1 day ago
Reblogged for my friends at mental_floss, and our sorta-mascot Banana.
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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS: ”Beyond Belief (Give & Take Remix)”
Okay, so “Beyond Belief” is one of Elvis Costello’s best songs, but one weird thing about it is that Costello completely re-wrote the vocal part after the backing track was completed, so there’s this earlier version of it called “The Land Of Give And Take” with the exact same music but the words and the way he sings it are different in a lot of places.
This is a mix I made where you have one set of vocals in one ear and the earlier version in the other. I think the effect is kind of like The Velvet Underground’s “The Murder Mystery.”
The only people who have ever heard this mix are a few friends who are also Costello fans. I think it is fun.
“Beyond Belief” is my favorite Elvis Costello song, and I love this.
OH MY GOD. “Beyond Belief” is one of my favorite songs of all time*, and this mix made me want to run around the office screaming, I loved it so much.
How do I get this? I need this so I can listen to it every day forever and ever.
*I had this one Canadian friend named Bill? And whenever we were drinking together there would inevitably be a point where we would just start singing this song to each other. Then we would make up bad Japanese pop songs and compare Gordon Lightfoot impressions.
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Robots Calling #internetfinds #robotech #robots #lpcovers (Taken with instagram)
I would like this T-shirt, please.
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Xenochrony
Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as early as the early 1960s, by Frank Zappa, who used it on several albums. Xenochrony is executed by extracting a guitar solo or other musical part from its original context and placing it into a completely different song, in order to create an unexpected but pleasing effect. He said that this was the only way to achieve some rhythms. (from Wikipedia… I’m currently listening to Zappa’s Joe’s Garage for the first time in years)
2 days ago
Oh, boy. A tiny version of our Sally. If I lived in Montana, this guy would be adopted as fast as I could drive there.
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High School newspaper publishes editorial by Christian student who argues that homosexuals should be put to death because the Bible says so (For more info, click image or here; Found at Slog)
The big story here is not so much that there are Christians who are taught to believe that homosexuals should have no rights because of a line in the Bible — we’re sadly used to that — but that a school newspaper printed his opinion and then afterwards the school punished him for it.
The school is absolutely at fault here. The editor and faculty adviser had the opportunity to refuse to publish this piece. He stated his opinion, and then he was punished for it. Not only does that make a martyr out of a bigot, but it teaches a dark lesson to all students about the limits of the First Amendment.
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'As You Like It' and 'Into The Woods' Will Be This Summer's Central Park Productions | NY Times «
Seems about the right time for Into Thr Woods to come back around.
I am going to be mad at myself if I miss this one.
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