h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Heh... a search for spurkey returned lots of pictures of keyrings with spur fobs on them. And this...

http://archive.org/serve/uploaded/Brad_Leblanc-spurkey.jpg

Is the cone man a con man?

I don't know where that cone man got his artistry, but I'm beginning to think there's originality in odd places on this planet.

I've just run across this gem that is sure to please old rockers as well as musicologists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZPnt4tKGdU

That lady plays a mean koto.

I bet that Saturday mornings in Japanese flute shops are just as bad as Saturday mornings in western guitar shops.

PP

Stairway to heaven? Is the escalator broken again?

Dragging this back on topic, in reply to #1, when I listened I immediately heard strong echoes of Willy Mason, "Oxygen" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZIiiIMwbg around 1.04.

Hey! That does sound suspiciously like, doesn't it?

Maybe we could call that interval 'millennial wistfulness'?

FYI: You can link directly to a time mark on YouTube. If you pause the video at a certain point, there will be a box you can click below the shortened link to "start at [1:02]" (for example) http://youtu.be/RvZIiiIMwbg?t=1m2s
Or, you can just append the URL with "t=(x)m(y)s" where x & y are the minutes and seconds you desire.


Also, just because it's something I've recently learned and now use extensively, when you're watching a video on a computer, you can use the following keys:

[J] skips back 10 seconds
[k] pauses the video (Space bar will also pause the video, but if you've clicked elsewhere on the page, it could also make the page scroll down, so K is safer)
[L] skips forward 10 seconds.

I often catch myself hitting these buttons when watching videos hosted on other sites and really wishing it worked there as well.

This is brilliant! Thanks, BG! This will help !

Correction: a question mark needs to be inserted as well.
>>you can just append the URL with "?t=(x)m(y)s" where x & y are the minutes and seconds you desire.<<

That's a very handy tip, not for music but I often want to show relevant clips to my students in lessons and have always just written the timed point down.

Anyway, do you think it was "Oxygen" you were looking for Dmitri, or are we still helping you look for a song?

I'd never heard 'Oxygen' before, so I don't think it was it.

Actually, I think we've solved it with Five for Fighting's '100 Years to Live'. But I'm enjoying the music talk, so keep it up.

A wink's as good as a nod to a blind man. -- Monty Python

Speaking of winks and nods, check out this clever instructional video which explains why movie music is so cliched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSKAt3pmYBs

2legs, we expect a h2g2 demo soon...

Music theory?

It's very Ben Folds. Very, *very* Ben Folds. Specifically "Don't Change Your Plans": https://youtu.be/tUf0gNiafc0?t=1m6s

(Fixed for Ripley http://youtu.be/tUf0gNiafc0?t=1m6s )


Oh, that's your super power! Knowing songs from the most minute and misleading clues.

I knew immediately it reminded me of Ben Folds but it took me a while to narrow down exactly which song.