Music Video for Friday: "Antibodies"

I think I'm going to add the pointing and humping move to my repertoire. Mix it up with the dice shake.

Music Video for Friday: "Turn Into"

Singstar Bollywood

Now I just need to get my long white shirt and install the waterfall in the living room. I'm not sure if we know enough people to do this up proper, though. Thankfully, it's not even slated for the US yet. Time to get to work making new friends.

clipped from www.joystiq.com Eurogamer reports that SingStar Bollywood will hit European store shelves this Friday. Lucky for some of you, the game features phonetic English lyrics so gamers don't have to learn Hindi in the next three days. If you've never been treated to an over-the-top Bollywood production, we have some toned-down examples after the break along with the song list for SingStar Bollywood.

Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

I'm a worrier.

I worry about nuclear attacks. I worry about arsenic in my drinking water. I worry about global warming. I even worry about zombies sometimes. Right now I'm worried that my government is going to trump up charges and imprison me. I'm a liberal, and I'm given to occasional hysterics. Secret gestapo bullshit will do that to me, though.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Nalini Ghuman, an up-and-coming musicologist and expert on the British composer Edward Elgar, was stopped at the San Francisco airport in August last year and, without explanation, told that she was no longer allowed to enter the United States. Ms. Ghuman’s descent into the bureaucratic netherworld began on Aug. 8, 2006, when she and Mr. Flight returned to San Francisco from a research trip to Britain. Armed immigration officers met them at the airplane door and escorted Ms. Ghuman away. In a written account of the next eight hours that she prepared for her lawyer, Ms. Ghuman said that officers tore up her H-1B visa, which was valid through May 2008, defaced her British passport, and seemed suspicious of everything from her music cassettes to the fact that she had listed Welsh as a language she speaks. A redacted government report about the episode obtained by her lawyer under the Freedom of Information Act erroneously described her as “Hispanic.”

Jesus Day

In the rotation today:

"The Body, The Blood, The Machine" by The Thermals.
This album is like half a dozen baked sociology students attending a Young Republican convention. Upon reflection, that doesn't sound like it would be a good thing. And, to be perfectly honest, the lyrics are what you might expect from that description: a collection of sometimes inane anti-Christian platitudes. "Wow! Christians are like Nazis! Do tell. I'm fascinated".

But, if you can accept that the album's not as deep or as subtle as it wants to be, it's really good. Scratchy, distorted guitar work and driving drums layered on top of screeching, earnest vocals. There's a really appealing core of spiritual conflict and disgust that seethes through tracks like "Back to the Sea" and "Returning to the Fold". And "Here's Your Future" is just damn catchy.

"Jesus Christ Superstar" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
I actually like very few musicals, but I had a roommate in college who listened to this album every once in a while. I've never actually seen the musical, but the music has stuck with me through the years. "King Herod's Song" and "Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem" in particular. I sing the former at karaoke sometimes, and it is truly breathtaking. There's even a little dance that goes along with it. But, that is neither here nor there.