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I've heard a song on the radio a couple times in the past few weeks, and I've been completely unable to identify it. I've tried google, radio station playlists, humming it into midomi, but no dice. Here's what I can tell you:
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at 6:12 PM on March 27, 2013
(14 comments)
A very short and simple ode to my dog who I love.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 9:53 AM on July 1, 2012
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Calling all teachers, camp counselors, parents, educators, and others with related experiences: share your best call-and-response attention-getters! Most of mine have grown stale and I want to mix it up.
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at 11:13 AM on April 21, 2012
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I'm looking for classroom games and activities on the subject of culture and identity.
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at 10:08 AM on September 17, 2011
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Just what the world needs: another cover of a hit pop song by a white guy with his guitar.
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at 12:46 PM on June 25, 2011
(9 comments)
OK, so I've been talked out of the craziness that was
my idea to make pulled pork for my own wedding. But I still want to make an appetizer. Please help me figure out what to make! Logistical details inside.
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at 3:40 PM on June 16, 2011
(16 comments)
YANMV - What is my dog doing in
this YouTube video? Is she OK? (Apologies for bad sound).
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at 2:54 PM on May 30, 2011
(9 comments)
Is there such thing as a horror film with no evil in it?
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at 2:44 PM on March 30, 2011
(80 comments)
I need help with a Facebook project: printing out a friend's engagement announcement with all the congratulatory comments that follow.
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at 2:39 PM on March 14, 2011
(9 comments)
I have no idea what this is, but at least
zephyr_words sent me a great bass track for it.
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at 9:16 PM on January 31, 2011
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Another "get me out of this musical funk" cover. The more I hear Dylan sing this, the more I think this may be his most beautiful song. Here's my try.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 9:58 AM on January 25, 2011
(10 comments)
Let's hear it for
MetaFilter Music: 5,000+ posts and going strong. I love all of you, from the fine musicians to the devoted commenters and playlisters, to the mods who coded and managed it, to the thousands* of record label execs who've found their next pop star lurking in the shadows here. Here's to another 5,000 posts, then another 5,000, then after that we can re-evaluate. Sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who's ever contributed, commented, made a playlist, listened to a tune, or even planned to and hasn't gotten around to it.
See within for some fun MeFi Music links, and a little bit of a primer on how to get your feet wet in our warm little musical community!
*
Citation needed
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at 5:45 PM on January 14, 2011
(40 comments)
OK. What can I make with all this homemade sourdough bread?
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at 8:34 PM on December 26, 2010
(12 comments)
"
At the time, in the field that we flopped into, the artists wrote and performed all of their own material,” Felice recalled. “Then, after a while, the road got to them. They couldn’t think, they couldn’t doodle around on the front porch with a guitar, they couldn’t stroll through the woods and get inspired. So Boudleaux and I were the first people who came to Nashville who didn’t do anything but write. We were the factory."
What do the songs
Love Hurts,
Rocky Top,
Bye Bye Love, and
Wake Up Little Susie have in common? Why, they were all written by
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, of course! Perhaps best known for the hits they penned for the
Everly Brothers, The
Bryants were an American husband and wife songwriting duo whose compositions, mostly country music, are estimated to have been on hundreds of millions of records sold. Let's get to know them a bit better, shall we?
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at 8:09 PM on December 19, 2010
(13 comments)
I'll go ahead and call myself an experienced breadmaker. Now, I want to invent my own recipes. What should I keep in mind?
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at 3:38 PM on December 6, 2010
(9 comments)
"
In order to renew my Fangraphs membership, every six months, Dave Cameron flies out to meet me in an unmarked parking garage in Washington DC, where I swear a blood oath by candlelight on a stack of Necronomicons never to write anything complimentary about Derek Jeter’s mobility or range. Cameron’s post about Jeter yesterday was faithful to our sworn mission. The awful secret of Derek Jeter’s fifth Gold Glove requires a little background in a few of the more esoteric domains of human knowledge. This may be the most important blog post I ever write; if it is the last, dear readers, only you will know the truth."
