VTAW: Rock N Roll Boy by Len Peralta
I first heard one of Jonathan Coulton‘s more obscene songs, First of May (WARNING: this song is not for those with an aversion to blatant, but creative, references to reproductive processes!!!), on the podcast The Evil Genius Chronicles and have since loved his beautiful but somewhat twisted music. I mean, what’s a geek to say about a songwriter who wrote a ballad about his laptop? Besides having two CDs (“Smoking Monkey“ and “Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow“) he also was recently named “Contributing Troubadour” for the magazine Popular Science and released an EP “Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms.” For the past 45 weeks (or so) this unsigned independent artist has been posting a new recording every week. Sometimes it’s original material, sometimes it’s a cover tune, and sometimes well… in his journal he said that the idea for this one came from cruisin’ through audio recordings on the Internet. He found a recording made by a couple kids goofing around with a tape recorded. So Jonathan added the rest of the song and thus “Rock and Roll Boy“ was born. Click on the “play the song” link and enjoy!
For more Internet silliness and stuff, check out my other blogs. It’s all hilarity and hi-jinx at Jacob’s Ladder, an exploration of the vast wasteland between my heartfelt beliefs and faith and the vulgar frustrations of life. At JBB’s Desktop the motto is “Staring At the Gap Between Ed Tech’s Promises & The Realities.” Okay, so I was kidding about the blogs being all farts and giggles, but I’d really appreciate a visit to my blogs. Also, I’ve been moving a lot of pictures to my flickr account and you might want to check out my videos at youtube.com. 1. l8r, jbb
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