Posts Tagged ‘music’
But music is a part of our lives, right? Curiously, it’s less a part of my life than it used to be — music is one of those many things that fractured, like cracks in a kicked mirror, and now our music culture is no longer as homogenized as it was before. On the one hand, that’s a great thing, right? Lots of micro-audiences. Lots of niches. A wider variety of music.
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It occurs to me, I’m leaving a ton of delicious pop culture scraps on the floor. I don’t want the mice to get them. Oh, sure, you think mice are all cute? I thought that way, once. And then the mice found their way into my silverware drawer and pooped on my silverware. For reals. [...]
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Ye gods, I love this art.
It’s by some dude named Sam Gilbey. He does great work, and I found his site randomly; bop on over, check out his work.
Really, though, we need to talk up some Flight of the Conchords.
I’m not super-late on the Conchords bandwagon, having come into their Kiwi Folk Hip-Hop around the [...]
In case you missed it, I am a big Bree Sharp fan.
Also in case you missed it, I am a big fan of her new “band,” Beautiful Small Machines.
They have a song out, now, with accompaniment by Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon.
I listen to this song, and I think….
Promethean: The Created.
I just do. I can’t help [...]
Jonathan Coulton may seem to provide little more than light listening; his songs are funny! He’s like Weird Al Yankovic!
He’s not. Actually, many of his best songs are equal parts funny and sad and sweet and strange, and a large majority of this troubadour’s ditties are actually full-bore story songs. Tales from start to finish.
And [...]
