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 [...]
How the Daleks Stole Christmas
Jul 15Maybe it’s not quite as iconically, surreally, perversely enjoyably awful as Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo ballad, but the Dalek Christmas song – by the Go-Go’s (but not the proper Go-Go’s), from 1964 – is still a blight upon the face of the universe. So of course I have to inflict it on you: The only bearable [...]
Don’t Diss the Sonic
Jul 06A lot of people have noted that the musical theme for Sarah Jane Adventures sounds (unsurprisingly) a bit like the Doctor Who theme. But to me what it really sounds like is a cross between Doctor Who and Harry Potter (while not being as good as either, alas):
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