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“Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” Music Video by Rachel Bloom

August 17, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Okay, I take it back about pop music not dealing with any important themes: “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” Music Video by Rachel Bloom. (Warning: Very, very, very NSFW.)

Fuck Me Ray Bradbury Music Video Rachel Bloom

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Idealistic by Digitalism Music Video

August 10, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

This music video is kind of cool:

Idealistic by Digitalism Music Video

Idealistic by Digitalism

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Cut Copy Hearts On Fire Music Video

July 2, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Ha. This video is awesome:



In one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books there’s a guy and it’s always raining everywhere he goes, and he’s pathologically depressed because of it, and he keeps a journal of everywhere he travels just so he can show people and they can check it that yes, it always, always rains wherever he is. Then at the end of one chapter it briefly switches to the point of view of the rainclouds, and it turns out that they regard this guy as a sort of rain god, and the best way they can think of to show their love for him is to follow him everywhere he goes and shower their rain down upon him. This video sort of reminds me of that.

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Girl and the Sea Music Video The Presets

June 27, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here’s one of the more wonderfully strange music videos I’ve seen lately:


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Song of the Sad Assassin Music Video

December 1, 2009 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Okay, wow. The animated music video for the WHY? tune “Song of the Sad Assassin” is one the more wonderfully odd and disturbing things I’ve seen lately:

Song of the Sad Assassin Music Video

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Symphony of Science

November 10, 2009 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Symphony of Science is a cool site launched by John Boswell to promote science through music. Listen to the hauntingly beautiful “We Are All Connected,” which uses autotuning software to create a sort of trance/rap tune out of snippets of lectures by luminaries such as Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye.

symphony of science

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David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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