Lucky Dog Audio Post

I wasn't planning on posting anything Halloween-themed today, but Krzysztof Komeda's music for the opening sequence of Roman Polanski's "Fearless Vampire Killers" is too good to pass up.

Wanna write a fugue? Well, here's a little anatomy lesson. Don't worry. No need to be intimidated by all that technical jargon. With the modern day wonders of the internets (read YouTube), you can learn how to fugue from either Glenn Gould or Danny Pi. Next question: what's your theme? Don't know? Need a little inspiration? How about sniveling, schmoozing music industry A&R dudes.

Link to Kevin Gilbert - Suit Fugue (Dance of the A&R Men)

Dang. The Cahokia Mounds National History rap is really really bad. But that seems to be the point at Rap Happy, a site that offers lo-fi rap fan fun. You can rap from your phone! You can create a new rap! But the real question is, should you rap? "Ca-hoke-ee-ah. . . Ca-ho-ke-ee-oke-ee-ahhhh."

shred
- verb

1. The art of Technically and rhythmatically hammering out amazing and lightning-fast solos on a guitar.
2. To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it's strings.

from the Urban Dictionary

See others (Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Metallica) "shred" here.

Thank you Sellout Music.

Dylan sent us this link today since we were all wondering about this video awhile back. Finally we have confirmation of the "the motion control/composite theory." Thanks Dylan!

Thanks Scott, this is the stuff of nightmares.

Here's Keepon the Dancing Robot groovin' to Spoon in a music video directed by Little Rock native Jeff Nichols.

Via.

Internet superstar Tay Zonday will be performing his song "Chocolate Rain" on the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight. As for any pre-show jitters, Zonday blogged the following on Myspace:

Can't decide whether to attempt it with the keyboard or do it with a backing track, which I am more confident in. I will probably err on the side of the backing track. Though the keyboard would be very acoustic and intimate . . . I also dislike the risk of a comping mistake on semi-live (one hour delay) television. There's no time to correct anything in post-production. On the other hand, I still look very stiff when singing backing tracks . . . either way could turn out good or bad.

Zonday closed his blog entry by saying:

I have about 48 hours to try to learn the Chocolate Rain lyrics without reading them off a sheet.

Our concern, "where's the bridge?"

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We've been digging the Professionals version of "The Theme From the Godfather" ever since the Corporal turned us on to it a couple months back.

As for the Basenji Dog version of the song. . .