Category: Music
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Music Monday: Memorial Day
No comments on Music Monday: Memorial DayIn the US it’s Memorial Day, set aside to honor those who died in wars. Ideally there will be fewer of them in the future. Video is Dixie Chicks performing “Travelin’ Soldier“.
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Music Monday
One of my favorite filk songs, “Uplift” by Andy Eigel, performed by Vixy & Tony. Hopefully it’ll help you wake up today. Also I’ve had emails about people who’ve become interested in Vixy & Tony after I posted about them. If that’s you, there’s an interview with them on YouTube. (Originally it was part of a longer interview that’s no longer there, but this short piece…
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Music Monday
You have probably heard “Stairway to Heaven”…. Stairway To Heaven performed by Heart with Jason Bonham But have you heard “Railway to Hogwarts“?
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Music Monday
Kathy Mar has been making folk and filk music longer than a lot of people have been around. She was a professional folksinger and street performer in Denver before she discovered filk, the music of science fiction & fantasy fandom. She’s gone on to record several filk albums and won awards in filk music. And yes, she is a woman of size. One of her songs from…
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Music Monday: “Shut Up, Men Are Talking”
To quote the artist, Brooke Abbey: I read this great article by Mary Beard: www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/14/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women …and this fell out. We’re sick of your death threats And “We’re Not All Like That”s Make space at the table and open your ears Make space at the table and open your ears Full lyrics and download are at Brooke Abbey’s Bandcamp page.
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Happy New Year, May we all have a vision Now and then of a world Where every neighbor is a friend Happy New Year, Happy New Year
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Try Some New Music
Several indie artists put together a sampler of music — over 70 tracks — to try. Some of it is music I’ve loved for years. “Firebird’s Child” “Light Heart” “Salad of Doom” “Tam Lin” “The Cthulhu Colada Song” “The Holly & The Ivy” “Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life” “WinterTide” “Witches’ Rune” Others are new to me, or new interpretations. “Close Your Eyes” “Do Virgins Taste Better…
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Love Song for Internet Trolls
From The Doubleclicks: It is snarky and silly and fun. I love you, even though you’re a commenter from hell the predictable way you don’t know how to spell and you’re hateful disgusting, ungrateful like you don’t understand, other people have feelings I feel like you don’t even know if you don’t enjoy a youtube video you can stop it. you don’t have to watch it. your…
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Music Monday: I Made My Bed & I Sleep Like A Baby
This song’s been around for quite a while now, but given the ongoing death threats going around the net it seems a bit timely. And how in the world Can the words that I said Send somebody so over the edge That they’d write me a letter Saying that I better shut up and sing Or my life will be over. Yes, that verse was written in response…
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Labor Day
I created this blog 5 years ago. Thanks for reading :) Today is also Labor Day in the US. I work in a field that is very un-unionized and I know unions aren’t perfect, but I was raised by union members and I support organized labor. Growing up I didn’t see much like my family in the media — fathers who take steel-toed boots and overalls to work, to wear…
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Nothing to Prove
The Doubleclicks made this video for their song “Nothing to Prove” using video clips submitted by friends and fans. (Some of those clips are also being posted at http://geekgirlvideo.tumblr.com, with more being uploaded.) “Nothing to Prove” song lyrics are on their Bandcamp site, and The Doubleclicks talk about making the video on their main site. The song “Nothing to Prove” is on their new album “Lasers and Feelings,” which…
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Some Good Things
Photos have surfaced on Flikr of Integrity Puget Sound & various Episcopal parishes in the Seattle Pride Parade. Things that happen in Seattle: Officers assisted a man who took an early morning office chair ride. (No one was hurt.) A new Donna Andrews book, The Hen of the Baskervilles, has arrived. A new Stop Paying Attention comic! The Doubleclicks’ new album is out and includes their song “Rock Star Life”…
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People Get Ready
73-year-old Lester Chambers dedicates “People Get Ready” in memory of Trayvon Martin. A white woman jumps on stage and assaults him. If you aren’t familiar with the song, here’s a recording of Aretha Franklin singing it: Imagine how folks would’ve reacted if Lester had sung Springsteen’s “American Skin (41 Shots)”.
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Music Monday: A Talk With George
“A Talk With George” is a song by Jonathan Coulton about the journalist George Plimpton. Plimpton was known for writing about what it’s like for a “layman” to take on a pro boxer or go out for the NFL. He also co-founded The Paris Review. The song starts out with “what if George Plimpton wanted to give you some advice about life?” (Although of course some of it is probably “Jonathan…
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Music Monday: These Dreams with Allison Krauss and Heart
“These Dreams” was written by Martin Page and Bernie Taupin and recorded by Heart. This performance shows Allison Krauss singing lead, with Ann and Nancy Wilson singing harmony.
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Music Monday
This week some mentioned the anniversary of Jim Henson’s death, which reminded me of the song “Storyteller.” In concert it’s been stated it was written in response to Jim Henson’s passing. Song credits: Performed by Alexander James Adams; lyrics & music by Heather Alexander.
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