God love ya Humon, but I could have very happily lived the rest of my life completely unaware of German sparkle parties…
Category: Musical Snobbery
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!
This is possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, but it has me laughing so hard I can hardly type 🙂
Do We? We Do
Seriously, is there anything not to love about Megan Washington?
Skrillex minus Shrillex
And while we’re on a kick of just embedding YouTube videos rather than coming up with any original content, how about this then?
Laughing My Modal Nodes Off
I’m happy to say I have never heard a song by LMFAO in my life (one of the advantages of avoiding commercial radio).
This however is fantastic.
Interesting Musical Facts: Number One
Did you know that Nick Cave and Enya collaborated on a cover of Don’t Fear the Reaper?
No?
Well that’s good, because they didn’t, although enough people seem to think that Finnish goth band HIM sound enough like Nick Cave and Enya to misattribute their cover to them on file sharing networks. Here it is anyway…
Nick Cave? I can sort of hear it. Enya? Doesn’t sound anything like her!
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of HIM’s interpretation (not enough cowbell for a start), but each to their own.
(No doubt many HIM fans are now raging with fury that I dare to describe HIM as a “goth band”. No doubt many HIM fans think I actually care :D)
Do as History Teaches
It’s that time again, the time when the Australian swim team goes off to the Olympics and – to the general consternation of the nation – totally fails to dominate. Our swimmers pick up some silvers, some bronzes and maybe a few golds, and the press fills up with questions about where it’s all gone so wrong.
The thing that everyone fails to remember is that this is the Olympic Games, not the Commonwealth Games. In the Commonwealth Games we slaughter everyone, because, frankly, we’re the only people in the Commonwealth who can actually swim. At the Olympics we face the Americans, the Russians, the Chinese and a horde of upstart, wildcard nations that luck out by stumbling over a single brilliant swimmer. Faced with all that competition we actually punch well above our weight, but there’s still hand wringing and gnashing of teeth every time we win a silver (or, the horror! a bronze) rather than a gold.
To those who are upset at our team’s performance in the pool – or elsewhere – I say shut up and listen to some TISM.
Adelaide Hospital Abusing Petzold
On hold with the tech support desk at a hospital in Adelaide, trying to sort out a client’s email problems.
They’re playing eight bars of Petzold’s Minuet in G Major for Broken Doorbell at me on a loop.
In the name of all that’s holy Lord, kill me now!
Merooww!
Create an Album Game
1: Go to Wikipedia and click ‘Random Article’ – That is your band name
2: Go to Wikiquote, click ‘Random Article’ and pick a quote – The last 3 to five words are your album title
3: Go to Flickr’s ‘Last 7 Days’ page – The fifth image is your album art
4: Compile the band name, album art and title in the image editor of your choice.
My design skills are obvious on vacation today…
(The base image is ‘Endless Sunshine’ by Brian 104 – if he objects to this completely unauthorised use of his image I shall of course take it down immediately)
