Dueling Cellists Play Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal and A One Man Violin Quartet Takes on Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody
[A little levity for your evening opening thread. Yutsano, I think, will like this one. Peace out- ABL]
[cross-posted here (sorta) at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
Maude
Ode to Joy was played on banjo. Heard it on the radio.
It was interesting.
btw, there are a lot of shootings in the news. It is escalating?
danimal
DougJ DougJson bait. Who wants a job fact-checking for the Atlantic?
Alex S.
This is what happens when you offend the machine:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/chicago-official-were-printing-ballots-without-rahms-name.php?ref=fpb
lamh32
I was gonna post something about Olbermann, and how I wasn’t crying for him, since he’s came out pretty damn good from the details of the deal ($7M ain’t nothing to sneeze at).
I was gonna link to “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”, but then I got distracted. And I thought the heck with Olbermann, Ms Patti LuPone deserves a comment of her own.
I liked Evita with Madonna, before I saw Ms Patti LuPone’s Evita sing this song.
It’s like hearing Diana Ross sing “Home” from the Wiz, and then hearing the original dorothy Stephanie Mills sing “Home”. Compared to Stephanie, Diana was CRAP.
Anyway, here’s Mrs patti Lupone
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Violet
@danimal:
Ohhhh…that’s rich. From McMegan:
Yes! It’s the readers’ faults for not caring about little things like facts! That’s why no one bothers to fact check.
freelancer
The MJ cover gave me goosebumps.
Welcome Home.
Stillwater
Open thread, yes? Anyone know what happened to Cornerstone?
Violet
Open thread beg:
Anyone have any great ideas of what to do with green tomatoes? I know, I know: fried green tomatoes. But there are only so many of those one person can eat. Any other suggestions/recipes?
(I finally took out the tomato plants this weekend. I’ve got a mountain of green tomatoes sitting on the kitchen counter.)
jeffreyw
Hey! Check these buns! Hubba hubba…
jeffreyw
@Violet:
Ahem!
BGinCHI
@Violet: If Jeffrey doesn’t know then abandon all hope.
UPDATE: Told ya.
KRK
@Violet:
Hearkening back to the recent discussion of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books/legacy, I remember one of the books (By the Shores of Silver Lake, perhaps?) had an episode where there was a sudden frost and they had to quickly make use of tomatoes that hadn’t ripened, so they made pies from (at least some of) them. It always sounded intriguing to me.
Mike Mussington
Man!
Um… holy shit! ‘Smooth Criminal’ on dueling Cellos!
Jeez….
More, please. LOTS more!
lamh32
BTW, here’s Stephanie Mills singing “Home” vs Diana Ross from the Wiz if ya’ll didn’t know what song I was referring to.
Stephanie Mills – Home
Diana Ross – Home
burnspbesq
@Violet:
Green tomato relish!
Violet
@jeffreyw:
Thanks! Looks delicious but also looks like a lot of work and like it takes a lot of time. Know of anything less time consuming?
Stillwater
@Violet: As a gesture to the always rational Market, she says it isn’t economical. She then goes on to say that the Atlantic employs fact checkers because it’s the ‘right thing to do’. Heh.
I thought libertarians categorically reject ‘doing the right thing’ since it’s not a market based policy instrument. Is Megan confuzzled or is it me?
burnspbesq
If there are any actual chamber music fans out there, I strongly recommend the Pavel Haas Quartet’s new recording of Dvorak String Quartets Nos. 12 and 13.
Violet
@KRK:
I’ve heard of that too.
@burnspbesq:
Got any recipes? Is it something you can/preserve or something you eat right away?
MikeJ
You remember a first novel published in the 80s, when greed was good. It was an ok book, but what makes it relevant is you remember Bright Lights, Big City was about a fact checker.
lamh32
OMG.
Those cellist are awesome ABL. I bought the Micheal Jackson Experience game for Wii, and of course my long extended Afr Am family absolutely loved it.
We dance battled, played as a group to every damn song, and loved every minute of it.
What was amazing was the number of my fam who are way to young to have even been born when MJ was in his prime, but it is as will def know, not an unsual thing for the majority of Afr Am fam.
My 5 year old cousin, could sing “Rock With You” as well as my 11 year old nephew, and my 51 years old mother, and my 73 year old grandmother.
Violet
@Stillwater:
No, she’s predictably hypocritical McMegan: claim to follow certain principles (“markets work best”) and then behave however she wants, especially doing whatever is in her own best interests. In this case sucking up to the Atlantic (her employer) is a smart, self-serving thing to do, hence the “doing the right thing” ego-stroking comment. But everyone else really should follow that awesome markets-solve-everything principle.
Brachiator
Play the violin for the NY Times, which is about to disappear behind a pay wall (from the also walled Wall Street Journal):
MikeJ
@Brachiator: Didn’t they already try this? Wasn’t it already a colossal failure?
Violet
@Brachiator:
The Times in the UK is following that model and last I heard it’s not going well for them.
burnspbesq
I am really struggling to get through Chapter 1 of “Griftopia.”
Can someone assure me that it gets better? Are there actual facts revealed that I wouldn’t otherwise know (for purposes of your answer to this question, assume that I have read and am familiar with “The Big Short” and “All the Devils Are Here”)?
Taibbi is really, really self-indulgent, and head over heels in love with the sound of his own voice. But I’m willing to wade through that if I’m going to learn something.
Violet
@MikeJ:
I think they tried a model where there was some “premium content” that you had to pay for but regular stuff was free. Everyone went for the free stuff and the premium stuff fizzled.
burnspbesq
@Violet:
I can check with my Mom and see if she has a recipe. Or you can look on allrecipes.com. I assume it would be as shelf-stable as anything else you can yourself that is highly acidic.
