Plan on the Death and Dismemberment Tour last spring about when poetic license goes too far in pop song lyrics. One of the two songs that sparked the discussion was that one 80s song about not having to take your clothes off to have a good time and how they could go dancing and drink...
Original Song Title: "Time Passages" (MP3) Original Performer: Al StewartParody Song Title: "Swine Viruses"Parody Written by: Bob GomezThe Lyrics Public health disclaimer: It has not been proven that the H1N1 swine flu can be contracted by reading a parody about it. But you never know. So...
but there’s more in this one film than most directors manage in a lifetime: more meaning, more emotion, more intensity. Perhaps it’s the out-of-the-past setting – a narrowboat plying the canals of rural France – or the weirdly disconnected central couple, or even the presence of S...
With lyrics that include "I know I should have thought twice before I kissed her" in the opening, you know you're in for a sleigh ride like none other. It's therefore no surprise thatCyndi Lauperand Swedish rock band the Hives' unconventional Christmas duel describes many marital h...
When it comes to gloriously tasty six-string instrumentals, no one does it better than GRAMMY-winning TexanEric Johnson. For his take on this timeless Christmas carol, the "Cliffs Of Dover" guitarist intermingles acoustic-based lines, sublime clean guitar passages andHendrix-y double-stops ...
American Pie's lyrics have been analysed in all manner of quarters, but predictably, the best explanation of the song's meaning came from McLean himself. “It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to,” he's said to have quipped. ...
“The motets recorded here, although most of them pre-dating the plague of 1630 by a year or more, still represent the music of the plague years. In the absence of new music for worship, these collections of motets would have taken on a new meaning for both performers and congregants: ...
The ultimate in cuddly Christmas afternoon movies, this original stars Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle, who must prove he is in fact Santa Claus – not least to a young girl (Natalie Wood) who has lost the true meaning of Christmas.
“Everybody’s Talkin’,” a cover of Fred Neil’s country folk ballad, bookends the film. In the beginning, the melodic jangle of the guitars captures the optimism and naïveté of a cowboy leaving the South for the big city. Yet the lyrics of escapism and new pastures—“I’m ...
It is limited to detecting objects thicker than 3 centimeters, meaning that it has trouble with thin objects such as a closed laptop placed flat on a table. The accuracy of such smart camera systems may need to improve before they are widely adopted. “You’ve got to trust the technology ...