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Nothing Else Matters

Olga pointed me to this fantastic rendition of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, on electric guitar and saz. Aman aman.

Five Step

Via Waxy.org, Radiohead’s 15 Step plus Dave Brubeck’s Take Five: Five Step on youtube.

This isn’t just “hur hur they’re both 5/4″, the melody of Take Five gets a subtle reinterpretation over the chord changes of 15 Step. My only complaint is that Take Five was trimmed to fit 15 Step, meaning we lost some fantastic [...]

Mardi Gras.bb at eMusic

At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic.

That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new album, [...]

Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem…

… Explained in Words of One Syllable, by George Boolos (not Boole).

If it could be proved that two plus two is five, then it could be proved that five is not five, and then there would be no claim that could not be proved, and math would be a lot of bunk.

If you’ve got access [...]

Holy crap how cool

The comic. The result (with photos).

Awesome.

Mario Bros in lego

Ok, it’s via BoingBoing, but it’s too cool not to share. A stop-motion Mario Brothers sequence in lego, with music by recorder and sound effects by voice. Delightful.

Blues Brothers: now with more Blues Brothers!

Wow. I finally got around to watching The Blues Brothers on my laptop (yes, it’s downloaded, yes, I’m ashamed). It’s the DVD edition. Meaning … new dialogue in the opening scene, shots of Elwood parking the Bluesmobile behind “Danger, High Voltage” doors at the end of an alleyway and climbing out the window because there’s [...]

Fat Freddy’s Drop (been and gone)

So I caught Fat Freddy’s Drop on Saturday, through a nice wee chain of coincidences. Thursday night we celebrated ending the Dutch course, and an American girl from the course (thanks Heather!) told me sometime in the evening that “Some band from New Zealand, Fat Freakies or something, are coming here in June or maybe [...]

Woonboot!!

I’m going to live in a houseboat! In Amsterdam North, almost within spitting distance of Central Station (if you know Noord: it’s opposite Ot en Sien, the pub a couple of hundred metres up from the ferries).

We told the landlord yesterday we’d take it. It’s two stories (decks I suppose — I mentioned that it’s [...]

Evil Fairies

From now on I’m requesting evil fairies every Sunday morning.

Via we make money not art, which also has more pics and tries to convince you that this is the work of some “artist.” The discerning reader will doubtless ignore these blandishments and check the fairy traps at once.

(More pics at Clapham Art Gallery.)