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It's Wednesday, You Know How We Feel
Posted on 02.04.09 by Widge @ 12:48 pm
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So here's this great video for the Nina Simone version of "Feeling Good." And I knew the song, but I didn't know that much about it. So I probed a bit. First, here's Nina doing her thing.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

That version's from Nina's album I Put a Spell On You, which of course has also the title track and "Gimme Some," among others. You can snag yours here. Found via Neatorama.

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Win Mary Poppins on DVD!
Posted on 02.03.09 by Widge @ 4:12 am
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Mary Poppins DVD cover art

It's Mary Poppins. What more do we need to say? It is FANtastic.

Here, let's take a trip back to when trailers could be four minutes long...

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Thriller: The Musical Will Bring the Noise and Funk of Forty Thousand Years to Broadway
Posted on 01.26.09 by Widge @ 10:59 pm
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Michael Jackson in Thriller

So we just mentioned how my own scientific pop culture landmark theory, The Law of Relative Development, will need to be amended to include films headed to the stage. It appears that if we're looking to expand it to theatre, then we should include also individual albums, musical "bodies of work" and also...music videos.

The reason? Thriller the Musical. Seriously. It's songs from the album plus Off the Wall. Variety sez, "Plot... will be based on the 1982 'Thriller' video, about a wholesome young couple whose date goes awry when one of them turns into a werewolf." Yes, it's headed for Broadway...eventually.

Two things spring to mind. One, you're going to base an entire musical on a single music video? Two, who's playing the Vincent Price role? I mean, I want to say if you're smart you book an elder statesman actor with a kickass voice to do a few weeks at a time and change them out to keep at least that portion of it fresh. I want to say that, but that would imply I've actually given this a lot of thought, which I don't want to do.

What I do want to do is propose a number of other musicals, as long as music videos are fair game.
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Tim Minchin, The Piano to Your Forte
Posted on 01.21.09 by Widge @ 10:35 am
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Australian comedian and all-around brilliant weirdo, Tim Minchin, is here with a rawk anthem for our times. NSFW for some language. This was recorded off of ABC television in Australia.

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Tim's official site can be found here. And for those of you who don't mind songs that are slightly disturbing--which I suspect, for the most part, is the majority of you--proceed beyond the break for a bonus bit.

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Rufus Cappadocia Wails on His Cello
Posted on 01.07.09 by Widge @ 1:57 am
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So there I was watching another TED video, when I ran across a guy by the name of Bruno Bowden (who apparently is a Google engineer...a Googineer, perhaps) and digs folding paper. So he decided to fold some paper while blindfolded.

This was...novel, to say the least. And puzzling. And distracting, because the guy I really wish they would have spent more time on was Rufus Cappadocia, who was improvising on his electric cello while Paper Dude had his way.

So here's Rufus, sans paper folding.

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That song can be found off of his Songs for Cello album. You can snag it from Amazon here.

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