Another busy morning, so another quick entry today.  Perhaps I should rethink the tendency to do these during my lunch hour and start doing them the previous evening like I used to.

Of course, maybe the demand for these entries should actually exist before I concern myself with such matters.  But for now, here's a cool Peter Gabriel track from Up, to go along with So and Us.  He likes two-letter titles.  Can you imagine if Peter ever started playing Scrabble seriously?  I can't wait for his Aa, Qi, Ut and Za albums.

Watch a fanvid for "Darkness" on YouTube.

Watch the segment from the Growing Up Live concert video.

Been a busy morning, so here is a quick, random entry.  Just a nice little Madness tune I happened to think of.

Perhaps I simply had big pants on the brain.  Who knows why.

Watch the video for "Baggy Trousers" on YouTube.

Here it is with better audio (and lyrics).

It's John Williams' birthday today.  He is 78.

He is more than just the greatest film composer ever.  I'm gonna go so far as to say that there are very, very few people in this world who are as good at their jobs as he is.

Hear "Hymn to the Fallen" on YouTube.

Was a bit of a struggle today trying to choose a song to pick.  Then, out of nowhere, I remember the time (in the late 80s or so) I happened to catch some video on MTV featuring some groovin' rap song that made use of the Talking Heads tune "Once in a Lifetime."  David Byrne was even in the video.  Never got the artist's name or the song title.

God bless the Intarwebz.  Only took a few seconds to learn that the rapper in question was named KC Flightt and the song was called "Planet E."  So, for all two of my readers, here it is.

Watch the video for "Planet E" on YouTube.

Hear it with better audio quality.

Before this year's GoM, I had never heard of Les Savy Fav.

Holy cow, this song rocks.

As does the cover version done by Songfight's own Sven Mullet.

Don't believe me?  Click these links and be rocked.

Hear "Raging in the Plague Age" on YouTube.

Hear Sven Mullet's cover.

It's Gift of Music time once again in Songfightland.  Well, at least it was - I was out of the country when it was first revealed.  It's kinda dying down now, but I'd be remiss if I failed to give it a nice fat plug here.

You may remember when I featured a whole week of songs from last year's GoM.  This year it will be more of a mini-theme, so today I am putting up this Frank Black song along with a new version done by Billy's Little Trip.  I've talked about that guy in the past, so posting his entry shouldn't be a surprise.

For the record, I covered the Dave Brubeck piece "Take Five" for this project, which I've discussed before.  You can hear my version here.

Oh, I also started to rework my sorted song logs that Internet Explorer recently fubared.  They're at least up-to-date and readable, although a lot of the formatting has been removed, so they'll be rather plain looking for now.  But my God, I didn't quite realize just how much IE had butchered them.  For some ungodly reason it threw in a bunch of paragraph tags, and that made adding a new entry very difficult.  I eventually decided to just take all of the formatting tags out, and I'll put the applicable ones back in at some point.

Moral of the story:  Don't use IE.  Ever.  Especially if you wanna do something bold and daring, like, you know, some random blog no one reads...

Watch the video for "Headache" on YouTube.

Hear BLT's cover.

My blogging duties are a pure cakewalk today.  Why?  Duh, there's a new Tomster parody! 

Watch the video for "Swine Flu in the USA" on YouTube.

For the first time, I exceeded my monthly traffic limit, so this thing went AWOL for a few days.  But now that it's a new month, I get a whole, new, fresh whopping 1 GB of data for bot crawlers to move.  We'll see if this becomes a recurring problem.  If it does, maybe there are some files I can move.  But I'm gonna sit tight for now.

In the meantime, you can once again commence the enema and bondage searches.

The Grammys took place last night.  I'm not even gonna mention what a joke the Grammys are.

I got to thinking, do I actually own any Grammy winning recordings?  Have I EVER owned any Grammy winning recordings?  The one that came to mind first was Zappa's Jazz From Hell, which I've talked about before.  It won the 1988 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.  Which is somewhat odd, seeing as how it's not performed so much as it is programmed.  Nonetheless, here is "G-Spot Tornado."

This is an instrumental, so don't look at that title and freak out.  No naughty words contained within.

Watch a (the?) video for "G-Spot Tornado" on Spike.