This is for Megpie, because I just went over to your blog for the first time, saw your gif in the top left corner, and thought you would enjoy it. (Others may too.)
Professor Elemental – \”Cup of Brown Joy\”
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
*grin* Gorgeous. Clearly a representative of that under-appreciated genre of “English Eccentric rap”.
The magic button — Make Everything OK
12 Rules of Pixar Storytelling in Lego form
Tom Waits on the Don Lane show in ’79. warning contains 1970′s channel nine.
Megpie, I believe the musical genre is referred to as chap hop. There’s a shortage of female chap-hoppers, but that’s all too common in music, and this is the first popular music genre name I can think of that draws attention to it ;-).
Aqua: that’s a pity. After all, it’s one of the longest-standing genres of popular music extant, having its origins in the “patter songs” of W S Gilbert, and even Gilbert, whose casting choices do tend toward the misogynistic (why is the contralto/low mezzo role always the “unattractive older woman”?) gave some wonderful patter moments to female participants (for example, the wonderful “How Beautifully Blue The Sky” in Pirates of Penzance, and Margaret getting a whole verse of “It Really Doesn’t Matter” in Ruddigore).
(I may have my tongue stuck in my cheek there… please not to take me seriously).
That Tom Waits clip is going viral.
His (speaking) voice sounds exactly like Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Something else going viral (I presume, since I heard about it on breakfast tabloid telly) is the sweetly marvellous site The Tutu Project, where the photographer husband of a woman battling cancer decided to do something to make her laugh (and raise funds for cancer orgs) while she underwent treatment, and it ended up in nine years worth of setting up photos of himself dressing in nothing but a pink ballet tutu at various places all around the world.
I like the Make Everything Ok button. That’s very useful. I’m also liking the ballerina project.
Party Rock Cantina Band:
Pete Seeger playing Jesu, Lord of Man’s Desiring on banjo.