Let's say there was an electric guitar equivalent of Stormbringer, that is, the Ur electric guitar of Chaos and Evil-with-a-capital-E.

What model do you think it would be? A Gibson Les Paul? A Fender Strat? Or something else?

And should I turn this into a poll?

Mightygodking, previously known for his brilliant redubbing of the Marvel comics Civil War series and (NSFW) Ultimate Power, as well as the most dead-on snarky Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows review, has actually done some serious work.

For instance, he has written the Best Alternate Universe Beatles Story, EVER.

This isn't just fanfic. How good is it? Well, I got over my Beatles fan phase years ago, and still I wish this could have happened. Starting  from the real life event where Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles $30000 to appear on Saturday Night Live, real life event, we see a small change made, and then watch as the changes ripple out, and become larger and larger. And then at the end, we see the subtle twist that explains everything.

It's utterly brilliant. I recommend it highly.

Star Trek to "Tick Tock".

One forgets what serious partiers the crew of the old Enterprise were. And oh yeah, there's the space hippies. Not to mention the space Indians. And don't forget the space belly dancers. *groan*





And yes, it deeply disturbs me that I recognize every episode they yanked the scenes from.

For those of you who love opera, all of you who want to learn about opera, and all of you who can't stand the stuff:

Courtesy of Kim Thompson and some student aid money:

All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes

My neighbor is singing loudly to "Hey Jude". I think he's singing at least- he may be in pain.

I think he hit the right note, once.

I think I may have to kill him, for the good of humanity.


EDIT: Oh god, I thought I would have peace when the music stopped, but no: HE'S STARTED OVER AGAIN!


Kill me. Please.

It's just a fact of life.  Some songs, particularly some of the most annoying songs out there, can't be improved with covers or altering the arrangements.  They need NINJAS to be made palatable.

Here's a couple examples:


See?  Here's a more modern example:
So that's the start.  Your task is to find those annoying earworms that can be improved by inserting ninjas into them.  Then go ahead and share them here.  Go!

I like Latin Jazz, and I like electronica, and I like music that fuses different styles that really shouldn't go together. I also like music And happy day, here we have Senor Coconut..

Senor Coconut's (real name Uwe Schmidt) used to do standard electronic music under the band name of Atom Heart. Feed up with the seriousness of the European electronic scene, he moved Chile, and shortly released an album of latin jazz renditions of classic Kraftwek songs. In his latest project, "Atom™ presents: Around the world with Señor Coconut and his Orchestra" he expands his repertoire to include pop songs from bands like the Eurthmics, Trio, and Deep Purple.


Yes, his mosic is very kitchy, and he may be considered a novelty act. But his music treads the fine line between parody and tribute, and he translates the tunes of into engaging lating jazz so expertly that even between laughing, I find myself dancing.


( Here's some examples: )

The party last night brought to the fore an odd little element of my learning disability that fairly few people know about; while I have good hearing in general, my perception for speech is aweful, especially when there's competing noises. Too many competing noises andconversation becomes noise to me.

This actually came up a in a discussion about earworms at the party, when I was asked what earworm I currently had going through my head. This became a problematic question, because the way my hearing perception works, when I first hear a song, I normally hear singing as another instrument, without getting actually understanding most of the words. Normally it takes several repeated listenings for me to get most of the lyrics of a song. So last night, I couldn't remember any of the lyrics to the mindworm buzzing through my head, and responded with a vague approximation of the melody...which nobody could understand because I included both the instrumentals and the vocals into one tune.

This is, incidentally why I prefer smaller parties to large nois ones; it takes effort in a large party for me to hear anything someone is saying. It's also why when i'm concentrating on something, I won't understand a thing someone says to me.

Anyway, the song turned out to be the chorus from Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold:



Repeat ad infinitum, because I can't remember enough of the lyrics to do what I usuallly do with earworms, which is change the lyrics so they're a song about my cats.

Also, here's the music video for the song. I think it's pretty funny. It's good decade for music videos it seems...even if I can't remember the words.

So what's Ian Anderson being doing recently? Well, aside from the occasional flute-playing solo gig wiith orchistras he:

Found some kittens, and writes on how to care for them.


 


He also really, really likes indian food. So much so, he wrote a guide to enjoying it.

From my P.O.V. that's a hella good way to use your official website. As I said, the man is cool.