The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

The Toy Zone unveils 20 quasi-iconic album covers recreated with Lego.

Oingo Boingo, 1976 – The Gong Show.  Just wow.

Chansons d’Amour (a.k.a. The Copenhagen Chansonnier) is a playfully illuminated 15th century manuscript of 30 love songs.

Could one of you medieval types explain why there seems to be at least one snail one each page of this work?

(I do get the connection between aphrodisia and snails, I just wondered if it meant anything else.)

After eighty years of looking, film historians seem to have finally come across a complete print of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”. Evidently, what we have been presented with over all these years as “Metropolis” is a vastly over-simplified film, missing one quarter of its footage and much subtlety of plot.

Jim Le Fevre uses a standard record player, a video camera and some math to create a three dimensional zoetrope. It’s live-action animation that takes advantage of a strange synchronicity between a 25fps video camera and a platter revolving at 45rpm.

Give the video a browse, it will blow your mind a little.

From the “why the hell didn’t I think of this?” file…

Teach The Controversy has a small yet piquant collection of spot-on t-shirts intended to open the debate concerning alternate theories on the origins of life and the evolution/Intelligent Design postulate.

Famous people punch Steve in the stomach. Don’t ask me why, but it’s just a little bit brilliant.

Bill Donahue, president (and near soul member) of “the Catholic League” debates Canadian born artist Cosimo Cavallaro. In March of 2007, Cavallaro created a life-sized, lifelike chocolate Jesus as an art installation called “My Sweet Lord”.

Get it?

Yeah, I thought it went a little heavy on the symbolism too.

Anyway. This Ctholic League guy conducts one amazing interview / debate. During their discussion, the artist displays every christian value while Bill the Ctholic league guy shows every christian trait.

In this exchange, the “offended” Ctholic League gentleman threatens (more than once) to cut off Cosimo’s head and makes particularly grisly reference to breaking the artist’s fingers. Chill dude, leave that kind of stuff to the Vatican.

An irony of irony here is how the Ctholic guy opens by essentially saying that it is an insane idea to invite people to come in off the street “to eat a piece of Jesus”. What the hell do Ctholics do every Sunday? He’s also quite concerned that it is “morally bankrupt” to have a naked biblical figure out where anyone can see it. Um, has this guy been to a Ctholic Crutch? Those things are full of men and boys, young and old – all with their penises lolling about.

I’m just sayin’.

I gotta tell you, though, the little fat man turns sophist ninja when he pulls the old “I’m telling you that you don’t believe what you think you believe” trick. Pure genius.

The class and calm that Mr. Cosimo Cavallaro displays makes watching the clip more than worth it.

Here is a cool little movie made by the folks at the Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley – explaining magnetic fields, solar flares and the Northern Lights. They also get bonus points for making science so damn beautiful.