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January 24th, 2008Membership has its privileges.
Filed under: audio, music, Real Life(from) Traffic & Weather
August 19th, 2007“It’s not the money, it’s the recipes” — Seth Shapiro
Filed under: musicAnything But Fine
May 21st, 2007There aren’t many songs any more that make me close my eyes and really feel something when I hear them, but this is one of them. Click here to open a stream of Anything But Fine from the Zox website.
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Filed under: music, MusingsWhite & Nerdy
October 13th, 2006Jeff said it and after reviewing the recent evidence I must conclude that he’s right. Wierd Al is still the king. Look:
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I’m a whiz at minesweeper I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you’re gonna stay amazed
my fingers movin’ so fast I’ll set the place ablaze
There’s no killer app I haven’t run
At Pascal, well, I’m number one
I do vector calculus just for fun
I ain’t got a gat but I gotta soldering gun
Who else can write this stuff? It’s perfect. It may even be better than the original!
Look at the video:
Filed under: music, Real LifeTonight! At Mixed Signals: Jeff Samuel
October 13th, 2006Tonight in DC Jeff Samuel will be playing records for your listening pleasure. Check for more info at Mixed Signals DC. And remember, you can’t be pleasured if you don’t come!
Filed under: musicThe Polish Ambassador
September 10th, 2006
The Polish Ambassador is to music what Borat is to journalism.
Quality electro, quality camp, quality writing, this is one ambassador who has it all. Except a girl.
Filed under: Funny, musicThe Legwarmers
June 16th, 2006Last week the Falls Church News-Press went in-depth on The Legearmers. Tonight the band again takes the stage at the State Theater in front of a sold-out crowd dressed in, well…
For the uninitiated, The Legwarmers are the local leaders of a recent wave through pop culture of 80’s nostalgia. A cover band who faithfully reproduces an impressively wide array of pop music from that era Their every show is a throw-back costume party. For some large part of the participants, however, the music is only vaguely familiar and the styles are about as much modern-hot ironic as they are oh-my-god-i-can-not-believe-we-ever-wore-that. To prove that point, the last time I attended one of their shows some of the outfits in my crew were assembled entirely from a trip to a mall and a TJ Maxx. Nothing from the attic, thrift shop, or grandma’s house. Just some retro-looking stuff and heavy blue eye makeup.
To be fair, this seems to always happen. About mid-decade, especially in decades without a revolution to explicitly define themselves in terms of style and music, a brief but powerful reemergence of styles from 25 years ago comes out to inform and temper the styles of the present day. Remember in the mid 90s how bell-bottom pants made a brief (and thankfully, unsuccessful) play for center-stage? The damage was done, however as for the next ten years or so, even the jeans I am wearing right now, have a slight flare in the lower leg. I imagine that in aboout ten years those hugely baggy raver pants will briefly reappear and be quickly folded into the trends of that future day.
Fortunately, in my experience, the only thought of that 80’s glam drug cocaine at a Legwarmers show has been in the band’s perfect rendition of Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go see if I can find a sock tie.
Filed under: adventures, music
