Posts Tagged ‘music’
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 [...]
Stagger Lee Shelton was a cab driver, a pimp — one of the famous “Macks” — and, as it turns out, a murderer.
Fellow pimp Billy Lyons reached for his pretty hat and snatched it off of Stagger Lee’s head. So, Stagger Lee shot Billy in the gut, and Billy died.
Since that murder in 1895, the [...]
