TwoPennies

Hick Hop

The sound quality isn't the greatest, but it's still one of the better music videos I've seen in a while...

Tell me where to go...

Tired of the same old boring voice commands from your GPS navigation system?

The Capitol Steps have just the thing for you:

Political Navigation (MP3 file)

The Classics Never Die

Because sometimes I, too, need the help of two other people just to slow it down for the ladies...

Flat Baroque

While exploring the blog of a recent visitor, I came across this excellent video of a guy talking about his traumatic experiences with Pachelbel's Canon in D (big hat tip to Leslie):

From the way-back machine

Yesterday, Jack Bog's web site was inaccessible to some folks due apparently to a domain registration issue.  I'm glad he's back, he's one of my main reads every day.

One of his posts that I had missed referred to an article he had posted two years ago.  As things do on the web, one thing led to another and I found myself reading this old post about a bluegrass performer in Portland.

The discussion in the comments section mostly revolved around artists who speak out about political issues during their acts (not as part of their songs, mind you, but between songs).  And therein was contained one of the funniest exchanges I've ever seen on a blog.  In comedy, timing is everything.  And this worked out perfectly:

 

I still think that politicians are performers . . . they just lack an instrumental accompaniment. Just dub in Mozart to any speech and a politician becomes an artist. Visa versa, remove the beat from hip hop and what do you get?

Posted by: ron at June 30, 2004 08:25 AM

 

"...remove the beat from hip hop and what do you get?"

Grammatical errors?

Posted by: Scott-in-Japan at June 30, 2004 10:28 AM