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A new clip by "A Place To Bury Strangers", the "loudest 3-person band in NYC" (and a very cool band name). The mastermind behind APTBS is Oliver Ackermann, whose company "Death by Audio" is designing guitar-effect pedals. For me, the musician who holds everything together is Sandra Fedowitz, the girl on drums.

To celebrate the re-opening of Notre Dame in Paris... Roxy Music "A Song For Europe" (lyrics) Down by the Seine, Notre Dame Casts a Long, Lonely Shadow...

Canned Heat's "Christmas Album"

And here is the masterpiece: Japanese all-female Shonen Knife with "Sweet Christmas" Well, I just discovered that Shonen Knife had another Christmas song, "Space Christmas". I like the idea to have bison pull Santa's sleigh.

Chuck Berry essentially had one - very successful - guitar riff. He just had to exchange the lyrics for each song. Run Rudolph Run is the Christmas version. And here is Lynyrd Skynyrd's version...

Does humor belong in music? - Classical edition

Canned Heat "Christmas Blues", with Dr. John on piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PouMzBdB-Ts (Youtube does not allow embedding of this video)

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For me, it is the "local" team. When I came to the States to Rochester, it was Syracuse. Then we moved to Lubbock because my wife and I both got positions at Texas Tech, and at that time the Red Raiders were intriguing (Mike Leach) and became my favorite team. When the kids went off to college, things got a bit more difficult as they both chose UT Austin. Our son even played in the Longhorn band for 4+ years. Since then, my loyalty is split between TTU and Texas. And then there is a team that I cannot watch: Boise State - the blue turf makes me seasick. Fortunately, it seems that no other program followed suit; otherwise, we would have red, pink, purple or yellow fields.

For me, it is not "lost interest", I always disliked - Sports where the results depend on judging (ice skating, gymnastics, equestrian dressage, and all the new X games stuff) - Why are there four different styles of swimming? - Why are there so many different distances in track running? On the other hand, I like sports where you need some versatility (biathlon, triathlon, hepta/decathlon, olympic pentathlon - although the last loses some appeal with the removal of the equestrian part). I could even come up with a few new combination sports: - King/queen of the runners: each athlete does a 60 m sprint, 400 m hurdles, 3000 m steeplechase (or cross-country), and a marathon. - King/queen of the ice track: you have to combine runs in luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh. - Sailor king/queen: First, you let them sail their high-tech, heavily computerized catamarans. In the second round, the skippers have to compete in a $5,000 Optimist dinghy.

My Maerklin train set. It started when I was 3 with a simple oval and Lego houses. It was expanded every year in the 2-3 weeks before Christmas, until it reached a double oval with working signals and a working catenary - all assembled by my Mom (RIP, Mom). I then bought yards of rail so that we could run trains into every room of the 1,000 sq ft apartment.

I was walking down a dirt road And the night was coming on fast I had gone to for some corn meal for our supper By the time I got to Miss Johnson's house I knew there was something wrong By the worried look she had upon her face I said: Miss Johnson could you tell me What are you shaking for She said: Lord, they caught the devil And they got him in jail in Eudora, Arkansas

Currently, one of my favorite live bands: All Them Witches

Cat's foot, iron claw Neurosurgeons scream for more At paranoia's poison door Twenty-first century schizoid man Blood rack, barbed wire Politicians' funeral pyre Innocents raped with napalm fire Twenty-first century schizoid man