Carl Sagan: Posthumous Recording Artist
As a fan of Carl Sagan, reader of Scientific American and pop science books, and believer that I understand some of what people like Hawking, Feynman, and Kaku do/did/do, I figured I had to post an entry about this little video I read about earlier in the week (over at Pitchfork (also of note: Jack White is releasing the song as a 7")). Apparently, somebody took footage from Cosmos, the Carl Sagan c. late 1970s/early 1980s miniseries, added music and autotuned Sagan's voice into a song.
I'm almost 100% sure this video is awesome. Although with the recent ballyhoo about Chris Farley's posthumous commercial career, I imagine some killjoys might see it as tasteless. With the possibility that interest in Cosmos, Sagan, or science in general may be sparked in people who aren't necessarily trained in a scientific field seems, to me, to justify the video's existence and, I hope, popularity.
Now if someone will just put Mr. Wizard to Portishead or Aphex Twin. Weird.
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Missing Tom Waits Live
A little over a year ago, in July '08, Tom Waits played in Birmingham, AL as part of his "Glitter and Doom" tour. I remember finding out about the tour a few months earlier and telling my then-finacee that we would have to go no matter what because I wanted to see a Tom Waits show more than any other show I could think of, and I told her what date he'd be in Birmingham. She had bad news for me and had to spoil a fairly big and cool surprise.
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We were getting married at the end of that May, and she had already put together her wedding present to me. She had planned a trip to Chicago for a few days and got tickets to see a Tom Petty show as well. So we'd be in Chicago on the day of the Tom Waits show. I felt like a sizable ass for messing up the surprise and making a big deal out of the whole thing. Tom Petty and Chicago were both a really good time, and I'm pretty sure I didn't even think about the other show I was missing.
So yesterday I learned that Tom Waits is putting out a double live record from the same tour. And you can download the first 8 songs for free from his website. Awesome. And the second record of the set is one long track of stage banter called "Tom Tales." Kick-ass. And it'll be released on vinyl in addition to CD. Choices. And it's pretty exciting all-around.
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