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Can You Translate This Thai Song?

jfrancis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:19:32 -0800

Can you translate this Thai song? I enjoy it, but I'd like to know what they are saying. Here is my guess based on body language and props:

The two singers are in a boy vs girl battle to see who cooks a certain dish the best. The woman, Christy Gibson, says the man, Jonas Anderson, is crazy to think he will win. In the end they drag some bystanders in to judge, but it's a tie -- or it's unstated who wins.

Am I in the ballpark?

Have You Heard of this Thai Pop Music Band?

jfrancis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:38:14 -0800

Back in '95 while I was in Thailand on a movie shoot, one of the locals on the crew was playing some bubble gum-sounding Thai pop music I found kind of catchy. I would like to find it again, but I don't know what it was. I asked him the name of the band at the time and he said what I took to be either Mister Moss or Mister Mars. Either way, I can't find it. Does it ring a bell?