I'm enjoying the hell out of this song tonight. Just heard it during an interview of the Dropkick Murphys on NPR, and I had to go find it on YouTube immediately!

Take 'Em Down

Sebastian and I went with my father to see They Might Be Giants in Boston today. It was a public concert on the space between the Aquarium and the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Dad had to leave after a while; rock really isn't his genre. But Sebastian and I stayed through the whole thing and had a lot of fun. Here here is with a mysterious penguin-like ( Read more... )

I'm the nostalgic type. I remember a lot of my favorite things from when I was a child, and I try to share them with Sebastian.

Books, for example; I have a copy of almost every old book that I loved as a young boy. I've managed to get copies of some of those old TV shows and specials, too (although I still haven't managed to get Hodge Podge ( Read more... )

Thanks, WGBH. By transferring all your classical programming to WCRB's pathetically weak signal, you've successfully deprived southeastern Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island of our only source for classical radio. Your suggestion that listening online or buying an internet radio is just as good is just the sort of clueless elitism I'd expect ( Read more... )

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This video just gave me the chills.

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I hadn't seen this video for a long time. And I can't believe that Dawn French and Hugh Laurie were in it! Is there anything Hugh Laurie wasn't in?

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I found this while looking for a way to make a sensible comment on an entry by fireheart, and I have to say I like it a lot!

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And while I'm at it, here's PROOF that virtually anything can be found on YouTube: PDQ Bach's The Stoned Guest. It's the whole album in four parts. The only thing that's missing is the very funny "Opera Whiz" feature from the intermission.

My father used to play this a lot when I was little, and now I'm playing it for Sebastian (I have the actual ( Read more... )

Someone over on Askville had a brilliant idea a while ago. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that she's relatively new to the net.

Once a day, she asks "What song is stuck in your head today?". People respond by giving links to one or more songs on YouTube. I hadn't realized that almost every imaginable song is now available on YouTube. It's really