Showing posts with label Feist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feist. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Another Christmas Song

 

Last December I took the opportunity to discuss some of my favorite holiday traditions, ranging from my love of Maersk butter cookies to the annual return of CHRIMMUHTREEHEAD!!! 

One such post also dealt with the Christmas at Baylor concert DVD I get out every year and watch while I wrap presents and reminisce about being a part of the production. Besides that, there are only two other things I watch every year during the holidays, the first being the movie Love, Actually and the second being the subject of today’s post, Stephen Colbert’s 2010 Grammy award winning Christmas special: A Colbert Christmas- The Greatest Gift of All!. (If you’re unaware of who Stephen Colbert is, it might be easier just to direct you to his wikipedia page, should you care to know).  Some of you might remember certain songs from the special appearing on my holiday iTunes playlist from last year. 

Colbert_christmas

 

At any rate, the special is a musical variety hour in which the character of Stephen Colbert gets trapped in his cabin in the woods and is visited by a myriad of celebrity guests: Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Feist, John Legend, Jon Stewart, Elvis Costello and, oh yeah… Santa.  For your viewing pleasure, a couple of my favorite numbers from the special!!

Stephen getting’ things started with a plea for royalties

 

Toby Keith puttin’ a smack down against those on the wrong side of the “War on Christmas”

 

In which Jon Stewart attempts to sell Stephen on Hannukah:

 
 
 

Stephen and Elvis Costello warning that there are much worse things to believe in during the holidays

 
 
 
 
Here’s to you, legions of dispassionate dyspeptics!!
 
 

Artist: Stephen Colbert / Album: A Colbert Christmas- The Greatest Gift of All!

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

I Feel It All

 

You know how sometimes you’ll have never heard of something, and then all of a sudden it keeps popping up as if you’re the only one not in the loop? For instance, I try to listen to a lot of different types of music.  If I don’t like it, then I don’t like it but I can at least speak semi-intelligently about it.  However, until today I had never heard of dubstep.  According to Wikipedia’s article on the subject, it “is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South East London. Its overall sound has been described as ‘tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals’.”  It’s probably easier to hear it than read about it.  The first time I saw it today was when youtube recommended a cover of a Feist song I like. 

GET IT LITTLE WHITE BOY!!!

My two favorite comments are the video:

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Then, on BoingBoing they had an article entitled thusly: “Daladubz Puts Dumbo to Dubstep”.  There’s that word again!!!  This mash-up music from Dumbo reminds me a lot of a previous remix I featured on Snow White. (Just a quick note… the player below will have written comments pop up that aren’t exactly blog-friendly.  Just click on the little “word bubble” in the bottom right hand corner and it won’t show them).

Daladubz - Pink elephants VIP by Daladubz

I.   LOVE. THIS!

Artist: Feist / Album: The Reminder

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