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This is amazing: an audience sing-along with the Mountain Goats’ “No Children”

Courtesy of Largehearted Boy, whose music blog is one of the few that doesn’t suck on a variety of levels. Seriously, check out the blog — full concerts by bands that don’t suck etc etc.

Lyrics here in case you want to sing along yourself.

different poerformance:

The Stagger Lee Files, about the different versions of the song.

The Annotated “Stagger Lee”, about the Grateful Dead version specifically but also includes some history. …and the actual Stag Lee story that inspired the song(s).

I really love how it’s this one mutating story that moves from musician to musician and it’s the same thing, but always a bit different, for example, check out the lyrics to Nick Cave’s surprisingly filthy version and then compare Dylan’s.

Versions:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Album version, and live.
Grateful Dead, live.
Isley Brothers.
Lloyd Price.
RL Burnside.
Samuel L. Jackson.
Mississippi John Hurt.
Tony Furtado.

I’m still looking for the James Brown and Bob Dylan versions.

I mean, seriously. I’ve been accused of being over-analytical, but even I have limits.

Howstuffworks “How Kissing Works”

Well, as it turns out, this is bogus. See Shaunyx’s comment for the snopes link. Mea culpa, I’m a jackass.

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Mail from my aunt Zoe to me through my mom. Fuckin’ aye.