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Category: Music

  • Tom Lehrer

    Last Christmas Ma Snook played us her Tom Lehrer CD, which I then copied and have been listening to ever since. He was a Harvard math professor that became famous in the 50’s for his humorous songs and parodies. For some silly fun, check out this Flash animation that accompanies his song “The Elements”. Extreme nerdy fun.

    Edited 30/04/2025: Flash link is dead and not archived, so replaced with YouTube.

  • Goldfinger

    I will never eat another Twinkie.There’s nothing like a rock concert to make you feel both young and old simultaneously. The Snook and I went to see Goldfinger last night for their first Sydney visit in seven years. On one hand it’s fun to listen to loud rock music and drink beer and dance. That’s the “young” part. But on the other hand…

    • Mosh pits are so ten years ago. We actually stood in the back of the theatre just to keep away from the muscle-bound lunkheads who wanted nothing more than an excuse to beat people up. Yes, I feel very sorry that some of you weren’t old enough to mosh in the 90’s, when it was in fashion (though still annoying). Please find a new self-destructive habit.
    • If you insist on crowd surfing, please note that you should keep your body rather stiff. Girls who just flop around limply look stupid.
    • Concentrated cigarette smoke now makes me feel physically ill. I don’t like this. I used to like being in smoky pubs. How far I’ve come from London…
    • That part where the band pulled a guy out of the audience and challenged him to eat a Twinkie out of the drummer’s ass? And the guy did it? Yeah, that was disgusting.

    See what I mean? I wanted to go have a hedonistic evening and embrace my generation, but instead I felt old and alienated and surrounded by assholes. Is it going to be like this from now on? Maybe it’s time to trade in the steel-toe Docs for a season pass to the opera.

    (That said, the music itself was pretty good. They played all my favorites: “Superman”, “Here in Your Bedroom”, “Mabel”, and “99 Luftballoons” complete with the German verse. That was pretty sweet.)

  • Friday Five

    I don’t like these questions so much. I’m too indecisive.

    1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?
    Ugh. There’s no way I could pick just one. It would have to be a mix CD that I burned myself of all my favorite songs.

    2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?
    Pride and Prejudice and the Star Wars Trilogy. (I can count Episodes 4-6 as one movie, right?)

    3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?
    Jeez. No clue. Seeing a pattern here? If I absolutely had to pick… To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stand, and a book of Greek mythology. That covers a lot of ground.

    4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?
    This one I like. 1) Mountain Dew. 2) My aunt Berb’s chicken and dumplings. 3) The Snook’s chicken risotto. 4) McDonald’s french fries. *dries drool off keyboard*

    5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?
    What, you expect me to answer honestly? My family reads this site! Actually, if you’re talking face-to-face association, I don’t think I even have five people here that I see on a regular basis. There’s the Snook… and that’s it. Yeah, I really need to make some Australian friends.

  • Sando

    Apparently Russell Crowe’s Aussie girlfriend Danielle Spencer is just starting a month-long singing engagement at the Sandringham Hotel, which is about a block away from our house. Hmmm, maybe we’ll have to try to see her perform. Russ might show up!

  • r.e.m.IX

    Are you an R.E.M. fan? They’ve released a new “album” called r.e.m.IX on their official site. It’s all the songs off Reveal, each one remixed by somebody different. You can download the whole thing as mp3s and even get the artwork too! I’m grabbing it right now.

  • New Poll

    What’s your verdict on ol’ Spook Tooth? You know, I honestly don’t know where I got that phrase from. I think it’s one of my sister’s. At any rate, I’m referring to “Jewel”, the singer-songwriter-poet (and crappy horse rider). As my college roommates can attest, I’ve had an irrational hatred of her for many years now. Am I the only one?

  • Jewel

    Let me see if I get this straight: Jewel (the singer) had to cancel several performances because she got thrown off a horse and broke her collarbone. She was going to debut her new single, “Break Me”. Seriously. I think she just did it for the publicity. 🙂

    That reminds me of Clem Snide, the band that opened for Ben Folds last week. We only caught the end of their set, but we liked what we heard. My favorite part was the singer’s introduction to “Moment in the Sun”. He claimed that he was trying to channel Jewel through the song, “during that living-in-a-van phase”. I laughed and laughed. I’ve never been a big Jewel fan. The spook tooth scares me.

    Edited 29/04/2025: Jewel link is dead and not archived.

  • Ben Folds

    It’s actually very early Sunday morning, and we just got back from the Ben Folds concert. It was fantastic. Just him and a piano and a couple hundred of us packed in a theater. Then the Snook and I headed to the local tapas place for some late night snackage and the best cheesecake I’ve ever tasted. Good times.

  • Ben Folds

    Woohoo! Snookums and I are going to try to get tickets to see Ben Folds tomorrow night. Did you know that he actually moved to Adelaide (South Australia) when the band split up? That’s where he lives now. Huh. Anyway, we don’t know a lot of his stuff, but we like what we have, so it should be fun.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Can somebody explain how in the heck Destiny’s Child are writing an autobiography? Isn’t Beyonce, like, the only one from the original group? The article sorta implies that there were six of them originally, which I know isn’t right. Can somebody give me a condensed history?

    Edited 19/04/2025: Original link is dead and not archived.