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This Song Has Been Stuck In My Head For Over A Week!

nickdupree — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:35:28 +0000

My other half and I have been playing and singing this ode to anesthesiologists (called anaesthetists in Britain) for over a week now! It’s really a classic parody!

Video available in HD:

My favorite lyrics from the song (sung to the tune of Total Eclipse of the Heart) are:

’cause we sometimes check the screen
and every now and then, we write stuff!
And if we have to intervene,
we inject a bit of white stuff!
And we offer to alter the lights,
or the height of the bed,
or fiddle with the radio, change the CD,
we even check the patient, occasionally!!

And if they move, we turn up the vapor,
and then we go back, to reading the paper!

Hat tip to Dr. Latte at Medical Marginalia for showcasing this hilarious song!

You can also see the Amateur Transplants perform this live here!

Nick

Michael Jackson Dance Tribute, Herald Sq. Subway Station

nickdupree — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:12:12 +0000

In NYC’s Herald Sq. Subway Station, a group of subway performers in “King of Pop” t-shirts dance to “Can You Feel It” and “Billie Jean” in tribute to the late Michael Jackson. Feat. The Fabulous Dancing Baby and a Random Eastern European kid.

For those of us who were kids in the 80s, Michael Jackson was our Elvis. No one sold as many records, no one danced like that, and no one ever will again. He was IT. After the Bad album came out, I practically wore the cassette out, and was doing the “moonwalk” in my small manual wheelchair by popping wheelies going backwards. Back then everyone wanted to BE Michael.

Through his music and the videos and memories, Michael will always be with us.

Nick

Los Colorados cover of Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold”

nickdupree — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:38:12 +0000

I don’t like Katy Perry. She’s another computerized, autotuned pop singer. And she should she get some sort of penalty, or perma-ban, for actually performing a song called “Ur So Gay” (the actual spelling she used).

But I love this cover of Perry’s “Hot and Cold” by this polka influenced Ukrainian band on YouTube.

It’s funny. And authentic music by real musicians. Turning the fake real.

UPDATE 05/03/09: Upon further research, I see that Los Colorados is a rock band, and their series of songs with accordion, polka drum, etc. are something akin to “MTV Unplugged” and not what they normally sound like at all. This is what they typically sound like, solid alt-rock, with good drumming and guitar work.

Mouse polka band

Nick

Song Dedication: Might Tell You Tonight

nickdupree — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:17:21 +0000

Might Tell You Tonight – Scissor Sisters

Dedicated to my girl.

“…want to burrow like a sparrow.”

Nick

This Song Really Speaks To Me Right Now

nickdupree — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:26:00 +0000

This Song Really Speaks To Me Right Now

“All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers

Leave it to Nick to express High Holy Days reflections in the form of an alt/rock song. I put “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers on my MySpace profile, check it out. It is a great song musically, with a John Lennon-like twinge in the vocals and kickass guitar lines with a hard edge. And the lyrics express my slightly mournful, slightly hopeful, deeply reflective mood as we prepare for Yom Kippur, more than I could express myself.

When there’s nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know – no you don’t, you don’t
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

………

I got soul, but I’m not a soldier
…

Yeah, you know you got to help me out, yeahhhhhh
Yeah, oh don’t you put me on the blackburner…….

Over and then, last call for sin
While everyone’s lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I’ve done
All these things that I’ve done
If you can hold on……

Almost nothing could sum up the High Holy Days better than “last call for sin” and “I need direction to perfection.” And almost nothing could sum up my mood three years after my faded national achievements better than “I wanna shine on in the hearts of men” and now “nowhere else to run.” And “you got to help me out,” is basically every conversation with every person I know in the past year.
Music just cuts past your pysche and taps right into the soul, and our deepest feelings.

Until later,

Seeking direction to perfection,

Nick

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