What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


DavidS - Dec 14, 2008 9:19:53 am PST #111 of 6442
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Earlier this morning, I discovered this: [link]

I was gonna link that for you! Apparently they did a Moog figure too. How can they skip on Theremin? A little Clara Rockmore figure at the very least. (That's one of the coolest space age ensembles ever!)


DavidS - Dec 14, 2008 9:31:09 am PST #112 of 6442
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oooh, here's Clara performing on the "terpistone." Which looks to be something like a cross between a theremin and Dance Dance Revolution.

Huh. Theremin World is a pretty cool site.


Jon B. - Dec 14, 2008 10:10:34 am PST #113 of 6442
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The guy who runs Thereminworld, Jason, is a mensch. Just an incredibly nice guy. He's the one who shot me at the Theremin Camp in Asheville a few years back, doing Video Killed The Radio Star.


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 12:19:23 pm PST #114 of 6442
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a release question. I have a compulsive need to correctly ID the release years of the songs in my iTunes library. Compilations throw this off, since they have the album release dates, and I want single release dates.

I'm currently confused by "Pressure Drop" by The Specials. I know this song from the 80s, but maybe that was the Maytals version, and The Specials only recorded it in the 90s.

Can anyone tell me for sure?


Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2008 12:31:19 pm PST #115 of 6442
hwæt

The Maytals would have been recording reggae, not ska, in the 1980s, and The Specials were most active in the very early 80s.


Jon B. - Dec 14, 2008 12:36:29 pm PST #116 of 6442
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Looks like "Pressure Drop" first appeared on the 1996 reunion(?) album "Today's Specials": [link]

t edit Wikipedia link: [link]


Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2008 12:51:35 pm PST #117 of 6442
hwæt

Or, you know, I could be talking out of my ass.


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 1:04:30 pm PST #118 of 6442
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, Jon. And thanks also to Scola's ass.


megan walker - Dec 14, 2008 1:13:11 pm PST #119 of 6442
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I have a compulsive need to correctly ID the release years of the songs in my iTunes library. Compilations throw this off, since they have the album release dates, and I want single release dates.

I just want to state for the record that there is nothing wrong with this.


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 1:16:34 pm PST #120 of 6442
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How else would my Good 80s/90s/00s smart playlists work properly?