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    Review: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog

    Sunday, July 20th, 2008

    (Updated 2 PM 2008 Jul 20)
    The latest Joss Whedon effort, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a short musical made available on the Web and starring Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion (better known as Doogie Howser and Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, respectively). The plot revolves around the titular villian — more like, villian wannabe — [...]

    Contata (2)

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    So, on to Contata proper. (See this earlier article for context.) A filk con is different from a regular con (assuming that my limited experience at Lunacon allows me to generalize about a “regular” con) in that the filk con is explicitly organized around the music. In a lot of ways, it [...]

    Contata (1)

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    I spent this weekend at the hotel Hilton Parsippany, attending a sci fi con called “Contata 5“. In a somewhat strange co-branding fashion this was also NEFilk 18 — apparently, NEFilk is sort of an umbrella designation. Filk is an odd branch of music deriving from (originally, literally via type) folk music — [...]

    Review: Marc Cohn at the Highline Ballroom

    Saturday, November 17th, 2007

    As is my wont whenever Marc Cohn wanders into the New York-Philadelphia corridor, I went to see him perform — this time, at the Highline Ballroom in lower Manhattan. True to form, it was a fantastic show with Marc the consummate showman. The opening act was Amy Correia and this time, Marc played [...]

    “Miles Away” — Marc Cohn

    Saturday, November 17th, 2007

    I know there’s always something
    We have to go through
    That has some deeper meaning
    Right now I just can’t say
    I know there’s a lesson in here somewhere
    I’m gonna think a lot about it later
    Right now I’m miles away

    “After the Fire” — Roger Daltrey

    Thursday, August 16th, 2007

    After the fire, the fire still burns
    The heart grows older but never ever learns
    The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
    But after the fire, the fire still burns

    “We Can’t Make It Here” — James McMurtry

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

    Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin?
    Or the shape of their eyes? Or the shape I’m in?
    Should I hate them for having our jobs today?
    No, I hate the men who sent the jobs away.

    “Brothers in Arms” — Dire Straits

    Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

    There are so many different worlds
    So many different suns
    And we have just one world
    But we live in different ones…

    Nothing But a Dream

    Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

    One of the things that goes along with advising Student Council at my school is orchestrating the annual Talent Show. For the past four years, that’s included performing as the first act — largely because I badger my fellow faculty into performing, and I feel I should ask them to do something I’m not [...]

    Marc Cohn in Carnegie Hall

    Friday, March 9th, 2007

    I am not really much of a “joiner” and I don’t have many entertainment things about which I get passionate. Long ago, however, I decided that I would pick an artist and follow them closely. I chose Marc Cohn, whom you might remember from a 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis”, which still gets [...]

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