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posted to MetaFilter by grouse at 6:40 AM on June 6, 2007 (20 comments)

Cockeyed Absurdist - jonmc's 300 most favorite songs and why, including Iron Maiden, The Exciters, Neil Young (as a greaser), Captain Beefheart, Hanson, and of course, The Dictators.
posted to MetaFilter by hellbient at 8:47 AM on March 23, 2007 (134 comments)

The Criterion Contraption: Matthew Dessem is going to watch every last DVD in the Criterion Collection and blog about it. Illuminating and knowledgable film writing. You can start, if you wish, with the entry on my favorite film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, or pick from the complete index.
posted to MetaFilter by Falconetti at 9:24 PM on March 19, 2007 (55 comments)

Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett - (alerts: YouTube & nsfw language. via Exploding Aardvark)
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 9:59 PM on February 1, 2007 (26 comments)

They Don't Know I'm speechless right now.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky at 2:15 PM on January 29, 2007 (110 comments)

Format, Abdominal - Vicious Battle Raps, Hit Song previously
posted to MetaFilter by hypersloth at 4:55 AM on January 26, 2007 (25 comments)

Can someone wipe my butt? [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by emelenjr at 8:42 PM on January 23, 2007 (50 comments)

What's the most difficult piano piece? Opinions vary. Is it La Campanella, written by Liszt to show off what only he could do? (performance, score) Is it Balakirev's Islamey, which even Balakirev struggled to play? (performance, score) Or Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, written to top Islamey? (performance, score) Does Godowsky double his points by reconfiguring the already-difficult Chopin for the left hand? (performance) And if someone plays all four hours of Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, written across four staves to fit the extra notes, will anyone listen? (perfomance excerpts, score excerpts)
posted to MetaFilter by argybarg at 8:54 AM on January 6, 2007 (110 comments)

Goldsmith sings Wittgenstein. Part two. (mp3) Kenneth Goldsmith (previously), the "most boring writer that has ever lived," has become a sort of rockstar in conceptual art circles. When he's not singing linguistic theory, you can find him transcribing his own speech, spinning records, and reading the other Kenny G's fanmail. More theory set to music.
posted to MetaFilter by roll truck roll at 8:59 PM on December 27, 2006 (23 comments)

The Thai sport of Sepak Takraw is similar to volleyball but players may not use their hands. It's like the best parts of volleyball, soccer, hacky sack, gymnastics and Tae Kwon Do rolled into one sport. Each team may use a combination of feet, knees, head or shoulders to pass the ball three times before spiking it back over the net.
posted to MetaFilter by freshwater_pr0n at 5:43 PM on December 10, 2006 (14 comments)

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
The Raymond Scott Quintette - War Dance For Wooden Indians
Chic - Le Freak
Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking
Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Burning Spear - Foggy Road
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cue
Jonathan Richman - I'm So Confused

Cult music on the YouTube
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 11:03 PM on November 30, 2006 (129 comments)

If you overdosed on being thankful yesterday, the Birmingham Complaints Choir or the Helsinki Complaints Choir might be an antidote. (YouTube alert) More on complaints choirs.
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 11:28 AM on November 24, 2006 (24 comments)

Women, know your limits.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 9:26 PM on November 23, 2006 (59 comments)

Elephant sanctuary. Where do the old, sick and needy elephants go after outliving their “usefulness” in the US? Hohenwald, Tennessee is home to 2700 acres given over to Asian and African elephants. There are some pretty heart wrenching stories in their newsletter (pdf). This is the same state that hung an elephant in 1916 (mefi post). (elephant cam at the sanctuary)
posted to MetaFilter by edgeways at 3:22 PM on September 18, 2006 (29 comments)

Much of the “jobs of the future” rhetoric surrounding the eagerness to end shop class and get every warm body into college, thence into a cubicle, implicitly assumes that we are heading to a “post-industrial” economy in which everyone will deal only in abstractions. Yet trafficking in abstractions is not the same as thinking...
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar at 7:53 PM on September 7, 2006 (54 comments)

What's That? Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way. The other day I was at the grocery store and the checker was unable to identify a portabello mushroom. And no, she wasn't new...and to make matters worse the checker next to her didn't know either. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by MiHail at 9:25 AM on November 12, 2005 (1011 comments)