Thing a Week 5 – Baby Got Back
This week is a cover of Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot (note: he is not an actual knight). Had to activate the whole team for this one – guitar, mandolin, banjo and even some shakers and tambourines and other things lying around the house. I’ve wanted to cover this song for a long time, because it is excellent – there’s a wonderful message in there for those of you who have big butts. In the proud tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my album “Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.”
Here is the song: Baby Got Back
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MySpace Worm
MySpace user Samy built a worm into his MySpace profile that got him a million friends in 24 hours. I should have thought of that. Here’s his kind of contrite/kind of braggy confession and a description of how he did it: link (via Waxy).
This week’s thing coming soon. Still mixing. Hope you like covers…
Gig and Pi
First, I’ll be playing live in public in the actual world this coming Tuesday October 18th, 8:45 PM at the Apocalypse Lounge (189 E 3rd St. between A and B). Last time I played only about 1.5 people showed up and it was very sad. Don’t let me be sad again. I’ll be on at 8:45, and followed by Bryan Dunn with whom I used to work and who is excellent, and Lara Ewen about whom I know next to nothing, but I’m sure she’s great.
More important, once in a while I see or hear something that makes me so jealous I want to smash all my stuff and burn my home to the ground. Here is a link to a video of a song by Hard n Phirm called Pi (link) (via Waxy). It’s about Pi. Some of you may remember them for Rodeohead, their crazy bluegrass mashup of Radiohead songs which is amazing, but also on their album is El Corazon, a description of how the heart works sung in Spanish delivered as if it’s a love song, and also a song about the Carbon Cycle and – Arrrgh! [smash smash SMASH]. This Pi song is pretty great on its own, because something like 200 digits of Pi are sung in harmony, but the video takes it over the top and makes me wish I was someone else, like maybe either one of those guys, or else the guy who makes all these fantastic videos (Keith Schofield) or any of the bands for whom he has made videos.
First Batch
OK, now we’re having a good time using the internet as a tool for big fun. This is Fun 2.0! Thanks to the brave ones who sent solos in – I’ve mixed them in and made some snippet mp3s for you to listen to. We have two guitars, a melodica (with harmony no less) and a cello. In a couple of cases I added some reverb/delay/EQ and such because I thought it sounded cool. I hope that you don’t take offense if I’ve done this to your solo. Here they be:
As for the rest of you, you have until this weekend if you’d like to send something in.
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