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Get Lich or Die Tryin
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Look ma! I can sing!
Monday, September 14th, 2009Ok, well, I didn’t get 5 comments. Kinda sad really.
But who cares! It’s my blog and I can break my own rules if I want to!
So here it is, as promised:
Jonathan Coulton’s “RE: Your Brains”
As sung by ME!
In Rock Band 2
P.S. That was “Expert” mode and I scored 97%. If you were wondering.
Re: Your Brains
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Ok, I’m a HUGE Jonathan Coulton fan. I’m a total geek that way.
The guy is an icon in the geek world. All kinds of songs about things like the end of the world, modern corporate culture, shop vacs, robot uprisings…
…and ZOMBIES.
mmmm….BRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSS
My kids love listening to that one. They can sing it. they know the words. Well, Caelyn doesn’t, but Quinlyn and Kevyn do.
Imagine the near-pants-creaming I had when I saw THAT song show up in the Rock Band music store.
So we bought it, downloaded it, played it, and I aced the vocals.
Who wants to see? If I can get 5 comments on this post, then my next post will be a video of me singing JoCo’s RE: Your Brains.
If I don’t get 5 comments, then either a) I don’t have 5 readers, or b) you’re all scared to see me sing (and I KNOW at LEAST 3 of you KNOW I can sing, right Carrie? Angie? Lara?).
P.S. The songs are JoCo’s, but the videos are the work of Mike Spiff Booth, who rocks in his own right.
Just belt it!
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009So I’ve come to a realization regarding my blog content. I am trying too hard to come up with something that doesn’t fit into any of my interests.
Why I have been doing that, I haven’t the foggiest idea.
Well enough meta-blogging, time for real content!
In my opinion, one of the greatest musical moments ever is in Jesus Christ Superstar. We have a DVD of a very well done TV revival of the musical from 2000, and the moment in question is during the Last Supper scene.
Standing amongst some very tired, drunk, and freaked out Apostles (who hasn’t been there at some point?), Judas Iscariot and Jesus are having it out, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber style. Judas is trying to tell Jesus exactly why he’s about to betray Him, and Jesus isn’t having any of it. Jesus finally tells Judas to “Get out! They’re waiting! They’re waiting for you!” During His last jab, Judas is winding up for the biggun. He gets right up in Jesus’ face and belts it, totally changing the balance of the argument and the music shifts to the familiar “Superstar” melody.
“Every time I look at You I don’t understand
Why You let the things You did get so out of hand
You’d have managed better if you had it planned
Ahhhhhh ahhhh ahhh ahhh ah ah ahhhhh”
There’s no other way to sing that except to belt it. Blow your lungs out. I can rewind that part over and over again. If you don’t want to watch the whole scene, the part in question starts about 5 minutes in. But I recommend watching, since the Apostles portrayal as a bunch of drunken, if peaceful, frat boy types wondering where the hell all the drama came from is priceless.
Rediscovering Music
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009While we were living in Hawaii, I had a lot of things I wanted to do for myself. Most of them involved learning something. I wanted to become a better web developer, wanted to be a songwriter, wanted to be a media mogul, wanted to be an IT guru, wanted to listen to new music.
My friend Marty introduced me to podcasts. They have been wonderful tools for me. I can learn stuff passively without needing to pay attention. Unfortunately, my commute in Hawaii was 10 minutes each way. That’s not long enough to listen to most of the podcasts I like all the way through. So I was trying to cram a podcast into each day, and music ended up getting pushed out.
Now my commute is ridiculously long, and I have a lot of downtime when I can either doze off or listen to something. I now have the time to listen to podcasts.
And now I’m getting a little tired of them.
I’m in no way saying I’m going to stop listening, but I don’t want them to rule my ears. I’d forgotten the joy of just listening to music.
Yesterday the Blackberry Appworld launched, and in it was a BB app for Pandora, an internet radio station that guesses what you like based on a few choices you make to start with, your feedback, and the music genome project. So far, it’s remarkably accurate. I’m now rediscovering music, and I’m loving it. If you want to hear what I’m listening to, it’s that blue box on the right, a little bit down, labeled “My Stations”