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It's a song about playing make believe games, and pretending that everything's going to be alright, when really it's all gone to shit. It's also somewhat of a sea shanty.
posted to MeFi Music by robotot
at 12:32 AM on February 7, 2008
(2 comments)
A characterization of a rich womanizing pimpy kind of guy.
posted to MeFi Music by strangeguitars
at 6:36 AM on February 9, 2008
(5 comments)
Something is rotten in the state of
Denmark California.
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi
at 4:26 AM on February 5, 2008
(33 comments)
My friend and I play a lot of acoustic music around local coffee shops in town. Here's one of the many mandolin tunes we wrote in my living room last summer. I'm on mandolin and my friend is playing backup guitar.
posted to MeFi Music by mikeo2
at 5:46 PM on February 2, 2008
(10 comments)
The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need to Learn
Unfortunately, many of those who claim to be working for environmental improvements lack an understanding of a few basic concepts which are absolutely critical to accomplishing anything. The idea that it is nessisary or honorable to make sacrifices to save this planet are overly simplistic and lack a true understanding of the forces at work. To use a phrase I have come to like, they are “Not even wrong.”
posted to MetaFilter by DV8 2XL
at 12:23 PM on February 2, 2008
(168 comments)
"Ann Coulter doesn't even believe anything she says!" Really? Are there any cases of a writer or pundit who turned out not to believe the positions s/he took?
posted to Ask Metafilter by transona5
at 10:19 AM on January 29, 2008
(37 comments)
What are some things that humans do, that no other animal species does?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Solomon
at 8:57 AM on January 27, 2008
(91 comments)
A song for the season. Slightly disturbing.
posted to MeFi Music by Liv Pooleside
at 8:27 AM on December 15, 2007
(2 comments)
A song based off of the greatest statements ever made by one Matthew Lavallee, circa 1988. He was a pudgy preteen, introducing himself to one of my friends for the first time. He extended his hand for a shake, and uttered the titular line.
posted to MeFi Music by Greg Nog
at 3:39 PM on June 30, 2006
(4 comments)
Some jazz noodling on that classic standard
Misty. My friend Steph on the alto sax, me on the piano.
posted to MeFi Music by chrismear
at 8:20 AM on January 10, 2008
(8 comments)
A short instrumental, played over an old tape of me reading something in French as a kid.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 8:09 PM on January 9, 2008
(20 comments)
One week after 9/11/01, upstate New York. Worrying, whinging and existential musing with my friends. Karen says, "At least I'm not dust in New York City."
posted to MeFi Music by By The Grace of God
at 8:16 AM on January 9, 2008
(9 comments)
Old-timey / bluesy ditty from our new album. That's me on fiddle. :D
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog
at 10:10 AM on January 3, 2008
(11 comments)
Here's a song about those times when picking a random direction and hitting the road seems like best idea ever.
posted to MeFi Music by scottandrew
at 5:55 PM on January 20, 2008
(5 comments)
Seasonal melancholia from the Stockholm archipelago.
Not a guitar in sight. Well they
are in sight - but not in sound. They are due on the next track. Biding their time in the shadows.
posted to MeFi Music by jan murray
at 3:36 PM on January 22, 2008
(1 comment)
CuriosityFilter: We all know that movie trailers that begin "In a world..." became so common that those three words became an in-joke thanks to Don LaFontaine. I know many spoof movies (like the
Scary Movie series) have spoof-type trailers that start out with the voiceover, "In a world...". How many trailers actually have used that voiceover snippet in the beginning un-ironically, and what is the most famous one?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Unicorn on the cob
at 2:05 PM on January 22, 2008
(12 comments)
What if the Devil tricked a well-meaning computer developer into making a horrendous animal racing game?
(cringeworthy YouTube link) Now we know! Yes,
Cougar Interactive has a product for you. Zoo Race! The biblical flood is over, and with hardly any people around, what's Noah, God, and the animals gonna do? Why, RACE of course! The game features compelling voice work, top flight graphics, and of course...
animals straddling on rockets. And to top it all off, God is the announcer! It was the best 2007 had to offer, and it's still available... so, like their web site says..
