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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Jonathan Coulton Helps Make Amor Mundi More Positive

[h/t to an Anonymous Amorous Mundyite in the Moot -- thanks!]

Marvelously nerdy roast of the Robot Cultists, rather in the TMBG vein, with a tone-perfect video by Mike Spiff Booth...

8 comments:

Go Democrats said...

You're right, that song hits all the bases, but there is no way he compares to TMBG.

Dale Carrico said...

TMBG favorite song thread! TMBG favorite song thread!

My favorite: "Where Your Eyes Don't Go."

Honorable mention "We Want A Rock."

Anisa said...

Hi Dale,
I just read a quote by Helene Cixous that says, "So one might as well know that the principal enemy in life is fear. To write only has meaning if the gesture of writing makes fear retreat."
Other than distrusting the word "only," my first reaction to this quote was a sense of identification. Studying rhetoric quickly came to feel vital for me because in learning the contestability of ideas I had previously taken for granted, I more acutely felt the pain of their inaccuracy, and sought (and continue to seek) tools to understand/reject/transform the powerful arguments I encounter every day. I can see that as an exercise in reducing fear, since the ideas I'm most inclined to confront are those that control through fear.
Then I thought of you, and I wondered how you would react to that statement. Is "making fear retreat" in any sense an intention in your writing? Or is there a different/additional/better way that you would characterize the value of the information you offer?

Anonymous said...

It's very hard for me to decide between "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" and Ana Ng.

Go Democrats said...

Favorite TMBG Song: Mammal

Runner Up: I Should Be Allowed to Think

Robin said...

I totally just got tickets to see JoCo the other day! Nerd factor high.

TMBG: I want to say "New York City" because I can never get straight if they covered Cub or if Cub covered them. Either way, the Cub association leaves that song very high on my list. And I don't know much other TMBG except what I listened to in 1989.

Dale Carrico said...

TMBG covered Cub, and grrl you are just tooo coool.

Robin said...

I'm sure I sense sarcasm! No one thinks anyone going to see Jonathan Coulton live could be too cool.

But I'll take it!