Thursday, May 17th, 2012
When I was trying to compose the greatest blog post in the history of the world, nothing came to mind. So I present Tenacious D and “Tribute”, which has been my earworm all morning. Enjoy. In other news I had no idea until a couple of weeks ago that Jack Black was involved with Tenacious [...]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Update: Well, apparently that’s not actually Jonathan Coulton himself in the video. Just a guy who’s very good at lip-syncing. That’s okay. I still approve. One of the things I really missed about Dragon*Con this year was Dragon*Con TV, the in-house tv network that shows parody commercials and "bumps" reminiscent of those done by AdultSwim [...]
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
I want to thank Jer over at Nyquil.org for introducing me to the music of Imogen Heap. Check out this video: I’ve always enjoyed songs like this, where one person does all the different parts, becoming, essentially, a one-person acapella group, and Imogen Heap has a lovely voice. I’m now on a hunt to track [...]
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Watching Ghost Rider last week and hearing Spiderbait’s cover of Johnny Cash’s "Ghost Riders in the Sky" made me want to dig out the Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack. In the first Blues Brothers film, you may recall, Jake and Elwood do a cover of "Rawhide" in a cowboy bar; I have that soundtrack, and I [...]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2000
It all began, really, about six weeks ago, when I realized that at the age of 32, my body was about where it was going to be for the rest of my life in many ways (yes, wrinkles will show up and gray hairs will appear and arthritis will probably set in at some point [...]
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