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May 5th, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
Since I’m floundering about what I should write about next in terms of science or philosophy (I was tossing up about the definition of “function” in biology, but the literature is far too dense for me to get through), I thought I would share another insight into the world of my favourite music. Last time it was the violin-plucking indie rocker Andrew Bird, and this time it’s Björk, everyone’s favourite Icelandic icon.
Now I fully admit that Björk can be hard to get into. Friends [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – An introduction to Björk”
March 31st, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
Ever since 2009, I’ve been waiting for the indie/art/experimental/genre-bending pop/rock group Dirty Projectors to release another full-length album: the next chapter after their terrific Bitte Orca. Sure, they released an EP with Björk that was pretty cool, but at only 22 minutes, it didn’t fully satisfy my deep need for Dave Longstreth’s songwriting and arrangement skills.
But apparently I need not wait much longer! The first single/track/thing from their new record (whose name has yet to be revealed) has dropped, which means the full [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – New Dirty Projectors single, “Gun Has No Trigger””
March 4th, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
When I post about a musician or band on here under the guise of a Tabletop Transitional, often I’ll only embed one video of their music. But surely that’s a bad way to really get to know their musical style, right? After all, a sample size of 1 is negligible, statistically speaking.
So, yes, in this short introduction to Andrew Bird, singer-songwriter and violin virtuoso, there will be three songs to listen to: each from a different album of his. Ooh, variety! Variety indeed.
Andrew Bird is a [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – An introduction to Andrew Bird”
February 13th, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
In 2010, Dirty Projectors and Björk, two of my favourite musical artists/bands, teamed up to record an EP called Mount Wittenberg Orca, a group of songs inspired by Amber Coffman, one of the vocalists in Dirty Projectors, seeing a pod of whales off the coast whilst hiking. See, it’s tangentially related to biology! Anyway, the EP is great, and one of the best songs on it is “All We Are”.
Just listen to the beautiful vocal duet with Dave Longstreth and Björk at the end. Chilling.
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» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Dirty Projectors and Björk team up for “All We Are””
February 9th, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
St. Vincent is touring Australia in March, playing at the HiFi Bar in Melbourne on the 14th, and I’m considering it as a slightly late, but ultimately amazing, birthday present from the universe. It’s not often that North American artists come to Australia to perform, you see, so to have the opportunity to see the glorious solo musical project of Annie Clark in my hometown is something I’m incredibly grateful for. I’m not quite sure who I’m grateful to, since none of the organisers had me in mind [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – St. Vincent’s “Cheerleader” video is a work of art, in more ways than one”
January 29th, 2012 | Category: tabletop transitionals
This video has been making the rounds in the skeptical blogosphere, and for good reason: it’s a goodnatured jab at the skeptical community from the inside. Everyone loves making fun of themselves. Well, almost everyone. There’s nothing wrong with analysing your own movement every now and again!
I’m sure we all have our favourite lines, but mine is “We should totally start our own podcast!” Ahh, so true, so true…
This video has been making [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Shit Skeptics Say”
December 30th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
There are so many great webcomics out there that every time I mention another I feel as though I should have already brought your attention to it. Scenes From A Multiverse is no exception. It’s clever, funny, and due to its sci-fi nature, often touches on areas in science and related topics.
Of course, this means that intelligent design was bound to come up sooner or later.
Click on the image to see the full comic!
Hat-tip to my good friend [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – An irreducibly complex pile of monkeys”
December 23rd, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
Tim Minchin! Australian native! Funny man! Piano player! This song of his, written for the Jonathan Ross Show on UK channel ITV, has been making the rounds, as it was cut from the December 23rd show due to fears it would cause outrage from sensitive Christians. Well, there’s nothing like the Internet to amplify banned or censored content against the wishes of those who would suppress it, so Tim uploaded the cut clip to YouTube. It is – naturally – embedded below, for your convenience.
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» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – “WoodyAllenJesus” by (the scandalous) Tim Minchin”
December 17th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
What? You haven’t heard of Louis C.K.? Really? Then you’ve been missing out on one of the best stand-up comedians alive today. His bits on the inquisitiveness of young children and why the world is amazing, yet nobody cares were formative in my appreciation of good comedy. He’s a comedy legend.
Of course, comedy by itself is usually not relevant enough to post on this blog, no matter how good I think it is, so you’re lucky that Louis C.K. just so happened to [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Comedian Louis C.K. on evolution”
December 2nd, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
I’ve been getting into the quirky, lo-fi, R&B and Afrobeat-inflected music of tUnE-yArDs, the musical project of Merrill Garbus, lately. It’s not hard to understand why: Merrill’s stunning vocal ability, mixed with interesting percussion, bass, tenor ukulele and saxophone arrangements, produces a truly unique bunch of songs on their latest album, W H O K I L L. This, my friends, is one of them, and it is called “Bizness”.
This music video, I must say, is utterly gorgeous. Great choreography, editing, cinematography… everything. Very impressive.
You [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – “Bizness” by tUnE-Yards”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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