Yes, I would buy a generic metal album, if the vocals (and narration?) were done by Christopher Lee. I find it quite warming to see yet another affirmation that (and I mean this in the most inclusive and positive sense possible) Lee is just a big ol’ geek.
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“Without music life would be a mistake”
Sunday, February 14th, 2010(photo credit: www.iliaphotography.com)
In the weeks (well, at this point I guess I could say “months” although it doesn’t feel like it) that I’ve been back in Ontario, I’ve had a number of encounters with things that were once regular parts of my life before my near-decade out East, and some have been shocking and jarring, [...]
More music from the archives…
Thursday, January 28th, 2010It’s been a couple of months now since I finished the pre-move project of ripping all the CDs that hadn’t yet made it into digital form. I’ve been slowly cleaning up the metadata on them and moving them into the main collection, and then doing a lot of listening to things I haven’t listened to [...]
What’s a “bricht chaulmer”?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Since moving to Ontario, I’ve been buying my comics at The Beguiling. This, obviously, means that from time to time I have to take a run into Toronto to actually, you know, pick up the comics. So far I’ve managed to work these trips either into other shopping outings I’m taking to the city, or [...]
A Happy New Year present from Eric Kleptone
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Yes, that’s right, a new Kleptones album was made available yesterday as a New Year’s present for us all. I’ve been a fan since A Night At The Hip-Hopera (and have mentioned The Kleptones several times here over the years) so you can imagine that this is very welcome news to me.
Having listened to the [...]
CD Ripping: Done
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009I have finished1 the ridiculous project of ripping all my previously unripped CDs before the move. This has resulted in the addition of exactly 9175 new MP3 files to the collection–a bump of about 1/3 in the overall size. That seems like a lot.
In celebration of that seemingly endless effort being completed allow me to [...]
Why Old Men Cry At Night
Friday, October 16th, 2009Tom Wilson, doing one of the songs from the Lee Harvey Osmond project. ’nuff said.
A Reflection On Pleasant Punk Blasphemy
Monday, September 21st, 2009As part of the process of getting ready for our impending move, I’ve been engaged in a process of ripping all my audio CDs that hadn’t previously been ripped. This keeps leading to my having that “Oh, I haven’t though about you in a while” experience.
I had that recently with Crass.
Since I was single-digits old [...]
Quaero mihi similes, et adiungor pravis.
Friday, September 18th, 2009I spent a lot of time last night looking at translations of Latin and Middle High German poetry. Oh, and listening to what I can only refer to as operatic renditions of the pieces.
How did this happen? Well, actually, like many times when I start following a trail of weird connections, it all comes back [...]
Pirate Jenny
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009For vaguely Alan Moore reasons I was recently checking out some renditions of Threepenny Opera tunes, and I found this version of Pirate Jenny that out-creepies the Nina Simone and Ute Lemper versions that I was familiar with. I thought I’d share.
Newish Old Music
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Over the last day or so, I’ve been on an MP3-ripping rampage–I think I’ve done about 120 CDs in the last day or two. I’ve got a goal to get the rest of the CDs I’ve never got around to ripping (about 1000 or so) digitized before the end of the month, so that I [...]
Female Music
Monday, July 6th, 2009It’s been a little while since I did a music post, so let’s do a bigger than usual one, with nine tunes instead of my normal five.
Tonight’s theme is pretty broad: music from some awesome female artists. I’m not going to try to narrow it more than that–it’s some good stuff, and hopefully there’ll be [...]
Wednesday Night Rips
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009You know what happens to me all the damn time? I realize I need to listen to a specific song right now, and then I realize that I haven’t actually ripped that CD yet. (I’ve got a lot of CDs, and I’ve only ripped around a thousand of them.) I could, theoretically, go find the [...]
What did Suzie get up to?
Monday, May 11th, 2009While working well into the night this weekend, I was listening to a lot of blues. In particular, to the blues of Mississippi John Hurt from the OKEH period (not the stuff from his second career in the Sixties). And while listening to some of his tracks, one in particular popped out at me: Ain’t [...]
Stand By Me
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Look, it’s poker night, you’re only getting a quick embedded video post.
However, it’s probably not what you think. If you stop watching before the first minute is over, you didn’t get it. If you watch through to the two minute mark, I guarantee that you’ll watch until the end, and you’ll be impressed.
For more information: [...]
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