mangled classic albums. There are so many more concept albums I could have touched on- great ones by Rush, Yes, Savatage, Helstar, Mastodon… many more. But I’ll give you a chance to sit in the DJ’s seat in this post!
Stomach-Churning Rating: 6/10. Some internal organs.
Today’s one mystery dissection photo is of two things, and the Mystery Anatomy challenge is to identify both (the 2-part brown thing and the 1-part whitish thing). They are from our friend the ostrich.
Your task is to weave your answer into the lyrics of a song from any concept album (2 lines or more)– you must identify the song, artist and album with your answer so we can figure out the tune. Any genre is OK as long as it is clearly a concept album (music, that is). You have freedom. Use it wisely! As always, bonus points for extra cleverness.
We’ll let Maytagtallica sing us out:
♫Hold my breath as I wait for points
Oh Please John, blog more?♫
no
What's In John's Freezer? 
It’s certain the brown thing’s a liver,
With the two halves forming the two lobes;
And the pancreas must be the white one,
Though it looks like Pac Man from the game.
(“South of the Border”, Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me)
The Grand Illusion from The Grand Illusion by Styx
Welcome to the Grand Illusion
Come on in and see what’s happening
Pay the price, get your tickets for the show
The post is written, the pic’s downloading
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were in the know
But don’t be fooled by the lack of info
Absent scale-bars and cryptic cropping
John shows you photographs of anatomical mystery
Bet they’re just Prof Hutchinson’s fantasy
So if you think your life is complete confusion
Because you never win this game
Just remember that it’s a Grand Illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same…
So I think the brown thing is a complete liver
And its neighbour’s the gallbladder
But remember that it’s a Grand Illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same… (sort of)
This is to ‘American Idiot’ by Green Day:
Don’t wanna be an avian idiot
Another critter consumed by the freezer
So everybody, watch out for Hutchinson
Or your innards will be on the table
Welcome to a new dissection
Viewed by folks of every nation
Everything laid out for all to see
Pair of kidneys, maybe a thyroid?
The pale item appears divided
Now is it time for dinner?
I have a lot of different species and organs for similar game and no one can guess the procedence. 🙂 I live in the paradise of animals !
To the tune of “When I’m 64”, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles
When I get colder clearly quite dead
In a plastic bag
Will it still be Freezermas near Valentine’s?
Watch your inbox for all the blog signs
If I’d been dismembered for all to see
Would you still want more?
Will you still need me, will you still freeze me
When I’m an ostrich no more?
Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
Liver and gizzard too (ah ah ah ah ah )
And if you say the word
Give out a point or two
I could be handy for cowboy boots
Or a ladies hand bag
You might prefer to suit up with a scalpel and dive
Into giant Sunday omelette from my friends still alive
Doing the cat scan, snapping the pics
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still freeze me
When I’m an ostrich no more?
Whoo!
“The evil that men do”-Seventh son of a seventh son-Iron Maiden.
Brown is the liver, and made of two lobes as revealed by the razor blade
put on the blue mat with a neighbour, so dark it compares to with the white
of the strong gizzard
and I will go with these
bet on both to be near right
and I will go with these
If I could only get this right
Get your guesses in; answer coming Monday sometime!
Addendum to “When I’m an Ostrich No More”: the liver is the 2-part brown bit and the gizzard is the white. That is all.
Kidneys and a testis
Kidneys and a testis
Kidneys and a testis
Kidneys and a testis
Trans-Europe Express – Kraftwerk
(I know it’s not very clever, but I was late…)
Bit late to the party with this but I thought that In the Flesh from The Wall by Pink Floyd was apt…
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the Hutchinson show.
To feel the cold thrill of confusion
That freezer-cadet glow.
Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you wanna find out what lies on this blue board
You’ll just have to wait ’til the answers are scored…
[the background shout bit]
“Liver! Turn on the sound effects! Gizzard!”
“Drop it, drop it on them, drop it on them!”
Those were all fun answer-songs! And some unexpected, fun sources too! But who was right? My answer-song is taken from Wagner’s Die Walküre, by way of Bugs Bunny’s “What’s Opera, Doc?” Had to be. Die Walküre– the greatest “concept album” ever, and Bugs to add the silly?
http://videosift.com/video/Bugs-Bunny-Whats-Opera-Doc
Sung to you by Elmer/John (E) and Ostrich/Bugs (B):
(E) Ostwich bits!!!
(E) Freeze the ostwich, freeze the ostwich, freeze the ostwich
(B) Freeze the ostrich?
(E) Free-zer-saur-us! Free-zer-saur-us! Free-zer…
(B) O mighty professor of anatomical song
(B) Might I enquire to ask, eh, what’s in the freezer John??
(E) I’m gonna dissect the ostwich!!
(B) Oh goofy Prof Hutch t’will be quite a feat
(B) How will you do it, might I inquire to tweet??
(E) I will do it with my peers and science scalpel!
(B) Your peers and science scalpel?
(E) Peers & science scalpel!
(B) Science scalpel?
(E) Science scalpel!
(B) Science scalpel
(E) Yes, science scalpel, and here is the answerrrrr…
(B) Bye
(E) That was the ostwich!
(E) Oh kidneys, you’re so lovely
(B) Yes I know it I’m a ratite
(E) Oh testis, that’s the white one!
(E) Five points for Olle, yay he got the wite answer
(B) Three points for the other tries, brought us much laughter
(E) Bird dissections must be
(B) Shared with you and for free
(B&E) Return won’t you return to my blog for my blog is yours!!!!!!!!
and so on, to the tragic end…
The point being, birds have nice long kidneys (hidden just under the pelvis usually; ureters can be seen here), and they are not tight, dense packages like in mammals, but more gooey and diffuse; and the testis of this ostrich was no slouch; as in many mammals it is globular-ish. As in normal birds, the female counterpart (ovary) would normally only develop on the left side; but male birds still have double-barrelled artillery.
Liver would be muuuuch bigger and more compact; gizzard was shown (pro/ventriculus) in other images and is more pinkish-brown, much bigger than testis..
I couldn’t work it into the song but Lorna gets 4 pts for getting much of the right answer, yet Olle wins the day— nice one!
Scoreboard:
https://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com/2014/02/11/scoreboard2014/
darn, i missed the deadline…. i would have gone wrong anyway…
Yay! Total guesswork, i must confess. Excellent songs, everyone!
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