Dan Boeckner
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SOUND KAPITAL: BURY ME STANDING
🕑 Added 2025-07-21 22:18:09 +0000 UTCPart 5 of our ongoing series. Discussed: Cleveland, pulse width modulation, Pizza Hut in Bucharest, A Brief History of Romania, rich peoples children don't want to work anymore, "the Lusty Gypsy", keepin on keepin on.
The intro is from the film Latcho Drom. The song details the many many crimes of Nikolai Ceaucescu. The background music is from the incomparable Taraf De Haidouks
Comments
Mike Webb
Thanks, Dan! 🤘
Daniel Boeckner
I keep trying to make these short but…no dice! Memories is going to be a deep dive into Nostalgia and who decides what we remember
Daniel Boeckner
That’s so cool 🖤. I remember the first kommunalka I went to in Bucharest belonged to my friend Ruki. We went to the market, grabbed a bunch of food, cigs and booze and had a house party. Smoking section was a converted balcony her family had extended out from the building
Dan Bill Paul
Dude, these are so good, man. I’m all about the Emporer’s New Grooveification of Fonescu- more rich kids need to turn into llama’s and live amongst the people their parents got rich on. A few more thoughts… bury me standing: joy to write, joy to play, and definitely a joy to listen to. Also, stoked that we may get a similar Face Control series. These are the best. And, for next ep, I really to know if nostalgia still doesn’t mean much to you, because I long for those days hanging out in Bucharest and the Black Sea and I wasn’t even there with you!!! And best of luck on the move, homie 🙏
Todd Bundy (Bishamon)
Such a great song! My favourite off Sound Kapital. On another note: I was in Cleveland for a concert last year, and it was very nice. Stayed in the Arcade. I definitely need to head back that way.
Joanna
Your description of the apartment in Bucharest reminded me of my aunt’s place in Poland that I visited as a kid in the mid-90s. They’re called ‘bloki’ (blocks, self-explanatory really) and I remember how drab they all were outside, but how different they all were inside. Everyone had different finishes and decorated them completely differently, and they housed a whole family pretty comfortably. The stairwells were bare concrete, but they stayed cool even during heatwaves, and in the morning, they smelled like wet stone. There were four bloki surrounding a field (no grass or nets, but kids still played soccer in the dirt lol), and there was a kiosk in the (mostly empty) building parking lot that sold newspapers, cigarettes and candy. I would make myself sick eating those chewy Mojo candies all day (mint and banana because my brother ate all the cola ones). Anyway, I have nothing but awesome memories of the bloki lol.
