The Sign of Two
Dec 24Sherlock has two theme tunes – the “Main Theme,” which plays over the opening credits, and sounds like this: – and “Sherlock’s Theme,” which pops up at various points during the show, and sounds like this: My question is: why on earth do they use the first theme for the opening credits when the second [...]
Random Rambles
Nov 24Speaking of Burroughs, while I was in San Diego for Libertopia last month I made a point of driving past the house on Coronado where Burroughs lived in 1913, when he was writing The Return of Tarzan and some of the early Barsoom and Pellucidar books. It looks exactly the same today as in this [...]
Entangling Alliances With Nun
Nov 08Around 1984, my college roommate Paul Fine (my collaborator on the Kant Song) and I wrote, inter alia, a song called “Sister Ann,” which I like best of all our joint compositions. Below are the lyrics; lines in bold are Paul’s and the rest are mine. All the music is Paul’s. Here’s a version with [...]
Scary Singing
Oct 31David Tennant (who will be David Ownner after the revolution), Catherine Tate, and other Doctor Who cast and crew members commemorate series 1-4 here: And this next video reminds us just how Hallowe’eny series 5-6 have been: (CHT TARDIS Newsroom here, here, and here.)
She Sighed For So Much Melody
Aug 08Wallace Stevens’ “Peter Quince at the Clavier” and J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Tale of Tinúviel” always remind me of each other – and not just because they both rhyme “quavering” with “wavering.” (Whether Tolkien is likely to have read Stevens I don’t know; I’m not sure how well known he was outside the u.s.) Tolkien [...]
Cover Story
Jul 31The Civil Wars cover one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs (indeed one of my favourite songs of all time): Lissie covers Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”: Juliana Richer Daily (is that her real name or her financial ambition?) does likewise: Lissie seems torn between wanting to make the song her own and wanting to imitate [...]
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