Musical Holocron

I wrote a decent post yesterday about Steven Tyler as a judge on American Idol. I know I write from a hipster point of view more often than not and when I first heard that the (former?) lead singer of Aerosmith was going to be a new judge on the show, I was not immediately thrilled with the idea.

Labels: business, funny, music, music/artists, music/artists/aerosmith, television, television/american-idol

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Just a quick note for those with a Netflix account. On a whim, I decided to check if they had any concert videos that I could get on DVD. I was looking for live recordings of any concert that I might like. There were a lot, but for the first few pages, they were mostly classical performances and other artists that I've never heard of. I like classical and I added one or two, but my eyes lit up when I noticed the Pink Floyd stuff. Of course, I had to do a specific search on Pink Floyd to see what else they had. The Wall made it into the queue first, but there were a lot of other discs I added. One that caught my eye was not of the band, but an instructional DVD on how to play their music style on guitar.

Interesting. Does Netflix have a lot more pages of music lessons on DVD? Yes, they do. For the more specific, they have a subcategory specifically for guitar and banjo lessons. Great!

Something else I learned about Netflix? Their DVD queue has a limit of 500 discs. That means that as a subscriber, the maximum number of movies or shows you can put into your waiting list is capped at 500. Yeah, they don't advertise that. More embarrassingly, my queue is now full. Not great, but not too bad anyhow.

Labels: music, music/artists, music/artists/pink-floyd, music/guitar, Netflix, television

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I shouldn't. I really shouldn't write this, as Ms. Spears is one of the most overexposed, nominally underrated, overproduced and endlessly debated celebrity/non-celebrities these could possibly be. Even one of her few ardent fans defending her publicly became one of the most lampooned and parodied Internet sensations out there. Don't believe me? Get a t-shirt and tons of other products. Certainly she's not the craziest celebrity. Or the first crazy one. Or for that matter, the last. But was she batspit insane before stardom or did it come later? Is it the chicken or the egg?

I don't follow pop music anymore, haven't for years. I don't watch MTV. My real question is if she is even relevant anymore. And I guess by the fact that I don't care about the answer should be answer enough. But say what you will, her (and her crew) know how to make a decent video.

Britney Spears - New Music - More Music Videos

It's simple, to the point and doesn't force you to think. But does anyone really play videos anymore? Yeah, I didn't think so. See more Britney Spears in Womanizer if you want. Thanks for the eye candy Britney, now just go away.

Labels: genre/dance, genre/pop, MTV, music, music/artists, music/artists/britney-spears, news, parody, television, video

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X-Files.mp3 (audio/x-mpeg Object) - X-Files Theme Song - Television Show

Found via del.icio.us {tags: television television/x-files audio music music/artists ♫ }.

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The Muppets - Mahna Mahna

Also interesting is the complete history of the song and this sketch on Wikipedia.

Found via del.icio.us {tags: television television/muppets music music/artists music/artists/muppets download audio ♫}.

Labels: ♫, audio, download, funny, genre/kids, music, music/artists, music/artists/muppets, television

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