Category Archives: music+verse

the music of the dark ages?

Udhay Shankar sent me this link: Black Sabbath songs covered by medieval music band Rondellus. Yow! Have you heard this?

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33 1/3 turns of phrase

I was prompted by a post to alt.peeves to seek confirmation of my brilliant originality by websearching for phrases that I had jotted down as clever. In light of this research, the name of my band will be “A Wellmeaning … Continue reading

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first taste of Bollywood

Watching some Indian equivalent of MTV, my housemate remarked, “Got good songs, now they need decent choreography. Call Paula Abdul!”

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idle processing power is the devil’s workshop

What fun! The Covers Project uses a database of cover songs to create chains of cover songs. (GirlHacker)

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do you remember the night

I dreamt I was listening to Tom Lehrer sing one of his standards, with an extra verse I had not heard before. Of course it was (seemed) brilliant, and of course I could not remember a word of it come … Continue reading

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the music goes round and round

At a party in 1981 I predicted that within twenty years there would be digital music players with no moving parts. I was a bit worried there until MP3 players came along. (Good thing nobody remembers I predicted that such … Continue reading

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Popshot

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading

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