MikeJ
@Violet: And of course the opinion page writers hate hate hated it. What they’re most concerned with is having people talking about their ideas. When they went behind the paywall before, nobody gave a shit about what Thomas Friedman had to say.
Remind me again why this is bad?
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
Am I the first person to end an interview about a book of poetry on a dick joke? Or just the latest?
(Buy my book)
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@burnspbesq: If I had to guess, you probably won’t learn anything new so much as you may see it put together in a way you hadn’t seen it before. I think that’s the nature of this kind of book now–if you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve already heard the stories. just not put together in this kind of narrative.
Violet
@burnspbesq:
I’ve checked out allrecipes and some other online recipe sites. Problem is, you just don’t know if they’ll be all that good. So I thought I’d ask in case someone had some amazing family recipe they wanted to share.
I should take a photo of the tomatoes. I really do have a mountain of them. I must have 60-70 green tomatoes and about 20 ripe ones, plus 10 or so that will turn red. And then the cherry tomatoes. Several pints worth of those. My tomatoes did really well this year but this last freeze did them in.
Omnes Omnibus
Both are brilliant, but I will admit to pro-violin bias. Yeah, I’ll admit it, I am violinist.
Violet
@MikeJ:
Heh. It’s sounding better and better now that I think about it. Thomas Friedman behind a paywall. Good stuff. Does that mean that Chunky Bobo is going to go behind a paywalll too?
Omnes Omnibus
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): I tend to assume Emily Dickinson would have done so given half a chance. Chris Marlowe almost certainly did it.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@Omnes Omnibus: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote an epic poem full of them, one that has been bowdlerized beyond belief for high school students even though most of the teachers couldn’t suss out the jokes if they tried. I’m just trying to keep up the tradition. And I think it’s a fairly good joke, at that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): It wasn’t a bad joke at all.
Nellcote
Aaron Sorkin has a new series coming out about cable news. (Yay! I’m
so ready!) Apparently it’s got the green light from HBO
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/aaron-sorkins-next-tv-show-tackling-cable-news_b49637
Keith might be a contributor!
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/aaron-sorkins-next-tv-show-tackling-cable-news_b49637
freelancer
@Nellcote:
That’d be kind of cool, considering he was the model for Josh Charles’ Dan Rydell on Sports Night.
burnspbesq
@Brian S (formerly Incertus):
I shall perservere, then.
Brachiator
@Violet:
Yeah, the Times UK (a Rupert Murdoch publication)has been forced behind a pay wall. Ironically, some tech heads are referring to this stuff (along with the balkanization of smartphone apps) as “walled gardens,” which sounds so soft and fluffy.
Wired has a good take on the NY Times plan here.
It’s funny that the newspaper moguls don’t understand that there is value in making sure that the maximum number of eyes possible see their stories (if they make them worth reading). They also don’t understand that there is advertising value to be gleaned also from maximum exposure, but that the inventory of ads has to vary depending on where the story is read.
Or they can just go out of business. Note also that in the UK Rupert Murdoch is trying to leverage expanding his control of a cable TV business, trying to corner the market on all forms of content distribution.
MikeJ
@Brachiator:
That’s like when apple decides it can erase apps off the phone you paid $600 for and call it a “curated experience.” Not to be confused with a girlfriend experience, but you’re getting fucked either way.
4jkb4ia
ND 56, Pitt 51. Glory of Pitt tarnished. Will probably lose ranking.
4jkb4ia
Federer Update:
Started playing! Up 4-1.
srv
California Guitar Trio does a nice Bohemian Rhapsody too.
AliceBlue
Rest in peace, Jack LaLanne.
WereBear
FYI, there is a LITTER ROBOT ad in the sidebar. I wish to say that the LITTER ROBOT is the most fantastic appliance in my life since I got a blender during my first year of college.
I have four cats, a small apartment, and one litter box thanks to the LITTER ROBOT.
That is all.
freelancer
@srv:
Heh. Good call, I have that on my iPod.
WereBear
@Violet: Green tomato relish.
I believe it freezes. For the ultimate in ease, pickle them!
zed
Iron Maiden on the Harp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vbdxwI5Ck
Bill H.
I liked that “Smooth Criminal” thing a lot.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Heh. Rachel is shredding Rudy Giuliani and Lanny Davis for representing dictatorships as lobbyists. The fun part is, Lanny Da Weezil will almost certainly feel compelled to respond, and she can shred him all over again.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
Those dueling cellos were awesome!
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This reminds me – I recently finished reading “Selling the General,” from Jennifer Egan’s amazing book “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” I think Lanny Davis and Giuliani should read it. Unfortunately, they’d probably view it as a how-to manual.
4jkb4ia
Federer 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Very easy. Next match will be one of Berdych or Djokovic and not so easy.
4jkb4ia
The first video was very well played but could not overcome being “Smooth Criminal”.
4jkb4ia
Schiavone defies the sports pundits by taking the first set from Wozniacki. Brava vigorous age.
4jkb4ia
Schiavone about to be up a break….
4jkb4ia
Wozniacki takes second set and break.
Yutsano
And no matter how hard we try, Beaker will always do it better.
4jkb4ia
Wozniacki takes third set.
Amy
Thanks for those clips, ABL. I’m in love with the dueling cellos.
Mike Mussington
Listened to ‘Smooth Criminal’ cover again. Absolutely electrifying!
“The Riot of Strings” came to mind…
lawnorder
Thanks, my cello playing daughter will love this (and the cute guys playing it :p )
Joel
More chamber than string, but an incredibly well-done cover; destroys anything by the Vitamin String whatever they call themselves..
Alarm Will Sound does Aphex Twin’s “4”