These Days Are New

March 12, 2017 5:16 PM

Spookey Ruben - Mr. Everywhere (English Version) | Spookey Ruben - Mr. Everywhere (German Version) | Spookey Ruben - Mr. Everywhere (Japanese Version) | Spookey Ruben - Mr. Everywhere (Spanish Version) | Spookey Ruben - Mr. Everywhere (French Version)
posted by Sys Rq (12 comments total)

There's a new Spookey Ruben album? How did I not -- LAST OCTOBER? Gaaah!

This is very exciting.

I kinda wish there was some sort of connective "why?" tissue behind the multiple language versions of this... just Spookey being Spookey? Some sort of grander artistic vision?
posted by Shepherd at 5:25 PM on March 12, 2017

I think if you're asking "Why?" about Spookey Ruben, the most you could possibly expect in return is a "Why not?"

Anyway. Here's the album.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:36 PM on March 12, 2017

Wow!

Haven't thought about this fellow in a long time. I remember recording These Days are Old off of Much Music onto cassette. Once I realised I could do that worlds opened up for making mix tapes. Even if the levels were always super low.

Great stuff.
posted by wyndham at 5:53 PM on March 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

Mr. Everywhere indeed...
posted by jim in austin at 6:20 PM on March 12, 2017

Jeez, that's wonderful. A big pillowy fluff of fun and nonsense...
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 6:58 PM on March 12, 2017

There was that one diner that served me a corned beef and kraut sandwich on rye with swiss and it was pressed while it fried but when I was biting into it I got the distinct impression that someone had been murdered in the exact seat in which I was sitting.

That was a spooky rueben.
posted by hippybear at 7:45 PM on March 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

I mean, I know... I'm sorry... But everyone was waiting for that joke to be made in SOME form.
posted by hippybear at 7:45 PM on March 12, 2017

YES
posted by Miss T.Horn at 8:02 PM on March 12, 2017

All the languages are maybe just another way that he's everywhere.
posted by drzz at 7:17 AM on March 13, 2017

I went to film school with Spookey. I remember he threw a TV out a third story window and that his real name is Alan. He was a quiet, odd man.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 7:43 AM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

I fully appreciate that each language's video was different in scenes where he's mouthing the words. Dedication!
posted by numaner at 1:53 PM on March 13, 2017

Spooky? Now there's a name I haven't heard in years.
posted by Theta States at 12:27 PM on March 17, 2017