Make me fries!

Been posting a lot of youtube vids lately. Here's another classic. The fact that I love this song makes it all the more funnier to me.

My old haunt, from a different view point

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What a letdown

I can't remember the first time I heard Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley but I do remember that I immediately fell in love with it. It's up there in my list of favorite songs. It would be early 1995 when this song pretty much became my life's anthem. I was hopelessly in love with a girl but didn't have the guts to say anything. At that time I already knew that I was leaving for Seattle and knowing that I might leave without letting her know how I felt was killing me. I played this song so much I could hear it in the background in my dreams. The song seemed tailor made for my situation at the time: the haunting music, the hopelessness in the singer's voice, and the resignation to certain loss of the lyrics. The song affected me so much that up to this day when I hear it I get taken back to that particular time in my life.

Then I decided to watch the video on Youtube. As much as I love the song I have never actually seen the video until a few minutes ago. I honestly wish I hadn't. It just ruined the song's mystic for me. It's an unimaginative generic 90's grunge-wannabe video, down to the plaid flannel shirts. Talk about instantly regretting doing something.

Sigh.

Mario and Luigi would be proud

I have seen some very good covers of video game songs (this one of the Monkey Island Theme is one of my favs) but this I think is the best. It's not a straight cover like the Monkey Island one but the band really pulls off the music. The accordion really takes it over the top.