Have I posted this before? I don’t care.
Justin Vernon and a piano, singing “I Can’t Make You Love Me” like no one ever has before.
Category Archives: Music
Let’s listen this great reggae tune, shall we?
Just listen to it. Richie Spice – Youth Dem Cold
Reinvented: Aloe Blacc does Billy Jean
Just listen to this: Michael Jackson’s Billy Jean, by Aloe Blacc and The Grand Scheme.
DeYarmond Edison – Dusty Road (So Kind)
Earlier this year I became acquainted with the music of the talented Justin Vernon, recording as Bon Iver. I soon discovered and fell in love with the work of his previous band, DeYarmond Edison. They split up in 2006, but in the years prior recorded a wonderful, folky sound on two albums plus an EP […]
Danny MacAskill – Amazing trials bike rider
This guy’s talent just thrills me, and the film is exquisitely made. A nifty song by Loch Lomond is featured also. If you can, be sure to bump this up to HD.
Ghosts of Amsterdam
Some old negatives from WWII, found in a flea market, are married with present day shots from the same place. The effect is striking, and moving.
Radiohead – Reckoner
This video is part of a full set, performing their album In Rainbows. You can buy the video album on iTunes. A delightful way to listen.
Gene Simmons never had a personal computer when he was a kid
(Berke Breathed)
Just for now, just because
This isn’t new, but I find I return to watch it often enough that I ought to share it with those who maybe haven’t seen it at all.
In this video, Imogen Heap, an artist of sorta electronic pop music, performs one of her songs totally live and a cappella, laying down tracks and basically singing a really cool round with herself. Check it out.
Utah Phillips Tribute Project
Utah Phillips was a storyteller and historian; a purveyor of American heritage in the form of tale and song, with a penchant for labor union history and hobo folk songs.
Palin’s Turkey Interview
Happily, Sarah “Train Wreck” Palin is continuing her good work. I’m not sure if it speaks to her “maverickyness”, or just “dumbassitude”. I’m going with the latter.
To quote a YouTube commenter:
Dave and Alonso get married
The passing of Prop 8 here in California weighs heavily on my mind. I just can’t reconcile it. The inane, short-sighted, small-minded perspective that it took for so many of the people I share the streets with to say “Yeah, I’m for that. Fuck “those” people!” So sad that we are still so unenlightened.