Videos of My Life
Yes, I loved this song, and yes, I loved this video, and yes, I bought this tape, and yes, I would play it when I had boys over in a sad attempt at being alluring.
Sadeness Part 1, by Enigma
(You know you want to jump)
Which Music Will My Cats Like?
As seen on Neatorama from this guy Daniel’s flickr stream, this is the best damned science project I’ve ever seen. (Even better than my 7th grade science project “Are Aliens Real?”)
This will be stuck in your head. I promise.
Sudanese rapper Bangs with “Take You To Da Movies”
Via Vivek, via Jarrod Routh (Hooray!)
Spitting on the hand that literally made her entire career
This song is great, huh? Most people know that Prince wrote it, I’m not bending any minds with that factoid. But I was wondering today how those two ever collaborated, as they seem like they live in different universes. So I looked it up, and holy shit do they have history. Click to read it.
Shout Me Out
I recently became friends with the newlywed couple of Sam and Massoumeh, and they are both lovely and charming and funny and have regular taco nights. The cherry on top is that Sam created and hosts this monthly show called the Radio Happy Hour at Le Poisson Rouge that is like nothing I’ve seen in New York. It’s an old timey radio play and variety show that gets huge guests each month.
Last month the guests were Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and my very own Kumail Nanjiani. The show was hilarious and awesome, and I got to be in the room when Tunde sang two songs a capella, just him and a vocal looper.
Jump to see video of “Shout Me Out”. You will not regret it. That man’s got some pipes.
Do you like songs about broken engagements, abortions, and dinosaurs? Well check this out.
My friend Mamrie is in this awesome band that I went to see before I even became friends with her. So that’s how you know I actually like them. They’re called Cudzoo and the Faggettes, this is their adorable website, I have their badass CD, and here is one of their next shows that you should go to.
Go see it if you know what’s good for you, and if you STILL need convincing, jump and watch them perform Engagement Page.
The new hotness in conspiracy theories
So listen, you may want to sit down for this one. (Who stands up when they’re on the Internet anyway? Apple Store users?) This is something I recently discovered that has kinda made me question everything I’ve ever known.
Here is the awesome song “Goonies R Good Enough” by Cyndi Lauper
The song actually starts at 2:20 in, and here are the first few lines:
Here we are
Hanging on to strings of green and blues
Break the chain and we break down
Oh it’s not real if you don’t feel it
Ok, now jump if you want to have your mind blown.
You can’t hide from me Arcane!
If you live in the NYC and are free either tonight or Monday night, you could be one of the lucky ones to see the death metal band Eyes of Noctum.
You might be like “I don’t even like death metal! Why would I care about this band?”, to which I would respond “Jump and you’ll see”.
Too many solos!
The genius that is Chris Neary directed me to the genius that is imacomputa, as he has compiled and categorized a bunch of sax solos from 80s songs. And while I don’t always agree with his opinions of the solos, I admire his spirit.
He creates fun categories like
and reminds you of sax solos you had forgotten existed, like the ones in George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone, or INXS’ What You Need.
Using his rating system, the best sax solo in a song is OMD’s “If You Leave”
and the worst is a three way tie between Madness’ “It Must Be Love”, Tim Capellos’ “I Still Believe”, and Corey Hart’s “Never Surrender”. Now you know how I feel about Tim Capello, but I definitely agree with the other two. But for me, it’s a tie between Kokomo and Careless Whisper.
Don’t judge.
You gonna wait too fat boooy, fat boooooy, wait until tomorrow!
From “10 Common Phenomena Explained” at Super Tight Stuff:
So what exactly causes songs to get stuck in our heads? Scientists blame something they refer to as “earworms” which create a “cognitive itch” that makes the brain to fill in the gaps in a song’s rhythm. Songs trigger activity in the auditory cortex of the brain, and studies have found that the part of the auditory cortex that is active when you’re actually listening to a song is reactivated when you just imagine hearing the song. In other words, imagining a song will “scratch” the cognitive itch, but this just makes it worse. In any case, the song will eventually go away by itself but if you can’t wait that long you can try listening to other music or distracting yourself to get it out of your head.
