Mobile, Alabama

That's where we are, the ship having pulled into this fine southern town to enjoy the Bayfest concert.

(Personally, I'm not that much of a concert-goer, so I'm enjoying the town itself. There's a marvelous two-story used bookstore, and several southern-style restaurants. Ah, the fried chicken!)

Today's Geek Pleasure

It's Draco and the Malfoys, a two-man group that does Harry Potter songs from the perspective of Draco Malfoy.

"My Dad is Rich (And Your Dad is Dead)" is funny in a kind of appalling way. "Potions Yesterday" is probably the most listenable, along with "99 Death Eaters," which is based on the melody from "99 Luftballons."

Your Semi-Random Life Soundtrack

From the Asymmetrical Information blog, we have a neat game.

Here’s how it works:
1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod)
2. put it on shuffle
3. press play
4. for every question, type the song that’s playing
5. new question– press the next button
6. don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool


One of the options, given that itunes is sometimes less than random, is to veto any second appearance of an artist (or, of course, a song.) I've done this in one case.

So here we go:


Opening Credits

Get Ready For This- 2 Unlimited

Waking Up

Higher- Creed

First Day at School

Heavy- Collective Soul

Falling in Love

Give a Little Bit- Supertramp

Breaking Up

Itsy Bitsy Spider- Carly Simon

Prom

Send in the Clowns- Barbara Streisand

Life's Okay

Loverboy- Billy Ocean

Mental Breakdown

Tarzan Boy- Baltimora

Driving

The Chemicals Between Us- Bush

Flashback

Safety Dance- Men Without Hats

Getting back together

Election Day- Arcadia

Wedding

The Planet of the Apes Musical (from the Simpsons)

Birth of a child

Alive- P.O.D.

Final Battle

O Fortuna- Carmina Burana

Death Scene

Numb- Linkin Park

Funeral Song

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow- Fleetwood Mac

End Credits

Desperado- The Eagles

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It's interesting how many of the songs at least vaguely fit into the categories presented- or, when they don't fit, their failure to fit is comical.

My Current Geek Pleasure

Entirely by accident, one of my music searches came up with Fellowship!, a musical parody of Fellowship of the Ring.

The website has some music samples under the "Merchandise" section; unfortunately, they don't include "Galadriel Explains It All" or "The Lament of the Ring," which are the two funniest songs on the soundtrack. Trust me, it's very good.

(Well, it's very good if you like musical parodies of movies based on epic fantasy trilogies. And doesn't everyone?)