Buy the FUN game that the big game companies would not ever make. (as found at
Kotaku)
posted to MetaFilter by tittergrrl
at 1:24 PM on January 17, 2008
(58 comments)
Stories about healthy, "normal" marriages?
posted to Ask Metafilter by callmejay
at 12:29 AM on January 11, 2008
(45 comments)
I am looking for a Japanese blog about a woman who left passive aggressive notes for her husband and son as part of the food in the bentos she made them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by duckierose
at 4:44 PM on January 5, 2008
(11 comments)
As a New Year's resolution, I want to quit visiting an off-topic forum that robs my productivity. I would like to change the password and keep it at a distance so that I will not have access to it earlier than a year from now. Are there any solutions that will curb my addiction?
posted to Ask Metafilter by timmins
at 7:33 AM on December 31, 2007
(13 comments)
Religion fulfills certain psychological needs. How do non-believers manage without it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by giggleknickers
at 5:33 PM on December 30, 2007
(77 comments)
Parentists, the dogmatic believers that parents alone are the source of Christmas presents, may have new reason to believe, with the scientific approach of
External Delivery. Of course, some skeptics have opined that External Delivery is just
Santa Clausism with a pseudoscientific veneer. Other commentators are more forgiving, and point out the
great strides that ED has made in the study of Yuleogy.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog
at 12:34 AM on December 28, 2007
(29 comments)
I can't stop thinking, and it's destroying my life! I over think and over analyse every damn situation, it's causing me major depression and stealing my sleep, so how do I stop?
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrisbucks
at 6:50 AM on December 16, 2007
(26 comments)
Why do mathematicians (and/or programmers) describe information passed to a function as an 'argument'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by b33j
at 9:31 PM on December 13, 2007
(14 comments)
If I could have just one little bitty present from Santa this year, it would be to see the well deserved (and hopefully painful) death of the use of:
quoted comment originalnew object
inserted
"fixed that for you"
posted to MetaTalk by John Smallberries
at 5:05 PM on November 25, 2007
(199 comments)
In Britain, just as the football season ended 5 months ago, a football fan and journalist launched an endeavour to buy a club.
MyFootballClub asks for £35 from their members and in return, trustees are given the right to vote on transfer deals, squad choices and managerial appointments. But first they are to decide which football team to buy. From across the world people are invited to play
the tycoons at their own game. With the target 50,000 members signed up already, and with the new season set to start in a few weeks
it looks like this radical trust has a fighting chance.
posted to MetaFilter by takeyourmedicine
at 4:55 AM on August 2, 2007
(22 comments)
Anyone know of any
cross-platform information organizer software?
posted to Ask Metafilter by braintoast
at 6:37 AM on July 26, 2007
(4 comments)
Learn to navigate using the stars in 15 minutes! OK, well maybe not navigate, but you'll know exactly where Orion, Betelgeuse, Polaris (the North Star), Cassiopeia, and Jupiter are.
posted to MetaFilter by Mave_80
at 5:51 AM on July 26, 2007
(36 comments)
My impulse towards giving myself instant gratification is ruining my life! How can I train myself to stop lunging for instant gratification and instead remind myself to consider what will be most gratifying in the long term?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tastybrains
at 1:25 PM on July 20, 2007
(26 comments)
Flamenco guitarists on YouTube:
Paco de Lucia,
Vicente Amigo,
Sabicas,
Niño Ricardo,
Manolo Sanlucar,
Serranito,
Tomatito,
Paco Peña,
Carlos Montoya,
Gerardo Nuñez,
Diego Del Gastor, and of course, the legendary
Segovia.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio
at 8:56 AM on July 4, 2007
(13 comments)
I find it nearly impossible to do any real work, unless I happen to feel like it. But I don't want to end up drifting through life, settling for mediocrity. If you managed to get your act together and are now able work hard on things you aren't interested in, as we all should be able to do from time to time, then my question is: how did you do it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 10:57 AM on June 5, 2007
(29 comments)
Rough arrangement of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" for the steel-string guitar. I put this together about a month ago, after the SNL "Dear Sister" sketch introduced me to the song.
posted to MeFi Music by The White Hat
at 12:47 AM on May 15, 2007
(27 comments)
