Buster Posey isn't human.
I have nothing to add to this post. Nothing at all. (Except that I've used this title before, basically. And will doubtless need to use it again. That's one of the great things about baseball, really.)
We Could All Use A Diversion Today, So Here's The Best Film Featuring The Music Of Scott Joplin That's Ever Been Made.
Fun, stylish stuff, and one of the greatest twisty endings ever. Plus, did I mention that the music's really great? Joplin's rags set the perfect tone. Enjoy "Easy Winners," "The Entertainer," "Gladiolus Rag," "Pineapple Rag," "Rag Time Dance," and "Solace." And Redford and Newman and Shaw. Gosh, what a great cast.
This Post Is Not A Trap. But It's About A Trap. Sort Of.
"Star Wars kind of happened by accident for Erik, and he recorded his lines too late to be credited in The Return of The Jedi, so it wasn't until his latter years where the fans figured out that he was the voice behind the iconic 'IT'S A TRAP!,' and convention appearances all around the world swiftly followed."
The Internet's Full Of The Weirdest Things, Isn't It?
Need Something To Restore Your Faith In Humanity (And In The Internet)?
See Y'All In July!
LOL, Baseball!!!
An Act Of Disparation
Leo, Bylsma, Boccherini, And The Joys (And Dangers) Of Musical Free Association
Cars, Mechanics, and Gymnastics Go Better Together Than I'd Have Thought
A Charming Bit Of Whimsy For Your Sunday Morning
When Is A113 More Than Just A Number (And A Letter)?
"In November 2012, the Los Angeles Times reported that directors who had been students in the California Institute of the Arts’ animation programs had generated more than $26 billion at the box office since 1985, breathing new life into the art of animation....Even more remarkable was that so many of the animators not only went to the same school but were students together, in the now storied CalArts classes of the 1970s."
I'm Recommending Today's Film Mostly To Remind Myself That I Need To Watch It Again
My Most Demoralizing Film Snob FAIL Of The Day
A Practically Perfect Picture, At Least In My Book
Hey, Internet Peeps! I Think I Just Found Our Theme Song!!!
Captain Jack Tueller And The Power Of Music
"I thought to myself, that German sniper is as lonely and scared as I am. How can I stop him from firing? So I played that German's love song, 'Lilly Marlene,' made famous in the late '30s by Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress. And I wailed that trumpet over those apple orchards of Normandy, and he didn't fire."
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis Is Pretty Great (Though Not Particularly Solemn)
A Seriously Instructive Episode From A New Podcast In My Rotation
Between the Liner Notes describes itself as "a documentary style podcast about music, why it is the way it is and how it got to be that way." It's latest episode is all about jingles, and it's great.
As you'll realize pretty much the moment you hit the first jingle example (or the moment you hit the first sentence in the episode description below), when I said "seriously instructive," I most definitely did not mean "serious" and "instructive." Because it's not serious. (How could something about advertising jingles actually be serious?)
But it's surely instructive. And maybe a wee bit demoralizing.
Jingles are traditionally defined as short songs about a product that are written for TV or radio, but—with songs like Poo-Pourri’s“Imagine Where You Can Go” being released on the internet—does the traditional definition need to be expanded? Listen as Tim Taylor, author of “The Sounds of Capitalism” and Helen Zaltzman, the host of The Allusionist, take us through the century long history of ad music, and examine what jingles sound like in the internet age.
Attribution(s): "Goofy Musicians" from Flickr's satchelmouth1 via VisualHunt/CC BY-ND.
