Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 5:37PM ;)
A recent bargain purchase at our local pre-dump opportunity shop. Whodathunkit? Minstrel records are plentiful just 100m from the dump?
Obviously The Hey Hey comedy team's recent blackface issue could have been avoided had they just explained to everyone using the text on the reverse of this piece of vinyl... read more for details
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 9:28PM Fresh from their pilgrimage to the World Beard Championships, The Beards have a video for If Your Dad Doesn't Have a Beard, You've Got Two Mums. Produced by the Adelaideans @Urtext Studios, it is an epic tale of woe and stubble.
Saturday, May 5, 2007 at 1:24PM "People say I'm strange, does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger"
~DC Talk's 'Jesus Freak' (proving for hopefully the last time that Christian Rock is an oxymoron)
Writing lyrics is hard at the best of times, let alone if you have to try and cram words like 'manger' into a chorus.
Just had to put that out there. Rest of the lyrics here.
music Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 10:44PM Hey there.
So I have been a contributor to this fine blog for a while and have so far contributed nothing but harsh comments to the other people (except for Cam, that guy's great!). Anyway I have been wondering what I should unleash upon the readers as my first post. Like many other things in life I wanted my first time to be special, to choose the right moment and to not rush it. But like many other things in life it will probably end up a huge disappointment, for me and all other parties involved. Without further ado I present the best ad ever!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 11:51AM
Athanasius Kircher first described the cat piano in his landmark 1650 work Musurgia Universalis.
In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.
I reckon this sort of piano would be the best possible medium for The Blue Danube Waltz (lalalalala...lala...lala if you don't know it- It is in 2001: space odyssey or for the more sophisticated of you, on the simpsons when homer's in space eating chips). I can just imagine it now, meow meow meow meow meow.....meow meow.....meow reeeeaaaaaaoooowww (have an extra long spike on one of them... or maybe just an extra crazy cat). Also anything by the Pussy Cat dolls would be nice.
Any other suggestions of music the cat piano should play?
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