So does one get the King Kong Blues due to Kong’s fall from the Empire State building? Or from being trampled/eaten/crushed inside a subway car by Kong?
Or is it Blues Kong is having rather than causing? If you have the King Kong Blues, are you a lonely monster suffering from an infatuation which can never be? [1]
(The lady on the cover doesn’t look like she’s undergoing the Blues. She looks, at worst, bewildered. )
[1] And possibly being pestered by dinosaurs and airborne machine gunners.
I’ve read this novel, it’s a rather gloomy near-future dystopia. (The cover is entirely misleading.)
Curiously, the original Swedish edition included a grammophone record with songs inspired by the book!
(Take that, George Orwell – you didn’t have the voice to record any songs for “1984”!)
I don’t remember any women with oversized eyes placed too far apart on their faces 3 years ago. I mean, I’m pretty sure it would have gone viral online. With or without big dildos/lipsticks.
@Tor, @Francis: LOL and GSS.
@Tracy, @fred: yeah, I had the same thought about what caused her facial expression.
@ARY: does King Kong feature in it at all? And were the songs bad, terrible, or terri-bad? What did the cover look like?
The song “King Kong Blues” was indeed included on the grammophone record with the original Swedish edition of KING KONG BLUES – though at the time I was rather confused as to what it was supposed to mean…
(The author released a revised edition of the novel many years later, where I recall “King Kong” was an intelligent supercomputer gone rogue.)
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July 19th, 2021 at 9:43 am
“Well, they were lipsticks when I left the house.”
July 19th, 2021 at 10:57 am
The artist was clearly dicking around on this assignment.
July 19th, 2021 at 12:56 pm
A man of many talents is Mr. Lundwall. Swedish blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMNi_S4jO6I
July 19th, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_v14-X4QMY
July 19th, 2021 at 1:11 pm
2018: It’s a shame to think that, in just two years, she won’t be able to show off all her lipsticks.
July 19th, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Those lipsticks are obviously big enough for Kong. It’s a side of him we’ve never seen.
I wonder if he’s going to shave his legs, too.
July 19th, 2021 at 1:42 pm
Sorry, King Kong, you’ve been replaced.
July 19th, 2021 at 4:31 pm
She’s a big Calippo fan
July 19th, 2021 at 6:57 pm
She looks like she’s surrounded by orange creamsicles and in addition has recieved one in her woo-woo.
July 19th, 2021 at 7:13 pm
So, basically, modesty dildoes.
July 19th, 2021 at 7:40 pm
@Fred (3): Abba were paid in tractors; presumablty Mr Lundwall got a consignment of popsicles in lieu of royalties.
I have to admit, this isn’t how I remember 2018: ‘The Web Planet’ trending on Twitter was about as good as it got for me.
July 19th, 2021 at 7:43 pm
So does one get the King Kong Blues due to Kong’s fall from the Empire State building? Or from being trampled/eaten/crushed inside a subway car by Kong?
Or is it Blues Kong is having rather than causing? If you have the King Kong Blues, are you a lonely monster suffering from an infatuation which can never be? [1]
(The lady on the cover doesn’t look like she’s undergoing the Blues. She looks, at worst, bewildered. )
[1] And possibly being pestered by dinosaurs and airborne machine gunners.
July 19th, 2021 at 8:38 pm
I thought “King Kong Blues” was a Frank Zappa number.
July 19th, 2021 at 9:42 pm
I’ve read this novel, it’s a rather gloomy near-future dystopia. (The cover is entirely misleading.)
Curiously, the original Swedish edition included a grammophone record with songs inspired by the book!
(Take that, George Orwell – you didn’t have the voice to record any songs for “1984”!)
July 20th, 2021 at 12:58 am
Looking at her expression a ‘phallic structure unseen but logically deduced’ tag might also be appropriate.
July 20th, 2021 at 1:24 am
I suggest she look for a new plastic surgeon…stat!
July 20th, 2021 at 2:01 am
I don’t remember any women with oversized eyes placed too far apart on their faces 3 years ago. I mean, I’m pretty sure it would have gone viral online. With or without big dildos/lipsticks.
@Tor, @Francis: LOL and GSS.
@Tracy, @fred: yeah, I had the same thought about what caused her facial expression.
@ARY: does King Kong feature in it at all? And were the songs bad, terrible, or terri-bad? What did the cover look like?
July 20th, 2021 at 2:49 am
@GSS ex-noob: the links Fred posted will answer many of your questions, especially if you have a Swedish dictionary handy.
July 20th, 2021 at 3:45 am
@A.R. Yngve – yeah, the pulmonary tuberculosis did a real number on Orwell’s singing career.
July 20th, 2021 at 6:06 am
Maybe the title refers to the term King Kong used when he’d been involuntarily celibate for too long.
“Six months since that treacherous Fay Wray dumped me. God, I’ve got a pair of King Kong Blues like you wouldn’t believe.”
July 20th, 2021 at 9:48 am
You’re no Jessica Lange, Jessica Simpson!
July 20th, 2021 at 2:02 pm
The song “King Kong Blues” was indeed included on the grammophone record with the original Swedish edition of KING KONG BLUES – though at the time I was rather confused as to what it was supposed to mean…
(The author released a revised edition of the novel many years later, where I recall “King Kong” was an intelligent supercomputer gone rogue.)