Category Archives: Music

Last Link of the Day: How To Synchronize Five Metronomes

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Gill

How many times has this happened to you? You have five metronomes and they’re all out of sync with each other! How do you correct this problem? Thankfully the folks at Lancaster University have the solution: two soda cans and … Continue reading →

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Remixing the Eccentric: Ray Graham

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Gill

In 2010, A Current Affair ran a news story about a group of vicious dogs that were terrorizing a Marsfield (northwest Sydney, Australia) neighbourhood. In one interview, Ray Graham, a resident of the neighbourhood, gave a particularly enthusiastic impersonation of … Continue reading →

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Osada, an interactive music video

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Gill

If you’ve ever played Samarost or Machinarium, you know what you’re getting into with Osada. For those of you who don’t, Samarost and Machinarium are both point-and-click puzzle game from Czech Amanita Design. Samarost is available to play free online, … Continue reading →

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Go, Solo! Go, Han Solo!

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Gill

It figures that only a day after I posted about The Human Centipede becoming a musical that this clip from a 1996 high school production of Star Wars: The Musical would turn up in my inbox. I briefly mentioned Star … Continue reading →

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Hey, Mr. Burns

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Gill

Those masters of the earworm Your Favorite Martian are back with another catchy and oddly sweet tune. I’ve recently become a pretty big fan of these guys, ever since awnyer posted their video for “Club Villain” and it got stuck … Continue reading →

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George Takei Auditions For Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Gill

With Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark floundering on Broadway, bleeding money all over the place following a lengthy list of cast and crew injuries and the departure of director Julie Taymor, people are beginning to wonder if there’s anyone who … Continue reading →

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Cakesplosions!

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Gill

This music video for Autoerotique’s track “Turn Up the Volume” features enormous cake explosions! Not only is the video for this tune filled with high frame rate slow motion shots of multicoloured exploding baked goods, but the track is the … Continue reading →

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The Human Centipede: The Musical

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Gill

Remember a while back when I wrote an article on movies becoming musicals, I said “I guarantee that eventually someone will adapt your favourite movie for the stage?” I’ll admit to wondering in hindsight if I hadn’t gone a little … Continue reading →

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Zero Day

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Gill

Everyone’s favourite master of nerdcore hiphop MC Frontalot has released an awesome video for his new track “Zero Day”. The song tells the story of a hidden piece of software that turns people into zombies and makes machines become sentient! … Continue reading →

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Last Link of the Day: How To Charge An iPod With An Onion And Some Gatorade

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Gill

This doesn’t seem like it should work, but it totally does! Science is amazing.

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