Embittered Mutterings

I’ve had a passion for the Barenaked Ladies since the Gordon days - I heard Enid on an obscure radio station somewheres and somehow ended up grabbing the album. The crazy thing about the Ladies is this - people tend to think they’re a novelty band, but there was a ton of dark shit on Gordon - “The Flag” and “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” being two contenders to that accolade.

This song’s from a Greatest Hits album, but it sounded a lot more poignant when Steven Page left the band a few years back. It’s also an extremely inventive music promo as it takes past Barenaked Ladies promos and gives them a nice spin thanks to a bit of mouth compositing. Sometimes the effect works extremely well and it’s rather ghoulish. Enjoy!

edit - the embedding disabled YouTube thing is extremely sucky. I hate it.

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is coming out for Xbox Live Arcade very soon. It looks like a game I would have played on my BBC B Micro if I had one all those years ago, but with the most sexiest of sheens and super-stylish to boot. Can’t wait to try this.

This is an old song, but it still kicks ass. Only just discovered it today - Jack Conte is one half of the popular internet duo known as Pomplamoose. Sublime.