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#### Start Wearing Purple, a Glitchy song

Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello
Start wearing purple, wearing purple
Start wearing purple, for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time
Happy New Year!

Posted 12 months ago by Ooola | Permalink

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- OMG that was crazy...but catchy.
  Start munching purple, munching purple
  Start munching purple for me now....
  Posted 12 months ago by Stormy Weather | Permalink
- i like :D unique
  Posted 12 months ago by VirXXIII | Permalink
- Totally random and totally awesome at the same time. ME GUSTA.
  Posted 12 months ago by Tonya | Permalink
- Heh, I already had my gnome saying "Start taking purple..." Actually, I use songs for my gnome's witty phrases with a Glitch twist.
  Posted 12 months ago by Ayasta | Permalink
- Nice. This is my absolute favourite band ever.
  Posted 12 months ago by girlthulhu | Permalink
- OMG. I can never un-hear it!
  Aah!? Aaah!? Aaaaaaaah!
  Posted 12 months ago by Ernest | Permalink
- Ha. Nice, Ooola. I love Gogol Bordello.
  Posted 12 months ago by Qthulhu | Permalink
- hehe.. you guys are awesome! Me gusta ustedes.
  It's stuck in my head and I've been singing it all day. I'm a new Gogol Bordello fan. The party scene on the video seemed verry glitchy to me too.
  Posted 12 months ago by Ooola | Permalink
- They are absolutely amazing live.
  Posted 12 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- wow love that song
  + gogol bordello
  Posted 12 months ago by babi | Permalink
- I saw them perform that and quite a few others last year. Their encore lasted some 45 minutes too, which made for a really good show.
  Posted 12 months ago by Anaglyph | Permalink
- From the soundtrack of a wonderful film, "Everything Is Illuminated."
  Posted 12 months ago by Crinkle | Permalink
- Ha! I posted this same thing to my update feed yesterday. Love this song. :)
  Posted 12 months ago by Vera Strange | Permalink
- Cool, I bet they do a great show. Where did you see them play? (city) Would like to see them at a club.
  @Vera.. hehe purple at work in the collective unconscious
  Posted 12 months ago by Ooola | Permalink
- @Ooola
  I saw them at the Academy in Glasgow. It's a fairly big venue but not so big that you're left straining to see the stage. One of the liveliest bands I've seen on stage, as there were loads of them playing all kinds of instruments and really working the audience. They were supported by Mariachi El Bronx on that tour who are also good live, so it was a great night.
  Posted 12 months ago by Anaglyph | Permalink
- Awesome song, dude. My theme tune, actually :D
  Posted 12 months ago by Daffy Lurksalot | Permalink
- OMG earworm!!!!! the purple never dies!!!!
  (p.s. Thanks for sharing this random bit of awesomeness Ooola!)
  Posted 11 months ago by natsumi | Permalink
- If you guys like this one, also try their track 'Wanderlust King'. I used to sing both of these while exploring Ur...and often still do. :)
  Posted 11 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips | Permalink
- I guess I just was ahead of the curve. I have always been purple, it is my fav, then pink. Very creative, I will keep purpling, because it is fun.
  I kinda love that purple means so many things in game. Fun.
  Posted 11 months ago by Thursday Soleil | Permalink
- I've managed to see Gogol Bordello a total of 3 times live. Once in Worcester, MA, once in Lewiston, Maine, and once in Boston
  the Worcester one was by far the best. It was Cake, Tegan and Sarah, Gogol Bordello and Eugene Mirman. Eugene Mirman was not his best and poorly received. Tegan and Sarah were insufferable, Cake was being a moody asshat, and Gogol Bordello blew them all away.
  One of the girls in the bad put her drum on top of the audience, then climbed up on it, and played it from there. It was WILD
  Posted 11 months ago by Beezu | Permalink
- I've seen them quite a few times. The last time was actually their first appearance in my town. I took my Romani flag out of my window and brought it with me. That turned into an epic game of tug-o'-war with Eugene Hutz during "Baro Foro" -- I was screaming "NO! NO! THIS ISN'T FOR YOU! YOU CAN'T HAVE THIS! YOU HAVE YOUR OWN! I'VE SEEN IT BEFORE!" because it had taken me literally ages to find a damn Romani flag. This went on for a good five minutes, and I was well aware of the rest of the venue staring at the front of the stage going "What the hell is that girl doing down there?" Eventually, Eugene Hutz tore it from my grasp and ran away.
  He must've seen the look of absolute horror on my face because he immediately came bounding back, leaned down, and said "I need this right now, but I promise you -- I PROMISE! -- I'll give it back." I really didn't believe him, so I took a bunch of pictures to immortalize the short time I had my very own flag representing my heritage.
  When "Baro Foro" was over (which is typically their last song) he held the flag up to the crowd and asked if we knew what it was. Luckily, enough people did. I guess he was impressed, so he said "Good job, Pittsburgh. I will play this song for you." And he did a solo acoustic set of "Alcohol". Unfortunately, Pittsburgh never thanked me for singlehandedly winning them that awesomeness.
