Savage Popcorn

Born February 8, 1932, John Williams is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including all but one of Steven Spielberg’s feature films, Star Wars, Superman, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July, Harry Potter, and more. In short, if you’ve watched any films at all over the past thirty years, then you will have heard a John Williams score. Even if you haven’t seen the films, the music is so iconic that you will probably recognise it anyway.

Now go and check out this tribute from Moosebutter.

According to the description on Amazon, Chumbawumba’s The Boy Bands Have Won is “gentle and warm in tone but caustic in intent.” After having heard Charlie (via Pharyngula), I can well believe it.

Mat Bowles (via) has another silly musical meme: Choose a singer/band/group and answer the following questions using only titles of songs by that singer/band/group.

1. Are you male or female? Vegetable man
2. Describe yourself. My Mind is Connected
3. What do people feel when they’re around you? Insanely Jealous
4. How would you describe your previous relationship? I Got the Hots
5. Describe your current relationship? Positive Vibrations
6. Where would you want to be now? Sudden Town
7. How do you feel about love? You’ll Have to go Sideways
8. What’s your life like? Strange
9. What would you ask for if you only had one wish? Unprotected Love
10. Say something wise. Only the Stones Remain

And to make things interesting, there’s something fluffy for the first commenter to correctly guess the band.

The Large Hadron Rap

US man charged for shooting mower

A 56-year-old man from the Midwestern US state of Wisconsin has been arrested after shooting his lawn mower in his garden because it would not start.

Dead Kennedys - A Child And His Lawnmower

The footage is taken from Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. The band is Kozaks Of Metallishtan. The result is bonkers.

Found on the Starwreck blog, appropriately enough.

… When you finally accept that you never will get around to replacing all of your vinyl and find yourself looking at “best of” CD collections instead.

Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, Manchester band, The Get Out Clause found a use (via) for the millions of CCTV cameras infesting Britain’s streets.

They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the cameras.

Afterwards they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.

Click here to see the results.

From salvatore-pertutti via GodItself.