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Chatanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller Band with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers.

This is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

With every new video I see of the Nicholas Brothers, the more convinced I am that they were the greatest dancers to ever don tap shoes—they trump Astaire's natural elegance and Gene Kelly's athleticism.

Wowsers.

Choosing DVD/CD Archival Media

Because what you store it on makes a difference.

The Jamaican-Jewish Wedding

From Mikey Fremer comes Beyond the Pale's first music video. They aren't the first group I know of to compare Jewish liturgy and Rastafarian song (there's "By the Rivers of Babylon" of course), but this one's a goodie.

A Modest Proposal

Mark Cuban has a new business model for the music industry: Give it away.

He calls it Googlenomics.

Well, Maybe 20-Odd

A list of "33 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names."

Something in the Way

It's stupid to lose control of something as simple as sleep, but I've been having trouble with it.

I should be more specific. I've been having trouble staying with it. I've been having trouble staying asleep. Falling asleep is easy: I get in bed, I'm gone. Invariably, however, some time around 3 or 4am — maybe because an outside noise cuts a hole into my dream, or maybe because the dream itself is somehow unpleasant, or maybe because JA once told me that most people who die in their sleep do it at around 3 or 4am, when their body temperatures are lowest — I wake up.…

Is <I>Apocalypto</I> Porn?

I can't remember the last film review I read in Archeology. Traci Ardren, an AP at the University of Miami, who has studied classic Maya society for the 20 years, while living in Yucatan villages, has a different view of Mel Gibson's movie than the one you probably read in your local paper.

Quick!

Q: What composer is also a shoe size?

A: Fauré.

Steakhausen.info has many more bad musical puns.

Boids!

Bagheera wants to see what's chirping outside.

Hmmmmm

Huckleberry seems deeply introspective. It's probably just gas.