Here’s Meco’s disco version of the Star Wars theme
[5.9 MB, MP3], a big radio hit when I was in the fifth grade and when
the tag line for the movie was “the story of a boy, a girl…and a
universe!”
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I’ll Let Sass Drive
Postmodern Sass, everyone’s favourite sprachspiel, has the lowdown on Monday’s Kickass Karaoke.
Attention karaoke fiends of Accordion City: there’s a Kickass Karaoke tonight at Ciao Edie (489 College, just west of Bathrust) starting at 9 p.m.!
Here are some scene from the Kickass Karaoke on Sunday, May 8th at The Rivoli…
- The regular attendee with the coolest name, Jet Run, performing the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. [3.8 MB MPEG-4 video]
You’ll note that he’s gotten rid of the beard. He was tired of people coming up to him and asking “Where’s the accordion, man?!”
- Tim, a.k.a. “Timtation”, practicing for his lead role in The Joe Cocker Story, which will he tells us will appear as a made-for-TV movie on TNT sometime in 2028. [3.8 MB MPEG-4 video]
- Tim and Jet Run struttin’ their stuff in classic Single Male Peacock style for some ladies who are probably too young for them. Mind you, I’ve done that too. Hell, all us fellas have done that at one point or another. [3.3 MB MPEG-4 video]
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My Favourite Headline
In the print edition of today’s National Post:
Three Days Until the Sith Hits the Fans
To kick off Star Wars week, here’s Bill Murray’s classic lounge rendition of the Star Wars theme from Saturday Night Live [1.0 MB MP3].
With the increasingly warm temperatures, sunnier skies and the
certainty that Mother Nature isn’t going to fake us out this time, I’m
looking forward to being able to hit the streets and bang out some
new tunes on the ol’ squeezebox. It’s been far too long since I’ve
played and longer still since I’ve posted a good accordion-related
entry. I’ll have to fix that.
Hopefully the local buskers won’t raise the bar on busking outfits like the artist shown below:
Okay, now we’re taking this “tree-hugger” thing a bit too far. Click the photo to see a larger version.
(Apparently this person is a big indie rock star, but damned if I know who he is.)
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Cell Phones are the New Lighters
Mike “M.” Doughty, formerly of Soul Coughing, coiner of the clever phrase “rampant Corganism” and whom Wendy got to
meet recently at a Berkman Center event, asked an audience to hold up
their cell phones while he took some picutres:
He should’ve tried to get them all to make their phones ring Fur Elise. Click the photo to see Mike Doughty’s blog entry.
There are more photos on his blog.
I wonder if somebody yelled “play Freebird!”
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Party Like It’s 1999
Being a Time Lord gets you chicks!
Aside from the obvious reason of seeing Wendy, I wish I could go to
Boston this weekend to attend the Time Traveler Convention at MIT
taking place at 8:00 p.m. this Saturday.
Although the convention site makes a reference to a clever line by “Cat” from the webcomic Cat and Girl…
“Technically, you would need only one time traveller convention.” Click the picture to see the whole comic.
…there has already been one. Back in the late eighties, Spy
magazine put out an open invitation to time travellers to meet at their
offices for cocktails. Presumably, no chronal cruisers showed up.
Although I can’t attend — and neither can anyone who hasn’t RSVP’d
yet; the event is booked solid by people from the present — I’d like
to contribute by offering these two time-travel themed MP3s. Enjoy!
- Doctorin’ the Tardis by The Timelords (who were really The KLF under another name). A proto-mash-up of the Doctor Who theme with Gary Glitter’s Rock and Roll, Part 2. [7.2 MB MP3]
- Dr. Qui by musical comedian/comedic musician Bill Bailey. In this track Bill performs the Doctor Who
theme as Serge Gainsbourg would’ve done it. It helps if you know a
little French and are a little familiar with Serge’s work. [6.6 MB MP3]