Sure,
FanGraphs appears to be a geeky site for baseball stat-heads who live in their mothers’ basements, crunch numbers whilst sipping Diet Dr. Pepper, and invent silly acronyms instead of dating girls. But FanGraphs bloggers quite firmly embrace their own nerdiness – even going so far as to create
NERD, the stat, which rates the “watchability” of a team. Furthermore, they so often blend humor, politics, literature, and philosophy into their writings that to shun the site is to deprive yourself of fascinating, scrumptious nuggets of surprisingly accessible, occasionally math-heavy, and nearly always well-written baseball geekery. Would you like to know if
better players have more Twitter followers? Wondered,
Is The DH Dying? Derek Jeter cheated...
so what? How about a
lengthy meditation on baseball and the science of happiness?
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at 9:20 PM on December 2, 2010
(30 comments)
I just read that Archie Manning could throw a football from one end of an end zone to the other, and that JaMarcus Russell can throw 75 yards while on one knee. What other amazing sport-specific skills do you know about?
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at 10:47 PM on October 11, 2010
(30 comments)
When I'm in a prolonged songwriting funk - which I am now - it can sometime take a cover of a favorite tune to snap me out of it. Let's hope this does.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 6:45 PM on August 24, 2010
(6 comments)
I really want to make my own pulled pork for my wedding next summer - help me make the dream a reality!
posted to Ask Metafilter by ORthey
at 12:02 PM on August 17, 2010
(20 comments)
The Jokemakers - Just the jokes, ma'am. The Jokemakers are a dedicated team of artisanal comedians working to foster community and model sustainability by growing a local joke system. Updated at least four times a week with fresh, homemade jokes!
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at 6:46 PM on July 27, 2010
I'm going to be making my first deep-dish pizza soon. Help me make it awesome.
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at 11:50 PM on June 14, 2010
(11 comments)
I love Randy Newman. Along with the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Cat Stevens, he was the first musician I fell in love with as a child, thanks to my parents. I've covered him
once before on MeFi. Now I'm doing it again.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 6:16 PM on May 16, 2010
(2 comments)
Advice sought for a possibly strange multi-year project involving melody preservation.
posted to Music Talk by ORthey
at 9:08 AM on May 11, 2010
(11 comments)
Sort of an odd tune, relying primarily on one chord. The lyrics actually mean something but that might not be very obvious. Features my dad on alto sax.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 10:14 PM on May 10, 2010
(6 comments)
My fiancee and I need a recommendation for a TV show that fits the following criteria: (1) Can be watched sporadically without really needing to follow the story arc or characters all that well and (2) is really, really good.
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at 2:38 PM on May 7, 2010
(48 comments)
All Things 'Zilla My fiancée has been getting into wedding blogs recently - since we got engaged a couple weeks ago - and has one main complaint: they're nearly all written by the brides. She suggested I start one and write about the process of planning a wedding from the groom's perspective, and so I got right to work.
posted to Projects by ORthey
at 2:24 PM on April 19, 2010
If you can fix the incredibly frustrating wireless internet connection issues on my girlfriend's MacBook, we will both be your best friend!
posted to Ask Metafilter by ORthey
at 5:30 PM on April 5, 2010
(22 comments)
A tune about an odd man who used to roam around my neighborhood as a kid. He wore a crown sometimes. Featuring
chococat on drums.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 8:28 PM on March 30, 2010
(13 comments)
What do you do (production-wise) to your acoustic guitar tracks to make them sound oh so good?
posted to Music Talk by ORthey
at 8:01 AM on March 22, 2010
(13 comments)
A very short little song wherein I take the harshly honest route toward an old friend.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 3:05 PM on March 20, 2010
(10 comments)
I was alone. It was late at night. March was approaching its end and I had to sing a song about the multiplication table. I had no lyrics. I recorded some guitars and then pressed record on the vocals to see what would happen.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 2:15 PM on March 18, 2010
(11 comments)
Did ghee (clarified butter) ruin my homemade whole wheat bread???
posted to Ask Metafilter by ORthey
at 4:20 PM on March 5, 2010
(8 comments)
Just bought Pro Tools and the Mbox 2. Total beginner. Need to learn how to use it. Now what?
posted to Music Talk by ORthey
at 1:58 PM on February 5, 2010
(6 comments)
What are some good songs to jam to?
posted to Music Talk by ORthey
at 11:37 AM on January 20, 2010
(8 comments)
Please help me find a missing Garageband file on my computer!
