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Tyler Glenn Has a New Song: Trash

April 29, 2016 By Deirdre

Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees © kobbydagan, used under license

Tyler Glenn just released a new song and video, “Trash.” Tyler’s a gay Mormon who had a faith crisis after the LGBT policy change last November. One of the things that most fascinates me is why people leave faiths, and the process people go through, as it’s usually a difficult change that upends a significant […]

Filed Under: LGBT, Music Tagged With: faith, lgbt, mormon-stories, mormonism, music, podcast, quiltbag, religion

Filk: Sad Puppies Aren’t Much Fun

April 6, 2015 By Deirdre

Sad Puppies

For those who don’t know, a “filk” song is a science fiction/fantasy folk genre, generally adding new lyrics to an existing tune. Though many filk writers also write original tunes, as I pay tribute to in this post. The rest of this post is written by my husband, Rick Moen. People who’ve been on SMOFS […]

Filed Under: Conventions, Music Tagged With: filk, hugo awards, hugos, music, sad puppies, world science fiction convention, worldcon

On Zayn Malik Leaving One Direction

March 25, 2015 By Deirdre

The Road to Hana, site of a recent Zayn Malik / One Direction fangirl moment

I have a little One Direction story. Earlier this month, we rented a car on Maui and drove on the Road to Hana. There are a lot of roadside stands there, people selling home-made goods. We stopped at one where the radio was playing. As I waited for my grown-in-Hawaii coffee, I started singing to […]

Filed Under: Beauty, Music Tagged With: fandom, music, one-direction

World Music Friday: Ledward Ka’apana

March 6, 2015 By Deirdre

Ledward Ka'apana and his guitar

I’ve decided to turn my love of world music into a regular Friday feature, with Ledward Ka’apana being my first. In general, I’ll be featuring a few videos or songs from each performer, and, for vocals, I’ll emphasize performers who do not sing primarily in English. The other aspect is that this will be popular […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: music, world-music-friday

I Found the Song!

January 30, 2015 By Deirdre

DJ, photo by Jacob Tyler Dunn

Six months ago, I was in Phoenix for Overwerk, and I heard lots of interesting stuff. The third DJ played something that stuck with me that I kept meaning to find. Rick reminded me of said song tonight when he and I were talking about the great MentalFloss piece about why clocks were set to […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: music

A Clean Desktop

December 22, 2014 By Deirdre

Strawberry Field

Desktop Zero. (Have to show off that fabulous Christmas wallpaper!) #GTD #InboxZero pic.twitter.com/3pQPRmBEto — Colter Reed (@ColterReed) December 22, 2014 So Colter Reed shamed me into cleaning up my own desktop, which had 252 items on it, mostly dragged items or stuff I wanted to upload to my blog (and have done so). Voila! My […]

Filed Under: Music, Travel Tagged With: beatles, organization, travel

World Music Break: Tarkan

October 13, 2014 By Deirdre

On one of the facebook groups I’m in, someone posted this video the other day: Kuzu Kuzu song purchase links: (iTunes) (Amazon) Tarkan’s an extremely popular Turkish singer, sometimes called the Turkish equivalent of Elvis, but perhaps a better description would be the Bad Boy of Turkish Pop. The above video’s from 2001, but he […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: music

Delia Derbyshire, Overlooked Musician and Composer

August 21, 2014 By Deirdre

Delia Derbyshire wrote some of, and played all of, one of the most famous—and earliest widely-known—pieces of electronic music ever. Not only that, she did so before the advent of the first commercially-available synthesizer. (Brian Hodgson composed the tardis sound.) She was a kid in Coventry during WW2, hearing all the weird and haunting sounds […]

Filed Under: Music, Sexism Tagged With: fanwriting, music, sexism, television

Mockup: 307 Ale Bottles

July 25, 2014 By Deirdre

I found this beer bottle mockup last night, and thought I’d have fun with it. Catch is, this particular product would probably be better vended in something stranger—like a Klein bottle. Oh well. Click for full size: It’s an homage to a Tom Smith song of the same title: There’s many drinks you’ll drink, me […]

Filed Under: Graphic Design, Music Tagged With: fanart, graphic-design, mockups, music

Support Zoë Keating & Family

May 28, 2014 By Deirdre

Zoë Keating’s husband has had mysterious ailments for several months. As of two weeks ago, that’s no longer mysterious: he has stage 4 lung cancer with mets. On May 13 an MRI found 20 tumors in my husbands brain. On May 15 he could barely breathe and was in a lot of pain. A CT […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: cancer, medical, music

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