{"id":127,"date":"2008-09-29T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/09\/29\/more_music\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:52:10","slug":"more_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/09\/29\/more_music\/","title":{"rendered":"More Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must return to to unfinished business. I’ve been way from the blog thanks to a trapped nerve in my neck. This was the outcome of a charm cast on me by a foul witch<\/a> (hmm perhaps “fowl witch” is a more appropriate moniker) – I wasn’t aware that she had been studying the Dark Arts, but it may also explain how she found 12 Grimmauld Place<\/a> so easily.
\nSo, back to the unfinished business. The fowl witch (who really is a pain in the neck1<\/a><\/sup>) cast her charm as a feeble attempt to win the latest round of our contest<\/a>. This could go on for a long time, but I had better end it now, before Matt realizes what he has done by allowing us to put up YouTube videos.<\/p>\n


\nSo, how to finish? I guess I could continue the Python theme, perhaps with a new trailer for an old film<\/a>. Or perhaps a Lego adaptation of one of their musical numbers<\/a>. Or how about Bohemian Rhapsody as Lego<\/a>?
\nI could take another tack. There are certain songs and certain singers that should not be seen together – Britney Spears and Satisfaction<\/a> (the Jacko video is just rubbing it in), Celine Dion and You Shook Me All Night Long<\/a> (yes, an AC\/DC cover). Or Henry Gee and almost anything.
\nWe could go back to Mr. Shatner, and his string of misses: Mr. Tambourine man<\/a>, Common People<\/a> (yep, that one should have been pulped). Even more bizarrely, someone doing their impression of Shatner vying with Ms. Spears to fail to provide Satisfaction<\/a>.
\nBut no, there is something far, far worse. Something so horrible it has survived from the pre-youtube age. From a singer of whom it was written<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

\nFew artists ever gave such unalloyed pleasure as Florence Foster Jenkins<\/a>, yet this extraordinary soprano had the wisdom not to overdo a good thing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could write more, but it is enough to present her as she was:<\/p>\n

I will be merciful and spare you all more of this battle with Girlscientist. I feel I have already done enough to demonstrate that she would never win. No doubt the fowl witch will put up another half-hearted attempt to top this, and claim victory. But we all know it will just be an act of desperation – Mrs. Jenkins is not to be denied.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> I’m only using that one so that nobody else will feel they have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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