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Firebird Suite

Posted in Music, Neat Stuff, Uncategorized, tagged music classical Stravisky Disney Fantasia video animation on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Music is The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, animation from Disney’s Fantasia 2000.

YouTube – Fantasia-Firebird
And a video of the man himself conducting a performance of this piece at age 83.

via Slublog

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The Earth Dies Screaming

Posted in Music, Neat Stuff, Science Fiction & Fantasy, tagged asteroid space disaster endoftheworld on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

YouTube – Asteroid Impact HD
The song is “The Great Gig in the Sky” by Pink Floyd.
via Ace of Spades

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Do They Know It’s Christmas / Oh Holy Night

Posted in Music, Video, tagged christmas music video BNL on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

YouTube – BNL and Boston Pops – Do They Know It’s Christ/Oh Holy Night

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Lucas with the Lid Off (Michel Gondry, director, 1994)

Posted in Music, Video on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What a cool video. Early rap/hip-hop, before all the idiot gangstas turned the genre into tedious mysogonistic crap.I’ve never seen this before, but apparently it was done in one continuous take with a steadycam. Click on the video for the YouTube page with the full lyrics and more info. via The Anchoress
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Dean Martin – On The Street Where You Live

Posted in Music, Video on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

more about "Dean Martin – On The Street Where You…", posted with vodpod

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Scientist

Posted in Music, Science, Video on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dandy Warhols

more about "Scientist", posted with vodpod

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So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

Posted in Music on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This song by Merle Travis was a hit back in 1947. Many people today may not realize that it’s filled with sly references to all sorts of popular advertising slogans of the day.

more about “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed“, posted with vodpod
Here’s an annotated version of the song’s lyrics with links to [...]

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Merry Christmas At Ground Zero!

Posted in Humor, Music, Video on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This was the first Weird Al song I ever heard, listening to the Doctor Demento show late one night on my radio. What a crazy fluke!
from video.google.com posted with vodpod

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