My review of Hamilton
A friend asked this morning what the deal is with this Hamilton thing. Here's what I posted in response: It's...
Archive for Music
David and Goliath rhymes
I just realized this is one of the things that some of the rhyme-chains in Hamilton reminded me of: ”Now...
Hamilton cast album!
Back in May, I posted about Hamilton, the new hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ever since...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
Hamilton rap becomes a musical
In 2009, composer/lyricist/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the...
My emotional state
A couple weeks ago, I sat down to write a blog entry about how I was doing with regard to...
The Lonely Goatherd and the Bechdel test
I wrote this the other day for a discussion of (among other things) works that do and don't pass the...
Useful source of digital assets, including background music
I recently encountered two videos that contained background music that I liked, and learned that both pieces of music were...
Unreliable-narrator songs?
Started wondering yesterday about songs with unreliable narrators. I feel like there are a bunch of them; any suggestions? The...
Chatroulette Guy does Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey
First there was Call Me Maybe (3-min video). This guy Stephen Kardynal went on Chatroulette (the site where you can...
R.I.P., Pete Seeger
I've been trying to figure out why Pete Seeger's death yesterday, at age 94, is hitting me so hard. Part...