Rodrigo y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo
If you’re not at least tapping your foot by a minute or so in to this song, well, I just don’t know you as well as I thought I did.
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Little Boots – Meddle
I played this for the kids and they liked it. I bought the record and they haven’t stopped listening to it for weeks and weeks. Oh, and I like it too. She also made an iPhone app that is pretty cool. A song loops and responds to the motion of the iPhone. Shake it around and the song gets upbeat. Hold it still and the beat drops out and it gets very mellow and atmospheric. All the while, the app samples sounds from around you to include in the music. Never the same thing twice. Neat!
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These Little Kids Are A Bit Of Alright
Ah, youth! Operator Please – You Don’t Always Get What You Want:
Liam Finn – Second Chance
One or another member of the Finn family has been informing my pop sensibilities since I bought Waiata by “Split Enz” in 1981 after seeing the video for “One Step Ahead.”
I wasn’t a huge Crowded House fan, but they had some really great songs that I still love today.
Now, here comes Liam, Neil’s son to carry on with a bit of a different take on pop from his dad and uncle.
I’ve Never Been More Certain In My Life That Johnny Has a Boom Boom
I’m in love with Imelda May. The band is amazing and this song in particular is on seriously high replay on my headphones. In short, it’s just totally kick-ass rockabilly from Dublin by way of London.
On a related note, I highly recommend the show this video is taken from. It’s been on forever but I lost track of it for a few years. Later…With Jools Holland is on Ovation TV, seemingly, every fifteen minutes.
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Metric – “Sick Muse”
Emily Haines and James shaw who are also a part of Broken Social Scene.
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Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn (ft Stephen Hawking)
A strangely affecting track, I love how Sagan sounds like Kermit the Frog in the chorus.
“A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way”
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The Ascent of Man
“Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known. We always feel forward for what is to be hoped”
Jacob Bronowski from his documentary series.
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Twilight was Stupid. Stupid Book, Stupid Movie. Buffy Would Have Made It Better.
If Edward had lived in the Universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it would have been shorter, funnier, and way more best-ier. If you were slightly tweaked by the creepy stalker crap, and the more than creepy “I love you so much I want you to kill me” crap, oh yeah and the weirdly puritanical (written by a Mormon, you see) underpinnings of the crap-fest of a movie, this may make you laugh.
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Barney Frank Gives Smackdown To Barack-as-Nazi Psycho
It was so refreshing to finally hear someone stand up to one of these psychotic bullies. Go Barney!
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