Posted by admin on 30 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: gadgets
If you’ve ever tried to find the name or a song or remember the lyrics by going “dum-de-dum-de-dum”, help is at hand. On a site called SongTapper, Geoff Peters has compiled a database of songs with the lyrics noted as a rhythm. Huh? It’s easy. You simply tap in the rhythm of the lyrics [...]
Posted by admin on 16 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: meanings, news
You have to love popular culture. The web is full of reports with the lovely Ziyi Zhang (”Memoirs of a Geisha”) supposedly claiming “Eminem was my English teacher”. The mind boggles. The reports state that Zhang apparently started learning English through advertising and, um, Eminem. “I loved to watch the commercials because they pronounce their [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: meanings, protest, religion
What is it with Black Metal? It reminds me of early punk when the goal was to be outrageous at any cost (remember the Christ crucified over a Swastika T-shirt?). But then people began to take it at face value and it became a whole lot less funny.
So is Black Metal an elaborate joke? Can [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: meanings
After Christmas and New Year, I’m feeling a little lazy. So I couldn’t help linking to a discussion about "funny" lyrics on the UK’s Digital Spy. Funny ha-ha or funny-peculiar? Well, this where it gets interesting, as what some people think is funny, are just some of the worst lyrics on the planet for other [...]