Category Archives: Music
Elephants Are Made of Elements – They Might Be Giants Sings About Science
First, they took on counting and the alphabet, and now, in a move surely planned to give all those ex-Bush administration people something to listen and learn from now that they’re not so busy, They Might Be Giants has a new album, entitled Here Comes Science.
Check out some of the videos…
Science is Real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw
The Elements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zION8xjbM
Felicia Day Casts Her Spell on Music
One of my favorite geeky non-TV (new media? Podcast? Internet show? Netcast? Bah…what is the term?) shows is The Guild masterminded by Felicia Day.
Well, The Guild team has created a music video. Hilarious, geeky, sexy fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU
You Got Your Neuroscience in My Music
I’m fascinated by neuroscience, by how the software that is our brain really works. I’m also fascinated by music, and how it can show how the brain works in a common way across cultures. Here’s a great example of that. Bobby McFerrin at the 2009 World Science Festival showing how a pentatonic scale is something [...]
A Song About A Painting That Sounds Like Something From Lit Class
One of the things I really like about The Weakerthans is that their music sort of sounds like the kind of poetry we all had to read in high school literature classes. I know, you think it sucked. But I loved it. There’s something powerful about a terse arrangement of words that you have to [...]
And now back to…Ships and Dip V, with The Weakerthans
I’ve been meaning to get back to posting videos from Ships and Dip V since something like…ahhh…FOREVER. And now I’m finally jumping back in with videos of my favorite new band, The Weakerthans. They totally, friggin’ rawk. And not only because they’ve written some rocking songs about cats!
So here’s the first of several videos of [...]
Kiss Me, I’m (Honorarily) Irish
On this, the Irish-est day of the year, I share what might be my first Irish memory, and the thing that probably earns me an honorary Irish-ness.
Back in grammar school, we used to do plays every so often. I remember one we did, my class had to learn to sing a song in Gaelic. They [...]
Ships and Dip V – Gaelic Storm “Beggerman” and Into the Pool
No one knows how to end a show like Gaelic Storm. First show, on the pool deck, and how do they top their crowd surfing from last year? They crowd surf INTO the pool. Awesome!
We actually saw Gaelic Storm the week before the cruise and asked Jessie Burns, the fiddler, if she was going to [...]