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The Merry Ex-Wives of Windsor

Ask some kids from around the world, they might go a little bit something like this!

Posthumous cameo by Liberace!

This exists. It's called "Where's Neil When You Need Him."

That song was written by two gay liberal Jews, covered ironically by a British art-rocker, then "discovered" by the British Neo-Nazi movement, who believed it to be a real German folk song (or more commonly, the actual Nazi National Anthem). What a weird half-life for a song.

You want a fun late-period Elton song? Look up the single version/demo version of "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher." He wrote a stagier version for "Billy Elliot," but recorded the song himself in the style of his own mid-Eighties hits, and it's the most fun you'll ever have praying for someone's death on Christmas.

Tjing tjang tjing lucy la!

Are you Brick Heck?

Well, as the kind of guy who immediately recommends "BoJack Horseman" to anyone teetering even SLIGHTLY on the brink of an existential or personal crisis, this movie is either for me or about me.

Yeah. I wonder- if she had the chance to change her fate, would she?

There's not even a sound palette that can be effectively and definitively applied to the goth label- if I described things that SOUND like the goth visual aesthetic, you'd get your Joy Division and Bauhaus and Nine Inch Nails, but you'd also get Gatekeeper, Evelyn Evelyn, Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy and early Roxy…

I always forget that Ray Charles had a hugely successful country period. Ditto for Tom Jones.

They'd say Dolly Parton, but woman.

Featuring recurring guest appearances by Lin-Manuel Miranda!

The reason the short story ending works on the page is that it ties in (obliquely at first) to the Dark Tower mythos. As you keep reading King, you can piece together a little more about what happened there, why this mist was a thing, what presumably happened to these characters. But the Dark Tower mythos doesn't…

Fun fact: if I say "the Asian music," or worse, "ching chong," I'm betting you just heard that slightly racist musical riff in your head. It's called "The Aladdin Quick-Step," and it comes from a stage musical of "Aladdin" written 150 years before Disney's version.

Farmer David Bowie is probably from "David Bowie" to "Hunky Dory," when he dabbled in folk and country.

Apparently "goth" is something that happens to you when you're trying to work in a more specific genre. My colleague, composer Alex Reed (of ThouShaltNot and Seeming), describes his music as "post-gothic, post-political, post-dance, post-human" pop, and tends to release goth-spoofing novelty songs from time to time. ht…

Ever hear a song that is clearly inspired by another artist, but would sound better if that artist had done it themselves? That's how I feel about "Bloodletting" by Concrete Blonde; it's some sort of goth-lite revamp of the Doors sound, but I just want to hear a Doors version of it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…