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Such a jaunty little tune

March 5, 2010 – 5:10 am

Amanda Palmer sings and performs in the same tradition as the artists in Cabaret, with jaunty and up little tunes about death, destruction, weird sex and squick. Once part of The Dresden Dolls, she had a large hit with Coin Operated Boy and has since done various other things, including a musical attempt to revive the [...]

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The Pachelbel Canon

February 9, 2010 – 12:08 am

There’s a lot of it, and it’s all the same tune. Pray that nobody owns the copyright or the modern music industry will collapse.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM[/youtube]
Comedian Rob Paravonian does the Pachelbel Rant.
He’s following you too…

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Eighties Earworm du jour

November 26, 2009 – 8:23 pm

I especially like the super-static, electrified cat.
Paul Simon Boy in the BubbleUploaded by Celtiemama. – Explore more music videos.

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Physics is Phun

September 15, 2009 – 9:47 pm

Fed up with people getting the science wrong, staff at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider put more information into a rap than you ever thought possible.

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‘First we take Manhattan’

September 11, 2009 – 7:03 am

I’ve been reminded by this post of Jason Soon’s over at Catallaxy of one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs — it’s just got the best arrangement. According to one write-up I’ve encountered, Cohen wanted to comment on the ‘naivety and narcissism’ of the West German Red Army Faction, ‘…designer terrorism by celebrity terrorists, as [...]

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A true child of the Eighties

August 24, 2009 – 8:34 pm

You’re always told that being a true child of the eighties means saying things like ‘bright light, bright light’ or knowing what ‘Cavey Wavey’ stood for or fessing up to owning one of those ridiculous pastel skirts… but I reckon the following marks you out just as definitively:

I’ve been researching (strictly for novelistic purposes, you [...]

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Video killed the radio star

July 30, 2009 – 8:10 am

I don’t listen to radio very much. When I do, I avoid commercial stations like the plague. I can’t stand the ads, the cheesy voice overs, the annoying comperes and the gimmicks. Some of the things they talk about are really not suitable for small children, and I almost always have my kids in the [...]

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Roman or Celt?

July 20, 2009 – 9:12 am

My sister and I have this really daggy game where we challenge each other as to which historical group we would like to belong, and justify the answers. It started out with Venetian or Florentine? (As I recall we were both Venetians). Then we went to Roman or Celt? You can see why I’m addicted [...]

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New Divide

June 26, 2009 – 6:53 am

Michael Bay has become notorious for taking good ideas and shitting on them: this is how you get a whole sequence in Team America: World Police dedicated to how shit his take on Pearl Harbour really was.
Perhaps it’s in all our interests that the Transformers franchise is proving harder to kill. This is in part [...]

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Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

June 21, 2009 – 10:37 am

As Legal Eagle, Deus Ex Macintosh and a couple of others know, I have three characters in this novel who are — to greater or lesser degrees — torturers. One of them also has an excellent sense of humour. I mean, the little shit’s actually outstandingly funny. I tried to change this early on in [...]

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