carl sagan and the white stripe

By now, everyone’s seen the videos featuring Carl Sagan, Steven Hawking, Richard Feynman, etc. Singing! All singing by virtue of Autotune software. Personally, I find these two music videos emotionally moving, which shows that I’m a science geek, I guess. Then I heard Ann Druyan on the “Planetary Radio” podcast recently saying that Jack White [...]

Blue Cheer and The Pains of Being Pure of Heart

Lately I’ve been revisiting the band, Blue Cheer. Sounds like a laundry detergent, but the name actually came from a type of LSD going around San Francisco in days of yore. Oldsters and psychedelic music aficionados will remember their famous cover of Summertime Blues. I think I first heard it from my older brother or [...]

beware: white cubes from space

Scot sent me this video and I present it to readers without comment.

naturally 7

sing your sign

Astrology–can it really divine something about your personality or future? I think all four of my readers know that the evidence in favor of astrology is just about…wait a minute, let me double check this…yup, the evidence supporting astrology is…zilch! None. Zippo. It’s right up there with homeopathy in the pantheon of pseudoscience.
However, thanks to [...]

doomsday cult follow-up

If you go to the following page:
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=1928210&song=Preamble+-+Great+Divine+Rectors+call
enter the download code, scroll down and press the green button on the BeeMp3 Player, you’ll get a fine sample of what I was referring to in the previous entry.
On the same page I also recommend:
“Church Universal & Triumphant, Inc. Feat. Elizabeth Clare Prophet – Decree 10.05″
…and listen to [...]

sounds of american doomsday cults

R E V I S E D  2/10/09
The title of this post is the title of a CD worth owning. I originally posted a link to a RealMedia sample from the album, but the site that used to sell the album didn’t like that, even though I had provided a separate link to the company’s [...]

this land

I saw a video of Pete Seeger (he’s 89 now) singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” at Obama’s inaugural festivities. It seemed like a good time to repeat this great verse (sing along, dang it!):
As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no trespassin’
But on the [...]