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Lucas Gonze plays a ragtimey version of Blind Willie McTell’s “Your Southern Can Belongs to Me”:

Canadian content

Nick sent me a link to the marvelous but not perhaps universally likely-to-be-appreciated Colorectal Surgeon song by Bowser and Blue, whom I should of course have been already familiar with. I wasn’t, so I did a bunch of watching of ‘related’ videos. Some belong in my ethnocalumny category, some are funnier if you happen to be Canadian, but I like ’em all… Here’s a paean to poutine:

…and if that leaves you hungering for more, consider I’m Glad I Live in Canada, Canadian Culture, Halifax Harbour, When Lawyers Take Viagra, and It Ain’t Easy Being White

Here for just a few days

current state of a project I’m working on… will be removed and revised pretty soon:

Janet Klein: The Sheik of Avenue B

…and if this strikes a responsive chord, try also her rendition of Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars (lyrics under “More Info”)

Jeffrey Lewis lays it out for you

And see Abject Learning for another take on Jeffrey Lewis’s accomplishment, with SkreemR clips. I really admire what Brian Lamb has done here, and am somewhat nonplussed to admit that I don’t quite understand all the bits he’s using. Showing my age, I guess.

Deadpan mandobanjo

Dennis Pash and Meredith Axelrod play Tickled To Death:

Muto

I saw the Baden version of this last year sometime, but the Buenos Aires iteration is more detailed. You won’t regret the 7+ minutes:

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo, and I reached it via Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber, who snagged it from Jenn Lena’s blog.

Tsk tsk

This one somehow escaped me in my sheltered youth, but I’m making up for it:

say the Notes: from “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, written by Dr. Seuss himself, we have this musical number featuring the film’s villain Dr. Terwilliker getting dressed to conduct his 500-boy piano symphony…” and there’s mooore:

How did this ever get made? Here’s some more context:

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid it thus far, it’s a very ’50’s, very Seussian musical. Simply put, it’s the story of a boy falling in love with a plumber while trying to escape from a maximum-security piano camp. It’s also the story of how movie-making can go awry.

As it turned out, Ted ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel hated the experience of being involved in the movie, and detested the final product. He forbade any other Seuss material to be adapted to the big screen during his life time. (Sound reasoning, as it turned out.)

In turn, Columbia Pictures lost faith in the film mid-production, yanked promotion, cut the budget, and cut huge portions out of the finished movie.The plans for an epic children’s fantasy along the caliber of Wizard of Oz were dashed, and the film received tepid reviews upon release.

And yet there’s still something there, and it’s a movie that needs to be seen. Especially if you’re a Seuss fan.
(from I’m Learning to Share)