Music

Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Benny Goodman Sextet (1937)

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Martha Tilton on vocals.
 
(Extra credit if you know where Benny Goodman got his first clarinet lessons.)
 

Just Because I Like It

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Judy Collins, Albatross

Anyone want to speculate about the meaning of the lyrics of this song?

Metric Remix

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One of my favorite newer bands is Metric. “Help I’m Alive” is one of their biggest songs.

I follow them on Facebook and recently they had a contest where you could remix this song, and could win a grand and a chance at some sort of record deal. The remixes are nothing short of amazing. Take a listen here if you are interested. I am blown away at how talented some of the people are that remixed this song.

Ramones, Teenage Lobotomy (1977)

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Guess I’ll have to break the news, that I got no mind to lose.
Gonna get my Ph.D. I’m a teenage lobotomy!
 

“Cameras,” Matt and Kim

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my water comes straight from the tap
and those bottles are all just for show
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I see that we’re made of
more then blood and bones
see we’re made of
sticks and stones

don’t forget to breathe
need locks for your keys
don’t forget to breathe now
forget to breathe now

The Matt and Kim song “Cameras” is everywhere and good thing, too, because I like it. Definitely dance-around-your-room-or-tap-your-toes-in-line-at-the-store time. Here’s the YouTube “official version” (can’t figure out the embedding url) and here is their fun and vibrant website. Posted on the website is the following observation from the Matt and Kim Twitter feed: “This guy at the pharmacy made it very clear to me that snow is a four letter word.”

Do I have to Twitter now? I generally don’t like it. It makes me feel like a stalker with ADD. (Full disclosure: I used to Twitter. Twitter microfiction I called it. Deleted it. May revive it. Who knows? And, yeah, I know you can’t recover an old account. I saved my microfiction on – wait for it – PAPER….)

Don’t forget to breathe now….no time for cameras we’ll use our eyes instead….

UPDATE: Okay, maybe today isn’t the best day to express my sentiments toward Twitter given Charles Cameron’s post below. It’s definitely a cool technology but I don’t know if it is for me.