The Rolling Hills of Past Mistakes, Like Quiet Under Cloud

Today is video day at Mumble Herder. Two must-sees. First up, Fatboy Slim's cover of The Steve Miller Band's "The Joker," with kittens. Then, inspired no doubt by Meghan's faculty talent show presentation, 1,500+ inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practicing their "Thriller" routine. The guy playing the girlfriend is really selling it.

Also, I finished watching The Singing Detective last night, and I'm very upset with you all for not making me watch it sooner. Holy crap that was good.

Music Geekery + I'M PIG-BITING MAD!

OK, both ludickid and mrdankelly have done this, and I'm just enough of a music geek to go along. Here's an alphabetical list of performers/musicians by whom I have five or more albums:

Beck
Bowie
The Cars
Neko Case
Johnny Cash
Dance Hall Crashers
Miles Davis
Dylan
Guided By Voices
Lyle Lovett
Aimee Mann
The Mendoza Line
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Old 97s
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The Police
Prince
The Ramones
The Replacements
Superchunk
Talking Heads
Tom Waits
Wilco
Stevie Wonder
Wu-Tang Clan

Conclusion: five albums is a lot. Five albums worth buying is a particularly tall order. (I'm not sure the Cars would qualify if that were the criteria, though they could fill a two- or three-disc Greatest Hits collection . . .)

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In other news (via ebess) The Weekly World News is shutting down. NOOOOOO!!!! I can't believe it! BatBoy I can take or leave, but the WWN is the only paper that provides the real news, like Satan's face appearing in cloud formations, or which congresspeople are in fact aliens. Not to mention the wonder that is Ed Anger (source of the second half of the post title). Man alive, this is just wrong. I'm of a mind to take up the Yeti beat myself, or something. The void that this will leave cannot be calculated, I am telling you.