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The funk of forty thousand years

In April, the Gloved One will auction off his prized possessions. Sure, there's a recession on. But some investments stand the test of time. They endure the vagaries of the economy, just like Neverland Ranch. Well, okay. Maybe there'll be lots of bidders from Dubai.

You really have to look through the photo gallery. It's kind of sad when you run across the silver astronaut and realize he's even hawking his MTV music video award.

I myself like the jewelry, and that picture of the glove and glasses throughout history is funny. But the limosine? The interior was designed by him, and it looks like a coffin. I would pay to stay out of there.

Paranoia mix

Possibly the best music video ever. This tune will stay in your head longer than the leek spin song. (Now I'm listening to the leek spin song again. Frankly, it's a toss-up.)

OK electronica

Radiohead set a challenge to remix the song "Nude" from their latest album. And this video student did just that for his final project in school, turning dot-matrix printers, cassette tape recorders and old computer parts into his instruments.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

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Direct from Holodeck 3

Did you know Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek TNG) produced an album of easy list'ning music back in 1991?  And he's not bad! Waxy.org is offering it here - the album is out of print, so there should be no guilt associated with nabbing a few cuts.

For BB

Hoffmania gives an everyman's critique of the acoustics in the new Disney Concert Hall. Intriguing!

Sweeneyisms

So many December movies to look forward to! I'm getting ready for Sweeney Todd. BB, Anthony and I discuss it all the time. BB likes Len Cariou, who first held the title role, because he's such a lyric baritone. I prefer George Hearn because he was so damn frightening. He played in the award-winning Showtime version of ST. Rent it from Netflix, but to be fair, wait to order it until after you see the Johnny Depp version.

No ruddy pirates here!

Random Sweeney finds around the 'nets:

ST as directed by Ivan Reitman ("Ghostbusters"). Yes, it's a parody. Yes, I wrote it. Shut up.

Two other ST parodies, each more weird than the last!

ST Featuring Bryan Adams? WTF? Surely they don't mean this Bryan Adams.

ST: The Website. Never forget. Never forgive. Never turn down your speakers.

ST movie trailer done in the style of Harry Potter. Anthony, I'll just tell you since you don't watch You Tube videos - Sirius Black finally seems evil.

Johnny Depp is reunited with his razor. Voice-wise, the jury is still out ... we may yet be sorry they didn't cast Bryan Adams.

Breakin' up in five easy stages

The inimitable Lori of Hahn at Home has compiled a comprehensive list of breakup songs that would make Elizabeth Kubler-Ross proud.

The Breakup Matrix of Grief has five stages. So, I thought I’d share a little breakup mix. This is by no means an all inclusive list. In fact, I now sport about six or seven thousand songs to work through a breakup. It’s a science.

Cover art

Do you know who Faith Hill is? Can you picture her in your mind's eye? She's a pretty woman, isn't she? Well, simply 'pretty' don't cut it in the land of women's magazines. Here's a revealing look at Redbook's photoshop partay. Look how they airbrushed the hell out of her already nice-looking photo until she looks like a pasty, bland robot with poles for arms and hair that actually weighs her head down. Disgusting. (For a non-animated analysis, go here.)

To my brother ...

and to anybody else who wants to feel OLD: The baby on that Nirvana cover is turning 16.

Make 'em laugh

Not bad! I scored 14 out of 16 on the Mental Floss musical aptitude quiz. The ones I mixed up were 'Carousel' and 'Kiss Me Kate' - my folks owned most of the soundtracks for the others, and I grew up singing the all these songs. [Thanks, Karen!]