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Here’s a nice 3-minute vignette from Azumanga Daioh. The show has such a wide variety of original music, and much of it can stand on its own, like the track I put on the audio player.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/Japan/AzumangaDaioh.mp3]I’m taking a break from my bloggin’ holiday to play DJ again — hey, it’s how I used to make my living, such as it was. Here’s Green Day’s “Holiday” (not to be confused with the Kinks’ song) from their superb “American Idiot.”
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/NOV06/Holiday.mp3]That CD should have been enough to defeat George Bush in the ’04 election. I give Stephen Colbert credit for finishing what Green Day started, winning back Congress from the GOP, and setting this ship we call the USA on a different course. The old one-two punch of anger and humor!
One of my bosses holds out his arm and says “Talk to the hand!” when he’s concentrating on a technical problem and can’t be interrupted. I’ll use the same expression here to say that I won’t be posting anything for few days.
I’ve managed to trigger a very annoying bug in WordPress that makes it much more difficult to edit posts before publishing them. I’m going to update WordPress and do some studying about its inner workings.
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I listened to the audio commentary on the “Gojira: Godzilla” DVD, and besides King Kong, the then-recent movie “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” is cited as having been a major inspiration for Godzilla. So let’s watch a few beastly minutes from that. Look at those great old cars!
[flv:/Video/2008/APR/ShatnerCommonPeople.flv 440 330]As promised, here’s the remake of Pulp’s Common People, narrated by the shameless William Shatner of all people, with Joe Jackson in excellent voice, doing the heavy musical lifting. Somehow, the combination works! Who’d a thunk?
The video is from The Tonight Show, of all places. ‘Would have expected SNL. The studio recording is on the audio player.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/NOV06/CommonPeople.mp3]Old habits die hard. I’m going to play DJ again.
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Besides the previously-mentioned Common People, another 90’s song that caught my aging Boomer brain ten years after-the fact is “Creep” by radiohead. This is the cleaned-up radioplay version. The word used in the original before “special” isn’t “very.”
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