10.05.2009

tony.reno

This is a re-post from C. Slaughter.  The math and their calculations have changed over time ("2 hours to download" and "5 dollars a minute"), but otherwise they got it quite right.  I guess most other newspapers did not watch television in 1981???

slaughter | tony | YouTube | newspaper | video

16.02.2009

christopher.slaughter

Click the picture below to visit Sporcle and take a quiz on how many of these corporate logos you can guess... interesting to see them stripped of their usual context, and see which have are most identifiable.  Begs the question... how effective are corporate identities, anyway?

quiz | amusing | interesting | fun | slaughter | Advertising

29.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

Three versions of his incredible prayer, "May You Never."  I'm deeply saddened by his passing, but I'm also fascinated by how his performance of this simple and beautiful song changes over three decades... as the performer himself changes.  It's also interesting to see how the video style changes... from the stark "muse-o" Seventies approach, to high-production-value "taking-it-seriously" 90s mode, to the "am-cam" of the present day. 

1973

1995

2006

May You Never

And may you never lay your head down
Without a hand to hold
May you never make your bed out in the cold.

You're just like a great strong brother of mine
You know that I love you true
And you never talk dirty behind my back
And I know that there's those that do.

Oh please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind
Love is a lesson to learn in our time
Now please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind for me.

And may you never lay your head down
Without a hand to hold
May you never make your bed out in the cold.

Well you're just like a good close sister to me
You know that I love you true
And you hold no blade to stab me in the back
And I know that there's some that do.

Oh please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind
Love is a lesson to learn in our time
And please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind for me.

May you never lay your head down
Without a hand to hold
May you never make your bed out in the cold.

You're just like a great strong brother of mine
And you know that I love you true
And you never talk dirty behind my back
And I know that there's those that do.

Oh please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind
Love is a lesson to learn in our time
And please won't you, please won't you
Bear it in mind for me.

May you never lose your temper
If you get in a bar room fight
May you never lose your woman overnight
May you never lay your head down
Without a hand to hold
May you never make your bed out in the cold.

May you never lose your temper
If you get in a bar room fight
May you never lose your woman over night
May you never lose your woman over night
May you never lose your woman over night.

obituary | slaughter | YouTube | John Martyn | music

18.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

So many different ways (besides Hungarian) to say "My hovercraft is full of eels"....

(-- via Chris Glass)

geek | hovercraft | eels | translation | language | slaughter | Monty Python | amusing | blogroll

13.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

Not Genesis the band, as in "the lamb lies down on Broadway"; but Genesis the book, as in "darkness was upon the deep" and all that.

Apparently, legendary counter-culture cartoonist Robert Crumb has been working for at least four years (and probably longer) on a "literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis" that will be published this autumn.   The story first came out in the Guardian a few years ago, but I had forgotten about it.

Now that publication is getting closer, though, images are starting to be released...!   

It's endlessly amusing to consider that this will come from the guy who unleashed The Snoid onto a waiting world, and gave us Tommy the Toilet, and Mr. Natural, and Fritz the Cat, and so many more....

Did I mention that I'm a huge fan?

amusing | interesting | art | comics | R. Crumb | slaughter

12.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, under the crusty exterior most hacks adopt as protective coloration, deep inside, there is often more than just a crusty interior.  Who knew there was stuff that journalists actually like....?

web | amusing | slaughter | journalism