Musical snippets don't get much play here anymore. Instead, I tend to post videos and links on Facebook. However I have are a few links floating around the deserves a less ephemeral treatment.

From the forthcoming American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo comes Trent Reznor's latest piece of brilliance, a cover of Led Zepplin's ' ( Read more... )

Via vizi: WWI as a bar fight.
Via Den of Geek: Nathan Fillion: the new Bruce Campbell?
Via Mary Beard: Marathon2500 Project (Commemorating the 2,500-year anniversary of The Battle of Marathon).

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A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of my week of intense assessment, MC Frontalot played at the Viper Room. The show was good, but the most salient feature of the night was how rubbish parking is in West Hollywood and how rubbish the Viper Room is at scheduling. The show was supposed to start at 8, with Frontralot tweeting that he would be on ( Read more... )