  When it was over, he gave me back my flag. That was the best part, too. Everybody was trying to take it off of him, and he made absolute sure I got it back. Then he shook my hand and thanked me for coming out. I thanked him for finally coming to Pittsburgh. And he apologized for taking the flag, then said he felt really bad when he saw my face. That was the thing -- right there, he was so incredibly down to earth. It just hit me that the whole thing he does on stage has to be an act. The few brief moments I spent chatting with him, I got the impression that he was just so, so nice underneath it all -- wildman rockstar aside.
  As soon as I got home, the flag went back up in my window. Unfortunately, my room smelled like Hutz Funk for like two days. Febreeze didn't even help.
  Posted 11 months ago by girlthulhu | Permalink
- Oola, apparently when they're not on a tour or working on a project they perform at Bulgarian clubs in New York. So if you wanna see them at a club, that should be your destination:) Also, I got to talk to Eugene and Sergey and they're crazy fire truckers!
  Posted 11 months ago by CosmicBitFlip | Permalink
- And well done, Fuchsia!
  Posted 11 months ago by CosmicBitFlip | Permalink
- Thanks. The post-script to the story is that I was walking the two miles back to my apartment when I was stopped by my friends Patty and Tim as I was going by their car. In the past, we had all seen Gogol Bordello in Cleveland together a few times, so it was kind of awesome we ran into each other.
  We were discussing the set and comparing and contrasting with previous shows when Tim asked "Hey, where were you for the show?" I replied "Where I always magically end up -- Right up in front of the violin."
  "Oh, nice." Tim said. "Well, maybe you saw what the hell was going on -- There was this girl, and she was fighting with Eugene Hutz over something. I couldn't see what was going on, but it went on forever. What the hell was that all about? God, what a psycho."
  "Well, Tim, that was me."
  "Oh, Jesus, Brianne. Are you serious?"
  I had to tell the story and assure Tim that my crush on Eugene Hutz had not gotten out of control.
  Posted 11 months ago by girlthulhu | Permalink
- @Fuchsia... OMG!!! tug of war over the Romani flag.. Wow, that is a great memory! Thanks so much for putting it up here. And, your friends, talking about "that psycho girl" LOL Sounds like you saw a great show and had fun fun fun.
  Thanks everyone. I knew nothing about him or the band at first. I just liked the song and the crazy fun energy. It's been way too long since I cut loose and danced all night. I am on the west coast and don't see a NYC trip in my near future, but, you never know... could happen. ha! I found an interview on YouTube of Eugene talking about the ups and downs of creating art, how it's won't be perfect everytime and that if the artist doesn't have the downs they probably aren't any feckin good. I'm paraphrasing but loved it. I'm a new fan.
  Posted 11 months ago by Ooola | Permalink
- @Oola My family doesn't like to say that they're Romani, so it's kind of a big secret. My great-grandmother and grandfather were Carpathian (Ursari) Roma from Romania, but my family pretends they're Italian because we live in a town that's full of what was once Sicilian immigrants. It's kind of a mystery of how my great-grandparents got here in the first place, but that's another story altogether.
  Once I found out my family was what they were, a lot of things made sense. And I got why my family lied about our heritage and never talked about it; "Gypsy" is still a bad word in many parts of the world, after all. But looking at some of the things we do as a bigass extended family and our noses and whatever else, yeah, it would take somebody about twelve whole seconds to figure it out. Plus, the whole town knows, too. I remember some of the cryptic comments made to me when I was a kid, and they made sense when I knew about my true heritage.
  When I found out, I really didn't know what to do. I didn't know any other Roma, and I knew absolutely nothing about the culture. I wasn't sure if it was something I should be poking at. About two weeks went by, and entirely by accident, I heard Gogol Bordello for the first time. And, without knowing exactly why, something hit my DNA like a bolt of lightning and animated my cells into dancing around my apartment for the entire afternoon. There was just something about that music.
  Then I listened to "Baro Foro" three times through and understood it fine before realizing that I didn't know exactly what language it was in. That's because it was in Romanes, and it turns out I had heard it quite a bit throughout my childhood -- but not since I was seven years old, when my great-grandmother died. My brain had sealed it in a box for that long, just waiting to let it out. And it was then that I realized that I truly was Romani, and if this music was what being Romani was all about, that's a pretty awesome thing. I owed it to myself, my great-grandmother, and this culture as a whole, to learn all that I could. (And I finally found where my weird nose came from, too.)
  So, there will always be a special place in my heart for Gogol Bordello. They really did change my life. Even more for Eugene Hutz because he sort of has a similar story to mine, and he's just awesome on top of it.
  Posted 11 months ago by girlthulhu | Permalink