Category: Music

  • Rad Weird Al Song – White and Nerdy with lyrics

    Weird Al

    Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”.

    They see me mowin’
    My front lawn
    I know they’re all thinking I’m so white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Can’t you see I’m white and nerdy?
    Look at me, I’m white and nerdy
    I wanna roll with
    The gangstas
    But so far they all think I’m too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    I’m just too white and nerdy.
    Really really white and nerdy.

    First in my class here at MIT
    Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D
    MC Escher – that’s my favorite MC
    Keep your 40, I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea
    My rims never spin, to the contrary
    You’ll find that they’re quite stationary
    All of my action figures are cherry
    Steven Hawking’s in my library
    My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
    Got people beggin’ for my top eight spaces
    Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
    Ain’t got no grills but I still wear braces
    I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
    I’m a whiz at Minesweeper – I could play for days
    Once you see my sweet moves you’re gonna stay amazed
    My fingers’ movin’ so fast I’ll set the place ablaze
    There’s no killer app I haven’t run
    At Pascal, well I’m number one
    Do vector calculus just for fun
    I ain’t got a gat but I got a soldering gun
    Happy Days is my favorite theme song
    I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
    I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
    I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

    They see me roll on
    My Segway
    I know in my heart they think I’m white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Can’t you see I’m white and nerdy
    Look at me, I’m white and nerdy
    I’d like to roll with
    The gangstas
    Although it’s apparent I’m too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    I’m just too white and nerdy
    How’d I get so white and nerdy

    I’ve been browsin’, inspectin’
    X-Men comics, you know I collect ‘em
    The pens in my pocket, I must protect ‘em
    My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
    Shopping online for deals on some writable media
    I edit Wikipedia
    I memorized Holy Grail really well
    I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
    I got a business doing websites
    When my friends need some code, who do they call?
    I do HTML for ‘em all
    Even made a homepage for my dog
    Yo, I got myself a fanny pack
    They were havin’ a sale down at The Gap
    Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
    Pop, pop, hope no one sees me
    Gettin’ freaky
    I’m nerdy in the extreme
    And whiter than sour cream
    I was in AV Club and Glee Club and even the Chess Team
    Only question I
    Ever thought was hard
    Was do I like Kirk
    Or do I like Picard
    Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
    Got my name on my underwear

    They see me strollin’
    They laughin’
    And rollin’ their eyes ’cause I’m so white and nerdy
    Just because I’m white and nerdy
    Just because I’m white and nerdy
    All because I’m white and nerdy
    Holy cow, I’m white and nerdy
    I wanna bowl with
    The gangstas
    But, oh well, it’s obvious I’m white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    Think I’m just too white and nerdy
    I’m just too white and nerdy
    Look at me, I’m white and nerdy

    Lyrics VIA


  • Robot Picks

    Music Recommendation

    Being algorithmically guided through music according to my own taste and the last.fm music database over the last year has been very interesting. I’ve discovered awesome new bands I’ve never heard of and still have yet to hear of them anywhere other than last.fm. Turns out Chris Dahlen has written an exhaustive piece on the world of music recommendation so I dont have to.


  • Gecko Turner

    Gecko Turner

    I’m diggin Gecko Turner these days. Like Spearhead minus the political stuff…


  • Video Album

    Death-Cab-Directions-Cover

    Death Cab for Cutie just released “Directions” on the iTunes Music Store. It’s an entire album of music videos. Each track on the “album” is a new music video shot by a different director. It’s a fantastic concept but I’d be more impressed if they just released these videos for free in their RSS feed. In fact I’d suggest that any band out there looking for some exposure to start their own feed with a healthy mix of free and unfree media.

    BTW does anyone know how to de-DRM iTMS videos? Not that I’ve ever removed DRM from anything or would ever do that…

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  • New Kleptones Album

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    Torrent
    Direct Link to ZIP file UPDATE (the zip isnt working yet so use the torrent)
    More Info

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  • 1 Billion Songs Sold


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  • Last.fm: The Long Tail music picker

    I first posted about Last.fm in August of last year. If you don’t know what Last.fm is or how it works go read that first. Or if you’re lazy you can just assume Last.fm is great and that you should be using it.

    I no longer have to sort through a whole bunch of crappy music in order to find something I like. Last.fm does that for me. Try it. The picks it makes are unbelievable. In the last little while Last.fm has recommended these bands to me:

    • The Arctic Monkeys
    • Explosions in the Sky
    • Sufjan Stevens
    • Belle and Sebastian

    I had never heard of these bands/artists before but I enjoyed listening to all of them.

    Last.fm also has sweet Long Tail functionality. Last.fm can sort it’s music recommendations on a scale from popularity to obscurity using some sort of ajax wizardry:

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    This is the first useful Long Tail filtering system I’ve used. Amazon has recommendations but I don’t find that very useful. The stuff i’ve bought on amazon doesn’t tell you about my taste in anything it just tells you the stuff I couldn’t be bothered to buy at a real store. What i’ve listened to on my iPod and in iTunes tells you my taste in music.

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  • Great Mashups


    The Beastles: Beatles vs. Beastie Boys
    Direct Link (mirrored)


    The Beastles: Let It Beast Beatles vs. Beastie Boys


    The Best of Bootie 2005: (mashup mixtape)
    Direct Link (mirrored)


  • Heavy Ammunition

    Heavy Ammunition
    Check out the video. Permalink

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  • Radiohead, remixed: Me and This Army from Panzah Zandahz

    DJ Panzah Zandahz‘s “Me and This Army” is a collection of 16 Radiohead tracks remixed with snippets of artists such as MF Doom, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, and more. It’s as if the white label gods planted sensors inside my brain; they heard my innermost mashup prayers, and answered them here. It’s delicious. Now all it needs is some remixed Stanley Donwood cover art…

    Link to info, tracklisting, and torrent.

    (Thanks, Sean)

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