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at 11:07 AM on January 8, 2010
(2 comments)
A song inspired by the time my high school baseball coach instructed me repeatedly to hit the opposing batter in the head.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 11:38 AM on January 4, 2010
(4 comments)
*Yet* another short, syrupy-melancholic instrumental. This time with extra dobro.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 10:19 AM on December 31, 2009
(4 comments)
Dead car battery, cable isn't long enough to reach - but I have another cable. Can I combine the two?
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at 5:34 PM on December 30, 2009
(24 comments)
I have a 1/2 in my mailing address, and it's driving me crazy. How can I enter it into fields (online) that don't accept symbols?
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at 3:42 PM on November 4, 2009
(26 comments)
My girlfriend and I are making very little money this year. What are some services/discounts/aid we can qualify for? This is in Berkeley, CA, USA, and we live together.
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at 4:45 PM on October 27, 2009
(19 comments)
Punching down risen dough (and slicing it with a dough scraper). Cooking garlic in sizzling hot butter. Putting potatoes through a ricer. Help me find more incredibly satisfying things to do in the kitchen!
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at 5:12 PM on October 13, 2009
(72 comments)
The Elephant Seal! As a fairly recent convert to sabermetrics, a lover of humorous sports writing, and a lifelong fan of the A's and Giants, it became clear to me that I needed to start blogging. The Elephant Seal - a combination of the teams' mascots - explores the worlds of Bay Area baseball (and beyond), including why
Jack Cust is awesome, why
Tim Lincecum deserves the Cy Young Award, what's up with the
Giants' hair, why the Infield Fly Rule needlessly deprives us of
zany shenanigans, the
childishness of not walking, and much more. Other topics - including football, Scrabble, Any'tizers, and more - are never out of bounds.
posted to Projects by ORthey
at 6:32 PM on October 5, 2009
What do YOU do when you think up a hot melody?
posted to Music Talk by ORthey
at 4:29 PM on September 28, 2009
(17 comments)
Another questions about driving traffic to a new blog - but this one is specifically about a sports blog.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ORthey
at 5:23 PM on September 25, 2009
(4 comments)
Another itty bitty ditty.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 6:10 PM on September 4, 2009
(11 comments)
"Lunch is really nice again, not mentioning a few
battles with foods that were calling me like sirens called Odysseus. I had some salad some pasta and some fish and we had a nice chat with some Russian girls at an “All-Russian” table. Catching up on all the gossip, laughing, and in general making fun of people! By the way I forgot to mention that this is a men’s and women’s tournament so if you lose early and you are lacking confidence there is a good chance to challenge one of the girls to a match." Russian-American tennis player
Dmitry Tursunov blogged
his experiences at a 2006 tourney in Estoril, Portugal with hilarious results.
[For best results, read from the bottom of the page up!]
posted to MetaFilter by ORthey
at 8:08 PM on August 7, 2009
(6 comments)
Calling all MeFi Scrabblers! Who else uses the Internet Scrabble Club? Wanna play?
posted to MetaTalk by ORthey
at 3:34 PM on July 11, 2009
(39 comments)
My Velvet Underground homework. There's some backing falsetto in here and some piano and stuff.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 1:30 PM on July 7, 2009
(10 comments)
Help me fancy up my homemade corn tortillas!
posted to Ask Metafilter by ORthey
at 3:54 PM on June 30, 2009
(7 comments)
A largely pointless endeavor, a rendition of Hallelujah with quick fingerpicking and banjos (what's new?).
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 10:10 PM on June 21, 2009
(11 comments)
